Karen Goeller, CSCS, BA

Karen will gladly sign autographs, attend events, speak for your group, and help the media with gymnastics and fitness stories. Please call 888-496-8749 to discuss your idea or request an interview. (Schedule permitting.)

Karen Goeller, CSCS, has completed a variety of gymnastics and fitness books from 2001 until present. She has educated thousands of coaches, teachers, fitness trainers, athletes, gymnastics parents, and fitness enthusiasts among others. Karen Goeller has been training athletes since 1978. Most of that time was spent coaching competitive athletes. Her sport has always been gymnastics which is all about strength, flexibility, and a determination to succeed. Karen Goeller is the author of *more gymnastics books than anyone in the USA. She is bursting with information that she needs to share with you!

Karen's most recent series of books, published in 2007, are the Swing Set Fitness books. They were completed with Brian Dowd, Karen's nephew, who is a physical education teacher and life long athlete. These fitness books involve performing exercise with a playground swing. There are exercises and workouts for beginner through advanced fitness enthusiasts. This outdoor exercise offers an alternative to health club memberships. Karen shared “The Swing Set Fitness project was therapeutic for me in many ways.” As the Swing Set Fitness books evolved, so did Karen. Before the Swing Set Fitness project, her rehabilitation from the 2000 accident was very slow. Much of the damage is permanent. From 2001-2007 Karen performed the usual exercises assigned to patients with back and neck injuries, but it wasn't until the Swing Set Fitness books that Karen started to really make progress. Karen shared, "I finally feel like myself again. As soon as my nephew and I started working on the Swing Set Fitness project, I began to remember who I was before my accident and how much I really loved fitness. I felt like I was finally regaining my personality as I was becoming stronger, mentally and physically. This whole Swing Set Fitness project was truly a great experience for me. I hope this form of outdoor exercise will help transform other people too" When asked if she is completely healed from the accident, Karen replied, "I am still injured, but that no longer defines me. Now I work around my injuries much more efficiently." After Karen realized that Swing Set Fitness is a good avenue for the physical rehabilitation of former athletes with injuries, she started the Swing for Veterans Program where she is offering free Swing Set Fitness workouts for recent veterans, injured or not.

This is not the only volunteer work Karen performs. She offers her expertise in a web forum, AllExperts, where individuals ask Karen questions, looking for her advice or for answers on where to turn for gymnastics and fitness related products and services. Karen often gives gymnastics parents the coach's or gym owner's perspective on issues. She also informs parents on what should be expected of a gymnastics coach, how to shop for the right gymnastics facility, and what drills to perform for many gymnastics skills. Karen most often receives questions regarding gymnastics coach's behavior, safety issues, fears in gymnastics, and skill technique. Many of her answers are posted on her Gymnastics Stuff™ website.

Before 2000, Karen produced NY State Champions, National TOPS Team Athletes, and Empire State Games Athletes.  Three National Champions are from Karen's gymnastics facility. One of her staff members was the 1996 USATT National Champion and two were gymnasts who trained with Karen for the majority of their gymnastics careers. One was a Level 10 Uneven Bars National Champion and one was a Level 10 Balance Beam National Champion. All of this success as a coach was after her 1991 cancer surgery. The cancer surgery was a success, but Karen was forced to take on a more intellectual style of coaching. After her surgery, when Karen could not stand due to lymphedema (swelling) in her leg, Karen offered her gymnasts more drills and conditioning exercises as a method of learning skills and gaining strength.  Very quickly, Karen realized that this was the absolute best method of coaching. Her gymnasts were progressing remarkably fast. Even when Karen was feeling 100% she continued to train her athletes by offering plenty of drills and conditioning exercises. Karen shared, "The skills just came so much faster. It was amazing. Our gymnasts averaged only 4 months from day 1 to the day they performed glide kips with straight arms on their own." Day 1 was when the gymnast first started the drills for this skill.

Karen Goeller and her athletes have been featured regularly in the media throughout the 1990's including on Good Morning America, GoodDay NY, Eyewitness News, and NY Views (old show) among others. They have also been featured in The New York Times, NY Newsday, Brooklyn Bridge Magazine, and Interview Magazine as well as in numerous neighborhood newspapers including the Brooklyn Heights Press, Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill Courier, Bay News, and the Spring Creek Sun among others. More recently Karen has been featured on Lynn Johnson's Motivational Radio Show (2010),  I Run MY Body Radio (2010), Late Night with Johnny Potenza (2010),  Talkin' Health with Joe Kasper (2009), in the Coast Star (2009), Asbury Park Press (2009), Observer/Reporter (2009), Staten Island Advance (2007), and Inside Gymnastics Magazine (2008).

Karen considers it a privilege to have worked at Karolyi's Camp as well as at USGTC and International Gymnastics Camp. Working at these camps along with attending many USA Gymnastics events such as Regional Congress and the National TOPS Training Camp have all been contributing factors to her vast knowledge of gymnastics. Karen feels the knowledge she gained as an employee of Paul Spadaro, Bela Karolyi, Mike Jacobson, and Bruno Klaus has really helped enable her to produce several successful gymnasts.

Before earning her BA Degree, Karen's education included training as an EMT, Physical Therapist, and Nutritionist. She has held certifications such as EMT-D, Nutritional Analysis, Fitness Trainer, Counseling Techniques, Childcare Fundamentals, USAG Safety Certification, USAG Meet Director, and USAG Skill Evaluator among others. Her most recent certification is the CSCS certification offered by the NSCA.

Karen has spent a lifetime refining her skills as an athlete, gymnastics coach, fitness trainer, and business owner. She is bursting with information that she needs to share with you. Her knowledge has been captured in her books and she has educated thousands of coaches, athletes, gymnastics parents, and fitness enthusiasts among others.

You too can learn from the coach who wrote the book...

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Contact Karen's office 888-496-8749 for book signings, gymnastics clinics, personal training, Swing Set Fitness workouts, or any other events. Karen will gladly autograph books ordered from this website. Please call or email the office if you would like your book signed.

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Brian Dowd, BS

Brian Dowd carefully tested more than 50 exercises for these books and then worked as the fitness model to complete this project.

Brian Dowd’s sport has always been baseball. He has been a member of numerous travel baseball teams growing up and competed in the AAU, NABF, AABC National Championships, and the AAU Junior Olympics National Championships among others. Brian also played 4 years of varsity baseball for one of the best and most respected high school programs in New York City.

After high school, Brian Dowd went on to play 4 years of NCAA College Baseball. He currently plays semi-professional baseball in the New York area. Brian Dowd has coached on the high school level and currently coaches baseball on the college level.

Besides his involvement in baseball, Brian Dowd is a physical education teacher in NYC. He is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Physical Education.

Both dedicated to their sport, and both highly educated, this team has produced three unique and highly useful fitness books.

For interviews with the authors, training sessions, or any events in which you would like the authors to appear or sign books please call 888-496-8749.

Swing Set Fitness… Accept the challenge and let the results speak for themselves… Buy Now!

Go outdoors and have fun while you workout! Learn many new exercises and workouts. Accept the challenge. Change your physical appearance. Lose weight. Gain strength. Invite your family to participate in this outdoor fitness method. Exercise with a swing!

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