Olivier Gruner is one of the world's most versatile experts in the field of physical fitness. Born in Paris France in 1968, into a family where both his father and brother became noted surgeons and his younger brother became an engineer. However, from an early age, Olivier followed a different path in life. After seeing a Bruce Lee movie at age 11, Olivier became captivated with martial arts and began studying Shotokan Karate, and then boxing and kickboxing. At age 18, rather than pursuing the academic life many expected of him, he joined the French Military, volunteering for their Commando Marine unit (the French equivalent of the Navy Seals. There he learned to scuba dive, sky dive, climb and master the many other difficult physical challenges required of an elite soldier. After leaving the military in 1981, Olivier left the French military to train full time to compete professionally as a kickboxer. He traveled to the French Alps and began training to fight professionally. In order to pay for his training expenses, he had to hold down 4 jobs, as bouncer, a ski patrol member, a trainer and ski lift operator. He began fighting professionally as a kickboxer in France in 1984. After only 10 professional fights, he became French middleweight champion. By 1985, his successes in the ring allowed him to train and fight full time and, in 1986, he became World Middleweight Kickboxing Champion. Having achieved his dream of becoming World Champion, in 1987, he retired to pursue a career as an actor and model. Discovered at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, he began a film career that allowed him ultimately to appear in 27 films and 3 television series, and develop a reputation as one of the hardest-working, most disciplined actors in Hollywood. He found time in the interim not only to pursue his demanding physical regimen, but to become a commercial helicopter pilot and to continue to ski, sky dive and even to learn to surf. Throughout his career after leaving the ring, Olivier maintained his passion for fitness, continuing the brutally demanding physical regimen he had developed and maintained through his military and kickboxing career and adding to it the skills needed to pursue his other demanding physical hobbies. Now, Olivier will face his most difficult challenge yet. In "The Pros, A Way of Life"™, Olivier will face a different challenge each week. Every week he will visit, live, eat, breathe and train with a different professional athlete, each at the top of his or her game. He will learn what motivates these top athletes, how they eat, how they train, and their tips for competing and winning at their sport. And, he will do it all with them. If they swim, he will swim with them, if they fight, he will fight, if they surf, he will surf. Each week will present a different challenge, a different athlete and a different workout. Each week Olivier will train with and explore and explain the training of a different athlete in a different sport. This will be real. He will face the same risks each top professional faces and will face the same prospect of failure they do. The audience can share his anxiety at facing and overcoming each new challenge.