NCSF Personal Trainer – My name is Heather Hernandez. I’m a boxing & fitness trainer, born & raised here in Las Vegas, Nevada. I grew up playing sports, basketball & softball and have always lived a very active, health conscious life. I went on to receive college scholarships in basketball, softball & track, where I studied psychology & exercise science while attending school in Oregon.
I then moved back home to Vegas after I was done with college. This was the first time in my life I had no sports to participate in, my mother had unexpectedly passed away my freshmen year in college and so, again, for the first time in my life I felt extremely lost with no direction or purpose. I started working at my local gym and was recruited to join a women’s tackle football league and started boxing. Although I loved both of these post college sports, and being apart of a team again, boxing is where I really excelled the most. I was a natural and boxing really became my outlet to channel all the anger & depression I was still feeling from my mom’s passing.

I got connected with an extremely high level coach who saw something in me and so he took me on. He was a national champion in Cuba, where he was from. He then came to America where he had a successful pro boxing career. He allowed me to join his team which was all guys, both amateur & professional. I was the only girl on the team but I held my own. I trained & conditioned with them six days a week for two hours a day throughout the years of my fighting career.

At one of my fights a USA National Boxing Coach saw me & recruited me to come and train at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs! This was one of the happiest moments of my boxing career but unfortunately about six weeks later I blew my knee out playing football, fully torn ALC which required surgery and a long road to rehab.
I had surgery and then returned to sport a bit too early, against my doctor’s recommendation but I was just so eager to get back to boxing and was also again being recruited for a Los Angeles women’s tackle football team. Due to returning back to my sports too early, I re-injured my newly operated on knee again and this time had to really sit my ass down for a while to properly recover.

This was about a two year process but through it all I really grew my passion for coaching and passing all of this knowledge & experience onto others, whether it be athletes, former athletes and also your regular every day people just looking to lead a healthier life style and become their most happy confident selves! It’s been a hell of a journey but I wake up every day feeling blessed and happy for the opportunity to teach and help people as much as I can with these gifts.