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Her natural Aussie flare, creative workout repertoire, and inspirational style attract a large following in the demanding New York Metro and U.S. markets via her live classes, broad portfolio of media workouts, contributing journalism, and speaking engagements; while her role as an adidas Global Fitness Ambassador is driving her reach across the globe.
Violet's philosophy, "one mind, one body, one life: discipline your mind, strengthen your body, take charge of your life," sets her instructional tone. And she wields a sharp-witted, unapologetic approach to motivation, propelling her clients to achieve their goals and self-empower, while having considerable fun along the way.
Violet brings a diverse background to her work, including education and professional experience in social work. She is a practicing Black Belt in Seido Karate, ACE Certified Fitness Instructor, Monash University Certified Fitness Instructor, and Master Trainer in various equipment specialties. Her 19 years of professional group fitness experience started in Australia and blossomed in New York, including nine years running as a top draw at the city's premier club, Equinox Fitness, and guest appearances spanning over a dozen countries across six continents. She has also logged many hours as a high-end private and corporate trainer, specializing in efficient, dynamically challenging routines requiring little-to-no equipment.
In Sep-08, Violet inaugurated a multifaceted professional partnership with the world-renowned sports brand, adidas, creating and teaching a signature workout program to a master workshop of Asia-Pacific fitness instructors in Seoul, Korea, in her first appearance as the adidas Global Fitness Ambassador in Martial Arts. She built on that role in 2009 at regional and global events for instructors, consumers, and the global press in Kuala Lumpur, Buenos Aires, Beijing, Paris, Johannesburg, and Dubai. Her 2010 tour includes Mexico City, Taipei, Spain, Shanghai, Toronto, and Japan, along with continued feature on the adidas Women's Training website and adidas.tv. Violet also serves as Fitness Consultant to adidas.
As a Star Trainer at ExerciseTV, Violet's self-developed workouts currently reach 38 million homes in the U.S. through VOD cable broadcast, along with the entire websphere via ExerciseTV's download service and DVD store. Violet was handpicked by Jake from Body By Jake as one of five Star Trainers to help launch the network in Jan-06 and remains one of their most popular trainers. She is also the network's most viewed personality on their YouTube promotional video placement.
She can also be seen nationally on FitTV, which features her Cardio Sculpt and Cardio Kick Acacia workouts on their weekly broadcast schedule under the Weight Loss Workouts series.
Select workouts from Violet are also part of the ExerciseTV/Acacia fitness programming available in nearly 10k hotel properties across the U.S. via The Hotel Networks.
As a featured instructor, Violet has 15 DVD workout titles in the retail marketplace to her credit, along with online fitness videos for the adidas Fitness Academy, regularly garnering top rankings from reviewers such as Fitness magazine.
Violet's television show guest appearances include the Home Shopping Network as a featured fitness expert representing Fitness magazine, E! Entertainment Television's The Girls Next Door, the CBS Early Show as weekly fitness correspondent, Live with Regis and Kelly, NBC's Today show, Fox Business' Happy Hour, and CW11's Morning Show, CNN & Televisa Latin America, and MBC TV Middle East.
Violet has also appeared in/contributed content to several fitness & lifestyle magazines and websites, including Fitness, Muscle & Fitness Hers, Health, Prevention, Self, Shape, Cosmopolitan, Essence, Heart & Soul, Marie Claire, Oxygen, the Knot, MSN, Brenda's Wedding Blog, and FitSugar, along with dozens of media features/interviews around the globe spotlighting her adidas Ambassadorship.
Violet graduated from Deakin University, Australia, with a Bachelors in Psychology and has 11 years of experience in career counseling, recruitment and social work at large non-profit organizations in both her home country and New York City, namely the Victorian Royal Guide Dogs for the Blind and Victorian School for Deaf Children in Melbourne and the Association for the Help of Retarded Children (AHRC) in NYC. She's worked with athletes with disabilities as a Special Olympics trainer and inner-city kids through the Fresh Air Fund and Energy Up! High Voltage, along with motivating the corporate types at places like Liz Claiborne and students at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. In addition to English, Violet is fluent in Arabic and Australian Sign Language.
Hometown:
Melbourne, Australia
Country:
United States
Occupation:
Fitness Personality
Companies:
Zaki Fitness, adidas, Equinox Fitness, ExerciseTV, FitTV
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