{"id":10675,"date":"2017-01-06T11:03:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T18:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/?p=10675"},"modified":"2025-12-11T11:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:22:17","slug":"remembering-steve-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/2017\/01\/06\/remembering-steve-edwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Steve Edwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10676\" src=\"https:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/remembering-steve-edwards.jpg\" alt=\"Remembering Steve Edwards\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/remembering-steve-edwards.jpg 700w, https:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/remembering-steve-edwards-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remembering Steve Edwards after his passing on February 25th, 2016, at the age of 55. He lived a life filled with climbing and challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Beachbody Vice President of Fitness and Nutrition Steve Edwards died the morning of February 25<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0after a long battle against an especially aggressive form of mantle cell lymphoma. He went after it with everything he had, fighting courageously to his final moments. I know this because I had the honor of being with him to the end. Steve may have been my boss for 13 years, but more importantly, he was one of my best friends.<\/p>\n<p>Beachbody President Jon Congdon (also Steve\u2019s longtime friend) and CEO Carl Daikeler hired Steve in the early 2000s to help legitimize their budding fitness company\u2014and legitimize it he did. Few people understand, live, breathe, and eat fitness the way Steve did. Whether he was writing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Climbing-Barbara-Ventura-Regional-Series\/dp\/1560446870\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the definitive rock climbing guide<\/a>\u00a0to Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, competing in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/steveedwardsfitness.com\/yak-attack-report-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a mountain bike race<\/a>\u00a0across the Himalayas, executing one of his awesomely impossible\u00a0birthday challenges, or playing a pivotal role in the creation of P90X and countless other Beachbody programs, Steve was undeniably \u201cThe Man\u201d when it came to fitness.<\/p>\n<p>I was the first member of Steve\u2019s team\u2014a group that would eventually become the Beachbody Fitness and Nutrition Experts, or FNE. We\u2019re the ones who answer your fitness and nutrition questions, either on the\u00a0message boards, on this\u00a0blog, or over social media. (Always one for a good, longwinded answer, Steve struggled with Twitter. \u201cYou can\u2019t solve people\u2019s problems in 143 characters!\u201d he\u2019d protest.) Behind the scenes, it\u2019s also our job to make sure the programs you buy actually work and the content you read is actually accurate.<\/p>\n<p>Much like the goofy old ensemble war movies he loved so much, Steve picked a pack of oddballs\u2014all with our own unique skills\u2014and let us work the way we needed to work, as long as the job got done. We became the\u00a0<em>Kelly\u2019s Heroes<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em>Dirty Dozen<\/em>\u00a0of the company. I don\u2019t know if this was Steve\u2019s orchestrated vision\u00a0<em>per se.<\/em>\u00a0As his right hand man, I would often discuss strategy with him, but he\u2019d usually give me just enough intel to keep me inspired and busy. He\u2019d leave me\u2014and everyone else\u2014out of the loop on key points on how he planned to deliver on the challenges our job presented. In retrospect, I think that\u2019s because he was Captain Kirk-ing his way through the situation, betting on knowledge and guts to bluff his way to success. \u201cIt\u2019s not chess, Mister Spock,\u201d he\u2019d say in his best William Shatner impersonation when I\u2019d press him for strategy. \u201cPoker! Do you know the game?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He would also remind FNE regularly to keep our egos in check and focus on the work. There\u2019s well over a century worth of combined knowledge in the department and with that comes some fairly strong views. \u201cThat\u2019s just, like, your opinion, man,\u201d he would remind us, quoting one of his favorite movies,\u00a0<em>The Big Lebowski<\/em>. And he was right. When we let go of our pride, embraced the fact that fitness and nutrition knowledge doesn\u2019t equate to marketing acumen, and played nicely with the other departments, good things always happened. Products were always better. As Steve would say, \u201cWe\u2019re just here to help\u2026 and that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In all the years we worked together, he only saw fit to chastise me once (although I deserved it many more times). One beautiful autumn morning a couple years ago, I played hooky to go kayaking in Redondo Beach, where a pod of blue whales was feeding. In so doing, I blew off an important meeting with several C-something-Os. When I got home, Steve called. \u201cSo you missed that meeting and I\u2019m supposed to let you know that\u2019s not okay. What happened?\u201d When I told him about my aquatic adventure, he exploded. \u201cYou kayaked with blue whales?!? That\u2019s rad!!! Okay, look, don\u2019t worry about it, but, you know, don\u2019t do that again, okay?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And I never did. Because that\u2019s how Steve worked. He inspired you to do better by your own rules. He\u2019d just as soon help a 300-pound man walk around the block as he would coach a pro cyclist on how to crush his next race. He was the only person I\u2019ve ever known who approached everyone around him completely free of judgment. (Except every now and then, which was okay because there was nothing funnier than the rare, consternated Steve Edwards.)<\/p>\n<p>This Monday, Jon and Carl posthumously awarded Steve the Beachbody Founders Award. As they presented it, Carl told the story of an exchange he had with Steve a couple months ago. They were discussing Beachbody on Demand (BOD) and all the things they could do with it. Carl was considering the epic scope of the project and the role of FNE. As BOD grows, there\u2019s going to be more and more demand for expertise and advice. Because the more people engage in these programs, the more questions it raises. Carl pondered, how were they going to address that?<\/p>\n<p>There was a beat. Then Steve said in that laidback tone he maintained under even the worst conditions, \u201cThis is what we\u2019ve done since day one, man. We got this. No other company could do what we\u2019re about to do. We got this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one could ever fill the shoes of Steve Edwards. There\u2019s a hole there now, but we\u2019re going to do our best to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/steveedwardsfitness.com\/cancer-exercise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continue with style<\/a>. Rest easy, my friend. You fought the good fight and now it\u2019s our turn. We got this, Steve. We got this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembering Steve Edwards after his passing on February 25th, 2016, at the age of 55. He lived a life filled with climbing and challenges. 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