Bio

After graduation from high school in Sugarland, Texas, Mike enli

sted into the U.S. Army in 1985 at

a grand total of 139 lbs. Because he was partially deaf in one ear (a fact over-looked during his

physical) he was consistently punished by his Drill Sergeant for

being unable to hear voice com

mands. The punish

ment:

pushups,

pushups

and

more

pushups.

It was not until the end of his

military

career that Mike realized what Drill Sergeants, personal trainers

and gymnasts have known

all along:

body-weight strength exercises

(pushups, chins, dips, pullups, etc.)

provide one of

the

best

forms

of getting in shape

and one of the safest.

After leaving the federal military in 1988, Mike embarked upon a

career in law enforcement. How

ever, at 140 lbs., he was the

second to smallest cadet in his Police Academy class and Academy

Instructors and local law enforcement veterans told him that he

would have to "bulk up" in order to

survive on the open highway;

backup during a felony traffic stop could be a half hour away. It

was

during 13-weeks of grueling Police Academy PT -- what the

Police Cadets called "hell sessions"

from June to August -- the

hottest summer months in Texas that he realized:

body-weight

strength exercises combined with high speed cardio are both

necessary for bodybuilding

and muscle growth.

After

"surviving" the Academy in tip top shape (with an incredible six

pack)

he proceeded to put on nearly 20 lbs of body fat while work-

ing grueling 12-16 shifts, eating fast

food and getting no sleep.

Upon leaving law enforcement, while wondering haphazardly

through the job market

Mike began

working part-time for New

York Times best-selling nutritionist and relationship guru, the late

Dr.

Robert Schwartz

and his wife,

Dr. Leah Schwartz

Breakthru Publishing

in Houston.

thors of

and

it was in

1996 when Dr. Bob took Mike

to an all-you-can-eat buffet and

gave him his first

real

lesson in nutrition:

people are overweight

not because of genetics, but because they eat the wrong type

of food and they eat too

damn much! The obese and super

morbidly obese eat to punish themselves or satiate

their

hunger.

If properly controlled, weight loss could be achieved

through nothing more than a

simple, proper diet. It was through Dr.

Bob that Mike discovered

nutrition as the central key to

physical

fitness

while selling Dr. Bob's books, cassettes and videos. Later,

after he became serious

about fitness, he applied Dr. Bob's

nutritional standards and achieved excellent results. (see photo

above, taken in 1997).

Mike has trained hundreds of people from the ultra thin to the

morbidly obese. He was recently

described by a local trainer

Houston

as the "

The No B.S. Personal Trainer

" for his straight

forward, "no bullshit" approach to fitness and nutrition. Another

trainer in Houston, Texas wrote:

"...He's

obsessively opinionated

and a bit

excessive on his

approach to

eating but I think

may be on to something

with body strength training.

We need people like this is in the

physical fitness

industry - to awaken us to

the problems of

steroids

and get back to real

eating and real lifting. I don't

proscribe to his style, but Mike is different thats for

sure."

Mike believes the key to physical fitness is:

"85% diet and 15% working out. If you can

*discipline*

yourself to the seat

of your pants

and get

hold of your diet --

your eating habits and eat right,

each day, every day, the fat

will

roll off your body

like water. The key to

fitness, the

magic pill that

everyone is looking for,

searching for is not

dieting,

but

healthy eating

. If you eat right,

you can do

anything with

your

body

. No rah-rah, no pill-

pushing,

no fad

diets,

no bullshit, none of that. Just

plain and

simple healthy

eating each and

every

day."

For the incredible results he achieved after coming back from a torn

rotator cuff (and 205 lbs of

bodyfat) Mike was featured in the May

2007 issue of

Health and Fitness

Magazine in Houston,

Texas.

Courtesy Karen Nguyen, CSCS, MS, BA.

SGT MIKE STEWART TXSG
PHOTO COURTESY MIKE STEWART FITNESS (MSF)

WHILE SERVING IN THE TEXAS STATE GUARD (TXSG), MIKE
SERVED AS EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER NCOIC DURING
HURRICANES KATRINA AND RITA (2005). MEMBERS OF HIS UNIT
HELPED IN PROCESS OVER 20,000 CITIZENS FROM NEW ORLEANS.

MIKE STEWART, C. 1997

PHOTO COURTESY
MIKE STEWART FITNESS (MSF)

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