Ken Weichert

Ken Weichert is not only a Master Fitness Trainer and Master Resilience Trainer for the ARMY, he is also formally trained in performing arts. Ken is a 1985 graduate of Players Workshop of Second City (improvisation study and performance school) in Chicago, Illinois. He has performed the lead role in over 150 theatrical productions and starred in his first feature film, Silent Night, Deadly Night: Part 2 in 1987. Ken taught Advanced Acting as well as other theater courses at the University of Southwestern Louisiana between the years of 1992 and 1996. Over the course of his seventeen-year career with the military, Ken has advanced from Private to Staff Sergeant. He has assumed the role of Intelligence Assistant, Squad Leader and Counter-Intelligence Agent. Ken is a veteran of Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom. After fracturing his back his senior year of high school, physical fitness and total body wellness became very import to Ken. He used military exercises to restore his back strength and walk again after being partially paralyzed for four weeks. Ken Weichert joined the United States Army in 1988. In 1993, Ken became certified as a Master Fitness Trainer. In 1999, Ken combined his theater and military experience with his background in physical fitness program for civilians. Ken has been featured as an expert in fitness on the History Channel show, Tactical to Practical and telling his story from the front lines in Iraq on Nightline with Ted Koppel.