Heather Rider, MA, AFFA, ACE, NASM, ACSM, is the president of Riderfit, a fitness consulting company located in Los Angeles, California. She holds a Masters Degree in Psychology with a focus on eating disorders and mind/body fitness.  She has worked in the fitness industry since she was sixteen when she got her first job in a women’s only health club. She has developed many successful programs specifically designed for women suffering from eating disorders , as well as women over fifty .

Heather has used her own experience of fighting an eating disorder from the age of 8, to  teach women the connection between  working to  be fit and  strong and being proud  of the bodies they have.

Heather also uses her experiences with her mother to teach women that it is never too late to learn about being fit and healthy in the mind and body. 
   Her mother  also suffered from an eating disorder and is now a sixty something year old woman who hikes the Swiss alps.