- Jenny Craig
Jenny Craig (born Genevieve Guidroz in 1932 in Berwick, Louisiana) is an American weight loss guru who founded Jenny Craig, Inc. Raised in New Orleans, Genevieve Guidroz married Australian Sidney H. Craig. Although neither had formal training in nutrition or exercise, Mrs Craig developed a weight loss regimen that led to creating a weight-loss company in the mid-1980s with her husband.
- Denise Austin
Denise Austin (born February 13, 1957) is an American fitness and exercise expert, author, columnist and instructor. She is also a member of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. She is married to sports attorney Jeff Austin, with whom she has two daughters: Kelly (born 1990) and Katie (born 1993). Her sister-in-law is U.S. tennis champion Tracy Austin. Austin was born Denise Katnich in San Pedro, CA. She started gymnastics at the age of 12, …
- Dean Ornish
Dean Ornish , M.D. Author of Love and Survival and Dr. Dean Ornish 's Program for the Reversal
- Jillian Michaels
Jillian Michaels ' knowledge of fitness training stems from years of martial arts and intense personal training. Best known as a trainer and coach on NBC's hit TV show The Biggest Loser , Jillian Michaels is an amazing motivator, personal trainer and guide to nearly 15 million Biggest Loser viewers every week. Before she was a massive television star, Jillian struggled to maintain her own healthy weight.
- Jack Lalanne
Jack LaLanne is an American fitness, exercise and nutritional expert, celebrity, lecturer, and motivational speaker. LaLanne has been referred to as "the godfather of fitness." LaLanne gained worldwide renown for his success as a bodybuilder, as well as his prodigious feats of strength. He has won numerous awards, including the Horatio Alger Award from the Association of Distinguished Americans, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- John Basedow
John Basedow is a bodybuilder and "fitness celebrity" known in the United States for his "Fitness Made Simple" home workout videos and the ubiquitous television advertisements for them. In his commercials and workout videos, Basedow emphasizes that quality workouts require "no tricky dance moves and no high impact gyrations." Basedow got his start on a TV show called IMAGES. He set a goal to be in good enough shape to be in a fitness magazine.
- John Hansen
John Hansen is a natural (drug-free) bodybuilder who won the Natural Mr. Universe title twice and was the winner of the first Mr. Natural Olympia. His 25-year career in bodybuilding also includes the Natural America's Cup Championships, Mr. Natural North America, Natural Illinois, Mr. Illinois, Mid-America Championships and the Illinois Cup. Hansen is also the author of "Natural Bodybuilding", published by Human Kinetics.
- Kenneth H. Cooper
Kenneth H. Cooper (born 1931), is an M.D. and former Air Force Colonel from Oklahoma. Cooper is the author of a 1968 book "Aerobics" which emphasized a point system for improving the cardiovascular system. The popular mass market version was "The New Aerobics", published a few years later. His points system is also the basis of the 10,000 steps per day method of maintaining adequate fitness by walking.
- John Harvey Kellogg
John Harvey Kellogg (February 26, 1852 - December 14, 1943) was an American medical doctor in Battle Creek, Michigan who ran a sanitarium using holistic methods, with a particular focus on nutrition, enemas and exercise. Kellogg was an advocate of vegetarianism, and is best known for the invention of the corn flake breakfast cereal with his brother, Will Keith Kellogg.
- Jeanette Jenkins
Jeanette Jenkins is the founder and president of the Hollywood Trainer fitness company. She studied human kinetics at the University of Ottawa. Jeanette Jenkins is also the host of Lifetime Television's "My Workout:Powered by Podfitness.com", and is one of 17 experts chosen for Nike Corp.'s Elite Athletes program. Some of her clients have included Queen Latifah, Terrell Owens, Taryn Manning, and Amy Weber. She is also an expert on the Food Network's weight-loss show, …
- Callan Pinckney
Callan Pinckney (born 1939/40 as Barbara Biffinger Pfeiffer Pinckney) is an American fitness professional whose exercise regime, known as Callanetics, became a popular fad in the mid-1980s. According to a Time magazine profile from March 1986, Pinckney is a ninth-generation descendant of one of the founding families of the state of South Carolina. She was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia in the midst of old Southern opulence.
- Sebastian Kneipp
Sebastian Kneipp (May 17, 1821, Stephansried, Germany - June 17, 1897 in Wörishofen) was a Bavarian priest and one of the founders of the Naturopathic medicine movement. He is most commonly associated with the "Kneipp Cure" form of hydrotherapy, a system of healing involving the application of water through various methods, temperatures and pressures. In Norway he is mostly known for his bread recipe based on whole wheat.
- King Kamali
King Kamali, real name "Shahriar Kamali" (born March 29, 1972 in Tehran, Iran), is a IFBB professional bodybuilder. Known for his size and his ability to rattle his opponents' cages at press conferences and on the stage, Kamali is also known for his unique posing style. Nicknamed "The Persian Pearl" and "The Terminator", Kamali was born in Tehran, Iran, but now lives in West New York, New Jersey.
- Anthony Catanzaro
Anthony Catanzaro is an American male fitness model, training consultant and bodybuilder. He was born in Bay Shore, New York, USA, on Long Island and now lives in New York City. Catanzaro has been modeling for numerous magazines and has appeared in training videos and fitness/training magazines such as "Exercise", "Fitness Magazine", "Health & Fitness", "Natural Bodybuilding", "Muscle & Fitness", "Fitness Plus", …
- Herodicus
Herodicus was a Thracian physician of the fifth century BC, and a native of Selymbria. The first use of therapeutic exercise for the treatment of disease and maintenance of health is credited to him, and he is believed to have been one of the tutors of Hippocrates. He also recommended good diet and massage using beneficial herbs and oils, and his theories are considered the foundation of sports medicine. He was specific in the manner that a massage should be given.
- Cynthia Kereluk
Cynthia Kereluk (born 9 January 1962) is a fitness and exercise guru from British Columbia, Canada. In 1984 she won the Miss Canada title and competed in Miss Universe 1984. From 1985 to 2000 she reached both a Canadian (WTN) and American ("Lifetime" cable network) audience through television with her exercise program, "Everyday Workout".
- Derrick Evans
Derrick Errol Evans (born 1952), better known as "Mr Motivator", is a Jamaican exercise instructor most famous for his appearances on the UK breakfast television show GMTV in the early 1990s. He would perform fitness routines in highly coloured outfits which would became his trademark. He was born 2000 feet up in Pike, Jamaica. He then moved to the UK in 1961. After a number of years of being educated in the UK, …
- Robyn Landis
Robyn Landis is an author, public speaker and folk singer from the northwestern United States. At age 25 she wrote a book called "Bodyfueling" which became a surprise best seller. Bodyfueling is a term she coined and has utilized to promote her phillosophy of increased health and happiness through knowing the important details about how your body works and the important interactions between nutrition and exercise.
- Anna Marsh
Anna Marsh (birth year unknown, died 1834) established the Vermont Asylum of the Insane in 1834. Marsh was born and raised in Hinsdale, New Hampshire. She was the widow of physician Perley Marsh. She is responsible for the creation of the Brattleboro Retreat, originally known as the Vermont Asylum for the Insane She was the first woman credited with starting a hospital for the mentally ill. She was responsible for selecting the trustees before her death.
- Mabel Todd
Mabel Elsworth Todd is known as a major contributor to Idiokinesis, a field of bodywork and personal development that first came to prominence in the 1930's amongst dancers and health professionals. Todd's ideas involved of using creative visual imagery and consciously relaxed volition to create refined neuromuscular coordination. Her work built on and overlapped similar work by Heinrich Kosnick and Lulu Sweigard, who originally coined the term Idiokinesis.
- Johnny Sheffield
Johnny Sheffield (born April 11, 1931) is an American former child actor. He was born Jon Matthew Sheffield Cassan in Pasadena, California, the second child of actor Reginald Sheffield (February 18, 1901-December 8, 1957) and Louise Van Loon (January 21, 1905-April 14, 1987). His older sister was Mary Alice Sheffield Cassan and his younger brother was William Hart Sheffield Cassan (actor Billy Sheffield).
- Paige Palmer
Paige Palmer is a pioneer American fitness and exercise expert, author, columnist, writer, model, television personality and entrepreneur. Palmer was born and raised in Akron, Ohio. She does not give her age, but she is likely in her 80s. She was the hostess of the first daily televised fitness oriented television show in the United States. The "Paige Palmer Show" ran on WEWS-TV, Cleveland, Ohio from 1948 to 1973.
- John Stamatopoulos
John (Yanni) Stamatopoulos (born January 26, 1971) is a bodybuilding expert. John Stamatopoulos was born to Dimitri and Helen Stamatopoulos in Athens, Greece. He has written many important articles about dieting, nutrition, supplementation and exercising. He was the first to introduce the "Wave Supplementation Program" for athletes. He has also interviewed some of the best bodybuilders in the world, such as Ronnie Coleman, Shawn Ray, Mike Mentzer, …
- Sheryl Plouffe
Sheryl Plouffe is a CMOS certified The Weather Network evening broadcaster. She grew up in Timmins, Ontario, and Nanaimo, British Columbia. She has been an anchor for 13 years. She has worked at TV and radio stations in Ontario and B.C. She has participated in public speaking, and can speak English, French, and Spanish. She enjoys cottage, exercise, motorcycle, and golf.
- Mayra Conde
Mayra Conde (born January 28, 1969 in Guatemala City, Guatemala) is a professional Personal Trainer and mixed martial artist, who has also competed in bodybuilding, kickboxing and brazilian jiu-jitsu.
- Wayne Bourque
Wayne Bourque has been the North American Native boxing champ three times in the welterweight and middleweight classes. He was born in 1959 to Métis parents in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. To protect himself from racist attacks, he learned to box. He won his first tournament, the Northwest Pacific Gold Gloves, at the age of 13 in Seattle. Instead of turning professional, Bourque retired from amateur boxing in 1985 and became a fitness trainer.
- Heinrich Frenkel
Heinrich Frenkel (1860-1931) was a Swiss physician who was an early practitioner of neuro-rehabilitation. He advocated a regimen of special exercise as physical therapy for patients with neurological disorders. Frenkel also published an important treatise concerning treatment of tabetic ataxia by means of systematic exercise and movement therapy. The renowned neurosurgeon Otfrid Foerster (1873-1941) regarded Frenkel as a major influence.
- Kevin Yarde
Kevin Yarde is a The Weather Network on call presenter. He earned degrees from York University and Ryerson School of Journalism, and began broadcasting for Rogers Television. He enjoys travelling, cottaging, jet skiing, exercise, chinese checkers, spending time with relatives and friends, and prefers warm weather. He prefers jazz, hip hop, and many other types of music.
- Emily Vukovic
Emily Vukovic is a CMOS certified The Weather Network morning host. She earned a Sociology degree from the University of Western Ontario. She completed a Broadcast Journalism Program at Seneca College, and worked for a 1980's pop radio station. She then worked at the CKWS TV station in Kingston, Ontario, and joined the weather network shortly after. She enjoys the outdoors, and also enjoys exercise, horseback riding and gardening.
- Wayne E. Borin
Wayne E. Borin, Exercise Physiologist. Wayne has been the exercise physiologist for the Center since its inception in 1996 and has held adjunct faculty positions at the University of San Diego and the University of California, San Diego since 1988. Wayne received his Master's degree from SDSU in exercise physiology and is completing his doctoral studies at the University San Diego.
- Joan Hackett
Joan Hackett, MA , Supervisor/Exercise Physiologist. Joan is the Supervisor/Exercise Physiologist for the Fitness Department of the Shiley Sports Center.
- Elaine Duncan
Elaine Duncan joined the Psychology Department at Glasgow Caledonian University in 1992. In addition to her teaching commitments she is responsible for Departmental promotional events, such as Open Day, is the Careers Tutor to BSc. Psychology students, organises the Departments' External Speaker Seminar Series and is an active member of various Departmental and School of Life Sciences committees.
- Chuck Whedon
Chuck Whedon Athletic Trainer Chuck Whedon , MS, ATC, CSCS has been the Coordinator of Athletic Training at Rowan University since 1986.Certified by the National Athletic Trainers' Association Board of Certification in 1982, Chuck has had a variety of experiences in the sports medicine field. He has inspired many individuals to pursue athletic training as a career, and his passion for the field is evident in his tireless work ethic.
- Simon Houghton
Simon Houghton Simon is Director of Mindfocus Limited, the company behind the innovative Mindfocus for Golf™. He has a masters degree in Sport Psychology from Manchester Metropolitan University, and is a member of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences. He works predominantly with golfers, triathletes and rugby players.
- Pete Pfitzinger
Peter ("Pete") Dickson Pfitzinger (born August 29, 1957) is a former American distance runner, who later became an author and exercise physiologist. He is best known for his accomplishments in the marathon, an event in which he represented the United States in two Summer Olympic Games: the Los Angeles Olympics (where Pfitzinger finished 11th) and the 1988 Seoul Olympics (where he placed 14th). In the 1984 Olympic Marathon Team Trials in Buffalo, New York, …
- John Berardi
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- Denise Michaels
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- Sara
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- Jaden
My name is Jaden. I am 6"3' and 185lbs of muscle and I have Hazel Green eyes. I am going to start my own business' and hopefully by this coming spring I will finally be established. I will eventually be breeding and selling Syberian and Alaskan huskies for a side hustle. Another hustle in the makin is selling exotic Australian Bearded Dragons. So just watch out for my pics and ads next year. Anyway, it is easy for me to get along with most people.
- William J. Kraemer
William J. Kraemer , Ph.D. William J. Kraemer , Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology working in the Human Performance Laboratory at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. He also is a Professor in the Department of Physiology and Neurobiology and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center. He earned a Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Wyoming in 1984.