Obi Obadike

Obi Obadike is a 3-Time Telly award winning TV host who has authored hundreds of articles for major fitness and health magazines and fitness/health websites. He is a best-selling author of the diet and exercise book "TheCut" in which he co-authored with Hollywood actor Morris Chestnut that came out April of 2017.

The book in its peak held a #1 best-seller ranking in the diet and exercise on Amazon, and held an overall best-seller ranking of #12 in all books in all genres on Amazon. He has been a Health & Wellness expert guest as an author and expert on national daytime talk shows such as "Wendy Williams," "Steve Harvey," "Dr Oz," "Rachael Ray," "Access Hollywood," "Home & Family," "The Today Show," and more.

Obadike was the co-host and co-judge (with Jillian Michaels (formerly of "Biggest Loser") and Randy Hetrick, (founder and CEO of TRX) on a fitness reality competition show called "Sweat Inc." that premiered on Spike TV in fall of 2015.

He was a featured fitness contributor on a summer-weight loss series in Summer of 2017 on NBC’s "The Today show for 2 months." From August of 2017 to December of 2017 he has been a health and wellness contributor on Steve Harvey’s national syndicated morning radio show.

He has been the a co-host from 2014 to 2021 for 7 seasons of an award winning nationally syndicated Health TV show called "Lifestyle Magazine," which airs every week nationally on DirecTV and Dishnet.

In January 2014, he was metrically recognized as one of the Top 10 most influential fitness experts on the Web by Dr. Oz’s Sharecare.com along with Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper from "Biggest Loser" and Dr Sanjay Gupta from CNN and others.

On Dec of 2015 he was metrically recognized as the #1 influencer in fitness and health by onalytica.

He holds B.A/B.S and M.S degrees and is a certified nutritionist specialist and certified trainer with ISSA. He has been writer and contributor for fitness magazines and health and wellness sites such as Muscle and Fitness, Bodybuilding.com, AskMen.com, Sharecare.com, LiveStrong, Shape, Oxygen, WebMd, Sharecare.com, CNN, Turner Broadcasting network and many others.

He got inducted on January 2023 in the Marquis "Who is Who in America" 2023 edition based on my entire body of work in the health and wellness industry. They chronicle the lives of the most accomplished and notable individuals and innovators in this country from politics, business, law, education, art, religion, health, entertainment, etc.

And they have been doing this since 1899 as it is the gold standard of the most prominent and successful American biographies. There will be a one page bio and my picture in their 2023 Marquis Who is Who in America edition book. And that book with my bio along with others will be published towards the end of the 2023 year in the (Library of Congress), major universities and libraries across the country.