Meet The Team

Rick creates exercise programs that help people heal injuries and eliminate pain, so they can go back to living a full, active, healthy life. He has always been a fitness and exercise enthusiast, so starting in 1994, he decided to make this his career. Rick started as a personal trainer, exercise therapist and kinesiologist, but quickly discovered that many of the traditional exercise and treatment programs weren’t producing the results he wanted for his clients. So, he took it upon himself to get the right knowledge, scour the medical research, and do hands-on testing, so he could ACTUALLY help clients get better. With the advent of the Internet, Rick saw a terrific opportunity to offer and deliver his programs to many more people, so they too could finally get relief from pain, heal their injuries, and get back to the lives they enjoy.

Mike Westerdal is a national best-selling fitness author, personal trainer, Iron Man Magazine contributor and certified russian kettlebell instructor.

He is the co-founder of Unlock Your Body & The Unlock Your Body Inner Circle as well as the co-creator of the wildly popular Unlock Your Hip Flexors and Foreward Head Posture Fix programs.

He has dedicated the past two decades of his life helping men and women improve their health and physical performance with the internet’s longest-standing strength training site CriticalBench.com

Mike resides in sunny Clearwater, FL with his beautiful wife Courtney and their two children Karina and Lincoln.

Tonya is a Mum to 3 amazing kids.  She is a former international competitive Figure Athlete having represented both Canada & New Zealand.  She is also a board certified holistic health practitioner, and for the past 23+ years has worked as a fitness and nutrition coach, as well as a nutrition therapist, helping individuals to not only reach their goals, but understand what the reasons are for why they get “stuck.”

“I don’t believe in deprivation, restrictive dieting and hours of cardio.   Becoming more fit and healthy should also be enjoyable for you and it should create a better, happier balance in your life.  What I do believe in, is living a life that makes you happy & has you feeling fulfilled.  I believe in living a life that continues to keep you feeling inspired. I believe in sustainability.  I believe in eating cake . . . not the whole cake of course!  I believe we are all here to enjoy those moments in life that are about celebration, family & friends, free from guilt . . . but to authentically enjoy.”