RANDI'S FITNESS FOR KIDS is owned and operated by Randi S. Drasin, RD. Randi has over 35 years in the business of fitness. She herself was a recreational gymnast as a young girl and started weight training in 1986 after graduating from California State University, Northridge with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications.

She then became a Certified Personal Fitness Trainer in 1989 and a PE coach in 1996 and a gymnastics coach in 1998.

RANDI'S FITNESS FOR KIDS was created as a result of her daughter, Sam, being brought into this world. Randi wanted to create a career that would include Sami on a day to day basis. Day care was not an option as she didn't feel that this was the way to raise her child. When Sami turned 5, children were not allowed in the gym at which she was training her clients, so she tried home training for a while, but some clients wanted more than that. So the next best thing was to combine her gymnastics skills as well as her fitness skills and put them to good use. She began teaching gymnastics classes for a company that sent instructors out to pre-schools. It worked for a year, but Randi felt she cold do this on her own without working for someone else. Thus the creation of Randi's Fitness for kids in 1996!

RANDI'S FITNESS FOR KIDS is now located in 10 schools, running approximately 50 classes a week and employs 15 instructors.

Throughout Sami's school years, Randi volunteered to run the After School Enrichment program at Kester Magnet in Sherman Oaks while Sami attended school there. She then became the President of the Parent Association at the school. While Sami attend Millikan Middle School Randi became PTA President and even started her After School Program there as well and is still going strong since 2002. Randi makes a point of joining all the PTA's at the schools in which she runs her after school programs. She donates a portion of the procedes from the After School Classes to all the schools PTA's, Booster Clubs or parent orgranizations.

Randi currently teaches PE to the kindergarden children at the Neighborhood School in North Hollywood. She has been the Coach there since 1999. She has also been the director of Gymnastics, Dance and Cheerleading Specialty Training Camps for Sports Plus Day Camp in Sherman Oaks since 1998.

Randi decided to further her career and education by going back to school in 2007 to earn a BS degree in Dietetics, which she completed in August of 2009. She was then accepted in the Masters Program at CSUN where she is currently earning an MS Degree in Nutrition and Food Science. In 2010 she completed a 1000 hour dietetic internship which allowed her to sit for the American Dietetic Association's National Registration Exam and is now a Registered Dietitian. She has a private practice for children, teens and young adults with eating disorders, obesity problems, diabetes and body image issues. She works with families, conducts shopping trips to the market, teaches nutrition education to the elderly, and runs an eating disorder program for teens at Insight Treatment Center in Sherman Oaks.

Certifications:

ACE, ServSafe, Weight Management for Children and Adolescents

Education:

BA Communications, BS Dietetics, MS Nutrition (in progress)

Memberships & Affiliations:

American Dietetic Association, California Dietetic Association, Executive Board Member of the Los Angeles Dietetic Associaion,Social Media Coordinator SCAN DPG, Weight Management DPG, Pediations Nutrition Practice Group, International Society of Sports Nutrition, USA Gymnastics, 31st District PTSA, Student Dietetic and Food Science Association, LAPD Reserve Specialist, Sherman Oaks Chamber of Commerce

11927 Magnolia Blvd. #2, Valley Village, CA 91607 818-326-4266