about me
My future as a fitness guru began…well, really before I was born. My mom (who is also my business partner) reports that I was a highly active baby, from before birth onward.
My training in nutrition and overall wellness began early in life, too. My parents never (not even once) took us kids to a fast-food place when we were growing up. We had no sodas or hotdogs in the refrigerator, no Twinkies or greasy snack foods in the cupboard. I’m not sure I liked it at the time, but now I’m thankful that I have no health problems and no bad habits to unlearn.
During high school, I began actively pursuing knowledge in the health and fitness area, visiting the gym, taking biology and weight training classes, and studying the work of achieved bodybuilders to maximize benefits/gains vs. time spent in the gym. My understanding of muscle functioning and kinesiology* was put on the fast track when I underwent physical therapy during recovery from several injuries.
Over the years, as I committed to a workout regimen that gave maximum results with minimum injury, people would ask me questions like “How do you lift so much?” “How did you get so big?” “Can you teach me?” So I fell naturally into the role of personal trainer to friends, people who happened to be in the gym at the same time, and word-of-mouth referrals, eventually leveraging the friendly advice into a part-time job as fitness consultant.
When I check out at the grocery store, the clerks often comment that I choose the “healthiest food” of anyone my age they’ve ever seen. And I’ve personally tested a wide variety of supplements, applying my own experience to my research on the subject.
As of spring 2008, I’m pursuing a degree in Business Administration With a Concentration in Finance from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. At the urging of my mom, a freelance copywriter and Internet marketer, I decided to leverage my passion for total health—that of others as well as my own—into this educational community.
My mom/partner, Lisa J. Lehr, holds a degree in Biology and double-checks to make sure the science lingo is translated to English so it makes sense to our readers without a biology background.
Thanks for visiting my blog. Come back often—and bring your friends!
To your total fitness,
Steve
*The science dealing with the interrelationship of the physiological processes and anatomy of the human body with respect to movement.