AUTHOR

Ben Greenfield

Health & Wellness | Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development

Ben Greenfield is human performance consultant, speaker and New York Times bestselling author of 17 books, including the widely popular titles Beyond Training, Boundless, Fit Soul, Spiritual Disciplines Journal and the Boundless Cookbook. A former collegiate tennis, water polo and volleyball player, bodybuilder, 13 time Ironman triathlete and professional obstacle course racer, Ben has been voted by the NSCA as America’s top Personal Trainer and by Greatist as one of the top 100 Most Influential People In Health And Fitness. A frequent contributor to health and wellness publications and websites and a highly sought after speaker, Ben’s understanding of functional exercise, nutrition, and the delicate balance between performance and health has helped thousands of people around the world achieve their goals and improve their quality of life – from high level CEO’s to soccer moms to professional athletes and beyond. Ben is an advisor, investor and board member of multiple corporations in the health and fitness industry, and is also the founder of KION, a nutritional supplements company that combines time-honored superfoods with modern science to allow human beings to achieve peak performance, defy aging, and live an adventurous, fulfilling, joyful and limitless life. Via online, phone, e-mail and in-person consulting, Ben coaches and trains individuals all over the world for health, longevity and performance. He also works with individuals, corporations and teams for body and brain performance enhancement, and specializes in performance, fat loss, digestion, brain, sleep, hormone, anti-aging, parenting, relationships, smart drugs, nootropics and overall wellness for achieving an optimized life. Ben resides in Spokane, Washington with his wife, Jessa, and twin boys, River and Terran, where he enjoys worshiping God and praising Christ, swinging kettlebells, fiction, guitar, ukulele, spearfishing, bowhunting, plant foraging and cooking. CREDENTIALS •Bachelor’s and master’s degrees from University of Idaho in sports science and exercise physiology •Personal training and strength and conditioning certifications from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) •Sports nutrition certification from the International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) •Advanced bicycle fitting certification from Serotta, the “Harvard” of bicycle fitting schools •Spartan SGX coaching certification •Over 20 years experience in coaching professional, collegiate, and recreational athletes from all sports Ben hosts the highly popular fitness, nutrition and wellness website BenGreenfieldFitness.com, a site with over a million monthly visitors, featuring articles, podcasts, and product reviews from Ben. In addition to multiple daytime and reality TV show competitions, Ben has also appeared in and been a contributor to Forbes, Men’s Health, Huffington Post, Fox News, Triathlete magazine, LAVA magazine, Endurance Planet, and has been featured in WebMD, Prevention magazine, Shape magazine, Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Women’s Running magazine, Inside Triathlon, NBC, Fox, Entheos Academy, CreativeLIVE, MindBodyGreen, Udemy, Veria Live TV, CBS Sports, MindValley University, Outside Magazine and beyond. As a public speaker on longevity, anti-aging, biohacking, fitness, nutrition, and cognition, Ben has hosted several top ranked fitness and health podcasts in iTunes, including the Ben Greenfield Fitness show, Endurance Planet, Get-Fit Guy, and Obstacle Dominator. Ben speaks around the world and in addition to presenting multi-day conferences in global hotspots such as Sweden, Finland, Dubai, London, and Thailand, he has been a keynote lecturer at private financial and corporate events, the Hawaii Ironman World Championships Medical Conference, Biohacker’s Summits, PaleoFX, MindValley, American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, Academy of Regenerative Practices, CalJam, FitCon, Tedx, The Ancestral Health Symposium, Runga and numerous other private health retreats.