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Karen Owoc, ACSM-CEP, ACSM/ACS-CET, is the founder of Pickleball Yoga™ and a clinical exercise physiologist specializing in sports prehab (preventive rehabilitation) and cardiopulmonary rehabilitation at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center. She is a lifestyle medicine speaker and author of “Athletes in Aprons: The Nutrition Playbook to Break 100” on functional longevity. She has been the weekly health expert on KRON 4 News in San Francisco since 2017, speaking on all aspects of health and lifestyle medicine in over 230 television interviews. KarenOwoc.com
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Karen Owoc, ACSM-CEP, ACSM-CETKaren Owoc, ACSM-CEP, ACSM/ACS-CET, is the founder of Pickleball Yoga™ and a clinical exercise physiologist specializing in sports prehab (preventive rehabilitation) and cardiopulmonary rehabilitation at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center.
Karen is a lifestyle medicine speaker and author of “Athletes in Aprons: The Nutrition Playbook to Break 100” on functional longevity. She has been the weekly health expert on KRON 4 News in San Francisco since 2017, speaking on all aspects of health and lifestyle medicine in over 230 television interviews. Certified by the American College of Sports Medicine, Karen focuses on the fascinating findings of human longevity and the centenarian lifestyle.
Because of her love for sports and family history of early-onset heart disease, Karen focused on a career path where food and exercise are used to treat, manage, and prevent disease. She just released her first book on functional longevity, “Athletes in Aprons: The Nutrition Playbook to Break 100” and posts regularly on her healthy living blog, KarenOwoc.com.
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Karen Owoc, ACSM-CEP, ACSM/ACS-CET, is the founder of Pickleball Yoga™ and a clinical exercise physiologist specializing in sports prehab (preventive rehabilitation) and cardiopulmonary rehabilitation at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center.
Karen is a lifestyle medicine speaker and author of “Athletes in Aprons: The Nutrition Playbook to Break 100” on functional longevity. She has been the weekly health expert on KRON 4 News in San Francisco since 2017, speaking on all aspects of health and lifestyle medicine in over 230 television interviews.
She grew up playing and competing in many sports, with skiing being her passion. Karen’s unique approach to a healthy mindset and weight loss has been popularized in her Why Can’t I Lose Weight and The Happy Brain Blueprint e-books.
As a medical weight management facilitator and clinical exercise physiologist, Karen has helped hundreds of men and women manage their chronic health conditions and live happier, more functional lives. Weight loss is often a beneficial side effect. She believes the reason most people can’t lose weight is because they’ve been trained to diet, that is, to deprive themselves of food vs use it as medicine.
Karen has extensive experience teaching nutrition and prescribing exercise as a treatment and prevention strategy for high-risk adults challenged with conditions often associated with lifestyle, such as cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, sarcopenia, and cancer.
As a health show host and frequent health contributor, Karen has appeared on ABC 10 and has been quoted in media outlets, such as CNN Health, FoxNews.com, Livestrong, NBC Bay Area, Newsday, HuffPost, USA Gymnastics, and USA Volleyball. KarenOwoc.com
Credentials
- Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology, concentration in Biodynamics
- Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist, American College of Sports Medicine
- Founder of Pickleball Yoga™, a proactive training practice designed to minimize the risk of injury, speed up recovery, and enhance overall athletic performance specific to pickleball.
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation Certificate, American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- Certified Memory Program Specialist, University of California, Los Angeles
- Certified Fitness Nutrition Specialist, American Council on Exercise
- Certified Cancer Exercise Trainer, American College of Sports Medicine
- Certified Orthopedic Specialist, American Council on Exercise
- Certified Balance Training Specialist, Zibrio
- Certified Living Strong, Living Well Instructor (cancer), Stanford School of Medicine
- 2014 San Francisco Peninsula Press Club Award
- 2008 Richard M. Aronson Special Service Award