My start
I began my fitness journey at the age of 14. After dealing with multiple injuries from sport in the previous couple years, I was suddenly one of the “big” kids in my class, pushing 200lbs in the 8th grade. I did not come from a healthy or athletic family, but that summer I decided to take control of my health and ended up losing 50lbs. For the next 4 years, I became obsessed with strength & performance and eventually totaled over 1,000 lbs at the age 17 and 170lbs.
As my passion for strength training grew, a deeper passion for helping others began to form, and I decided to get my degree in exercise science from Indiana University. My goal was to one day have my own gym and train people to take control of their health & fitness just like I had.
Early Career
After graduating college and entering the fitness industry, I saw a lot of things that I didn’t like. A lack of professionalism across the industry, pervasive fitness myths and misleading marketing.
“Our actions may be impeded, but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
The obstacle is the way. If I didn’t like what the fitness industry had become for most people, then I could do something to change it. But first I had to get my own ass in gear. So that summer before I graduated college, I started working out again. Mainly H