Meet the KA Training Team:

Marie Jensen, M.A.

As a child, I imagined myself as Wonder Woman. As a young adult, my imagination gained a sense of reality, and it began visualizing its host as an IFBB pro (if not performing super heroically, at least looking the part). In 2017, I earned my pro card, and felt like Wonder Woman when I did. And then I came up with some new goals. But between the establishing of my (slightly revised) first dream and its fulfillment, I learned a lot about health, exercise, and nutrition. In part, I learned that science never stops progressing. It grows every day, and so we, too, must continue to grow and learn. Subscribing to old gym lore isn't as effective as training with sound physiology, mechanics, and nutrition. When I first invited science into my own training, I was surprised by the results. When I employed it in the training of others, they were surprised and I was pleased. But textbooks and journal articles only characterize populations, not individuals. And every client is an individual in more ways than one. More ways than a trillion. And, unfortunately, exercise prescription is not a one-size-fits-all garment. It has to be tailored to the individual's background, capacities, and goals. To customize those seams and hems to each unique body, I have learned to draw from my own experiences. No matter what we hope to achieve, the optimal strategy is a marriage of the experiential and the experimental, that perfect union of art and science. [Training Philosophy] ___ [Research Profile] ___ [Competitive Career] ___ [Photographs]