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Anthony Carey, MA, CSCS, ACE-MES, is the inventor of the Core-Tex® and Core-Tex Sit, revolutionary reaction tools currently being used by professional sports teams and individual athletes, health clubs and major universities in the US and abroad.

His mission has always been to improve the quality of life of as many people as he can through better movement. Movement is life. If we make movement better, we make life better.

 Anthony holds a Master’s degree in biomechanics and athletic training and is recognized internationally as a leading expert on biomechanics, corrective exercise, functional anatomy and motor control and their relationships to musculoskeletal pain and function. 

Founded in 1994, his company Function First has drawn clientele from 18 countries and 33 states. His clientele has included professional athletes, rock stars, world renowned scientists and heads of industry.  

 He was Personal Fitness Professional Magazine’s very first Personal Trainer of the Year in 2009, a 2017 Finalist for IDEA’s Personal Trainer of the Year and 2020 IDEA China Innovation Award winner. 

 As a continuing education provider in the fitness industry, Anthony has been an invited speaker to all of the major conferences in the US, Southeast Asia, Europe and South America. 

 He has developed the Pain-Free Movement Specialist, the only curriculum available to help fitness professionals work with the chronic pain population.   And his best-selling book, “The Pain-Free Program:  A Proven Method to Relieve Back, Neck, Shoulder and Joint Pain” has helped tens of thousands of readers around the world and was recommended by Time Magazine.

Tom Campanaro became a self-taught student of exercise equipment and methods, tinkering in his garage to find or make various objects with which to weight train.

Tom founded the Total Gym® Company with business partners Dale McMurray and Doug Marino in 1974, with Larry Westfall joining the team within the year. They developed the Total Gym incline bodyweight trainer, a high-quality version of a machine that encouraged the use of multiple muscle groups together in each exercise—now referred to as “functional training."

Today, Total Gym is the longest running broadcast infomercial in history, with over 4 million users and a billion dollars’ worth of Total Gyms sold through the infomercial and in retail stores in over 85 countries.

In 2003, the company launched the GRAVITYSystem®, a versatile and turnkey fitness program. Now with operations in 23 countries, Total Gym continues to lead the industry with innovative functional and bodyweight training products, in addition to its award-winning GRAVITY fitness program offered worldwide.