Ken
Weichert (a.k.a. “SGT Ken”) is an international speaker,
six-time US Army Soldier of the Year, Master Fitness Trainer,
Master Resilience Trainer, Counterintelligence Agent and highly
decorated combat veteran. Ken has trained over 350,000 Soldiers
and civilians through Operation Fit to Fight, has written over
100 articles for GX®, Backpacker®, Outside®, Health®,
and created the fitness and health education for the National
Guard website. Ken founded the longest-running Boot Camp fitness
program in America, START Fitness®, and has starred is several
best-selling fitness videos. Ken is the recipient of the Can Fit
Pro 2011 Best New Presenter of the Year award and has been featured
numerous times on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox news. Through iostudio,
Ken is a continuing education provider with ACE, NASM and AFAA
for the Tactical Fitness Trainer (aka “Boot Camp Instructor”)
courses (levels 1-3). Ken’s mission is to provide superior
fitness and resilience training to help people manage stress more
effectively and live more satisfying and rewarding lives.
Ken Weichert is not only a Master
Fitness Trainer for the ARMY, he is also formally trained in performing
arts. Ken is a 1985 graduate of Player's Workshop of Second City
(improvisation study and performance school) in Chicago, Illinois.
Other graduates of Second City include Jim and John Belushi, Dan
Akroyd, Chevy Chase and Bill Murray. He has performed the lead
role in over 150 theatrical productions and starred in his first
feature film, Silent Night, Deadly Night: Part 2 in 1987. Ken
taught Advanced Acting as well as other theater courses at the
University of Southwestern Louisiana between the years of 1992
and 1996.
Over the course of his seventeen-year
career with the military, Ken has advanced from Private to Staff
Sergeant. He has assumed the role of Intelligence Assistant, Squad
Leader and Counter-Intelligence Agent. He has also placed six-
times in the annual ARMY Soldier of the Year contest. Ken is a
veteran of Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom.
After fracturing his back his senior
year of high school, physical fitness and total body wellness
became very import to Ken. He used military exercises to restore
his back strength and walk again after being partially paralyzed
for four weeks. Ken Weichert joined the United States Army in
1988. In 1993, Ken became certified as a Master Fitness Trainer.
In 1999, Ken combined his theater and military experience with
his background in physical fitness program for civilians.
Since the inception of START
Fitness® Ken has been featured as an expert in fitness on
the History Channel's, Tactical to Practical and telling his story
from the front lines in Iraq on Nightline with Ted Koppel.
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