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Kira Stokes, a graduate of Boston College with a BS in psychology and a minor in health science, has excelled in the personal training and fitness industry for over 18 years.She began her career as a partner with Train Boston, New England's premier fitness and training center for serious athletes, and Boston Sports Clubs. She established herself as one of the elite trainers and fitness instructors in the Boston area, becoming a top instructor at world-renowned The Sports Club/LA and Equinox. In 2007, Kira moved to the New York area.

Since 1998, Kira has been the sole proprietor of her own personal training company, “Kira Stokes Fitness”. Today, Kira’s business includes private training, small group training and teaching expert level fitness classes at New York’s elite health clubs including Reebok Sports Club/NY, The Sports Club/LA, Equinox and Revolve Fitness cycling studio. She has also taught Core Fusion at NYC's Exhale Spa. Kira's personal training clients include professional athletes, celebrities, television journalists and dignitaries. She has trained co-hosts of the television show “The View” and trains Sherri Shepherd. She also trains co-anchors of “CBS This Morning” and the “Today Show.” Kira trained Miss New York 2009, Alyse Zwick, for her preparation for the Miss New York and Miss America competitions where Ms. Zwick won the swimsuit competition.

Kira's focus is on innovative training, concentrating on transforming the body and mind. She has developed a signature training technique, The Stoked Method, which combines functional and traditional methods of working the body. Her personal training methods have evolved to include a unique combination of strength training, cardiovascular conditioning, sports specific drills, yoga and Pilates. Kira combines all of these disciplines into her proprietary “Stoked Series” of classes: Stoked360™, Stoked At The Barre™, Stoked Primal™, StokedAbs™, Stoked Cross-Core™, Stoked Uptown/Midtown™ and her indoor/outdoor boot camp style classes, Stoked F.I.T. Camp™. Kira holds several certifications including NASM-CPT, NASM-PES, NSCA and Core Fusion as well as specialized certifications in Schwinn Cycle, Pre- and Post-natal, TRX, SBT – Suspended Body Weight Training, ViPR and Kettlebells.

In 2012, Kira was recruited to serve as Master Instructor on the opening team for Revolve Fitness’ first NYC cycling studio. She co-created the “RIP Ride” and revamped the “Body Ride” for Revolve’s New York debut. She also created “Stoked Cross-Cycle” which serves as the standard format for all of Revolve’s cross-training classes.

In June 2013, Kira was selected by Reebok International to serve as a Master Trainer and sponsored athlete. The partnership includes appearances for the Reebok brand, featured athlete and presenter at trade shows and conventions as well as speaking engagements on behalf of Reebok International.

Kira has appeared on television, radio, print publications, websites and blogs including:

Television and radio segments on The View, Live with Regis & Kelly, Rachael Ray Show, Today Show, CBS This Morning, Good Morning America, Good Morning America Health, ABC News, Live from the Couch, NY1, Fox News, Dr. Steve, Veria Living, CW11, Better TV, NECN, Martha Stewart Living Radio, WRKO, and WMDB

Magazine articles in SHAPE, People, SELF, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Fitness, More, New York, Oxygen, Marie Claire, Health, Women’s Running, Weight Watchers, Details, Reader’s Digest, and TimeOut New York

Created and stars in twelve fitness videos for Comcast On-Demand Fitness

Host of “Stoked TV” on The Health and Wellness Channel launching in 2014

Contributor to numerous on-line fitness and health sites including Betty Confidential, Well & Good, Shape.com and The Fashion Spot

Kira works with and represents some of the top fitness brands in the world. She served as an ambassador for Lululemon Athletica and has modeled for Reebok and New Balance. She created and appears in the “Fila Fitness Minutes” which run on Fila’s and The Sports Club/LA’s websites.

On a scale of bad-assery, 1 being Danny Tanner and 10 being Samuel L. Jackson, I am probably about a 5.8, which I think puts me in a range somewhere between Will Ferrel and Conan (O’Brian, not the Barbarian).

What was I saying? Oh yea, about me.

I am a New York City based personal trainer, coach, author and model.

Over the past several years, I have helped thousands of people achieve and surpass their fitness goals using methods both traditional and unconventional.

Living and working in the New York area, I’ve had the opportunity to train a number of actors, musicians, producers and models.

More importantly, I have helped people from all walks of life achieve their goals. To give a few examples, I’ve worked with:

kids

their parents

the lawyers who represented those parents in the divorce

strippers who danced for the lawyers

bouncers at the club where the strippers worked

the poker players who take money off the bouncers in the weekly game

that dude at the mall who sells all the poker players their sunglasses

my mom

I have served as a strength coach for athletes of all levels, from high school wrestlers to collegiate and professional soccer players to recreational golfers and volleyball players and even the occasional cheerleader.

And of course, there have been a lot of people who don’t care about performance and just want to look good with their shirts off–which works for me, because I honestly hate shirts. Total waste of time. (You don’t have to wear one here.)

As an author, my articles have appeared in numerous online and print publications, such as Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, T-Nation.com, SHAPE, Yahoo! Health, Oxygen, Livestrong.com, and the like. I’m also one of the fitness experts over at HealthGuru.com, the Number One Source for health videos in the world.

My modeling images have appeared on packaging for supplements, training products, a few underwear ads, a variety of fitness magazines, and probably some very inappropriate websites.

Chances are, if you’ve picked up a fitness magazine in the past few years, you have either seen me or read something of mine. While that’s all pretty cool, it still doesn’t make me a bad-ass.

I’m just too much of a nerd.

Unapologetically, I love Star Wars, comics, emo music, video games and all things technology. To put it in literary terms, I have always been more Lord of the Rings than Lord of the Flies.

I wasn’t a natural athlete, but instead a chubby kid who would rather be reading than running. In fact, when I was in the 8th grade, I really only started playing sports as a way to—as my guidance counselor put it—”diversify my resume for my college applications.”

So I was forced by that logic to take time out my busy Dungeons & Dragons schedule to wrestle, play football, and run track. With a lot of hard work, I was able to work myself into a passibly decent athlete, although I was never a star.

Truth told, the offseasons were my favorite. I spent time in the weight room, where I enjoyed lifting. Because I had no delusions about my potentional for athletic greatness, I got to focus on lifting, where I was able to excel.

I would often spend time there lost in thought about what it would be like if I could use the tools in that room change my body and look like the guys in the comic books instead of the guy who read them.

Years later, when I was 19 and way fatter than I had a right to be I decided to do just that.

Being a bookish sort of guy (read: nerd), I dove headfirst into all the literature I could find. I read everything on training, nutrition and supplementation I could get my hands on. I read for hours and trained for hours—and let me tell you and made A LOT of mistakes!

The thing about reading everything is that there is just so much bad information out there. For the most part, you never really know what’s right, or wrong, or just plain stupid until you try it. So I tried everything. And despite the fact that I made mistakes, I DID make progress.

In a few months I went from a chubby 193 to a shredded 165. Six months later, I had packed on almost 30 pounds, and was back at 193, but this time on my terms. I was back at my starting weight, but with radically different physique.

Over that first year, outside of learning as much as I could and getting my first training certifications, I completely changed my body and my life.

I went from hating beaches to loving them, loving shirts to hating them, and being uncomfortable with my body to getting pictures of it taken professionally.

And, again, this was despite my mistakes. Now, I know I could make better progress in less time.

However, those mistakes were the best things that ever happened to me. Stumbling onto methods I would not have otherwise been aware of, my mistakes have helped me come up with systems for both fat loss and muscle gain that–until now–I have not shared with the world. Using these methods, I’ve been able to help people avoid those pitfalls and reach their goals in record time.

It’s not always easy, but it is effective.

Plus, thankfully I have had a great time doing it. I tell jokes, I tell stories, and sometimes I give people workouts that make them vomit–but as my fellow model and philosophizer Derek Zoolander once said, vomiting is, “a great way to lose weight before a runway show.” Which is braggable.

So, I guess I am a fitness dude who makes people laugh. Or maybe I’m a comedy dude who makes people fit.

Either way, hang out here and you’re sure to pick up some stuff that you can use to achieve your goals, whether they be for get bigger, faster, and stronger; or to get smaller, leaner and sexier.

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