There's one thing no one can dispute about Teresa Vollenweider: She's a woman with passion. The founder, president and CEO of NEW-LIFESTYLES, INC., Teresa continually seeks new ways her company can inspire people to adopt active lifestyles.
Her background includes more than 20 years of developing and implementing fitness programs for colleges, corporations and her own company. She's an expert in the area of pedometers and their internal sensor mechanisms. She began studying them and their impact on weight loss and fitness in the mid-1990's, and her company began selling the Yamax DIGI-WALKER™ pedometer. Soon after, Teresa developed and began marketing Did You Walk 10,000 Steps Today?™, the highly successful physical activity pedometer program. Since then NEW-LIFESTYLES developed the NL-2000 and now the NL-800 and NL-1000 piezoelectric pedometers. Her latest project at NEW-LIFESTYLES is EveryStepCounts.com - NEW-LIFESTYLES' online Lifestyle (Activity & Nutrition) Tracking System.
Driven to provide pedometers of the very best quality, Teresa and her product development team work closely with Japanese engineers and with the best and brightest exercise physiology researchers.
In addition to developing exciting new products and programs, Teresa and her team attend, participate in, and sponsor conferences and workshops across the country and abroad. They try very hard to go the extra mile (that's about 2000 steps!) to make sure that people are using their pedometers correctly and implementing their programs effectively.
In her leisure time, Teresa enjoys cutting trails, riding Miss Dixie, walking with her dogs, playing with her cats, spending time with her family, and harassing her sisters.
NEW! Teresa's Take, a one-woman editorial sound-off on current issues and trends in the world of nutrition, exercise and weight control.
