Who is Gilad?

Gilad Janklowicz is one of the world's most popular fitness personalities. As a pioneer in the fitness industry he has helped millions to stay fit with his popular TV fitness shows Bodies in Motion, Basic Training the Workout and Total Body Sculpt with Gilad and with his gold and platinum selling instructional home fitness videos.

Most of Gilad's life has been devoted to fitness since his high school days where he excelled in track and field. He eventually became a record holding decathlon athlete in Israel and a fitness officer in the military. Later, as an Olympic hopeful in 1980, he trained and competed alongside some of the best athletes in the world. Gilad was inducted into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1991 and the US National Fitness Hall of Fame in 2007.

After an achilles injury shattered his Olympic dreams, Gilad enrolled at the UCLA film school and began instructing fitness classes in some of Los Angeles's top studios and fitness facilities where he built a strong following and trained some of the worlds best known celebrities. Fitness personalities such as Arnold Schwarzeneger, Jack La Lanne and quarterback Joe Thiesman all trained with Gilad and appeared on his Bodies in Motion television program.