Hello and welcome to living in the Lehigh Valley, where our focus is your health and wellness.

I'm your host, Brittany Sweeney.

Many people have extracurricular activities outside of work that involve exercise.

That's the case for a St Luke's employee.

But he takes his physically demanding hobby a bit further than most by taking his skills to the wrestling ring.

By day, most would say Dan English is cool, calm and collected in his role as an inventory control manager at St Luke's University Health Network.

I oversee four different hospitals by four different teams.

We take care of the supplies and linen for all the different departments at the campuses.

But in his spare time, the Philipsburg native puts that laidback persona aside.

For the past about 15 years.

I've moonlighted as a pro wrestler on weekends over on the East Coast.

I've been to the Midwest.

It's a lot of travel, but it's something I enjoy to do.

It's a lot of fun.

The 39 year old's introduction to the Ring started as a high school hobby that turned into his decades long adult side gig.

At work, I'm pretty calm and cool headed and nice.

Very nice.

In the ring, I'm a little more aggressive, a little more cockier Not always nice.

He now wrestles for Lehigh Valley Athletics Council.

Fader Bob.

Traveling to different parts of the country to show off his skills.

It's a spectacle.

It's what you see on TV.

Just a little bit more like if you would see like a local band.

So smaller venue, we get a few hundred people, so we have a good crowd.

But it's kind of cooler that way.

We have a close reaction with our fans.

I got to know some of the fans like personally and we can kind of friends.

So it's much more like homegrown, you know, DIY, put on the show yourself, promote it, do it, and just hope it goes well.

Although his fans know him as big Dan Champion, his coworkers see a different side of the man behind the singlet.

I've seen pictures and it's intimidating.

David Wood works in marketing for the hospital system.

We think it's very important to have work life balance, so celebrate the things that our employees are doing outside of work as well as on the job.

Wood also works out alongside English from time to time.

So he's seen Big Dan in action.

He's a more quiet, mild mannered guy, but he kind of puts on the cape, if you will, when it comes to physical activity.

I go to the gym about 5 to 6 days a week, maybe 2 to 3.

Those days I do something called metabolic conditioning, which is a class that they run at the Commerce gym and at the Training Road gym in Allentown.

And it's kind of like high intensity interval training.

So get your heart rate up.

Work on your strength and your cardio pretty much at the same time.

Those are great workouts and they really help me in the ring.

Even goes toe to toe in the St Luke's gym with some of the top athletes in the country, like Mandy Marquardt from the USA Cycling National Team.

He's an amazing athlete as well, and it's great to have other athletes here in the Lehigh Valley doing amazing, incredible things.

You make it look so easy.

Although he might lift a couple more pounds than me, he's he's a strong athlete and we're both committed to doing what we love.

A strong athlete who has the same passion for his sport as he does his career.

Although employee Dan English couldn't be any further from wrestler Big Dan Champion.

At work, I can't punch anybody.

In the ring, That's that's encouraged.

If you want to catch Dan English in action, you're in luck.

His next match is December 29th at the National Sokol's Lodge in Bethlehem.

That'll do it for this edition of Living in the Lehigh Valley.

I'm Brittany Sweeney, hoping you stay happy and healthy.