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Michael Stack, BS, ACSM-EP, ACSM-EIM, ACSM-PAPHS, FMFA

Founder/CEO & Education Director

Professor/Intensly Optimistic/Star Wars Expert

Michael Stack is the founder & CEO of Applied Fitness Solutions, the Michigan Moves Coalition and the President of the Physical Activity Alliance. He is an exercise physiologist by training and a health entrepreneur, health educator, and health policy advocate by trade. He is dedicated to the policy and system changes to ensure exercise professionals become an essential part of healthcare delivery.

With a career spanning over three decades in fitness, health, and wellness Michael has a deep knowledge of exercise physiology, health/wellness coaching, lifestyle interventions to mitigate chronic disease and leadership. He is credentialed through the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) as an Exercise Physiologist (ACSM-EP), Exercise is Medicine practitioner (ASCM-EIM), and a Physical Activity in Public Health Specialist (ACSM-PAPHS). Michael received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan’s School of Kinesiology.

Michael is an expert curriculum reviewer for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) and a Fellow of the Medical Fitness Association (MFA). He lectures nationally for several health and medical organizations, including ACSM, ACLM, and the MFA.

But if you ask Michael, the titles matter less than the mission: helping people—especially those who feel stuck or overlooked—use movement as a powerful tool to take back control of their health and quality of life.