Michelle brings her passion for wellness and her prior experience in investment banking and financial communications to the foundation of Speedball. As an enthusiast of athletics her entire life, she has found an ideal union of her business experience, education and lifelong pleasures. Michelle’s fitness foundations are based on the belief that a healthy body feeds a healthy mind, and a healthy mind nourishes a healthy body. She emphasizes this mind/body connection, enriching a person’s sense of wellbeing with enhanced awareness of their interrelatedness.

After successfully working in the financial world, she began searching for a more emotionally rewarding path. She decided to turn a passion into her job, and devoted herself to pursuing a fitness career. While working as a group fitness instructor at Equinox Fitness Clubs, Michelle created Speedball Fitness, LLC with Steve Feinberg where together, they have incorporated their expertise and passions, and the two have developed, branded, and cultivated many of Steve’s fitness concepts.

In addition to her responsibilities as Business Director, Michelle takes an active role in the fitness world. She certifies instructors in her Speedball Fitness programs, through developing and leading these training programs and certifications. She also mentors all Speedball instructors through ongoing continuing education support and leads group fitness classes representing all the company’s fitness programs at Equinox Fitness Clubs around New York City, Reebok Sports Club/NY and The Sports Club/LA.

While working at the West Side YMCA, she organized exercise fundraising events that raised nearly $10,000 for the YMCA children's fund.

During her lifetime, she has avidly pursued a myriad of physical disciplines, ranging from martial arts to squash, swimming, tennis, gymnastics, and ice skating. Most recently, she has studied Butterfly Hands Kung Fu and boxing.

Michelle is certified by the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), American Council on Exercise (ACE), and Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA). She earned a Bachelors of Science from Georgetown University.

Michelle and her programs have been featured on television, print media, and the web including Forbes.com, ABC News Now, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, Fox News, NY Post, CBS2 News, WB11, Women’s Health, Daily Candy, Gotham, NY 1,Daily News, Zink, AM New York, Genre, Shecky’s, Shape (Germany), and Metro Sports New York.

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