About Me
Zainab Ismail
Zainab is the founder of Fit for Allah, which takes on prophetic traditions regarding health, medicine, and food, and melds them with fitness practices.
Zainab has over 25 years of experience as a movement specialist, nutrition coach, personal trainer, and national speaker. Her years of health and fitness experience before Islam involve working with top-level athletes and celebrities.
She is a graduate Fellow of Applied Functional Science from The Gray Institute and Nutrition for life coach. Zainab has been a national facilitator for The National Academy of Sports Medicine and International Master Trainer for Free Motion Fitness. She has lectured in several fitness centers in the US, as well as in Hong Kong and Malaysia. As a full-time specialist, she integrates an eclectic approach to soft-tissue therapy, movement conditioning, and nutrition coaching in New York City.
Zainab has presented at the national conferences ICNA and ISNA teaching exercise/nutrition for Muslim women. She has also presented for various organizations, universities, and institutions like Zaytuna College, the University of Toronto, Hunter College, the Al-Maqasid Annual Summer Retreat, Safina Society?? Covert Conference, and the Mecca Center in NYC as a regular teacher.
Zainab has been traveling to Cuba for four-years now, Mexico, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, and Panama most recently to work and assist the Muslim communities in these countries. To teach essential knowledge, basic fiqh, prophetic nutrition, prophetic character, and introducing lessons from various books in Spanish.