Hello FIRM Members,

Ted joined the Firm’s personal training staff in the summer of 2008 and became the facility manager and assistant director of training in June of 2010.  Married and the father of two, Ted brings to the firm over 20 years of experience in personal training, martial arts instruction, and sports performance training. 

With the completion of his Master’s degree in Exercise Science, from Western Michigan University in 1991, Dabbs located to Bergen County, NJ, and became a full-time fitness professional.  While there, Ted served as the director of training at The Sports Conditioning Institute and became the owner of The Body Coach, a 7,000 sf. health club.

Dabbs experiences have included coaching track and field at Division I Universities, high school and middle school athletic teams, as well as teaching Physical Education and Health classes.  Other notable accomplishments have included training Mrs. Georgia 2004, coaching for Velocity Sports Performance, coaching a 68 year old in the 1999 Senior Olympics and preparing him for his black belt at age 70.

Ted began Tae Kwon Do in 1992, under Sensei Dr. Michael Evangel, and achieved Black Belt rank in November, 1998.  That same year, he began training as a white belt in the Heiho-Shin-Do system of Shodi Sensei, Richard Faustini, and achieved Black Belt in July 2010.  Ted served as an assistant Tae Kwon Do instructor for five years at Faustini’s Institute of Martial Arts and Fitness. Dabbs is a former college football player, decathlete and amateur kick boxer. He has made guest appearances as a fitness expert on WVNJ-AM radio's Health, Fitness and Safety Hour and New Jersey's Talking Television show, Channel 12. His extensive experience has included kick boxing instruction, group fitness & self-defense classes, a speaker/lecturer for self defense, nutrition lifestyle management and sports performance trainings.