ACSM- HFI CERTIFIED, NSCA-CPT, CFT, CPT,FT, PRCS

PROFESSIONALOVERVIEW: Phil Sottile is steadily becoming the authority on health and fitness management!  PHIL SOTTILE has owned/overseen the operations of 5 Fitness centers (2 large public gyms and 3 FITNESS TOGETHER studios) and is the driving force and mind behind Intelligent Fitness/Athlete’s Edge.  PHIL 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.

Phil hosts his own cable TV program on CABLEVISION that is an educational/ empowerment show for fitness, wellness, and other controversial topics, THE INTELLIGENT WAY TO FITNESS.  Phil is known to be risque’, racy, and outspoken on a variety of issues ranging from health and fitness, to marketing, advertising scams, relationships, politics and religion.  

Additional professional credentials include:

* Former contributing Fitness Columnist to New York SportScene Magazine

* Guest author to Natural Bodybuilding and Fitness Magazine

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

* Expert Author to EZINEARTICLES.COM and LONGISLAND.COM

* Committee expert for BOCES of Suffolk as a contributing developer of its Personal Training Program Curriculum

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

* Owner/Operator - Fitness Together (Commack) Intelligent Fitness, theintelligentway.net

*  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.

* Promoter/Co-Founder - LONG ISLAND EXPERIENCE PROMOTIONS. The promotions organization holds the two largest DRUG FREE Bodybuilding Shows per year and Sottile is the show's entertainment supervisor and creative choreographer and has turned out FOUR PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES over its 5 year history, as well as begin over 125 BODYBUILDERS' Careers in the natural sport.

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 of two popularly growing 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 2003, Phil Sottile has been personally responsible for introducing 75 - 100 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. At his first show, he promised co-promoter Durlan Castro that within 3 years their show would be a pro-qualifying competition where the winner would receive a PRO-CARD. True to form, SOTTILE's 2006 ALL NATURAL REVOLUTION turned out another WNBF PROFESSIONAL BODYBUILDER and a PROFESSIONAL FIGURE COMPETITOR for the WNBF on MARCH 31, 2007. 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, never taking credit for the athlete's success. 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 and holds several levels of certified distinctions from Health Fitness Instructor to Fitness Therapist 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.