I became a personal trainer at the age of 18 because I knew I wanted to devote my life to helping people improve their lives through fitness. It changed my life for the better, and I truly believe that fitness is one of the major keys to becoming the happiest version of yourself. Why not spread the joy?
I entered the world of fitness at the early age of 16. 6 ft 2, 130lbs and scared of every tough guy in my neighborhood, so I decided to hit the weights. Strength training taught me the art of discipline. To put it simply “you get what you give”. This path also lead me to a brief stint as an amateur MMA fighter. Over the past 15 years, I have spent every day focusing on my craft. Absorbing as much information as I could, all with the goal of making my training as effective as possible for my clients.
As far as training goes, I don’t really like to say I have a training style. That would unnecessarily “put me in a box” so to speak. Training will be entirely dependent on my clients goals. But most commonly I train (genpop) clients who have busy lives and need to get their best training done with the minimal effective dose. This usually takes form of full body training sessions with the goal of developing GPP. Meaning General Physical Preparedness. That’s a fancy way of saying, creating a solid base of overall fitness via multiple modalities. Adjusted to their biomechanical needs of course. So strength, aerobic fitness, mobility etc. This usually gets people at least 80% of the results they are looking for. Then the last 20% we turn up the dial on specific adaptations if need be. I.e. if a client comes in looking for bigger arms we’ll hit some arm farm at the end of a training session. If someone is looking to build a booty, we’ll do a glute specific finisher. And to hit you with the most common answer in personal training…“it depends”.
If you’re new to training, I try to make this part as fun and exciting as possible, which is easy because it is! And if this isn’t your first rodeo, you already know the deal. This isn’t a judgy pass/ fail kind of thing. It’s just about establishing a baseline, and my “assessments” usually end up looking like a light workout. You should leave feeling better than when you came in.
We’ll sit down and chat for a bit. Usually go over training/ injury history and then jump into a general warmup and “assessment”. Most of the time, my assessments end up resembling a light training session. Unless specified, most people get bored by movement screenings. We do this to gather information to establish a baseline and write a program.
This is pretty straightforward, we train through the program. I’ll keep track of all of your numbers while having a goal of progressing in some capacity each training session. I usually have people train 4-week training blocks before I change anything. But oftentimes, some autoregulation happens because life happens.
This is where we reassess all of the information we have gathered through the past training block. Take a look at what worked, what didn’t, and adjust accordingly for the next training block. I try to create variety so you don’t get bored, but the goal still remains the goal. Your feedback will always be encouraged.
