Fred DeVito

Fred DeVito EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF MOVEMENT CLASSES AND TRAINING FOR EXHALE Fred's passion for athletics and music began at the early age of 7 years old. Coming from a family of fine musicians and athletes he had an influence in his life that helped to shape his destiny. A versatile athlete in high school and college, Fred studied Health, Physical Education, Movement Science and Sport's Medicine receiving a B.S. in Education and has been a teacher of movement for close to 40 years. Fred is a member of the founding exhale team and co-creator of the company's highly publicized Core Fusion® program with the main focus on Barre classes. With exhale he is responsible for recruiting and training the teachers for the proprietary Core Fusion® Barre program for 27 and growing, exhale properties across the country. He manages and supervises the Core Fusion Barre teacher training curriculum as well as exhale's newly launched public Barre Teacher Training program with a focus on training a higher quality Barre teacher for the industry. Working in tandem with his wife and Core Fusion co-creator Elisabeth Halfpapp, Fred has choreographed and developed 11 award-winning Core Fusion DVDs as well as the Barre Fitness book to be released in November 2015. Fred is a nationally acclaimed star teacher. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Physical Education and Health as well as an ACE Personal Trainer Certification, and brings 32 years of teaching experience to every class that he leads – first, through 22 years at the original Lotte Berk studio in New York, and then over nearly a decade at exhale and Core Fusion ® Barre. Fred is also a renowned presenter. He has been featured in numerous national health and fitness publications and has made television appearances on several dozen national venues. Fred takes a special interest in reading, writing, organic gardening, watching auto racing, the Green Bay Packers, playing his upright bass, swimming and taking fitness classes with his wife, Elisabeth. Fred is an aspiring public speaker on topics related to motivation and inspiration prefaced by his popular quote, “If it doesn’t challenge you it doesn’t change you.”