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HEALTH & BEAUTY

KARENA
& KATRINA

The Tone It Up Girls

                                                                                                                                                                               Photo: Toneitup

ON THEIR WAY TO BUILDING AN EMPIRE OF
PRODUCTS, BRANDING THEMSELVES FROM
HEAD TO TOE AND MAKING WOMEN FEEL
HEALTHY AND SEXY…

K  arena Dawn                   media, branding themselves         degree in Health Science, she
   and Katrina                  as the ‘it-girls’ of anything and  had big plans for a fitness
   Scott,                       everything.                        career. “I envisioned my life
   founders of                  Karena, a triathlete and           as it is now. I wanted to help
Tone It Up, are best friends    sports model, grew up active       others that struggled like me.”
and business partners. They     and passionate about fitness.      Since founding Tone It Up,
have appeared in Vogue,         She studied kinesiology            they have built a brand of
In Style, Shape and SELF        and developed a passion for        fitness products, community,
Magazine and are putting        triathlon. “I wanted to inspire    retreats, DVDs and nutrition
a fresh look on health and      other women to become              plans. Their nutrition
fitness. Jane Fonda calls       strong and independent; to         programs and beach workouts
them the “new faces of          help them break out of the         inspire millions of women to
fitness.” SELF calls them “top  troubles in their life.”           live the life of their dreams                                                                                                “Whenever we share an
motivators” and Marie Claire    Katrina, a weight-loss             every day. They have brought                                                                                                 experience, so many of our
names them the “Power Duo”.     success story, picked up her       a fresh approach to fitness                                                                                                  community members say they
Their hardcore following and    first exercise-physiology          with their fun, energetic,                                                                                                   just went through that or
influence is infectious and     book at the age of thirteen.       girlfriend-to-girlfriend                                                                                                     they relate to our story. It
Karena and Katrina are well     Graduating with a bachelor’s       method of getting fit.                                                                                                       feels good that we’re not
on their way to building an                                                                                                                                                                     alone — and we’re sure it’s
enterprise of products and                                                                                                                                                                      the same way for them.”

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