ABOUT

Mission

The Stepwise Fitness mission is to help people take full charge of their health by providing practical, evidence-based physical activity, exercise, and nutrition advice and coaching.

Well-designed physical activity and exercise programs are often far more effective in preventing and treating a wide variety of chronic disorders and diseases than are medications. Our goal is to help people appreciate, and benefit from, the marvelous preventive and therapeutic powers of physical activity and exercise.

Focus

Our work focuses on promoting lifestyle changes to prevent and treat common conditions such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and type 2 diabetes as well as other insulin resistance-associated conditions.*

History

Stepwise Fitness.com  was created in 2015 by Ed Noyes, who has been certified as a NSCA** Strength and Conditioning Specialist, an ACSM Personal Trainer, and an ACE Personal Trainer since 2000. He is also an ACE-certified Health Coach and a certified Lifestyle Coach for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) type 2 diabetes prevention program.

A resident of San Diego, California, he practices a regular routine of strength-training, aerobic exercise, and high-intensity intervals, and frequently hikes in the mountains of Southern California and the Sierra Nevada. (He has also been spotted in the Rockies, Cascades, Pyrenees, Alps, and Andes.)

* Other common insulin-resistant conditions: metabolic syndrome, NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease), gestational diabetes, and PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome).

**NSCA – National Strength and Conditioning Association; ACSM – American College of Sports Medicine; ACE – American Council on Exercise.