About Chicago Personal Trainer Clint Phillips

Clint Phillips is one of Chicago’s top personal trainers. He began training people as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He trained a team of 25 soldiers to break the Fort Gordon post record in a 10K race by over four minutes. Since then he has trained clients for Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the YMCA, the Sergeant’s Program, Cook County Hospital, and in homes throughout Chicago and the suburbs. He has trained martial artists, professional arm wrestlers, marathon runners, triathletes, and Ballet dancers. He has also trained people with Lupus, Cerebral Palsy, Lipodystrophy, Fibromyalgia, and Diabetes, as well as a group of morbidly obese teenagers (some as heavy as 600 pounds). He has his bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is certified by the American College of Sports Medicine as a Personal Trainer.
In 1999, Clint formed http://www.fitchicago.com to train other personal trainers in his system. Since then, he has been named one of the “Best Personal Trainers in America” by Men’s Journal magazine (twice). He has been featured in the Army Times, Maximum Fitness magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun Times, the Chicago RedEye, Chicago Health and Beauty magazine, Crain’s Chicago Business, Personal Fitness Professional magazine, Experience Life magazine, and Chicago’s Windy City Sports magazine. Clint has been published in the Mensa Bulletin, and Clint is one of the co-authors of the book Wake Up Shape Up: Live the Life you Love, The Power of Champions, and Breakin’ Down the Barriers.
Clint has taught classes at Northwestern University, DePaul University, Columbia College, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Grand Valley State University, and Regina Dominican High School. He has also done talk radio shows on fitness, and has been asked to speak about exercise, weight loss and nutrition to Mensa, the Girl Scouts, the YMCA, the Salvation Army, the National Electrical Contractors Association, and the Evanston Bicycling Club.

Recently, Clint worked with the Chicago Black Hawks hockey team and, in 2009, he was named one of the “Best Personal Trainers in America” (second highest point total) by the National Fitness Hall of Fame and Museum.