The Great Fitness Fraud: 300 Million Victims and One Program for Your Defense
Bert Seelman grew up on a farm in upstate New York where country life gave him a frame of reference for the rest of his life. He observed his father working with animals during times when they were sick, had a disease, or injury. He cured them with herbs and "they were natural sources of medicines." At the age of 14 Bert was diagnosed with a heart murmur and was told a series of operations over the years using a pig's valve as a replacement was the solution. Not about to allow anyone to put a pig's valve in his heart, he started searching for people who knew about herbs and other so-called natural remedies.  Bert was developing his own exercise and diet plans and others started to ask for his advice. While working at a health club in Tucson, AZ under a professional athlete named Eddie Southard, Bert was introduced to "Nautilus" exercise equipment and methodology from its founders, Jim Flanagan, and Arthur Jones. Bert went to Deland, FL, where the Nautilus Center was at the time, and incorporated  things he learned there into his exercise programs. It was then Bert saw exercise as not a benefit but a stress. Exercise was a stimulus, a trigger to hopefully bring about a positive result. He saw food and nutrition as additional critical elements in a fitness equation. While most were studying how to exercise better, he was studying how to make the body recover faster. By the 1980s he was being hired as a consultant to health clubs and creating programs. He had won multiple bodybuilding championships, all on less than 20 to 30 minutes a day of exercise, three times a week.  He developed different approaches to the use of supplements and training techniques, systems that work each and every time, and were sustainable.  Bert has used two statements throughout his years of working in this field: "Do it once, do it right, and learn it for life," and "Results Are Proof!"(tm) During Bert’s career he has been a lecturer, published writer, facility equipment consultant, animal nutritionist, and was chief advisor for Precision Shooting Equipment Pro-Staff which is one of the world’s largest archery companies. He was mentioned in the first article to have ever used the term “personal trainer” in the “National Fitness Trade Journal” in 1987. (Has Lou Ferigno on the cover.) He has trained people in Tucson, Houston, San Diego, and Los Angeles, as well as players in the MLB, NBA, NFL, NFR and Olympians. He currently resides in northeast Arizona.