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Todd 'The Bod' Smith is an American body builder, personal trainer, health and exercise writer, and businessman. [1]
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Todd 'The Bod' Smith is an American body builder, personal trainer, health and exercise writer, and businessman. [1]
Some of the mentors Smith studied under were:
Smith was able to compete and take third in the 1986 Mr. USA. Once he had finished school he opened up his own gym. After five years it was purchased by 24 Hour Fitness. After two years of research Smith introduced “Todd Smith’s ‘I Can Do It’ Total Lifestyle Program.” He created an infomercial and successfully sold this program to over 70,000 participants. During that same span of time he won the 1999 National Steroid Free Bodybuilding Championship in Venice Beach, California. After winning the competition he became a contributing author to Ironman Magazine. [2]
Then Todd traveled extensively as a management consultant for the health club industry. He was able to travel all around the USA helping club owners improve their bottom line as well as assist trainers to create better and more effective fitness and nutrition programs for their customers.
Currently Todd lives and works out of Omaha, Nebraska. He is still active with his online training courses. [3] In addition he owns and operates a small fitness-training studio called Todd Smith Fitness. [4] Established in 2013, Todd became a franchise owner of Nutrishop. Todd is also still competing and training. In 2010 he won the overall INBA United States Natural Bodybuilding Championship and Las Vegas Forever Natural [5]
In 2002, Todd met and married his wife Carmen. A year later they had their first child, a daughter named Katie. In 2008 they had a son, J.T.f [6]
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