Best known for creating The Original Buns of Steel[1][2] workout in 1987 with actress Tamilee Webb, Smithey has promoted health and fitness throughout his career.
In The Original Buns of Steel, Smithey leads viewers through a series of exercises devoted to strengthening, tightening, toning, growing and shaping the buttocks, thighs and upper legs.
Smithey incorporates the lower body strengthening exercises he used to train for vaulting into his workout.
Over one million copies of Smithey's workout were sold on VHS tape.
Smithey originally competed as a pole vaulter, jumping 5.10 metres in Idaho in 1973.