Don Niam Celebrity Trainer Bio

Don Niam

Don Niam is a Kung Fu Master and fitness expert based in Las Vegas. With 32 years in the Chinese martial arts and fitness movement, he helps hundreds to stay at their peak fitness and performance levels. For nearly three decades, he has developed his fitness techniques to train, teach and instruct. From mothers to hard-core athletes and celebrities, he has the dynamic personality to motivate just about anyone! Don’s success in training professional athletes with his fitness program led to the ABC Television Morning Show airing and featuring his Kung Fu training techniques. He has marketed his exceptional abilities to get people healthy and fit by successfully developing fitness seminars for major Fortune 500 corporations. With a history of training professional NFL athletes, college football teams, celebrities, CEOs, people of all ages and fitness levels (including Kung Fu classes for children), he branded his techniques to develop the ultimate in workout programs – “Nitro Kick"®. Viewers have tuned in and toned up with Don’s best selling instructional home videos “Nitro Kick® Cutting Edge Aerobic Training “. This Nitro Kick® workout aired on NBC Television in July 2002. Don designed this ultimate workout program – Nitro Kick® which is a series of concentrated exercises using a combination of Kung Fu, Kickboxing, Chi Kung, strikes, blocks, kicks, knees, elbows from various angles working the core and developing self defense. This workout program is in 2 volumes with the Volume 1 introducing you to (Postures, Chinese Dynamic Tension, and Abdominals) it ends with an easy to follow basics routine to teach proper form on striking and blocking with punches, kicks knees and elbows. Volume 2 takes you into the Nitro Stretch and Flex and Nitro Kick® Aerobic Training and Kickboxing. Since the age of nineteen, Don’s life has been devoted to Kung Fu Martial Arts and fitness. Don committed himself to pursuing his dream of becoming a Kung Fu Master of Martial Arts by life long dedication and teaching to as many people as possible. So committed to his dream, he sought out a Grandmaster of the Hung Fot System of Kung Fu. He trained with Tai Yim, an Eighth Generation Grandmaster and began further developing his Kung Fu Martial Arts techniques. In 1988 Don’s Kung Fu training techniques became well known and the Cleveland Browns – NFL team pursued him to become the first person to teach Kung Fu to a professional football team. This notoriety led to him developing a following among professional NFL athletes such as Bob Golic, ESPN Commentator and former Cleveland Browns defensive lineman, and the ABC Television Morning Exchange Show airing Don’s Kung Fu training and fitness expert techniques to thousands of television viewers. Later, Don set out to make his mark in Los Angeles with plans to market his fitness techniques through the film industry. He began teaching at some of Los Angeles’ top studios and fitness facilities. He built an incredible celebrity following with his Kung Fu fitness training techniques. Fitness personality, Johnny G, the inventor of “Spinning”, Matthias Hues, Action Film Star, from “I Come in Peace”, William Shatner’s daughter, Melanie Shatner and many others trained with Don.
Shortly after arriving in Los Angeles, Don was offered an on screen-acting role to co-star in a martial arts movie. In 1992, he co-starred opposite Cynthia Rotherock, in an Action Star Pictures Production called “Undefeatable”. He enjoyed acting, but his real passion remained in being a Kung Fu Master. He desired to spread his Kung Fu training and fitness techniques to a wider audience by producing instructional videos of his Nitro Kick® program.
Don returned to his native Ohio and with a goal to design a workout program, which would incorporate years of his training as a Kung Fu martial artist into a unique exercise program. Several months later, he designed the ultimate workout program – entitled Nitro Kick®.
Nitro Kick® program instructional videos. Don has been featured in myriad of print publications including; Akron Beacon Journal, Black Belt Magazine, Inside Kung Fu, West Side Leader, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Wall Street Journal and much more. His television appearances include; ABC Television Morning Exchange and NBC Television Afternoon Show. In 1989, in the National Kung Fu Tournament (NACMAF) Don competed with some of the best Kung Fu Martial Arts athletes in the world and placed second. To date, Don owns and oversees his well known and highly respected - Don Niam Studio Martial Arts Center which has been in business since 1974. He is CEO and President of Nitro Kick Fitness Concepts, Inc. and he has created, produced and launched his Nitro Kick® Aerobic Kickboxing program videos. Staying on the edge of the latest edge of fitness trends, Don launched his videos – Nitro Kick® Cutting Edge Aerobic Training – a two tape video series. In July 2002, NBC Television aired Don’s Nitro Kick® program and interviewed him along with a Nitro Kick® demonstration. In 2004 Don relocated to Las Vegas Nevada to establish a personal training business, as a Certified Personal Trainer, Don operates his Personal Training business at Las Vegas Athletic Clubs and in the privacy of clients homes in Las Vegas, Nevada. If you are in the Las Vegas area and wish to train with Don, please feel free to phone him at 702.610.3896. email Don