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BIOGRAPHY/RESUME

ALAN L. F. HARRIS III
Personal Trainer, Aerobic Instructor, and Corporate Fitness Consultant for XLR-8 Fitness Corporation

I am currently President/CEO of XLR-8 (Accelerated) Fitness Corporation and Body Power Productions (BPP) in Silver Spring, Maryland. I now host "Interstials with Alan Harris" airing on Discovery Health Network (in over 19 million homes across the country). I began my fitness experience at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, while on a full football scholarship. While playing football at Virginia Tech, I won the top award for being the strongest person on the team in weight lifting and endurance. During my college career, I received many other athletic honors, but the four most important honors I received were: outstanding student athlete; received game ball for outstanding kicking game versus Clemson University; received game ball for outstanding defensive back versus West Virginia University; received game ball for outstanding defensive back versus University of Florida.

I continued my experience in the fitness field when I relocated to the Washington, DC metropolitan area and joined the Spa Lady health club chain as a fitness consultant. I left Spa Lady in May of 1991 to start up my own fitness company, XLR-8 (Accelerated). At that time, I expanded and contracted my services to corporations, as well as health clubs.

I have established a solid business in personalized individual training, aerobic instruction, and corporate fitness training and have served over 50 individual clients. The corporate and health club clients that I have served include Gilbane Corp. (Laurel, Maryland), Wang Corp. (Bethesda, Maryland), AT&T (Oakton, Virginia and Silver Spring, Maryland), Suto Dance Studios (Rockville, Md.), Step-To-You Company (Bethesda, Maryland), Metro Fitness (Rockville, Maryland), and Fitness First Health Clubs (Silver Spring, Maryland).

In addition to personal and corporate training, I formed "Team Body Power," a female power lifting team that I train to compete on state and national levels in power lifting competitions. Three of my team members are currently record holders in the bench press competition for the state of Maryland and one is ranked 20 overall in the nation. I also compete in the state competitions and have received a number of awards, including five1st place, three 2nd place, and one 3rd place.

I am currently certified in personal training and aerobic instruction through the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA), the largest professional fitness certification organization in America. I am also currently a member of IDEA, another major fitness association.

In addition, I also specialize in lectures/seminars (on exercise, fitness, and nutrition) for corporations, health clubs, and individuals. I do one-to-one fitness evaluations, design exercise programs for both children and adults, train athletes for competition, assess fitness levels for individuals from beginning to advanced, provide aerobic instruction/teaching, provide weight training instruction/teaching, engage in competitive weight lifting on the state and national level, and sponsor fitness charity events for health clubs and corporations.

In 1999, I formed Body Power Productions Company (BPP). A full production company that has produced "Body Power Exercise Program" and "Body Power Home Video Series." We (BPP) have teamed up with national known Henninger Distribution (Arlington, Va.), Taylor'd Solutions Productions (York, Pa.), and CMG (Corporate Media Group, Tennessee) to help produce and distribute the Body Power Program and Body Power Home Exercise series.

In 2000, I teamed with Discovery Health Network and Self Magazine to help host a fitness expo charity event (in Boston, Mass.) to raise money for breast cancer.

Fitness-Related Engagements (Media and Other)

• Writer of "Body Power," a fitness column for the Montgomery Journal (Montgomery County, Maryland)
• Sponsor for Ryka Rose (the women's tennis shoe company) Challenge, an event to raise money for efforts to help stop violence against women
• Headline speaker for the AT&T corporate wellness program
• Produced an instructional and training video for ESPN Sports Network
• Guest speaker on "The Rita Foley Show" on radio station WMAL- AM 630 (Washington, DC area)
• Featured in report by Charles Mann (former member of the Super Bowl champion Washington Redskins) focusing on women and weight lifting on Channel 9 News (Washington, DC area
• Trainer of "Team Body Power," a female weight lifting team whose members participate in state power lifting competitions and have won numerous first place and second place awards
• Featured in report by Kay Lake focusing on women and weight lifting for News Channel 8 (cable news channel - Washington, DC area)
• Featured in story by Renee Miller for the Montgomery Gazette (Montgomery County, Maryland)
• Guest speaker on "Working Girls" on radio station WWRC-AM 980 (Washington, DC area)
• Guest speaker on "The Joe Palka Morning Show" on radio station WWRC-AM 980 (Washington, DC area)
• Host of "Body Power," a live call-in radio program on exercise, fitness, and nutrition on radio station WAGE-AM 1200 (Loudoun County, Virginia and Washington, DC area)
• Host of "It's Your Body," a fitness segment on "Teen Summit," a show aired nationally on a weekly basis on cable channel BET (Black Entertainment Television)
• Certified as a field producer for Montgomery Cable Television
• Guest speaker on "The Stevens and Core Show" on radio station WMAL-AM 630 (the station with the largest listening audience for talk radio in the Washington, DC metropolitan area)
• Guest speaker on "Voices of America" a live international radio broadcast in Washington, DC. with approximately 100,000,000 listeners
• Guest speaker on Z-104 FM - "The Lisa Barragan Show"
• News Channel 7 segment on women and weight lifting with Kathleen Matthews and Paul Berry
• Guest speaker on MetroTalk with Jerry Phillips on WTEM Sports Talk 980
• Host of "Interstials with Alan Harris" for Discovery Health channel
• Perform for Self Magazine and Discovery Health for breast cancer charity fund raising event in Boston Commons Park
• Creator, Owner and Executive Producer of the best seller "Absolute Body Power" home video exercise series
• Featured story in Videography Magazine
• Creator/Host and Executive Producer of the best selling Total Circuit Training DVD series
• Creator/Host of the Executive Workout DVD series
• Host of " The Absolute Body Power Show" on Comcast Cable
• Featured guest on "Business Her Way" radio show, WDMV 700, Washington, DC