Future of Fitness

Mike Arce is the founder & CEO of Loud Rumor, the #1 Marketing & Advertising agency for fitness & wellness studios. Mike is also the host of three multiple podcasts: The GOAT Show, The GSD Show, & MINDBODY's BOLD Show.

Ari Gronich is highly trained and certified in many disciplines within the fields of bodywork, emotional release, energy work, nutrition, health, kinesiology, and sports therapy. For all of his adult life, he has helped transform his clients' bodies and lives through increased performance, enhancing physical, mental and emotional health.

Casey Conrad, BA, JD, has been in the health and fitness industry for 26 years. In addition to authoring “Selling Fitness: The Complete Guide to Selling Health Club Memberships,” she has created and published over 25 other sales, marketing and management training products for the industry. Most recently Casey has created an entire line of comprehensive training programs that are delivered on-line. These include membership sales, personal training sales and Internet marketing. She has spoken in 24 countries, is a feature presenter at conventions and trade shows worldwide and writes monthly for numerous international magazines. Her website is www.HealthClubSalesTraining.com and she can be reached at CaseysHealthClubTraining@yahoo.com.

To say Tom has been through a few things in his 30+ years of being an entrepreneur is an understatement. He’s definitely had more failures than successes, but wouldn’t have it any other way. He sold His fitness business which he owned for 9 years a year ago to become the Impact Pilot, helping entrepreneurs generate more income through better sales strategy and using stories to sell. Tom has a BFA Degree in Theatre from DePaul University in Chicago and holds his private pilot license for single engine airplanes, which was a lifelong dream he achieved in 2013. He’s been a contributor to CBS Radio in Houston, a guest on Great Day Houston television show, Univision Television, Fox 26 News, KPRC Channel 2 and The CW Houston. He is also a presenter at the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) in Houston. Special Gift for your audience: www.TomJackobs.com/storybook

If you were going to sum up Rick Streb in 5 words, those would be the five to use... And in exactly that order. Rick enjoys his professional life, but it takes a back seat to spend most of his time with his beautiful daughter and friends. He has made it a priority to build his business around his life; not his life around his business. Rick Streb, the creator of ProDiets.com, is an innovator in fitness and nutrition. He has been a respected member of the health and fitness industry for almost three decades. He has established himself as one of the top trainers, nutritionists, and coaches for competitive bodybuilding, fitness and figure athletes in the United States today with zero ever finishing out of the Top 5 in their competitions. Rick’s keen understanding of how to customize eating plans and training programs for each client has given him a special standing in the health and fitness community. Rick’s clients have included professional athletes, television and music celebrities, bodybuilding competitors, fitness models and beauty pageant contestants throughout the United States who participate in his coaching programs and obtain very successful results. He’s also built a tremendously successful boutique training business serving women ages 35-55, helping over 750 ladies look and feel better than they ever thought possible in the past 3 years. Along the way, Rick has developed a variety of proprietary systems to build effective fat loss nutrition into his clients’ programs to ensure that he could maximize their results no matter what type of client he is working with at the time. These days Rick has found his true professional calling – sharing what has worked in his own businesses with other fitness entrepreneurs. He coaches and consults with fitness professionals around the world who want to provide the best for their clients by integrating world-class nutrition programming into their businesses, and helps them generate more clients, more profits and more freedom to enjoy life. His program "Nutrition Profit System" has transformed hundreds of fitness professionals' businesses. You could say he is the “trainer of trainers” when it comes to nutrition. In 2007 Rick received the Community Leadership Award from the President’s Council on Physical Fitness & Sports for his commitment to his clients and passion for helping improve his community. It is that commitment and passion which distinguishes him from other fitness personalities. Rick is considered to be one of America’s leading fitness professionals with 3 fitness-related degrees, a dietetics degree, and over 27 years of experience as a fitness industry leader and numerous fitness and nutrition-related certifications. His online programs “ProDiets.com” and “The Extreme Fat Loss Formula” have transformed thousands of bodies just like yours through his health clubs, personal training, online training, phone coaching, magazine articles, and books.

Greg Justice, MA, is a best-selling author, speaker and fitness entrepreneur, and was inducted into the National Fitness Hall of Fame in 2017. He opened AYC Health & Fitness, Kansas City’s Original Personal Training Center, in May 1986. Greg is the co-founder and CEO of the National Corporate Fitness Institute (NCFI), a certifying body for fitness professionals, and Scriptor Publishing Group. Greg holds a master’s degree in HPER (exercise science) and a bachelor’s degree in Health & Physical Education from Morehead State University, Morehead, KY

Working in the Health & Fitness industry for nearly 2 decades, Menachem brings with him a unique skillset allowing him to help individuals, teams, and fitness businesses move forward, to be stronger, fitter, and more impactful.

Max is an eternal student, scientist, and artist of life and movement. Through his gym, books, videos, and online coaching programs, he helps tens of thousands of people get just a little better every day. He is a master of simplifying complex subjects and breaking them down into easy, effective actions. He loves to learn new skills like music, languages, juggling, and hand balancing.

Joe has been a high-level athlete (CrossFit, Ironman, Ultrarunner), coach, movement and nutrition expert for over 17 years who has a love for sharing what he has learned about his own training with the world.

Ben is a faculty member at California University of Pennsylvania. An exercise physiologist, he holds certifications from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), and the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA). He has interests in injury prevention/performance enhancement for endurance athletes and using movement to enhance quality of life. After travels through Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama and Florida for school and work he has been in the Pittsburgh area since 2004. Ben is an active contributor to his profession, with work on a variety of committees of the NSCA, as well as presentations and publications both nationally and internationally. The idea for Moving2Live and FitLabPGH came from his interest in listening to long form movement related podcasts that were directed either towards professionals or the general public.