Founder, Underground Wellness
Functional Diagnostic Nutrition™ Practitioner
Certified Metabolic Typing™ Advisor
NSCA Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist
Certified ACE Personal Trainer
NASM Corrective Exercise Specialist
Sean Croxton thinks outside of the box. After completing his studies in Kinesiology (Fitness, Nutrition, and Health) at a California State University in 2001, he set out to rid the world of obesity one personal training client at a time. However, after applying his traditional education with real people, he was met with repeated failure. Instead of going through the motions and hoping for the best, Sean set out on a new mission to find the truth about health and wellness.
Abandoning conventional education, Sean has spent the last eight years studying alternative diet and health information through books, courses, classes, and seminars. He epitomizes the idea that we DO NOT have to depend on misinformed medical doctors, government agencies, and pharmaceutical companies to achieve superior health and vitality.
Early in his journey, Sean used every diet under the sun with the intention of restoring health and bringing about fat loss with his clients. Through trial and error, he soon came to realize that each client is a unique individual with his/her own nutritional requirements. There is no single plan for everyone. Diet and health programs must be customized to fit the individual. Since then, he has become certified as a Metabolic Typing Advisor (CMTA) and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition (FDN) practitioner.
As a CMTA and FDN, Sean employs various testing protocols to find the underlying systemic malfunctions and imbalances that set the stage for subclinical and clinical conditions. He does not treat symptoms. Rather, he finds the cause and restores proper function within the body.
Sean began his career in the wellness industry as a Personal Trainer and has worked with hundreds of clients since 2001. His philosophy is to train, not drain, the client. Through his experiences and education, Sean has developed a comprehensive screening system to discover the strengths, weakness, and muscular/structural imbalances to be addressed by the training program. His specific yet creative approach has proven effective as a strength coach for athletes, rehab specialist for the injured, and educator/motivator for the general fitness enthusiast.
In 2006, a holiday gift from a roommate changed Sean’s life forever. The gift, a Logitech webcam, gave him the ability to share his newfound health knowledge with the entire world on YouTube. He started The Food Dude channel and grew a small following of alternative health nuts who shared his enthusiasm for truth. After a short stint on a new channel called Food Dude TV, Sean finally settled upon Underground Wellness in November of 2007. Now, UW is one of the fastest-growing health and wellness channels on the Internet with well over 4000 subscribers.
His newest endeavor, Sean hosts a weekly Internet radio show featuring alternative health professionals. Still relatively new, The Underground Wellness Radio Show has been heard by thousand of listeners, both live and via iTunes podcast. Sean has interviewed the likes of FDN founder Reed Davis, Metabolic Typing Diet author Bill Wolcott, and naturopath David Getoff. Eventually, he hopes to have a nationally syndicated AM show with daily guests to share more true heath information with the world.
Sean has become a popular speaker in the San Diego area. He has spoken in university, corporate, and community settings. His humorous, nonconformist style is well received by audiences. All participants walk away with practical information that can be immediately put to use.
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