March 3, 2004 meeting

Ellen Karpay

Ellen Karpay is the president of Karpay Health, a fitness and nutrition consulting company. She authored The Everything Total Fitness Book. She's an eight-time Ironman triathlon finisher, three-time Boston Marathon finisher (swim 2.4 mi, bike 112 mi, run 26.2 mi), and is passionate about helping others optimize their energy and health.

Ellen guides others in achieving their energy, health, well being, and human performance goals. She helps people confront and progress beyond their fitness and nutrition challenges such as: stress/emotional eating, sticking with an exercise program, under-training, over-training, meal preparation, making time for oneself, changing body composition, exercising with physical limitations, chronic stress, and more.

In addition to her private practice Ellen is a consultant to the American Stroke Association, a division of American Heart Association, UC Davis Sports Medicine Medical Group, the Leukemia/Lymphoma‘s Team in Training, and the County of Sacramento.

Ellen is a regular contributor to the Sacramento Bee newspaper, and a regular guest host at SacBee.com Live Chat. She is certified by American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) as a Health Fitness Instructor. She holds a B. S. degree in physical education from the University of Florida.

Ellen is an expert on fitting fitness into busy schedules.