Michael Lipowski

Michael Lipowski is a personal trainer, professional natural bodybuilder and President of the International Association of Resistance Trainers (IART) from Westchester, New York. His interest in learning how to develop a lean muscular physique began at a very young age while growing up on Long Island. Michael was fascinated by the strong muscular bodies of his favorite comic book heroes, the professional wrestlers he watched on television and later on, the bodybuilders he saw in magazines. Wanting to have a strong muscular body of his own led to Michael's passion for weight training.

This passion eventually led to Michael pursuing a career as a personal trainer beginning in 1999 and then opening the PURE PHYSIQUE Personal Training Studio in 2007. It also resulted in Michael developing the "comic book body" he dreamed of as a kid and becoming a competitive natural bodybuilder.

In teaching others how they can build a lean muscular body--naturally and without the use of steroids or other anabolic drugs--Michael combines scientific evidence with personal experience and knowledge acquired from conducting thousands of exercise sessions with hundreds of people of various age, body types, backgrounds, ability, limitations and goals. This gives readers and trainees of all levels (beginner, intermediate or advanced) a more practical understanding of how they must train and diet to develop their ideal physique.