Harley Pasternak

Harley Pasternak
Born	1974-08-06 Toronto, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	Celebrity personal trainer
Known for	5 Factor Diet

Harley Pasternak (born August 6, 1974) is a Los Angeles-based Canadian personal trainer, public speaker and NY Times best-selling author known for the 5-Factor Diet, a popular diet and fitness lifestyle.

About Harley

Harley Pasternak is a fitness and nutrition expert and an acclaimed celebrity trainer, as well as cohost of ABC's The Revolution. He holds a Masters of Science in Exercise Physiology and Nutritional Sciences from the University of Toronto and an Honours Degree in Kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario. He is also certified by the American College of Sports Medicine and The Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology. It is his formal training that distinguishes him from his peers and has made him a popular guest on GMA, The View, the Today show and others.

Career

Don't beat yourself up about not doing long workouts. Do things like taking the stairs instead of the elevator, parking your car further from the entrance. When it snows, get out and shovel.

Harley Pasternak, People magazine, 2007

Besides training clients including celebrities Lady Gaga, Hilary Duff and Katy Perry, Pasternak's books have been published worldwide in multiple languages. He is a spokesperson for New Balance athletic footwear and Coca-Cola's sugar-free beverages such as Fuze, smartwater and Powerade Zero. Pasternak was a Nutrition and Exercise Scientist for the DCIEM (Defence and Civil Institute for Environmental Medicine) from 2005-2007. He also often makes international speaking appearances.

Pasternak founded the 5-Factor Fitness program based on his nutrition and fitness philosophy. The 5-Factor methodology was originally created for Pasternak’s celebrity clientele, who needed him to create brief, yet effective, fitness programs to be implemented while touring or on location. He designed healthy meals with short preparation using a few simple ingredients that fit the space challenges of a movie and television sets. Pasternak’s clients eat five-ingredient meals, five times a day and engage in a signature fitness program that consists of five-minute sets.

Harley made his debut as cohost of ABC's The Revolution alongside Tim Gunn and Ty Pennington in January 2012.

5-Factor Product Line

5-Factor Fitness

Pasternak’s 5-Factor Fitness shows the five moves for the five/five-minute workout cycles (totaling twenty-five minutes) five days a week. Pasternak explains how to do this at home or at the gym. He includes recipes and a five week meal plan for the five meals a day, and each meal takes five minutes to prepare.

5-Factor Fitness DVD Workout With Meal Plan Five DVD's are broken down into workouts to be done five days a week along with lifestyle and nutritional advice and culinary tips.

The 5-Factor Diet

The 5-Factor Diet Book details Pasternak's fitness plan..

The 5-Factor World Diet

THE 5-FACTOR WORLD DIET extracts the essence of the world’s healthiest cultures and reveals their regimens for living healthy lives. This management program combines the healthiest nutritional and lifestyle habits of the world’s leanest and longest-living nations: Japan, Singapore, China, Sweden, France, Italy, Spain, South Korea, Greece and Israel. With each country, he outlines what their residents eat, how they prepare it and how they burn it. Pasternak then adapts more than 120 recipes to his popular 5-Factor technique, amplifying the fat-burning and health-boosting benefits through 5 weeks of menu recommendations.

Harley Paternak “Harley Bar” 3-in-1 Workout Bar

The bar can be used as a traditional weightlifting bar or disassembled to have the ends function as hand weights. Extra weight can be added to the bar and hand weights to increase the intensity of your workout (weight ranges from 2-20 lbs).

The 5-Factor Snack Bar and Snack Chips

With one of the best nutritional profiles out there, Harley's bars are available in three flavors: Very Berry, Peanut Butter Crisp and Apple Cinnamon. The snack chips are available with sea salt, sour cream and onion, or barbecue flavoring.

These products are currently sold exclusively through The Shopping Channel and HSN.

Media appearances

In his capacity as a fitness and nutrition specialist, Pasternak has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, CNN, Access Hollywood, Extra, VH1, E!, The Rachel Ray Show, The Tyra Banks Show, and America's Next Top Model and is a frequent guest on GMA.

Pasternak and the 5-Factor Diet have also been featured in a wide array of print publications such as New York Post, The Los Angeles Times, People, Us Weekly, OK! Magazine, Glamour, Elle, Allure, Fitness, Shape, Seventeen, Self, Marie Claire, Teen People, Men's Health, The Washington Post and Woman's World