Meet Ingo.
Most people call him Coach G.
For more than 40 years, Ingo has coached, taught, spoken, kept learning and worked with people. Along the way there have been private studios, television, stages, Vitamix demonstrations, nutritional DNA testing, a ridiculous number of certifications and apparently one avocado seed video the internet decided needed more than a million views.
It’s been an interesting ride.
Those four things are really one job. I look at what's actually going on with a person — sleep, stress, food, movement, genetics and the life they're living — and help them do something useful with it.
THE MANY LIVES OF COACH G.!
Not a résumé. Just where the learning happened.
Some of it happened in classrooms. Most of it happened with real people standing right in front of him.
LATE 1970s
Where it started
Jack LaLanne's European Health Spa.
Van Nuys first, then the Canoga Park location while he was in college. Jack was doing this before anybody called it wellness.
Archival reference image for prototype — confirm final usage rights before launch.
2004–11
The studios
Fitness Forever. Wellness CSI. Palm Desert.
Thousands of hours on a real floor with real people taught him things a certificate never could.
TELEVISION
On television
Morning wellness segments.
Nutrition, movement and the occasional pile of sugar on a table — because some things land better when people can see them.
STAGES
On stage
Local rooms. National rooms. Corporate rooms.
Props, visuals, participation, laughter — and occasionally a room where he probably wondered who on earth booked him after the guy before him.
7 YEARS
Vitamix
Seven years of demonstrations.
One habit stuck: show people. Don’t just tell them.
NOW
In the lab
Nutritional DNA testing.
Ingo uses MaxGen Labs for nutrigenomics testing — helping make food, stress, recovery and training decisions less random.
HE'S NEVER REALLY STOPPED LEARNING.
Health changes. Science changes. People change. So he keeps learning.
These aren't here to impress you. Each one gave him another lens, another tool, or another question to ask. And he still keeps learning.
A natural comedian disguised as a 40+ year veteran in the fitness, nutrition and longevity industry.
Ingo doesn't just deliver information. He builds the talk around the people in the room — props, visuals, interaction, questions, laughter and the occasional moment where somebody realizes they've been doing something the hard way for twenty years.
Expect energy. Expect laughter. Expect participation. Expect insight — and quite a few AHA moments.
GOOD COMPANY
Here are just a few people I've been blessed enough to share a stage with.
Andy Andrews & me
Todd Duncan, me & Benjamin Zander
Jeffrey Gitomer & me
Royce Gracie & meTap a name to learn a little more.
Some handed me books, CDs or tapes. Many gave me signed copies of their books. Nearly all of them shared something about stage presence, speaking, leadership or simply how to connect with a room. I was fortunate to learn from a lot of mentors along the way.
Everyone taught me something. I was a little intimidated more than once by who I had to follow on the platform or stage, but those moments made me better.
A Day at Desert Springs Marriott
GMDC · Retail Tomorrow — 2009. A full-day event at JW Marriott Desert Springs in Palm Desert, bringing together leaders from major retailers, manufacturers, general merchandise, and health, beauty and wellness.
That group included people connected to Procter & Gamble, Kellogg's, Bayer, Unilever and major grocery chains. Two of Ingo's clients in the photo, Jenny and Peter, had each lost more than 100 pounds.
Paula Saffron Addington — event planning / catering lead at the time.
“What you shared at GMDC was absolutely next-level. Nobody teaches these things in everyday life. Mind blown.”
M. Jones — Kellogg's
“Ingo brought the energy. Great presenter, and now I'm wishing it was a bit longer.”
A. Murry — Procter & Gamble
“Your sessions were a game-changer. I caught people practicing nostril breathing everywhere, and they wouldn't stop talking about what they learned.”
K. Swanson — Wells Fargo Home Mortgage
“You absolutely nailed it at our event. I've already recommended you to other conventions.”
Teri Lockard, CMP — Westin Mission Hills Resort & Spa
AND THEN THERE'S THE INTERNET
A few things have escaped into the wild!
There are many more of these. I didn't want to bore you with all of them.
▶1,000,000+ VIEWS
The avocado seed.
I made it to show people something useful about food they were already throwing away. The internet had opinions.
▶Live demo.
One of the old demonstration videos, presented as media instead of buried in a recipe section.
▶On stage.
Another piece of the speaking archive. Clean card. Click to watch.
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