GeoLeaders.com: Our Team of Health & Fitness Fanatics

Who are we and why are we so passionate about using science to help you crush your fitness goals? Here’s an up-close look at our obsession with creating the Ultimate Health & Fitness Resource.

About GeoLeaders Ultimate Health And Fitness Resource

Here at GeoLeaders.com, we don’t just meet your expectations – we shatter them. Our tight-knit crew of devoted fitness fanatics has a singular mission: To create the most comprehensive and trusted health and fitness education that helps you surpass plateaus to reach unprecedented levels of strength, performance, and confidence.

We live and breathe this stuff, obsessing over the latest science and real-world results to unlock physical potential most believe unattainable. Because we’re not just “coaches” or “experts” who collect paychecks…we’re passion-fueled athletes ourselves with first-hand knowledge of what it takes to transform. And we guide you closely each step of the way, sharing proven insights that accelerate results beyond imagined limits.

Our Story

GeoLeaders.com was started in 2013 by Nichole Arne, with the vision of creating the Ultimate Health & Fitness Resource. The goal was to provide a knowledge base of comprehensive, no-nonsense fitness guides to help you get into the best shape of your life.

Whether your goal is muscle building, accelerated fat loss, maximizing performance, or achieving competition-level fitness, you’ll find something in our extensive knowledge base tailored specifically to your needs.

Our guides help you with everything from choosing the best performance-enhancing supplements to deciding on the optimal nutrition plans, workout equipment, and most effective exercise routines to accomplish your unique fitness goals.

Areas of Expertise

The GeoLeaders squad holds decades of combined expertise across every facet of training, nutrition, supplementation, and unlocking human performance – from body transformations to competition readiness.

Here’s a closer look at some of our specialized areas of expertise:

Advanced Training:

Our editorial staff all have strong fitness-related backgrounds, attaining degrees as well as certifications by such organizations as NSCA and ACE. We have worked with clients from weekend warriors to competitive athletes, specializing in strength programming, hypertrophy training, endurance, mobility, injury prevention, accelerated weight loss, and everything in between. Whether your goal is packing on muscle, losing fat, or sports-specific performance, we create guides utilizing the most effective modalities for your needs.

High-Performance Nutrition:

What you eat is crucial, but knowing how to leverage nutrition for your unique body and goals is complex – that’s why our team holds credentials in nutrition coaching, sports dieting, and supplement sciences. We translate the latest research into simplified eating strategies to properly fuel your workouts, accelerate recovery, maximize muscle growth, and torch fat, based on your current shape.

Competition Prep:

Many who focus on physique-related goals seek our encyclopedic competition and show prep insights – from peak week strategies to offseason gains. Learn everything you need to know about maximizing gains, water manipulation, carb cycling, and showcasing muscularity with an unparalleled polish. Whether you want to step on stage shredded or command attention at the beach, we make handling the mental and physical preparation seem easy.

Body Recomposition:

We specialize in helping clients simultaneously build lean muscle mass while losing fat – without bulking or aggressive cutting. Learn our science-backed techniques to optimize hormone levels, calories, macronutrients, workouts, and proper supplementation to effectively and efficiently “recompose” your physique.

Weight Loss Transformations:

Fat loss requires patience and the right strategy tailored to your metabolic needs. Achieve rapid trimming and health improvements as our vast knowledge base guides you through sustainable plans spanning nutrition, diet supplements, fitness, lifestyle, and mindset principles personalized for remarkable transformations.

Our Promise

We stand behind our evidence-based, science-backed advice – your results speak for our methods. Feel empowered in your journey with information you can trust.

Editorial Standards & Processes

GeoLeaders holds our research and supplement recommendations to the highest fact-checking and citation protocols in the industry. To learn more about our exhaustive supplement review processes, check out How We Test, Analyze, and Rank Supplements.

Meet Our Leadership & Editorial Team

Everything you read on GeoLeaders.com – from exercise technique deep dives to unraveling the science behind supplements – comes from our diverse crew of obsessively devoted coaches and athletes.

Each contributes world-class expertise in types of training, nutrition, and human optimization, led by the following veterans who ensure our standards of excellence:

Nichole Arne, BS, CSCS (Founder & Editorial Director)

As Founder and Editorial Director of GeoLeaders.com, Nichole Arne leads the curation of science-backed recommendations that empower thousands globally to shatter fitness plateaus. She holds over 17 years of real-world expertise transforming bodies – from pro athletes readying for competition to executives struggling with obesity.

Armed with a Bachelor’s in Nutrition Science along with certifications spanning Clinical Nutrition, Personal Training, and her coveted CSCS designation, Nichole leverages cutting-edge research with high-level coaching insights. Her programming expertise spots minute muscle and metabolism inefficiencies, unlocking explosive fat loss and muscle gains in the most stubborn of physiques.

Having coached national qualifying figure competitors and multiple collegiate athletic programs, Nichole knows precisely how to accelerate extreme body recomposition results. She specializes in optimizing hormones and pace of progress to maximize fat burning and muscle building simultaneously.

Nichole’s passion lies in helping those battling chronic weight issues or feeling trapped at fitness dead ends finally break free to reveal their best inner selves. Her empathetic approach, tactical nutritional adjustments, and creative training keep clients laser-focused amidst life’s daily obstacles.

Gabe Ramsey, BS, CSCS (Senior Editor)

Gabe Ramsey brings over 15 years of advanced expertise in exercise physiology, sports performance, and evidence-based fitness to his role as Senior Editor at GeoLeaders.com.

With a Bachelor of Science focused on Health and Human Performance, Gabe leverages his academic foundation along with multiple respected certifications to provide readers with authoritative fitness guidance.

As a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), Gabe understands the science of properly progressing athletic training programs to optimize strength, speed, and power. He also holds multiple certifications in Personal Training and Advanced Sports Nutrition, further cementing his qualifications.

Over the past decade and a half, Gabe has worked one-on-one with a wide range of clients such as bodybuilders, strength athletes, combat sports competitors, business executives, and physique athletes at the highest level. His proven coaching strategies and custom nutrition plans have consistently transformed clients’ bodies and performances for competition and lifestyle goals alike.

With extensive expertise in hypertrophy training, speed and strength programming, nutritional supplementation, accelerated fat loss protocols, and contest preparation, Gabe brings research-backed insights to every article he writes here on GeoLeaders.com. His deep passion for helping others achieve their fitness potential shines through in his writing.

As an authority within the industry, Gabe provides the pinnacle of science-based fitness education you can trust to take your training and nutrition to the next level.