About Valorie Ness
As a personal trainer, fitness guru, presenter, teacher, business owner and mother, Valorie Ness believes in leading by example. According to Valorie, personal training is more than helping someone rack weights, count backwards and do sit-ups. Forget the “Cookie Cutter Approach.” Personal training is a chance to truly touch an individual’s life, helping them make positive life changes in both health and fitness while avoiding injury. Just look at her two fitness inspirations Gin Miller and Jack Lalane.
Energetic, committed and fun.
Valorie caught the fitness bug early on. When she was 8 years old, she would join her mother in the family’s basement and exercise to Joanie Greggin’s aerobic and toning vinyl album. Inspired by Vicki Fuhr, of Fuhr Chiropractic, Redwoodfalls, MN, Valorie began teaching aerobics at age 18. Her love of sports, competition and fitness would lead her to major in Food and Nutrition with minors in Sports Nutrition and Corporate/Community Fitness at the University of Minnesota, Mankato. She became a Certified Personal Trainer in 1995. In 1999, Valorie decided to “move south” and accepted a position as the Program Director for the Athletic Club Northeast . In 2001, she became a Master Personal Trainer and in 2004, she launched Valorie Ness Personal Training, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Now, as an ACE Master Level Personal Trainer, Valorie specializes in strength & conditioning, “N-Stretch” flexibility, functional skills training, core training, individual fitness assessments, neuromuscular analysis, pregnant and post natal women fitness training, joint and muscle training, orthopedic and musculoskeletal issues and injury recovery.
She is currently a Master Trainer and Presenter with the American Council on Exercise. Valorie is a group fitness trainer, Reebok Core Board Pilates Instructor, National Exercise Trainers Association (NETA) certification trainer, American Heart Association Heartsaver AED Instructor and a member of IDEA Health & Fitness Source. A sought-after speaker and instructor, Valorie conducts the ACE-approved Practical Training Program for Personal Trainers in Georgia.
