Rachel Payne
I.A.F.S. Certified Master Trainer

Rachel Payne, the founder of trainwithpayne.com, brings with her over 27 years of fitness training experience that has helped her formulate numerous approaches to fitness that enables her to pass her success on to her clients. Rachel began her fitness career as a student athlete at Georgia Southern University where she obtained a B.S. Degree in Management Information Systems and played softball. After graduating from GSU, she excelled in numerous sports such as cycling, biathlon, triathlon, and track and field. Rachel continued to follow her dream of helping all levels of athletes in the fitness industry by working with numerous sports teams, which included NCAA Division 1 football and basketball programs. She has personally trained and worked with United States Tennis Association professional athletes. Rachel has used her experience in sports training to achieve her personal goals both in and outside the gym.

She enjoys hiking and ballroom dance, and placed 1st place in the Bronze Solo category of the Theater Arts Division at the Atlanta Open Ballroom Dance Competition in 2007. Since then she has participated in several showcase dance performances, most recently in August 2012. Her philosophy for training involves the total body concept to achieve goals for all her clients whether it is a professional athlete, promising high school sports star or the suburban housewife who has the desire to be the best they can be. Using her unique history in sports and fitness Rachel develops individual programs based on the goals set by her clients. This is evidenced by numerous success stories on and off the competitive stage. Together with her husband Steve, a former competitive bodybuilder, in 2013 they celebrated both their 20-year wedding anniversary by renewing their vows as well as the five-year anniversary of House of Payne Personal Training. Rachel also wrote and published her first book, A Real Story of Real Success: My Journey to a Successful Personal Training Business and Proven Secrets to Building Yours, and serves as the Director of Marketing for the International Association of Fitness Sciences. She also is the proud mother of one, a daughter, Valerie. Her desire to expand the role of fitness in everyday lives has brought her to the online world with a team of excellent professional trainers to give each person the chance to achieve the ultimate fitness level they desire with a unique system.