About
Cardillo is the leading manufacturer of customized, high quality, hand crafted weight belts. We have been producing weight belts since 1988 and pride ourselves on our commitment to excellence and customer service.
Over the years, we have produced weight belts for professional athletes, celebrities, professional wrestlers and individuals who demand quality product that can be customized to their unique personality. A Cardillo weight belt is a reflection of its owner.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
- Currently working on “Fit for the Future,” a book on teenage weight training geared towards educating the parents on the benefit of weight training.
- Coordinated, designed, and distributed various weight lifting belts and other support devices for Bashlin Industries.
- Involved in extensive research and development in training techniques and nutritional programs for power lifters, world-class boxers, and other strength-related athletes.
- Designed, modeled and distributed own line of sports and casual wear - specifically developed for athletic builds.
- Won 1986 National Drug-Free Powerlifting Championship
- Designed and manufactured the Reebok Instapump Weight Lifting Belt in 1992.
| Cardillo has made belts for the following, just to name a few... | |
| Professional Athletes
Tony Amarte, Ray Bourque, Bo Jackson, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Bobby Orr, Shalwn Poulin, Roger Clemens, Andy Pettite, Jorge Posada, Derrick Jeter, Jason Giambi, Dave Wells, Chuck Knoblouch, Tino Martinez, Jeff Nelson, Eric Mendoza Celebrities Johnny Carson, Montel Williams, Steve Reeves Professional Wrestlers Brutus the Barber Beefcake Giant Hercules Hill Billy Jim Hulk Hogan Legion of Doom - Hawk & Animal Lex Luger Macho Man Randy Savage A/K/A MADNESS Shawn Michaels - WWF World Champion Power & Glory Ravishing Rick Rude Dustin Rhodes - The Natural The Undertaker Sid Vicious Warlord Stone Cold Steve Austin Ken Shamrock -Ultimate Fighting Champion |
MetRx Athletes Troy Aikeman - Dallas Cowboy Mike Woicik-Dallas Cowboy Daryl 'Moose' Johnston-Dallas Cowboy Darren Woodson - Dallas Cowboy Bill Bates - Dallas Cowboy Darrin Smith - Dallas Cowboy Olympic Athletes Eight Olympic Athletes from the following three countries: Russia, Poland, Germany Professional Women Bodybuilders Shelley Beattie - USA Sharon Bruneau - Canada Kim Chizevsky - USA Melissa Coates - Canada Tazzie Colomb - USA Laura Creavalle - Guyana Ericca Kern - USA Sharon Marvel - USA Denise Masino - USA Lenda Murray - USA Sandy Riddell - USA Denise Rutkowski - USA Mary Ellen Warmen - USA |
| Professional Men Bodybuilders |
| Achim Albrecht - Germany Aaron Baker - USA Charles Claimonte - England Ronnie Coleman - USA Chris Comier - USA Porter Cottrell - USA Roland Cziurlok - Germany David Dearth - USA Paul DeMayo - USA Berry DeMey - Holland Paul Dillett - Canada Chris Duffy - USA Lou Ferrigno - USA Michael Francois - USA | Jean-Pierre Fux - Switzerland Rick Gaspari - USA Paul Jean-Guillaume - USA Roland Klikinger - Austria Kevin Lerone - USA Craig Licker - USA Don Long - USA Mike Matarazzo - USA Kevin McGaunn - USA Jim Mentis - USA Johnnie Morant - USA Thierry Pastel - France Lee Priest - Australia | Jim Quinn - USA Mike Quinn - USA Shawn Ray - USA Eddie Robinson - USA Milos Sarcev - Yugoslavia Sonny Schmidt - Australia John Sherman - USA Joe Spinello - Canada Vince Taylor - USA Tom Varga - USA Flex Wheeler - USA Dorian Yates - England |
| CARDILLO MAKES AN UPLIFTING INNOVATION | ||
| BOSTON HERALD - Friday August 18, 1998 Bruised Hips, a sore lumbar, and 600 pounds on a steel bar. That's Steve Cardillo's recipe for innovation. A wildly painted Humvee parked on Broadway in Everett suggests the one time weightlifting champ has arrived. The pains and sweat from his days in the iron game are paying off. Steve Cardillo makes weightlifting belts to die for. Michael Jordan fancies them. Pro- wrestlers swear by them. Reebok licenses them. "I've never actually paid anyone to wear one," says the 36-year-old Cardillo - a late '70's hockey star at Everett High who's done millions in sales on a lemonade-stand endorsement budget. "But I have the crème de la crème" of celebrity users. That would be Dallas Cowboy Emmitt Smith, wrestling start Hulk Hogan, a slew of obscure but very large men in the world of powerlifting, and of course Jordan, who sports a Cardillo belt in a photo from is fawning picture book "Rare Air." Even the First Lifter, Bill Clinton, has tried Cardillo on for size. Weekend warriors like President Clinton and pro athletes alike use the leather belts for support while pumping iron. Hard-core types like Cardillo cinch their innards into knots to perform amazing feats of strength. | ||
