With a passion for nurturing holistic health and wellness, Doug Bates merges his 4 decades of expertise in fitness with a deep understanding of personal growth to help viewers & listeners unlock their own potential and set them on a path towards healthier living.  A life-long visionary with a Passion, Doug Bates — athlete, scholar, nutrition & fitness & brain health & mind-body expert, public speaker, and lifelong learner, — is driven by the desire to improve not just himself, but those around him — all using proven strategies & actionable approaches.  With 36 years of 1-on-1 personal training experience equally informing but more importantly also properly challenging individuals on the subjects of overall health augmentation and truly-deep level of self-empowerment, Doug knows “GETTING RESULTS” takes clients not just following – but actively taking their lives by the helm.  Knowing first hand, — “HEALTH IS NOT SIMPLY A SPECTATOR SPORT”- !   The journey to fitness & health & wellness is seen, not just as a physical transformation, but as a path to breaking personal barriers and redefining one’s potential.  THIS SHOW is aimed at providing “a safe place” for both learning & acting on the real-deep level character challenges that permit one to ascend and transform to a higher, stronger and better version of themselves.

BORN in 1965, – & growing up in Milwaukee, WI, – provided a string of real life “working class” experiences that had me critically examining most things by the time I was in Junior High.  I was fortunately heavily encouraged by local teachers and actively studied accelerated level high school psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, & social & individual behavior & being an activist in high school — I was even awarded a trip to the annual “World Affairs Seminar” [Mock Conference] – at UW-Whitewater as a high school Sophomore-!  Graduating college in 1987 with my bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, I then continued earning my Masters degree in Sociology [UW-MILWAUKEE] in 1989 — earning the first “departmental straight-A” ever awarded up to that that point.  Recalling my impetus for my nearly 4 decade long career in wellness, I had experienced inspiration in my success as a high school running athlete, where I was twice honored & earned “All-Conference” in both “distance track” and cross-country and had a contrastingly notably short unsuccessful jaunt as a very weak high school gymnast and it intrigued my mind to see how difficult it was.  Later in college – despite concerns from others that my slender build and “family genetics” would prove “insurmountable barriers” to any great potential succuss – I eventually proved my vegetarian diet, – and now vegan diet, – and safe and unique exercise practices and strategies could alter my genetics in favor of greater muscle size, improved mental & athletic performance, & impact anti-aging.  In 1989, – during my academic scholarship awarded “Teaching Assistantship” in Sociology, – I both ran a marathon and entered my first drug-tested bodybuilding show —  leading eventually to 7 total major drug-free & ALL NATURAL bodybuilding victories — those including 6 “Heavyweight” wins and 4 “Overall” wins from 1996-2005; 3 wins with the National Physique Committee, [NPC], 3 with the “International Fitness Professionals Alliance” [IFPA] & with a Tri-State Title “Overall” win in 2003.  I then became involved briefly as “Athletes Rep” for the NPC, – and also in head judging, guest posing and spokesmanship roles from 1997 to 2005 for the Amateur Athletic Union’s “State Fair Physique Contests” – and for the unsanctioned but drug-free “Milwaukee Summerfest Physique” shows.  In addition to my long background in diverse community activism, civic advocacy, and community involvement, – I earned a featured role multiple times from 1998-2005 as a speaker for the “Center for Neurological Disorders”, the “Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center”, and the “Wisconsin Neurological Society” Annual Conference — speaking on gut & brain health, mindset, & exercise & nutrition, & even anti-aging — which was largely undervalued at the time, at least in Milwaukee.  In 2024, I acquired membership with the Anti-Aging “Health Educators Alliance” [HEA] and directly challenged their overly “paper-study based” scientific and reductionist “bio-hacking” myopic dogma — and near prophetically, — in January & February of 2025 I conducted 4 outstanding radio podcasts with “UPCLOSE RADIO & TV” that directly covered the topics & philosophical underpinnings that the HEA organization wholly missed & still misses.  I believe the journey toward self-empowerment is intricately linked with the concept of true deep level DNA-ACTIVATED awareness, anti-aging and epigenetics, — and I often enthusiastically & vehemently remind those that are ready to embark on a comprehensive lifestyle commitment of self-empowerment —  to go the whole “enchilada” -!  And learn how to truly & effectively encompass all aspects of life success – be they nutritional, mental-emotional, hormonal, sleep, immunocological, recovery, and exercise-driven, as well as cellular, subcellular, mitochondrial, microbiological, lymphatic, glymphatic, brain, organ, gland, neurotransmitter, postural, spinal, and nervous system health factors. As with “Bold Brave TV”, I also actively promote cognitive, spiritual, community, and environmental-driven wellness.

You can find Doug here: https://www.betterresultspersonaltraining.com/