Additional professional credentials include:
* Former contributing Fitness Columnist to New York SportScene Magazine * Guest author to Natural Bodybuilding and Fitness Magazine * Staff writer for Fathers and Sons Magazine (fathersandsonsonline.com) * Expert Author to EZINEARTICLES.COM and LONGISLAND.COM * Committee expert for BOCES of Suffolk as a contributing developer of its Personal Training Program Curriculum * Published author of Health and Fitness articles in various magazines and on the web * Owner/Operator - Fitness Together (Commack), Intelligent Fitness, theintelligentway.net * Short Film producer: PATH OF THE NATURAL, Sottile’s film short on an athlete’s turn to drugs, has received acclaim on the web as a 'classic' endeavor of Drug Free promotion of his bodybuilding shows. * Promoter/Co-Founder - LONG ISLAND EXPERIENCE PROMOTIONS. The promotions company holds the two largest DRUG FREE Bodybuilding Shows each year and Sottile is the show's entertainment supervisor and creative choreographer; The show has turned out FOUR PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES over its 6 year history, as well as begin over 150 BODYBUILDERS' Careers in the DRUG FREE sport.
ATHLETIC BACKGROUND:
Additionally, he is a drug-free bodybuilding competitor and finished within the top 5 at the INBF’S 2007 WORLD AND NATIONAL events. At 29, Sottile was the youngest Promoter of two popularly growing bodybuilding shows, The INBF Natural Long Island Experience and All Natural Revolution and is untouched on LONG ISLAND as the premier Drug Free Bodybuilding Promoter. Since 2003, Phil Sottile has been personally responsible for introducing 75 - 100 new Natural Bodybuilders to the sport through his promotional endeavors. As a result, several of these competitors have turned Professional using the LONG ISLAND EXPERIENCE and ALL NATURAL REVOLUTION as a jump off point.
EDUCATION:
Phil has an undergraduate education and background in Corporate Finance/Accounting and Administration/Marketing and holds several levels of certified distinctions from Health Fitness Instructor to Fitness Therapist from the most respected, nationally accredited Organizations, such as; The American College of Sports Medicine, The National Academy of Sports Medicine, The National Strength and Conditioning Association, The International Sports Sciences Association, and The American Association of Health, Fitness, and Rehabilitation Professionals.