Kaisa Keranen

Kaisa Keranen was born on January 29, 1986 in Seattle, Washington. As a very active child, she was encouraged by her parents to participate in various sports like gymnastics, swimming, ballet, soccer, and sprinting. Thanks to her athletic frame, she was one of the most naturally gifted sportswomen among her peers in high school. After completing school, she enrolled into the University of Washington in 2004. Representing the college team, she did the heptathlon, which combines seven track and field events over two days in a meet. She completed her graduation in 2008 and later obtained an M.S. degree in Exercise Science, Sports Performance and Injury Prevention. She credits her mother for being her inspiration. Happy Saturday Team! 💪🙌 A post shared by Kaisa Keranen (@kaisafit) on Apr 14, 2018 at 8:26am PDT

Encouraged by her parents, Kaisa Keranen took part in various sports since she was very young. She was an athletic student in school and represented the track and field team at University of Washington. After completing her college studies in 2008, she went through a rough patch during which she felt "worn down and injured", which prompted her to learn more about her body.

Earning a professional trainer certification from NASM, she began running boot camps and enrolled in an internship as a fitness coach at the local gym Zum Fitness. She found satisfaction in seeing people gain confidence with their body movement and soon fell in love with her new job, which became her new passion. She often exercised together with her college friend and track teammate Jennifer Forrester, and on May 1st, 2014, teamed up with her to launch a joint Instagram account named 'Two BAD (Beautiful Athletic Duo) Bodies', taking the name from a common friend's joke. The duo regularly shared videos of their joint, often synchronized, workout sessions, and immediately became a sensation on social media and all over the internet, with several leading news outlets covering their story. After about a year, in August 2015, the two decided to pursue their separate individual careers. Kaisa, who began sharing her journey on her own Instagram account, gathered a sizeable fan following by the end of the year. Thanks to her social media fame and her reputation as a professional trainer, she soon began appearing on news articles and magazines. She currently boasts of over 680k followers on her Instagram account. Happy Thursday Team! 💪🙌 #tbt A post shared by Kaisa Keranen (@kaisafit) on Apr 19, 2018 at 9:12am PDT

Kaisa Keranen, who now enjoys training people and inspiring them to make their own fitness goals and achieve them, left Zum Fitness after serving there for several years and has launched her own personal brand, 'KaisaFit', through which she guides aspiring fitness enthusiasts. While working at Zum, she became interested in training athletes, and later went back to school to earn her masters' degree in Exercise Science: Sports Performance and Injury Prevention. She also interned at her college to test her skills hands-on to see how much she enjoyed her new role. However, she began to miss her interactions with her clients and see their excitement at improving their body movement. As such, she returned to her own business after five months of internship and began her 'movement coaching' with renewed interest.

She has continued to inspire a huge number of young followers with her motto that being healthy is not to achieve a certain look, but to feel healthy internally. Interestingly, she doesn't believe in following a diet or counting calories; rather, she makes sure to keep her food simple and clean. She also feels that having a different meal routine based on the type of workout she has planned is too complicated. She simply teaches her clients to "move daily, eat healthy".