Stewart Breeding is a Nashville-based personal trainer, teacher, and innovator with over 25 years of experience in the health and fitness industry. Stewart’s clients range from professional athletes and artists of stage and screen to business executives and stay at home moms. As one of Nashville’s most sought after personal trainers and wellness experts, Stewart delivers results no matter what his client’s goals or fitness objectives. Whether it is weight loss, general fitness, increased muscle mass, sport specific conditioning, rehabilitation or complete lifestyle change, Stewart systematically guides his clients to their highest personal potential.
Stewart has dedicated his life to developing techniques that create heightened states of performance and is a pioneer in the field of the mind body connection, which is essential to peak performance. Stewart has created two unique programs Meditraining ™ and the MEPS™ program. These methodologies are centered on developing not only the physical, but on unifying the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of performance as well. Stewart, and his wife Tiffany Breeding PhD., “the MindBody Doctor”, are co-authors of Limitless an inspirational guide to overcoming life’s challenges and realizing ultimate personal potential. The book is a wonderful resource detailing both Meditraining™ and the MEPS™ program.
Stewart’s education of the principles of fitness and the mind body connection started as early as age 7 when he was introduced to martial arts. By age 12 Stewart began weight training and four years later in 1985, he won the U.S.P.F teenage national power lifting championships. Although only 16 years old, Stewart quickly became a popular local fitness instructor and coach to competitive power lifters, aspiring college athletes and amateur bodybuilders. Stewart is also a combat veteran, having served as a paratrooper with the famed 82nd Airborne Division, US Army.
Stewart has spent the last twenty years immersing himself in classical martial arts study and meditation. Stewart has studied Aikido under the tutelage of Master instructors Mitsugi Saotome and Hiroshi Ikeda as well as meditative practices with world renowned spiritual teachers such as Zen master Genpo Roshi and Yogi Jaggi Vasudev. Stewart’s uniquely eclectic background of martial arts, competitive weightlifting, military experience, meditation and yoga, allow him the opportunity to work with his clients on multiple dimensions of development.
Through Stewart’s extensive, personal experience and continued education he has developed a proven formula for success that he instills in all his clients. Stewart’s methods involve a wide variety of physical modalities, accompanied with mental discipline, emotional awareness, and spiritual exploration. Stewart believes that holding his students accountable and empowering them with the tools they need for attaining their ultimate potential is the only way to reach long term goals, and sustained growth.