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"L.A.'s Best Trainer...by Far!!!"
-L.A. Hot Magazine 
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Will Wolfgang Schmidt
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Certifications
Certified Flow Systems Auditor (Bioterrain Assessment)
via Biomedx
www.biomedx.com
Bioterrain Assessment (B.T.A.) is a comprehensive assessment of one's personal physiological state. Diverse, dynamic measurements of various body fluids (urine, blood & saliva) create data that point toward instances of balance and imbalance in the individual being assessed. This data provides the practitioner (Bioterrain Technician) with precise information and profound insight as to what exactly the client needs, from a biochemical standpoint, to improve their health. Practically, Bioterrain Assessment is a comprehensive system that utilizes various tests on urine, saliva & blood to determine an individual's biological individualization. Biological Individualization is essentially an assessment of where a client's personal physiology sits in relation to ideal ranges of critically important homeostatic control set points of the body.
Certified Nutritional Microscopist:
via Biomedx
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via The pH Miracle Institute, cert. granted by Dr. Robert O. Young, PhD., 2006, San Diego CA
Description: Trained to analyze live & dry blood samples to detect points of balance and imbalance & generate personalized action plans (usually involving dietary, environmental, detoxification & supplementation protocol), to restore health and vitality.
Advanced Postural Alignment Specialist:
via The Egoscue Method, cert. granted by Pete Egoscue, Founder of The Egoscue Method, 2004 San Diego CA
Description: Trained to analyze postural imbalances and generate customized corrective exercise routines to relieve pain, restore function, improve balance, flexibility & athleticism.
Certified Personal Trainer:
via National Academy of Sports Medicine (N.A.S.M.), 2010
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the International Sports Science Association (I.S.S.A.) 2002
Description: Trained to design & implement physique transformation (weight loss, lean muscle gain) & sports specific functional fitness training.
Certified Flow Systems Auditor (Bioterrain Assessment)
via Biomedx
www.biomedx.com
Bioterrain Assessment (B.T.A.) is a comprehensive assessment of one's personal physiological state. Diverse, dynamic measurements of various body fluids (urine, blood & saliva) create data that point toward instances of balance and imbalance in the individual being assessed. This data provides the practitioner (Bioterrain Technician) with precise information and profound insight as to what exactly the client needs, from a biochemical standpoint, to improve their health. Practically, Bioterrain Assessment is a comprehensive system that utilizes various tests on urine, saliva & blood to determine an individual's biological individualization. Biological Individualization is essentially an assessment of where a client's personal physiology sits in relation to ideal ranges of critically important homeostatic control set points of the body.
Certified Nutritional Microscopist:
via Biomedx
&
via The pH Miracle Institute, cert. granted by Dr. Robert O. Young, PhD., 2006, San Diego CA
Description: Trained to analyze live & dry blood samples to detect points of balance and imbalance & generate personalized action plans (usually involving dietary, environmental, detoxification & supplementation protocol), to restore health and vitality.
Advanced Postural Alignment Specialist:
via The Egoscue Method, cert. granted by Pete Egoscue, Founder of The Egoscue Method, 2004 San Diego CA
Description: Trained to analyze postural imbalances and generate customized corrective exercise routines to relieve pain, restore function, improve balance, flexibility & athleticism.
Certified Personal Trainer:
via National Academy of Sports Medicine (N.A.S.M.), 2010
&
the International Sports Science Association (I.S.S.A.) 2002
Description: Trained to design & implement physique transformation (weight loss, lean muscle gain) & sports specific functional fitness training.
Staff Personal History
Will Schmidt has been passionately committed to physical fitness since the age of 12 when he began receiving personal training from NFL Strength & Conditioning Coach Steve Millard. Will's initial training was driven by sports related ambition, but over time physical fitness and body sculpting became its own self fulfilling end in itself. The physical vitality, endorphin high and self-confidence that are the natural by-product of strength training grew to be a healthy addiction that stuck with him as a personal passion and grew into a professional area of expertise.
The road to his ideal physique was not an easy one, but the detours along the way greatly enriched Will's professional offering, broadening and deepening his scope and areas of expertise.
Body Alignment / Biomechanics
The first detour was in the form of musclo-skeletal impairment: an old high school football knee injury and a boxing related shoulder injury crept back with severity when, as a young personal trainer, Will intensified his weight training efforts to look more the part of the typical excessively muscular fitness trainer. The national personal trainer certification, years of weight training, reading muscle mags and even the in house training with Pinnacle Fitness provided insufficient erudition, being too short on knowledge in the realms of proper biomechanics, body alignment and functional movement patterns.
The knee pain gradually became to much to tolerate and too limiting to job performance. Will went on a year long search to find a solution. Two orthopedic surgeons, three physical therapists, two chiropractors and one state compensation claim legally labeling Will's patella tendonitis at permanently disabling lead him to a last hope - The Egoscue Method.
A colleague as Pinnacle Fitness referred Pete Egoscue's book, Pain Free, to Will as a potentially helpful resource. WIll read it and it all made sense, relating the shoulder & knee injuries together as different symptoms of the same problem: postural misalignment. Will sought out the nearest Egoscue Method clinic and went in as a client. Two sessions later Will's knee and shoulder pain were completely gone and stayed away permanently. Greatly impressed by the efficacy of the method, Will went through the basic & advanced Postural Alignment Specialist certifications offered by the Egoscue Method in San Diego and shortly thereafter, began working for the San Francisco Egoscue clinic under clinic Director, David Smith.
Will's skill as an exercise therapist developed to the point of mastery under David's tutelage and through constant exposure to clients comprising the broadest range of musclo-skeletal issues one can imagine: from wheelchair bound stroke victims to active professional athletes to sedentary adolescents and children.
Will was later contracted directly by India's most prestigious and prominent business icon, Mr.Ratan Tata, CEO of the Tata Group, to work as Mr. Tata's personal exercise therapist and as a corporate fitness consultant for Tata's luxury brand hotels: Taj Hotels & Jiva Spas, and given the responsibility of designing and conducting staff trainings for the company's teams of personal trainers in all Jiva Spas across India. After 3 years of proud service, Will returned to the states to overcome yet another health hurdle.
The road to his ideal physique was not an easy one, but the detours along the way greatly enriched Will's professional offering, broadening and deepening his scope and areas of expertise.
Body Alignment / Biomechanics
The first detour was in the form of musclo-skeletal impairment: an old high school football knee injury and a boxing related shoulder injury crept back with severity when, as a young personal trainer, Will intensified his weight training efforts to look more the part of the typical excessively muscular fitness trainer. The national personal trainer certification, years of weight training, reading muscle mags and even the in house training with Pinnacle Fitness provided insufficient erudition, being too short on knowledge in the realms of proper biomechanics, body alignment and functional movement patterns.
The knee pain gradually became to much to tolerate and too limiting to job performance. Will went on a year long search to find a solution. Two orthopedic surgeons, three physical therapists, two chiropractors and one state compensation claim legally labeling Will's patella tendonitis at permanently disabling lead him to a last hope - The Egoscue Method.
A colleague as Pinnacle Fitness referred Pete Egoscue's book, Pain Free, to Will as a potentially helpful resource. WIll read it and it all made sense, relating the shoulder & knee injuries together as different symptoms of the same problem: postural misalignment. Will sought out the nearest Egoscue Method clinic and went in as a client. Two sessions later Will's knee and shoulder pain were completely gone and stayed away permanently. Greatly impressed by the efficacy of the method, Will went through the basic & advanced Postural Alignment Specialist certifications offered by the Egoscue Method in San Diego and shortly thereafter, began working for the San Francisco Egoscue clinic under clinic Director, David Smith.
Will's skill as an exercise therapist developed to the point of mastery under David's tutelage and through constant exposure to clients comprising the broadest range of musclo-skeletal issues one can imagine: from wheelchair bound stroke victims to active professional athletes to sedentary adolescents and children.
Will was later contracted directly by India's most prestigious and prominent business icon, Mr.Ratan Tata, CEO of the Tata Group, to work as Mr. Tata's personal exercise therapist and as a corporate fitness consultant for Tata's luxury brand hotels: Taj Hotels & Jiva Spas, and given the responsibility of designing and conducting staff trainings for the company's teams of personal trainers in all Jiva Spas across India. After 3 years of proud service, Will returned to the states to overcome yet another health hurdle.
Holistic Nutrition & Internal Health
Over a decade of following mainstream sports nutrition: (protein powders, pre-workout stimulant drinks, weight gainer shakes and fat burner pills) all left Will's body overly acidic, highly toxic and in a severe state of distress. Symptoms included intense eczema on his calves, wrist & torso and mental fog, but far more crippling were the beginning of M.S. type symptoms that caused 24/7 clenching, cramping burning pain in Will's extremities.
After extensive testing of blood profiles, peripheral nerve function and physician recommended medication, Kaiser physicians recommended a spinal tap to scan for multiple sclerosis, a potentially harmful procedure that would either result in a negative analysis or recommendation of life long medication to slow and manage MS symptoms.
Regardless of whether or not a positive test result for MS would come of the spinal tap, Will was determine to avoid the traditional allelopathic course of treatment recommended for MS patients.
Two years prior to the onset of these apparent MS symptoms Will had gone to a Kaiser physician in hopes of curing a severe case of eczema on his wrists & calves. Upon consulting with the doctor, a steroid cream was recommended to treat the symptoms.
When Will asked why the steroid cream was being recommended and how it was supposed to cure the aliment, the doctor replied that he believe Will immune system was over responsive to some environmental toxin and that the steroid cream would paralyze Will's white blood cells so they would stop "over reacting".
This diagnosis and prescription occurred to Will as borderline retarded, completely inaccurate and near the height of arrogance in assuming that a physician's 30 second contemplation of a toxic rash was more intelligent than billions of years of evolution programming Will's immune system response.
Will asked the physician if the doctor thought the high carbohydrate bodybuilder diet he'd been on might be a contributing factor to the case of eczema. The doctor replied that a studied conducted 10 years prior had definitively concluded that carbohydrates and dietary choices had nothing to do with eczema.
Will had been taking zinc enriched over the counter steroid creams for years prior to this prescription and the creams provided miniscule relief and did not even hint of curing the issue. Will took the prescribed steroid cream home from the pharmacy, promptly threw it in the trash and took on a cleansing diet that was lower in carbohydrates and richer in mineral dense vegetables. Immediately the eczema began to diminish.
The effectiveness of the dietary change in the case of eczema inspired Will to pursue a holistic solution to the MS type symptoms later. After much searching and inquiry, Will followed Pete Egoscue's (the same founder of The Egoscue Method) to visit Dr. Robert O. Young for a health consultation. Pete's wife had cured herself of breast cancer following Dr. Young's advice and Pete hypothesized (correctly) that the nature of Will's dis-ease was related to pH imbalance / acidosis.
Will attended Dr. Young's retreat at The pH Miracle Center in San Diego, CA. Dr. Young performed live blood analysis, accurately described the symptoms he perceived Will was facing (without Will ever having even described his symptoms to him) and recommended massive dietary changes and modifications in Will's exercise regime, water intake and physical environment.
Upon implementing the recommendations Will experienced immediate improvement in his health. Will's skin stopped itching the very first day he began eating differently and within 5 days of following the dietary recommendations his remaining eczema disappeared completely and has yet to return (it's been 7 years since). This early success inspired Will to continue on with the diet and within 2 months the MS type symptoms (clenching, cramping and burning pain in his feet, legs, hips, hands and arms) as well as chronic coldness in his extremities, all began to dissipate down to a quiet, occasional tingling in his hands and feet and occasional tetany.
With further dietary insight gained through health studies with Dr. Gabriel Cousens, M.D. at Cousen's Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, Will was able to completely eliminate all remaining symptoms.
Inspired by the effectiveness of the modalities and dietary recommendations made by Dr. Young and Dr. Cousens, Will pursued further in person education with both doctors and acquired a certification in Nutritional Microscopy, issued by Dr. Young.
Over the years the different aspects of Will's expertise have come to merge into a dynamic, coherent offering to his clients. All bases covered: Optimum nutrition, energy & detoxification protocol informed by live blood analysis; motivation & physique transformation through functional fitness training and veteran skill as a holistic fitness trainer; and biomechanic optimization through corrective exercise to heal injuries, restore & improved functionality, flexibility, balance and athleticism.
Over a decade of following mainstream sports nutrition: (protein powders, pre-workout stimulant drinks, weight gainer shakes and fat burner pills) all left Will's body overly acidic, highly toxic and in a severe state of distress. Symptoms included intense eczema on his calves, wrist & torso and mental fog, but far more crippling were the beginning of M.S. type symptoms that caused 24/7 clenching, cramping burning pain in Will's extremities.
After extensive testing of blood profiles, peripheral nerve function and physician recommended medication, Kaiser physicians recommended a spinal tap to scan for multiple sclerosis, a potentially harmful procedure that would either result in a negative analysis or recommendation of life long medication to slow and manage MS symptoms.
Regardless of whether or not a positive test result for MS would come of the spinal tap, Will was determine to avoid the traditional allelopathic course of treatment recommended for MS patients.
Two years prior to the onset of these apparent MS symptoms Will had gone to a Kaiser physician in hopes of curing a severe case of eczema on his wrists & calves. Upon consulting with the doctor, a steroid cream was recommended to treat the symptoms.
When Will asked why the steroid cream was being recommended and how it was supposed to cure the aliment, the doctor replied that he believe Will immune system was over responsive to some environmental toxin and that the steroid cream would paralyze Will's white blood cells so they would stop "over reacting".
This diagnosis and prescription occurred to Will as borderline retarded, completely inaccurate and near the height of arrogance in assuming that a physician's 30 second contemplation of a toxic rash was more intelligent than billions of years of evolution programming Will's immune system response.
Will asked the physician if the doctor thought the high carbohydrate bodybuilder diet he'd been on might be a contributing factor to the case of eczema. The doctor replied that a studied conducted 10 years prior had definitively concluded that carbohydrates and dietary choices had nothing to do with eczema.
Will had been taking zinc enriched over the counter steroid creams for years prior to this prescription and the creams provided miniscule relief and did not even hint of curing the issue. Will took the prescribed steroid cream home from the pharmacy, promptly threw it in the trash and took on a cleansing diet that was lower in carbohydrates and richer in mineral dense vegetables. Immediately the eczema began to diminish.
The effectiveness of the dietary change in the case of eczema inspired Will to pursue a holistic solution to the MS type symptoms later. After much searching and inquiry, Will followed Pete Egoscue's (the same founder of The Egoscue Method) to visit Dr. Robert O. Young for a health consultation. Pete's wife had cured herself of breast cancer following Dr. Young's advice and Pete hypothesized (correctly) that the nature of Will's dis-ease was related to pH imbalance / acidosis.
Will attended Dr. Young's retreat at The pH Miracle Center in San Diego, CA. Dr. Young performed live blood analysis, accurately described the symptoms he perceived Will was facing (without Will ever having even described his symptoms to him) and recommended massive dietary changes and modifications in Will's exercise regime, water intake and physical environment.
Upon implementing the recommendations Will experienced immediate improvement in his health. Will's skin stopped itching the very first day he began eating differently and within 5 days of following the dietary recommendations his remaining eczema disappeared completely and has yet to return (it's been 7 years since). This early success inspired Will to continue on with the diet and within 2 months the MS type symptoms (clenching, cramping and burning pain in his feet, legs, hips, hands and arms) as well as chronic coldness in his extremities, all began to dissipate down to a quiet, occasional tingling in his hands and feet and occasional tetany.
With further dietary insight gained through health studies with Dr. Gabriel Cousens, M.D. at Cousen's Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, Will was able to completely eliminate all remaining symptoms.
Inspired by the effectiveness of the modalities and dietary recommendations made by Dr. Young and Dr. Cousens, Will pursued further in person education with both doctors and acquired a certification in Nutritional Microscopy, issued by Dr. Young.
Over the years the different aspects of Will's expertise have come to merge into a dynamic, coherent offering to his clients. All bases covered: Optimum nutrition, energy & detoxification protocol informed by live blood analysis; motivation & physique transformation through functional fitness training and veteran skill as a holistic fitness trainer; and biomechanic optimization through corrective exercise to heal injuries, restore & improved functionality, flexibility, balance and athleticism.
