About Gina
Passionate, experienced & results orientated.Gina’s main career objective is to create opportunities for others and teach what she has learned to positively influence people who enter her network through knowledge and mentoring. Gina is frustrated with the many errors & misconceptions that are blindly promoted by our “experts” and endeavours to interest people in exploring the truth about how to achieve health and wellness.
Currently Gina is teaching Health Science at WSU – The College at Nirimba Education Precinct. She is continuing her education in all things health, specifically Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, by studying a Master of Public Health at UNSW. This qualification will be completed in 2021.
Gina Ferraro – 20 years professional industry experience
Gina Ferraro is a qualified exercise physiologist with an in-depth understanding of health, wellness, fitness, and weight-loss and she has extensive experience in fitness education, fitness management, and corporate health. Gina has a solid background in exercise program development, implementation, and evaluation. She is an avid advocator of health and wellness and passionate about assisting people of all ages, abilities, & conditioning levels achieve their goals.
As an exercise physiologist Gina is highly capable of working with clients with varying injury and disease conditions. As a lecturer she is an accomplished & fun educator with methods that achieve successful understanding of information. She is also obsessive about analysing research material and ensuring that she stays well-informed to implement evidence-based guidance to others.
Gina is not a stranger to debilitating injury nor weight gain, as she suffered a major disc herniation in 2007 that rendered her immobile for almost two years and resulted in a 24kg weight gain. But Gina overcame that obstacle and though she still struggles with pain on a daily basis….Gina does not let it control her life nor her health. Because of this she is able to relate and empathise with others who face similar hurdles and this has enabled Gina to connect more effectively with them.
- Master of Public Health 100%
- Postgraduate Certificate of Exercise Science (Strength & Conditioning) 100%
- Bachelor of Applied Science (Sport & Exercise Science) 100%
- Diploma of Remedial Massage 100%
- Certificate IV Special Populations – Children & Adolescents (CHISM) 100%
- Certificate IV & Certificate III Fitness 100%
- Professional Diploma Advanced Sports & Exercise Nutritional Advisor 100%
Lecturing
2001 – 2007:
Tertiary education lecturer in Fitness with WSI TAFE Nepean
2007 – 2010:
Lecturer in fitness and personal training courses for various highly respected Registered Training Organisations including The Australian Institute of Fitness, Australian Training Company, and Australian College of Natural Therapies.
2014 – Current:
Health Science teacher at Western Sydney University – The College.
University tutor
2002 – 2003:
Uni of Western Sydney Parramatta – Sociological Aspects (Family Studies)
2005:
Uni of Western Sydney Macarthur – Sport Sociology (Sport & Exercise Science)
2008:
Uni of Western Sydney Macarthur – Exercise Physiology (Sport & Exercise Science)
Fitness course developer
2001 – 2007:
TAFENSW
2008 – 2009:
JNB Course Developers
2010:
Australasian College of Natural Therapies
2012:
Study Group Australia
2012:
Australian Institute of Personal Trainers
Additional experience
- Health retreat management
- Gym management
- Corporate health & fitness management
- Personal training coordination
- Health promotions presenter
- Strength & conditioning trainer
- Exercise physiologist mentor
- Personal Training Business
- Fitness testing of Olympic athletes at NSW Inst of Sport
- Anthropometry (girth and skinfolds)
- Group exercise instruction including *Les Mills programs
Recent blog posts
Is sitting REALLY the New Smoking?
In this current day we are spending far too much of our lives being sedentary. Sedentary behaviour is described as a distinct class of behaviours (e.g., sitting, watching TV, driving) characterised by little physical movement and low energy expenditure. But is sitting...
When eating healthy becomes unhealthy!
, Orthorexia nervosa is an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. It is a “health food eating disorder”. Yes. You read it correctly. When anyone has an exaggerated focus on something – even something healthy, it can become problematic. Today more than ever we have...
Healthier Grocery Shopping
It is common for people to drop grocery products into their trolleys out of habit, without arming themselves with the information required to determine if their choice was the best one for their body, or just for their taste buds! So many of us grocery shop blindly...