Dan Ritchie PhD, CSCS, HFI-ACSM
Dan has a broad background in the fitness industry including training and management in commercial and university/hospital-based fitness, for-profit, not-for-profit and educational facilities. His primary areas of expertise are in personal training for special populations: athletes, pregnancy, blind, stroke recovery, Parkinsons, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, Fibromyalgia, Alzheimers, etc. He has worked with Division I athletes some of whom have been professionally drafted. He has also worked on state funded research on exercise for severe dementia alzheimers type. He regularly presents at national and regional conferences and has been active on committees for the American College of Sports Medicine. In May of 2008 he completed his Ph.D. in Health and Kinesiology, with a minor in Gerontology at Purdue University.
Cody Sipe Phd, ES, RCEP
Cody is a professor, trainer, speaker, writer, entrepreneur and recognized leader in exercise for mid-life and older adults with over 12 years of experience in the industry. He is a past recipient of the IDEA Program Director of the Year award and regularly shares his expertise at conferences and in publications.
Cody completed his Master’s degree in exercise science from Virginia Tech in 1996 where he was first exposed to working with older adults in the cardiopulmonary rehabilitation program. He attended the University of Virginia for the next four years during which he worked as a personal trainer, group exercise instructor, exercise specialist and graded exercise test technologist at a local medically-based fitness center. In 2000 he became the Director of the A.H. Ismail Center for Health, Exercise and Nutrition at Purdue University.
