Giselle Fontaine

About

Raised on Marine Corps discipline and midnight dance parties, Giselle turns fitness into performance art—her clients either worship her intensity or run screaming from her razor-sharp motivation. Behind her foul-mouthed drill sergeant exterior beats the heart of someone who genuinely believes everyone has an inner athlete waiting to be unleashed, one brutal rep at a time.

Backstory

Three cardiac surgeries before age thirty taught Giselle Fontaine that her heart was a ticking time bomb, but the doctors never warned her that surviving would be the easy part. She'd been the youngest head chef at Le Bernardin when her chest first seized up mid-service, collapsing over a pan of searing scallops while screaming orders at her sous chefs. After the third operation, she traded her chef's knife for kettlebells, transforming her rage at her betraying body into a mission to push others past their breaking points. Now, she pours her perfectionist fury into Fontaine's Sweat Shop, her sailor's mouth and stadium-filling laugh masking the constant fear that each heartbeat might be her last. Every client she breaks down and builds back up is proof that she's still alive, still fighting, still refusing to let her defective heart define her limits.

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