Ken Weichert Email & Phone Number

Program Manager; 2012-2013 Created Warrior Fit Camp, a highly effective and unique tactical fitness, nutrition, and life coaching program for the Air and Army National Guard. Successful in retaining dozens of Soldiers and Airmen that would have been discharged for flagging actions caused by height/weight/body fat analysis failures and/or APFT failures. Wrote a 322-page instructor manual and trained and certified over 50 Tactical Fitness Trainers to lead Warrior Fit Camp classes. Wrote an 87-page student guide in order to provide each Soldier and Airman the instructions necessary for success in the program. Master Resilience Trainer; 2007-2013Successfully conducted numerous Resilience Trainer Assistant (RTA) certifications across the state of Tennessee while assigned to the Military and Family Programs (J9) section. Created and implemented multiple fitness programs for National Guard youth camps. Served as the Fitness and Resilience Director for the Counter-drug Children Attitude Motivation Program (CAMP) several times in order to help juvenile felons fully rehabilitate and focus on hope and happiness in order to live long and productive lives.Recruit Sustainment Program (RSP) Health and Fitness Director; 2007-2010Created a pre-Basic Combat Training fitness and nutrition program for newly recruited National Guard Soldiers that have failed fitness assessments or have exceeded body fat analysis limits. Called Warrior Fit Camp, successful in preventing numerous training pipeline losses caused by Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) failures at Basic Combat Training (BCT).

Counterintelligence Agent for Operation Iraqi Freedom; 10 Feb 03 – 23 March 2004Team Leader for a Tactical Human Intelligence Team (THT). Awarded three Army Commendation Medals for service during combat.Readiness NCO; 2004-2005Recruiting and Retention NCO; 2005-2008Master Fitness Trainer; 1997-2008

Created and presented unique and highly effective fitness programs showcasing SPRI® products at fitness conferences and special workshops in multiple cities across the United States to include canfitpro, Empower Fitness Conferences, DCAC, ECA, IDEA and SCW. Received best new presenter of the year award at canfitpro in 2011.

Wrote and delivered more than 300 speeches discussing fitness, resilience and leadership with audiences ranging from military and schools to political groups. Spokesperson for the American Council on Exercise. Featured as a fitness expert for publications such as GX®, Backpacker®, Outside®, Health®; and websites including Military.com, Military1.com and NationalGuard.com.

In 1998, founded the longest-running Boot Camp fitness program in America (START Fitness®). Produced a military-inspired fitness DVD trilogy called Operation Living Fit™, selling 25,000 sets to the Air National Guard. Created an Orienteering program called START Hiking™, successfully leading groups to more than 160 mountain summits throughout the world. Helped create a self-defense program called START Fighting Back™.

Program Manager and Fitness Program Developer; 2009-2012Developed a fitness instructor training and validation program called Operation Fit to Fight that creates revenue-enhancing programming for gyms, and prepares Soldiers for Basic Combat Training and deployments. The program includes a two-day course, a 300+ page instructor manual and a mobile fitness kit (FITKIT). Trained civilian, Army and Air National Guard trainers in Mississippi, Washington, Kansas, West Virginia, Tennessee, California and Alaska. Achieved 1.7 million dollars in sales in fiscal year 2010.Senior Military and Fitness Advisor for Iostudio; 2007-2010Served as the company Senior Military Advisor, ensuring all print and online publications conformed to military regulation. Subject matter expert for the military section of the Sabre Defenses product catalog. Senior advisor for all fitness pages in GX and Foundations magazines, National Guard Web pages and applications. Fitness contributor for NationalGuard.com and Guard-related social networking sites including Facebook and Youtube. Worked with programmers to develop the fitness calculator and fitness portal for the Army National Guard. Emcee for the WWE Axxess Show in Los Angeles and Phoenix.Health and Fitness columnist for GX® magazine; 2005-2010Created a health and fitness section for the Guard Experience: GX Magazine. Developed more than 40 two to six-page fitness sections which included full workouts, health and nutrition tips.

Created Camp Crunch, a group exercise boot camp fitness concept. Launched Camp Crunch at the Idea conference in San Diego, CA in 2006. Trained trainers in Miami, Atlanta, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Created and led post-race obstacle courses for Urbanathalons in New York City and Chicago featuring Camp Crunch exercises. Led Camp Crunch at the Polk Street location in San Francisco, CA, for seven years.