Natascha Grief, NASM-CPT, -CES, -CNC, -BCS, -SFC
Health & Fitness Editor
Natascha has been a NASM-certified personal trainer for over ten years, focusing on functional strength training and corrective exercise—which is a fancy way of saying her passion is teaching people how to move better, with more strength and less pain. She holds multiple certifications, including specializations in corrective exercise, stretching and flexibility, behavior change, nutrition and more. She’s also been into bikes for almost three decades, and has at various times been a bike mechanic, a frame builder’s apprentice, a grunt at a bike messenger company, a fitness studio owner, a Spin instructor and a few different things at a few different bike companies. These days, she’s one of Bicycling’s Health and Fitness editors.

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