92 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine HEALTH AND WELLNESS DOUGLAS J. BATES WELLNESS GURU, MIND-BODY EXPERT Better Results Personal Training Milwaukee, WI As an integrative and holistic wellness guru and mind-body expert, Douglas J. Bates emphasizes the importance of perfectly balancing the yin and yang aspects of life and its opportunities. He believes that true empowerment must be actively created by establishing a proper success-supporting environment. In 2003 — as a four-time Wisconsin Natural Bodybuilding champion and locally sought-after public speaker — he created Better Results Personal Training to provide a haven for those seeking self-empowerment to realize their physical, mental and spiritual potential. In his leadership positions, Mr. Bates addresses all manner of broad and detailed dietary factors, hormonal threats and imbalances with an emphasis on functional fitness, spinal health and ideal posture. Knowing these areas are deeply interwoven with energy level, drive, mindset, brain health, cognition, epigenetics, sleep, recovery and anti-aging, he combines these essentials with individually tailored psychological and spiritual elements that empower his clients to develop all aspects of themselves. At Better Results Personal Training, Mr. Bates masterfully teaches his clients to become their own coaches, stressing the importance of selfawareness. He encourages clients to identify physical and emotional triggers, understand the cause of their behavior, and take steps toward improvement. Having undergone significant character growth himself, he believes in the power of intentional personal development and guides his clients on similar journeys. Recalling the impetus for his 35-year career in wellness, Mr. Bates found inspiration in his success as a high school running athlete, where he was honored and earned multiple All-Conference selections. Later in college — despite concerns that his slender build and “family genetics” would prove “insurmountable barriers” to any great potential succuss — he proved his vegetarian diet and safe and unique practices and strategies could alter his genetics. In 1989, Mr. Bates both ran a marathon and entered his first drug-tested bodybuilding show. After graduating in 1987 with a bachelor’s
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