Intelligent Fitness

PHIL SOTTILE ACSM- HFI CERTIFIED, NSCA-CPT, CFT, CPT,SET, PRCS    
A.A. - Communication

Professional Overview: Phil Sottile has worked to become recognized as a sought after authority on health and fitness management.  Sottile has owned/overseen the operations of 5 Fitness centers (2 large public gyms and 3 Private (franchise) fitness studios) and is the driving force and mind behind Intelligent Fitness. 

Sottile has 20 years of experience in the health club industry, previously pioneering a cyber/brick and mortar fitness company that reverse merged into a public offering, while also certifying, testing, and educating other fitness instructors as a contributing author to a fitness certification course, has extensively lectured to students at Dowling and Nassau Community colleges, motivationally spoken to high school students, educated senior citizens, has hosted his own broadcast of INTELLIGENT FITNESS on 105.3FM, 98.7FM, 107.5FM , and 540AM Radio, has appeared on NEWS12 LONG ISLAND as “Personal Trainer to Long Island’s Kids” and has been reported on by several local magazines, newspapers, and bodybuilding periodicals.  Sottile's business and Evaluation Methodologies have been borrowed by many gyms and trainers on Long Island and the industry and his copyrighted principles are the cornerstone of client success.

Sottile has hosted his own cable TV program on Long Island Cablevision since 2006.  The show's aim's is to act as educational/ empowerment show for fitness, wellness, and other controversial topics, The Intelligent Way to Fitness.  Sottile is known to be risque’, racy, and outspoken on a variety of issues ranging from health and fitness, to marketing, advertising scams, relationships, politics, economics and consumer strategies.  

Additional professional credentials include:

* Guest author to Natural Bodybuilding and Fitness Magazine

* Expert Author to ezinearticles.com and Longisland.com

* Committee expert for B.O.S.C.E.S of Suffolk as a contributing developer of its Personal Training Program Curriculum      (2006-Present)

* Former contributing Fitness Columnist to New York SportScene Magazine  

* Former contributing Staff writer for Fathers and Sons Magazine (fathersandsonsonline.com)

* Published author of Health and Fitness articles in various magazines and on the web

* Author: What Men Want, "A Guidebook for Women, By Men.  

* Promoter/Co-Founder - Long Island Experience Promotions. The promotions division of Intelligent Fitness holds the largest Drug Free Bodybuilding Show per year on Long Island and Sottile is the show's entertainment supervisor and creative choreographer.  The show has turned out 8 Professional Athletes over its 9 year history, as well as begin over 150 drug free bodybuilders' careers in the natural sport. (2002 - Present)

*  Short Film producer: Path of the Natural.  Sottile’s film short on an athlete’s turn to drugs, has received acclaim on the web as a 'classic' endeavor of Drug Free promotion of his bodybuilding shows.

Athletic Background:

Additionally, he is a drug-free bodybuilding competitor and finished within the top 5 at the INBF’S 2007 WORLD AND NATIONAL events.  At 29, Sottile was the youngest Promoter and Amateur for the INBF's bodybuilding shows, The INBF Natural Long Island Experience and All Natural Revolution and is untouched on LONG ISLAND as the premier Drug Free Bodybuilding Promoter.

Since 2002, Phil Sottile has been personally responsible for introducing over 150 new Natural Bodybuilders to the sport through his promotional endeavors. As a result, several of these competitors have turned Professional using the Long Island Experience and All Natural Revolution as a jump off point. Since 2002, many new professional Figure and Bodybuilding competitors can thank the Long Island Experience for providing a forum to turn PRO and enter the WNBF!  Behind the scenes and with quiet input, he has coached and personally worked with several competitors that have won their competitive classes on their first or second attempts, guiding these athletes to the Pro-cards.  Sottile and his bodybuilding shows specialize in first time athletes looking to enter the Drug Free bodybuilding world.  

Education:

Phil has an undergraduate education and background in Corporate Finance/Accounting and Administration/Marketing, holds an Associates Degree in Communication from the University of Phoenix, and holds several levels of certified distinctions from Health Fitness Instructor to Specialist in Exercise Therapy from the most respected, nationally accredited Organizations, such as; The American College of Sports Medicine, The National Academy of Sports Medicine, The National Strength and Conditioning Association, The International Sports Sciences Association, and The American Association of Health, Fitness, and Rehabilitation Professionals.  In addition, Sottile is completing his degree in Business Education in the fall of 2013.