About Cari Shoemate

Cari is an ACE-Certified Personal Trainer, Group Fitness Instructor, and a Certified Yoga Instructor. She is ExerciseTV’s Fitness Expert and is the personal trainer for the NBA Houston Rockets Power Dancers. She has been featured weekly on Houston’s Fox Morning News as their fitness expert and has been featured in numerous other TV, radio, and print publications including: E!, NBC, CBS radio, OM Yoga & Lifestyle Magazine, iVillage.com, Shape.com and more. Cari is also ExerciseTV’s “Expert Trainer” and does live Q&A sessions weekly either on their Facebook page or on the “Ask The Expert” blog. She also stars in and produces weekly fitness videos for Social Workout.com.

Cari is passionate about fitness, health, and wellness and goes out of her way to inspire others to adopt a healthy lifestyle and take charge of their lives. Her first DVD, Long Lean Legs was produced by ExerciseTV and is available on Amazon.com and on VideoOnDemand nationwide through ExerciseTV. Check with your cable provider – you might already have it!

If you live in Houston, you can workout with Cari either at one of her fitness training camps/bootcamps where members get the benefits of both a personal trainer for one-on-one support, and the fun atmosphere of group fitness. In addition to personal training, group fitness, and yoga, Cari also offers nutrition counseling, boxing, bootcamps, running programs, and functional athletic training (amateurs to pros).

*Below is my short demo reel highlighting my training style and on-air experience that I put together myself .

Professional Highlights:

B.S. Degree from Texas A&M
10+ years fitness industry experience
Certified Personal Trainer through ACE
Certified Group Fitness instructor through ACE
Certified Yoga Instructor
CPR/AED Certified through American Red Cross
Marathoner and competitive runner (can train/coach runners for all distances and all experience levels)
Other areas of expertise: boxing, bootcamps, nutrition/diet, balance/alignment, stress reduction, corporate fitness programs and diet/exercise when traveling.

TV Appearances

Fox Morning News Extra: Local “Fitness Expert” – Oct 2009 to January 2011
E! News: Featured clips of my live workouts as part of NBC Universal’s Healthy Week in NYC- May 2011
Glade Commercials: Airing February 2011 – May 2011
CBS Great Day Houston: Featured Personal Trainer and Demonstrating Exercises – September 2007, January 2008, May 2008, August 2008, January 2009
Wild About Houston: Featured Personal Trainer and demonstrated exercises for teens – May 2008
Mirror Mirror: Featured doing exercises – June 2009, December 2009

Other Media and Special Appearances

Featured “Expert Trainer” in ExerciseTV’s Community Blog where she give fitness advice and answers questions (May 2010 – Present).
Represented ExerciseTV in NYC for NBC Universal’s “Healthy Week” and led workouts on stage with former Biggest Loser winners and other tv personalities – May 2011
On the cover of the August 2010 issue of 002 Magazine along with a featured article.
On Darra Torres’ blog tour and featured on her website DarraTorres.com.
Judge for NBA’s Houston Rockets Power Dancer auditions 2009-present.
Featured in Health and Fitness Magazine, November 2010.
Featured trainer in online publications such as FitSugar.com, iVillage.com and more.
Featured Trainer on Shape.com
Featured in 3 commercials for Glade where Cari portrays herself as an ExerciseTV Trainer.
Featured numerous times on CBS Radio to discuss health and fitness.
Featured on the Dr. Phil Show, December 2010 (2 episodes) as Erica Rose’s trainer.
Appeared at Total Body Expo – Houston, April 2008 demonstrating self defense and bootcamp exercises.
Speaker for National Kidney Foundation events in Houston and give members information and tips about nutrition and exercise and lead the official warmup for the 2009 Kidney Walk.
Misc. fitness modeling for Fit Athletic Club, Lululemon (window demos), Joy Yoga fashion show and more.
A “Lucy Pro” and has partnered with Lucy Activewear for many local events including Cari’s DVD Release Party.
Featured in ACE’s Pro-Newsletter and interviewed for multiple online news articles such as “Fitness Tricks the Pros Use”.
Front page feature in the Houston Chronicle.
Writer/Contributor for Culturemap.com.