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John Basedow (born in New York City, New York) is a TV health/fitness personality, model, news reporter, author and motivational speaker. He is most well known for his Fitness Made Simple video series and for hosting the YouTube series Culture Pop.

Early Career
Basedow got his start as a reporter on a New York nightly news program and then co-created an internationally syndicated TV show called Images, a magazine format half-hour television series that dealt with health-related topics. The program was syndicated to over 200 U.S. TV stations and 30 foreign countries while Basedow was still in school.

TV Fitness Personality
After Images, Basedow, who then described his body as a "bowling pin on legs", set a goal to get in good enough shape to appear in a fitness magazine. After frustration with different exercise routines, fad diets, and overhyped supplements, he sat down and invented his own regimen, which came to be Fitness Made Simple. Basedow has been interviewed by various national talk shows, newspapers, and magazines, including Fox News, The Situation Room , The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. The New York Times listed him as a "great American sports television phenomenon" along with NASCAR and figure skating

Social Media Personality
John Basedow has become a recognized social media personality, partly due to his #WakeUpWords motivational Vine and Instagram videos which Fox's Good Day New York says are designed inject a positivity and self-empowerment into the internet.