Getting Healthy: 50 Lessons on Fitness for Law Enforcement

Matthew Wagner, Ph.D., is associate Professor of Kinesiology at Sam Houston State University (SHSU) in Huntsville, TX. He received his Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from SHSU in 1980 and Ph.D. in Kinesiology from Texas A&M University in 1996. From 1980 to 2013, Matt was the owner of Nautilus Health Center in Huntsville. He served as a corporate fitness consultant from 2003-2009, developing and conducting fitness programs and testing for administration and line employees. He is co-author of Strength Training for Total Health and Wellness (2013) as well as Fundamentals of Weight Training (2011). He is a lecturer on fitness at the Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas (LEMIT). Joe Serio, Ph.D., is the founder of Law Enforcement Development Training (www.LE Dtraining.com), specializing in personal leadership and individual responsibility and accountability programs for officers. He is also co-founder of The Healthy Dispatcher (www.thehealthydispatcher.com), providing wellness training to 9-1-1 dispatchers. He holds a doctorate in Criminal Justice with a specialization in Leadership and Organizational Behavior. Dr. Joe is a popular conference keynote speaker and trainer at police departments and other criminal justice agencies on leadership topics including positive interaction with difficult people, time management, stress reduction, customer service, managing personal finances, and others. He was the only American to work in the Organized Crime Control Department of the Soviet National Police and was Director of the Moscow office of the global corporate investigation and business intelligence firm, Kroll Associates. Dr. Joe is the author of the critically-acclaimed book, Investigating the Russian Mafia, as well as the founder of The Law Enforcement Development Series, which includes Getting Healthy: 50 Lessons on Fitness for Law Enforcement, Leaving Blue: 50 Lessons on Retiring Well from Law Enforcement, and Dispatcher Stress: 50 Lessons on Beating the Burnout.