Bill Hebson's Biography

Bill Hebson ACSM-HFI, NSCA-CPT, USAW-Club Coach

Bill Hebson is one of South Florida’s most sought after and respected personal trainers. With over 25 years of experience in the fitness industry as a professional dancer, competitive Olympic weightlifter, body builder, and triathlete, Bill is uniquely qualified in the practice of prescriptive exercise. He has provided over 50,000 hours of face to face personal training sessions. Bill Hebson Fitness Associates Inc. an exclusive private training service has operated continuously since 1986.

Biography

Bill is the owner of Bill Hebson Fitness Associates Inc. an exclusive personal training and performance enhancement service. Bill Hebson Fitness has operated continuously since 1985.

Bill is the owner of Workout America, a visionary 15,000 sq. ft. functional training and performance enhancement center in Stuart, Florida.

Bill has worked with a variety of Olympic and elite World Class athletes. He enjoys a wide medical referral base and has participated in a variety of metabolic and orthopedic rehabilitations and has been recognized and reimbursed as a provider by numerous insurance companies.

Bill has been an innovator and a pioneer of a philosophy of training now described as “functional training”. Bill’s eclectic approach utilizes the latest research in exercise science and integrates movements and exercises from a variety of traditional and non-traditional resources; Olympic weightlifting, plyometrics, explosive power training, swiss and medicine ball work, SAQ (speed, agility, quickness), balance, body building, and elements from ballet, yoga, and the combative arts.

Bill has a rich athletic background, as a teenager he competed on the national platform as an Olympic weightlifter and was coached by Stan Stanczyk, 1948 Olympic Gold Medalist and 5 times World Champion. He studied karate under close friend and mentor Mel Weiss, National Kata Champion and Harold Roth, World Middleweight Kickboxing Champion. Bill danced on scholarship at the Miami Conservatory under Thomas Armour and was a company member with the internationally accaimed Demetrius Klein Dance Company. He has been a featured choreographer and performer at the Florida State Dance Festival, the Demetrius Klein Dance Festival and various college venues. He was the founder and artistic director of Zero Gravity Dance, a professional jazz/modern company. Bill has won numerous Florida Body Building titles, has competed successfully as a triathlete, and is a professional dive master with exensive Carribbean experience.

Bill is a popular lecturer and speaker and a continuing education provider for the NSCA and a number of national certification bodies. Bill is an approved internship provider-source for Florida

Atlantic University’s exercise science department (students are required to complete a 400 hour internship at an approved provider site for graduation). Bill has been a guest lecturer for the graduate program in exercise science at Florida International University on Olympic Weightlifting and has presented on the Olympic lifts for Dr. Anthony Abbott at the Fitness Institute International. Bill has presented from the field for the NSCA Florida State Clinic and has been a faculty member for the Florida State Dance Festival presenting on performance enhancement and injury prevention. He has lectured for StrengthPro at the IFPA Conference, Tampa and coached at the ECA Sports Fitness National Conference, South Beach Miami as well as numerous other venues. Bill was the producer of the Stuart Biathalon, and annually produces the Stuart Strength and Conditioning Summit.

Bill has trained across the country from the original York Barbell Club, in York Penn. to the original Golds in Venice Beach Cal. He is an astute analyst and consultant in the fitness industry and personL training profession. Bill was the founder of Bill Hebson Fitness one of the first private functional training studios to operate nationally in 1985, and was one of the founding partners with Juan Carlos Santana in the Institute for Human Performance, Boca Raton, Florida. He has been a consultant for numerous facility installations and corporate wellness programs.

 

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