Linda LaRue, RN, MEd

It’s true that it takes only one profound experience to change your life. Due to orthopedic injuries received from a traumatic ski injury over 15 years ago, Los Angeles based celebrity fitness trainer Linda LaRue changed hers’ to live and practice daily what she preaches to her clients. That is fun, easy, and effective functional training with an emphasis on “core” to not only look good, but also feel and move well optimally. This is the foundation for her Crunchless Abs Methodology used by celebs to keep them in top peak performance mode while giving them flat, sculpted abs.

Linda LaRue, RN MEd., ATC, is a Registered Nurse and Athletic Trainer with a Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology and Sports Medicine from the University of Virginia.  She has been the featured expert in numerous fitness magazines such as SHAPE, Fit Pregnancy, Conde Naste Women’s Sports, and Competitor.  She currently contributes as a freelance writer and/or editor for the following publications: SHAPE, Overtime Magazine, Elite Traveler (founding Health Director), The Palisades-Post, Fitness Onsite, and Fitness Management.

Linda has been a Master Personal Trainer and Fitness Instructor in the field of land-based and aquatic exercise, rehabilitation, and post-rehabilitation for over the past 20 years.  She has consulted with some of the top fitness and sports professionals in the athletic, health, and fitness industries.

Linda is a former nationally ranked competitive and college varsity swimmer, and is a former member of the IDEA Aquatic Board of Directors, the largest fitness association in the world.  Presently, Linda is on the Advisory Board of Directors for ExerciseTV, the premier Video on Demand Health and Fitness Channel by Comcast and Time-Warner.  Before going into private practice, Linda was the former head nurse of the Heart Institute of the Desert’s Cardiac Rehabilitation Center and Pritikin Longevity Center in Santa Monica, California.