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John Basedow, born in Baldwin, Nassau County, Long Island, New York, is a TV fitness personality, model, author, and motivational speaker best known in the United States for his Fitness Made Simple video series.[1]
Basedow got his start on an internationally syndicated TV show called Images. Images was a magazine format half hour television series that dealt with health-related topics. Basedow and his co-host, Paquita McCray, syndicated the program to over 200 U.S. TV stations and 30 foreign countries while Basedow was still in school.
After Images, Basedow, who then described his body as a "bowling pin on legs", set a goal to get in good enough shape to appear in a fitness magazine. After frustration with different exercise routines, fad diets, and overhyped supplements, he sat down and invented his own regimen, which came to be Fitness Made Simple. By following the Fitness Made Simple program, Basedow achieved his goal and has been featured in most every national exercise-related publication. Basedow also appeared on Fit Living, a TV program in the Metro New York area, where he offered viewers training tips and meal plans from the Fitness Made Simple program. He now provides exercise and nutrition tips on over 30 TV and radio programs nationwide each month and can be seen frequently as a guest on Fox News Channel.
Basedow is known to be very modest about his status as a fitness celebrity. In an article with the Iowa State Daily, he says:
...it's so hard to believe - that I'm a popular icon. The New York Times was funny. Not too long ago I was on the front page. It wasn't even a story about me, it was about celebrity poker. The first line of the story said "If you thought the next great television phenomenon after NASCAR, figure skating and fitness personality John Basedow would be celebrity poker, people would have said you were crazy." The fact that they grouped me with those things blew my mind.[2]
Basedow is the author of "Fitness Made Simple: The Power To Change Your Body & Life," which is published by McGraw-Hill. He's also a spokesperson for the American Heart Association and has led their annual Heart Walk for the past 3 years.
In September 2007, Basedow was signed as a spokesmodel for Chamonix Skincare and is now featured in advertisements for their new Th-121 product. Basedow currently appears in a reality show called John Basedow TV, which is produced by Bazaar Films and Harrington Talents. He is also a recurring guest on the popular Sirius/XM Radio program Covino & Rich, where he answers listener questions on nutrition, exercise, and motivation topics each month. Basedow also regularly speaks at the prestigious NAVEL Wellness Expos, which take place twice a year in New York.
Basedow's most recent video FMS Awesome Arms, which shows how men and women can build lean, defined biceps and triceps, was produced in 2008 by Knowlera Media. On October 5, 2008, the American Diabetes Association presented Basedow with an award for his spokesperson work in educating people about the benefits of following a fitness lifestyle, which includes regular exercise and a natural food meal plan, to avoid future illness.
Basedow is featured in the January 2009 issue of The Boulevard Magazine [3] and he appears in the March 2009 "Celebrities Going Green" issue of Dog Aficionado Magazine with his Schipperke, Midnight. He also now does a keynote seminar entitled Success Made Simple with Fran Capo, who is a comedienne, author, and the Guinness Book of World Records' Fastest Talking Female. With Success Made Simple, Basedow and Capo help to educate and empower people to overcome limitations so they can achieve their dreams and live life to the fullest.
In March 2009, Basedow was offered a spokesmodel contract for Energize, a new all natural energy drink, and he appears in their national TV commercials. Basedow is the Fitness Correspondent for a new syndicated weekly television series, called Live It Up!, which airs every Friday in the New York market on WLNY-TV 10/55 starting April 3, 2009. He also appears in the new season of the popular national PBS cooking series, Taste This TV, where he rates various restaurant meals on his Foodie Trifecta 3 P's Scale in terms of how pleasing they are to the palate, pocketbook, and paunch.
Basedow is profiled in the August 2009 issue of Image Magazine and he accepted an offer to be a celebrity contributor for future issues. He's also featured in the Nov-Dec 2009 issue of Exceptional People Magazine.*
Tsunami hoax
Following the December 2004 tsunami, a falsified hoax press release was circulated claiming that Basedow was killed by it.[4]
References
- ^ Carpenter, Susan (February 4, 2005). "For John Basedow, fitness is both simple and lucrative; The formerly pudgy, now buff infomercial star is a classic case of American dream self-determination". L.A. Times. p. E33.
- ^ "Fitness Made Basedow" Iowa State Daily: 2006-01-24
- ^ http://www.thedvddirectory.com/FitnessMadeSimple/BoulevardMag.htm
- ^ Wolf, B.: "Will Ferrell Lives: Dead Wrong Death Rumors", ABC News web site, March 27, 2006.
External links
- Fitness Made Simple - Official site
- John Basedow's MySpace
- Arm Exercises Video Tutorial with John Basedow
- [1] - John on Fox News Channel
- [2] - John in Boulevard Magazine
- [3] - John in Exceptional People Magazine
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