The Heart and Soul of
ScubaFit
W
orld power lifting record holder Getchen M. Ashton, CFT, SFT, SFN,
NBFE, is registered with the National Board of Fitness Examiners and is
an International Sports Sciences Association Elite Trainer. She is a personal
trainer, specialist in fitness therapy, specialist in fitness nutrition, and a world
champion athlete.
Gretchen is founder of ScubaFit LLC. She developed
the Comprehensive FitDiver® program, is an advanced scuba diver, nitrox diver, and co-author of the
ScubaFit® Diver Course. She is an Expert Speaker for
Los Angeles County Scuba Advanced Diver Program
and Underwater Instructor Certification Course.
Gretchen is Fitness Editor and/or contributor for California Diver Magazine, DiverWire, X-Ray Mag, and
Scuba Sport Magazine, has been published in Alert
Diver United States and Asia-Pacific, at Divetime.
com, is an author at ScubaBoard, and a Scuba Fitness
Examiner at Examiner.com. Gretchen has appeared on
Scuba Radio, presented at the Scuba Show, has been
a guest at dive medicine conferences, was featured in
the President’s Council of Physical Fitness and Sports newsletter for inspiring
and innovative accomplishments in fitness,
and in the Margaritaville Key West website
culinary column.
As an athlete she set 21 World and Americans records and is the second woman
inducted into the AAU Power Lifting Hall
of Fame.