With more than 30 years in strength training as an athlete, coach, teacher, professor, researcher, writer and speaker, Wayne Westcott, PhD, is recognized as a leading authority on fitness. He is the fitness research director at the South Shore YMCA in Massachusetts, where he developed a model strength fitness facility and training program rated the Best Buy in the United States by Fitness Magazine in 1995.

Westcott has served as a strength training consultant for numerous organizations and programs, including Nautilus, the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, the National Sports Performance Association, the International Association of Fitness Professionals (IDEA), the American Council on Exercise, the YMCA of the USA, and the National Youth Sports Safety Foundation. He was awarded the IDEA Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993 and was honored with Healthy American Fitness Leader Award in 1995.

Westcott is the author of several books on strength training including Building Strength and Stamina and Strength Fitness: Physiological Principles and Training Techniques, a text used by physical education and exercise science majors for more than 15 years. Westcott has also written a weekly fitness column since 1986 for one of Bostons largest newspapers. The strength training advisor and fitness columnist for Prevention magazine, he also has served on the editorial boards of Prevention, Shape, Mens Health, Fitness, Club Industry, American Fitness Quarterly, and Nautilus.

Westcott lives in Abington, Massachusetts, with his wife, Claudia. He enjoys strength training, running, cycling, gardening, and volunteer work.