From Beachbody.com: A nationally recognized fitness expert, Steve oversees Beachbody Fitness Solution's fitness and diet program development. He also serves as the fitness advisor for Team Beachbody and the popular Beachbody Message Boards. He has worked as a coach, nutritionist, and fitness trainer for more than 25 years. He spent his formative years working mainly with athletes but “by far” his most fulfilling experience has been working with the thousands (millions technically) of Beachbody members. Since the inception of the Message Boards in 2001, Steve has encountered virtually every possible challenge and scenario that a fitness professional could imagine, leading to his mantra, “just try and stump me.”

 

A lifelong practitioner of what he preaches, Steve grew up playing sports. After college he spent a decade traveling and climbing around the world, pioneering more than 700 first ascents along the way. Since then he’s raced bikes, done ultra marathons, adventure raced, and was a member of the US duathlon team. He continually finds way to explore the limits of the human body. Some of his more noteworthy adventures are chronicled on his web site, birthdaychallenge.com, and on his blog (http://steve-edwards.blogspot.com/).

 

Beachbody’s “white mouse”, Steve is often seen experimenting with diets, supplements, and exercise routines and says that over the years he has probably attempted “every training program or diet ever written”.  “Nothing beats experience,” he claims. “We were essentially inventing training and diet methods for sport that had never used traditional training methods before (climbing). The only test group we had available was ourselves.”

 

Formerly a journalist, mountain guide, filmmaker, and fitness columnist, he’s written for over 30 magazines and web sites, produced two films, and authored two books. A third is being printed and a few more are in the works and will be finished “just as soon as I have the time.”

 

He earned his undergraduate degree at UCLA. His continued education features certifications in Fitness Training, Performance Nutrition, Fitness Therapy, and Sports Conditioning. He’s received training in wilderness first aid and as an emergency medical technician. In his “spare time”, he’s poking away at a PhD in sustainable nutrition.