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Lori 'Minky' Radcliffe RN, BS, FNC, CFPC
Lori 'Minky' Radcliffe Quick Facts
Main Areas: Besides working as an Certified Fitness Nurse, helping fitness nurses find their purpose so they can do what they love and make money. Provide Certified Fitness Nurse course for those nurses looking for a roadmap to making money as a Certified Fitness Nurse.Career Focus: Speaker (Health-Info-tainer), Business Owner, Author, Mentor
Affiliation: National Association of Fitness Nurses, Aerobics & Fitness Assocation of America, National Black Nurses Association
Fitness Nurses... We put the 'care' in fitness. We're professional, licensed nurses with a specialty in fitness. We assist you with starting and maintaining every APN/physician's recommendation to exercise without the fear & embarrassment & with the knowledge of health & disease process.™
There are NO healthy people. You know how most people know they need to exercise, but may be faced with medical concerns and fear of moving, so they often end up doing nothing? Well, a Fitness Nurse bridges the gap between leaving the doctor's office with a medical diagnosis and the actual workout. Have you been experiencing a condition that you've been using as an excuse to NOT exercise? We care about how you feel and about your continued mobility and health. We are here to assist anyone who hears their doctor's recommendation to exercise but don't know where or how to start. We utilize the nursing process, through fitness, to bring down our clients/patients health-related numbers and improve their mental state.
I am President of FitnessNursing.com. This company consults with and mentors new fitness nurses start their businesses and their work as a "_________ Fitness Nurse". We also promote Fitness Nursing to the communities we serve, supports nurses who want to work with people who want to and need to become more physically active but may have medical concerns and who are scared. Nurses interested in Fitness nursing should visit our website and our Fitness Nursing Blog for information on how to make money working as a Fitness Nurse. Nurses who want a step by step Certification process to become a Certified Fitness Nurse, please go to www.CertifiedFitnessNurse.com.
I have a Bachelor's Degree in Kinesiology (study of human movement & motion description) from the University of MD, College Park (1986). After years of competitive body building and trying to become a stand-up comedienne; I went back to nursing school, when I was a single mother, and became a Registered Nurse (RN) in 1993. I worked in med/surg, orthopedics, Long-Term Care, Staff Education, and currently (perdiem) as an RN Health Educator. I was missing so much what I loved, helping people transform their mind & body through fitness. Then tragedy struck and my beloved mother dropped dead on a treadmill. People would come up to me and say, "That treadmill killed your mother" or "That's just why I don't exercise, 'cause it'll kill you". That was the time I knew that I had to vindicate fitness and find out, then explain, what happened to my mother for real. I knew in my heart that 'she died trying to live'. She died with a diagnosis of osteopenia. Her bone loss was the beginning of her demise. I never thought she'd be at risk. She was a retired RN and always wanted me to somehow combine my skills. Today, I have several fitness certifications. Not only in Personal Fitness Training, but I also train and test others to become national personal fitness trainers through AFAA (Aerobics & Fitness Association of America). I have certifications in kickboxing, and Stott Pilates. I was certified as a Lebed Method Instructor which is dance therapy for breast cancer survivors. I've taught many group fitness classes from weight training for osteoporosis prevention, Pilates to kickboxing. I currently run a Certified Fitness Nursing Business at the Jersey Shore. I used to teach Strengthen & Stretch classes featuring the TRX but now I offer Certified Fitness Nursing services. I believe that the best, safest and quickest wy to improve health and effortlessly lose weight is to decrease your body's need for insulin. This lifestyle change is also offered in a program called "WeightlossPRN" geared for physician's practices and their patients who are pre-diabetic, hypertensive and overweight. I also do presentations called "Vitamin D Diva...Buffbones for Women", to increase the awareness of vitamin D deficiency, improve the importance of natural Vitamin D and bone health in all women. I am the former chapter leader of the Jersey Shore Chapter, but still a member, of the Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF). As a Fitness Nurse Consultant & Certified Food Psychology Nutrition Counselor ...In other words I tell you the WHEN & HOW you eat (Paleo-inspired eating & moving); not the obsessive WHAT you eat, to assist our brains to become more leptin sensitive and therefore begin to actually, naturally, 'burn fat in your sleep'. Issues with inactivity, stress eating, chronic dieting, poor body image, cravings, etc. are corrected for the long term (sustainability). I use this model to teach and certify other Fitness Nurses who want a "blueprint" of exactly what to do to make money as a Certified Fitness Nurse. I love making people laugh and I love exercising and movement in general. I believe that when you're laughing you're learning. So I have combined my comedy experience, nursing and fitness experience to form my own production company called, 'Jest' for Fitness & Food. As a Health-Info-tainer, I deliver humorous presentations on fitness, food, and stress. I try to keep 'not-your-ordinary' health information humorous during my presentations. I also believe that Black folks will not stop give up fried chicken. So, I've researched a way for "Deep Fried Chicken Lovers" to eat HEALTHY Deep Fried Chicken. We know that deep fried food is not the best to eat... if you are going to indulge, at least stop using inflammatory, rancid vegetable oils to deep fry with. Try my suggested fat instead. It's much healthier for deep frying.
Other Programs & Highlights
The Certified Fitness Nurse course is a private certification program. More information is at:
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Lori 'Minky' Radcliffe
"You're such a Hot Little Minky!" my boyfriend, Fred of over 5 years, tells me often.
(A Minky is a particularly sexy woman over 35, according to the Urban Dictionary)
"You have to be healthy to lose weight; not lose weight to be healthy."
~ Dr. Diana Schwarzbein, Endocrinologist
"When standing at the bottom of the staircase, don't focus on the staircase; focus on the first step."
~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows."
~Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
"Anytime you take a food that nature or God has given us and alter it, you make it worse. Chickens have skin, eggs have yolks, milk has butter fat and nature made them that way. If you desire health, stop telling Nature and God that they are stupid. ~David J. Getoff, Naturopath and Clinical Nutritionist
"America spends 25% of its healthcare dollars during the last six month of life, more than 300 billion a year to finance every conceivable treatment for every possible condition - without adding an iota to quality of life!" ~ Dr. Khalid Mahmud, Oncologist
"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure, that just ain't so." ~Mark Twain
"We are the age of our oldest organ." ~Dr. Thierry Hertoghe (Father of bio-identicals)
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." ~Upton Sinclair
"Lori, my mother always told me and now I'll always tell you...You've got to start out how you want to end up." ~Wilma Radcliffe, RN, BSN and my mother
"To know and to NOT do; is to NOT know." ~ Bruce Lee
"You were born to be a success; but you are programmed to stay where you are." ~David Neagle
Getting Started With Lori 'Minky' Radcliffe
E-mail info@fitnessnursing.com and request to hear a short presentation (no fee) to your group on how Fitness Nursing serves a forgotten group of people you know, maybe you? Are you a nurse who knows you can really help your patients/clients with exercise and you want to help them get started and/or stay on track. These patients/clents want to go to their doctor with good news. Please consider coming to our local meetings at:
www.meetup.com/local-fitness-nurses
Free preview mentoring calls every month. Go to
www.CertifiedFitnessNurse.com for more information. You need to opt-in there to get the recording and great bone health and pharmaceutials that rob nutrition reports.
