ABOUT US

OUR MISSION: We are passionate about helping individuals and communities become healthier, happier and Fit 4 Life!

OUR GOALS:

• Help you to trim inches off your waist, hips, thighs and arms.
• Get you into the best shape of your life.
• Make sure you have fun while losing weight and inches.

Emiliano Ramnarine, MA, CFT

Emiliano is the founder of Fit 4 Life NYC and the creator Fit 4 Life Kids. He holds an M.A. in Sociology and a B.S. in Psychology. He is an NSCA (National Strength and Conditioning Association) Certified Personal Trainer, an ISSA (International Sports Sciences Association) Certified Fitness Trainer and a certified YMCA Strength and Conditioning Personal Trainer.

Emiliano's specialization lies in youth and adult fitness training and youth health and fitness program development. He has over 14 years experience working with hard to reach young people and their families. He has worked for organizations such as Episcopal Social Services, Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC, and most recently the YMCA of Greater NYC. At the YMCA he created their new fitness and nutrition standards for their 137 after school sites and designed their middle school and grades K-5 fitness and nutrition program, Operation Healthy Kids. He continues to serve as a consultant for them.

In 2004 Emiliano created Fit 4 Life Kids , a youth health and fitness leadership program, as a way to fight the rising child obesity rates in New York City. Today Fit 4 Life Kids operates in East New York, Brooklyn. The program has grown to include strong program partners such as Brookdale Hospital and Cornell University Cooperative Extension NYC. His most recent program creation, Fit 4 Life Girls, is an all girls health and fitness empowerment and leadership program serving girls ages 9-16 in the East New York/Brownsville communities of Brooklyn.

Emiliano has a passion for fighting against the rise in adult and child obesity rates and improving the health of New York City communities. He has provided workshops and presentations for groups such as the NYC Nutrition Network, the Partnership for Afterschool Education, Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC, the Family Center, Harlem Children's Zone and the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office. He currently serves as a consultant for the YMCA of Greater NYC and Energetic Juniors.

Stacey Patti, MEd

For over nine years, Stacey Patti has dedicated herself to the field of health and wellness. In her first teaching position as a teacher at a private school, the Birch Wathen and Lenox School, she taught health/physical education and coached both basketball and tennis teams. During this time, Ms. Patti also earned a Master's Degree in Health Education from NYU.

After several years at private school, she decided to join the teaching staff of a small, experimental charter school in Brooklyn. There she worked to establish programming and structure in the school's first year. She had then taken a break from teaching and worked as the program/sports director at the Dodge YMCA, also in Brooklyn. Ultimately, her heart lies in educating youth and teens and she is now working at Brooklyn Technical High School as a health instructor. Stacey Patti is dedicated to youth and teen fitness, conditioning, health and wellness.

Erika Ichinose, MS, RD

Erika is a Registered Dietitian working to improve the health and well-being of New York City individuals and communities. Erika currently travels throughout the New York City area to meet with her busy clients in the comfort of their office or home environments. She provides nutrition counseling services that are personalized to the individual. She works with men, women and children - with a particular emphasis on weight management, cholesterol control, women's health issues, family nutrition, executive health, and general nutrition.

Erika is skilled in facilitating group and individual workshops using research-based information and a hands-on, interactive, dialogue-based approach to teaching and counseling. Her expertise lies in educating and counseling individuals on health and nutrition concerns and translating complex health concepts into easy-to-understand terms and achievable goals.

Erika is the Program Associate for Nutrition and Health Programs for Cornell University Cooperative Extension-New York City, where she plans and presents nutrition education workshops, writes nutrition-based newsletters, creates health education materials, coordinates research studies, and manages nutrition education and cooking demonstrations at New York City farmers' markets as part of the Farmers' Market Nutrition Program. She takes a well-rounded approach to health and enjoys managing the Worksite Wellness Program at her agency.

Erika is also an adjunct professor of nutrition at LaGuardia Community College. She takes pleasure in enriching students' knowledge of nutrition & health and inspiring them to make healthy behavior changes.

Erika received her Bachelor's degree in Nutritional Sciences-Dietetics from Cornell University, and her Master's degree in Nutrition Education from Columbia University. She completed her 11-month Dietetic Internship through Columbia University and various sites in New York City.

Passionate about wellness and living a healthy lifestyle, Erika balances the demands of her nutrition work by “de-stressing” through healthy baking, cooking, and staying fit by cardio kick-boxing and exercising at her local gym. Erika enjoys shopping at the local farmers' markets and experimenting in the kitchen to create healthy dishes. She loves eating broccoli and kale, but just because she is a dietitian does not mean her eating and food choices are perfect—she indulges in chocolate from time to time.