Laura O'Connor

I am a married mother of two small boys, ages three and five years old, and currently live in Springfield, Ohio.  I am a college graduate and my husband and I own our own business, which allows me to stay home with my boys and teach fitness classes at the Springfield Family YMCA.  My passion for fitness began early on and has only increased each passing year.  I began my journey into the fitness world with simply running and occasionally lifting weights.  As I grew to love these activities, I began teaching classes and branching out into other specialties such as Pilates and group cycle.  I have now been teaching classes for more than seven years and feel that I've only scraped the surface of my abilities as a fitness professional and what level of fitness I can personally achieve.  I hope to compete in a figure/fitness competition by 2014.  I feel this is an important goal for me to set not only to motivate my classes, but to set a positive and healthy example for my children.  Being a fitness instructor allows me to help people reach goals they could not on their own and they inspire me to push and train harder.