Life After Competition
Kazmaier opened a fitness club, Kaz Fitness Center, in Auburn, Alabama in the early 1980s. The gym closed in 2005. Kazmaier then opened, and continues to operate, S.W.A.T. gym in Opelika, Alabama. Both served as a place for him to train and as headquarters for DynaKaz Inc., Kazmaier's own exercise equipment import/export company which still markets fitness products worldwide.
Upon retiring from active competition in the 1990s, Kazmaier was hired as a co-commentator for the American ESPN broadcast of the annual World's Strongest Man competition along with Todd Harris and 2006 World's Strongest Man winner Phil Pfister. He also does some additional co-commentating in the British broadcast.
Kazmaier considers his most important contributions to public life to be his work as a motivational speaker for 3D Sports Tech, for which he addresses as many as ten school and YMCA groups in a day. "I can and I will" is the message he conveys to inspire young people to lead healthier and more productive lives.
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