Warren Schoeppe C.P.T.N., A.C.E., A.A.F.P. has worked in the fitness industry for 28 years, but after owning his own gym in 1989 he began to see just how much people struggle with consistent exercise and achieving their fitness goals. This led him to question the industry standards and practices and start to conduct his own intensive research into why it is that less than 10% of the population exercise consistently and achieve the results they want.

Since then Warren has realized that there are a few major problems with the current fitness techniques and philosophies:

1. The fitness programs most people try to follow have their origins in programs that were developed for the optimum performance of athletes. The training techniques from these high performance programs are given to the general public and expected to work for everyone. Of course they often do not work for the average person as they require too much time and too much strain on the body.
   
   
2. All the publications in the fitness industry are a result of extensive research done on athletes by athletes and therefore are generally based on the needs and techniques of the high performance athlete, not the needs of the general population. The average person does not care how fast they can run a marathon, or how much weight they can lift. The average person’s fitness goals are very different from the performance athlete and include having energy, feeling a reduction in pain and discomfort in joints, mobility, and general well being to name a few.
   
   
3. Our current medical/health model has it roots in the 1700’s at universities in France & Germany and was originally set up based on early forms of pharmacology*. Thus the current medical model was primarily developed in order to ease suffering, not prevent it. This leaves out one of the most important steps to ultimate health and well-being. The current system focuses its attention and resources on diagnosis & testing, (step two) and treatment, (step three), but not the first step to well-being – prevention.
   
   

With this knowledge and a concern about the manipulative nature of the fitness industry and its effect on people’s physical and mental health, Warren set out to develop a simple education tool to help people succeed in their fitness goals. Bases on the needs of the average person’s fitness goals and following his grandma’s advice to “keep it simple stupid”, Warren came up with the Enerchi System. Available soon!

*From the book “Blood Sport - A Brief History of Medicine”.