About Annie Yoho

My fitness journey began as a teen. I had a terrible self-image and struggled with an eating disorder. When a friend introduced me to “aerobics”, my world changed. Group fitness classes built my strength and confidence. Eventually I became an instructor and taught for over a decade. My love affair with fitness continued with endurance running. After helping with Spring training for a middle school football team, I became a certified personal trainer in 2012 through the American Council on Exercise (ACE).

But my world was rocked when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014.  I didn’t know what was ahead, but God did.  All the experiences I had – endurance running, the eating disorder, becoming a personal trainer – prepared me for what was to come. 

I continued to run and train through a lumpectomy, 20 weeks of chemo and 6 weeks of radiation. Through a series of serendipitous events, I became a fitness trainer for the YMCA LIVESTRONG cancer fitness program during my last weeks of radiation, where I helped cancer survivors regain strength and confidence after treatment.  After 5 years volunteering for LIVESTRONG, God nudged me to create my own program, so I started SurvivorFit, a cancer fitness community program where I led for the next 5 years.  I recently retired the program to spend more time with family and coach at The CAV, a locally-owned HIIT gym.  

My vision is to help people find JOY in fitness so that they may appreciate and celebrate the one body God gave them.  You can’t always control the things that happen to you, but you can choose to move forward with joy and allow God to work through the trials life throws your way.  And sometimes those trials are where we find our purpose.