Cindy Killip is an Award-Winning Author, Artist, and Health & Fitness Expert who specializes in writing health, fitness, and motivational material. Her passion is to help people live a balanced lifestyle, navigate challenges, and reach their goals so they can enjoy life, regardless of the circumstances. Through her writing, courses, and art, she teaches, inspires, and advances health advocacy. Before turning her focus to writing, on-line courses, and art, Cindy enjoyed a 28-year career as a Medical Exercise Specialist, Health Coach, Personal Trainer, Fitness Instructor, and Public Speaker, with multiple advanced certifications through the American Council on Exercise (ACE). She’s collaborated with top medical and exercise researchers, medical experts, physicians, and therapists, and she’s taught audiences, classes, and individual patients/clients how to maximize performance, navigate life’s challenges, manage pain and chronic illness, and have fun doing it.

In all of her writing and teaching, Cindy focuses on the following key principles:

1) Teach to all learning styles. Explain why you are doing an exercise or making a lifestyle change, show the benefits, demonstrate it, break it down, and teach how to do it safely and effectively.

2) Develop positive solutions. Find out what’s already working and build on that.

3) Work from the center. In exercise, lifestyle, family, and career, you must focus on balance and strengthening the core (center) first.

4) Keep it simple and remember there is always a modification. Encourage each person to do what feels right for their body, work at their level and pace, and offer alternatives as needed. Life and exercise should be fun and empowering, not painful!

5) Respect each person as a unique individual. Consider physical and psychological factors affecting success along with personality and current circumstances.

Cindy followed a Pre-Med curriculum and earned two Bachelor’s degrees from Trinity University, one in Communications and the other in Sociology/Social Psychology. She minored in Exercise Science/Lifetime Health and Fitness. She continued her education with graduate study in Exercise Physiology at the University of New Mexico after completing a graduate research assistantship in Industrial Psychology and Career Counseling at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Throughout her career she’s completed extensive continuing education in anatomy and physiology, neurology, exercise science, medical research, exercise modalities, stress management, and bodywork techniques. Cindy also has a background in competitive sports, including playing across the U.S. with the Women’s Soccer Olympic Development Program and NCAA collegiate soccer and softball.