Steve believes that a marriage of integrated functional exercise and enthusiasm defines his exercise existence. As an overweight adolescent, the first fitness program he ever designed was his own. He began his passion for fitness through his discovery of martial arts. In addition to teaching cardio fitness classes, Steve was the program director and Kung Fu instructor for four school locations on Long Island, New York. Pupils aged three through late adulthood enjoyed the benefit of Steve's expert instruction.

The Kung Fu school was a launching pad into personal training at the most elite health clubs in Manhattan.  Steve started at the Reebok Sports Club/NY and The Sports Club/LA, all the while, growing his group fitness career. Next, Steve found a home at Equinox Fitness Clubs in New York City, teaching classes at every location while building a home-based private training business. Steve has specialized in getting people fit with FITT (Functional Integrated Training Techniques), his own style of exercise programming using a variety of tools to train more than just the muscle, but the movements as well, maximizing neuromuscular integration.  By increasing the movement skill , kinesthetic awareness, and proprioceptive reflexes of a client or group, more calories are expended, core stability is woven into most exercises, and mental acuity is emphasized—and it’s also more fun.  Steve also has the interactive options of including martial arts and proper boxing training and has found a niche in paranatal wellness training.  Steve excels in event-specific, deadline-based programming, such as pregnancy, sport/competition phased, or wedding-related cycles.

Currently, Steve continues to instruct group exercise classes at Equinox Fitness Clubs and The Sports Club/LA throughout New York City, as well as certify instructors in his exercise methods. His innovation and exuberance for fitness has resulted in the creation of his original programming concepts – Speedball, Speedball Core, Shadow Do, X-Treme Movement, Form & Function, FUnk FUze and Integration – exercise programs available in both group and personal settings, serving all fitness levels and age groups. While teaching at Equinox, he has developed, branded, and cultivated his class concepts into Speedball Fitness, LLC, an on-site wellness service directory and fitness consultant for individuals, private groups, and corporate wellness centers.  He continues to train elite New Yorkers privately, expand and update his creative repertoire of programs and instructors around the tri-state area, and has been the strength and conditioning coach for top ranked professional boxers and middle school travel league soccer teams alike.  Additionally, Steve’s youth experience and understanding of the need for movement programming accessible to any skill level or age while keeping clientele of varying demographics engaged has also led Speedball Fitness programming into Marymount High School, NYU, SUNY New Paltz, and Columbia University as fitness electives, credited PE programs, and cross conditioning through multiple seasons for varsity female competition teams in swimming.

Speedball Fitness, under Steve’s guidance, has been an active fundraising entity. Fitness marathons and clinics have been conducted for a variety of causes in the tri-state area, combining Steve’s original fitness concepts and motivational style as a vehicle. At the West Side YMCA, he consulted on and led fitness fundraising events that raised over $10,000 for the YMCA children's fund. Similarly at Equinox, Steve led fundraising efforts that generated over $3,800, which he donated to the American Red Cross for the victims of hurricane Katrina in 2005, as well as several thousand dollars combined for the NYRR foundation and Environmental Action in 2008 and 2009. At the YMCA, he also served as a volunteer role model in the child mentoring program, providing fitness programming and nutritional guidelines.

Steve is a recurring fitness expert for many aspects of the media, and his commentary or programs have been featured on television, the web, print media and radio programs including Forbes.com, ABC News Now, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, MTV News, Fox News, The NY Post, CBS2 News, WB/CW11, Women’s Health, Daily Candy, Gotham Magazine, NY 1, The Daily News, AM New York, Genre, Shecky’s, Shape (Germany), Metro Sports New York, Fitness, Zink, The Career Clinic radio show, boxinginsider.com, CBS Inside Fitness radio and TV, and others.

In between his business obligations, Steve has found the time to study Eskrima, Butterfly Hands, Choi Lei Faht and Lama Pi Kung Fu, Yang-style Michuan Tai Chi Chuan, Capoeira, and boxing.

Steve is certified by the American Council on Exercise (ACE) and maintains current CPR/AED certification.  He studied at the State University of New York at Albany.

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