I make it easy to get stronger and more flexible, pain-free, doing less, not more. Unlike many of my peers I’ll neither “dumb things down” nor “overcomplicate” movement. I take extremely cool movements that you see on the socials (like pull-ups, splits, and heavy deadlifts), and I make them accessible to anyone. Because I don’t follow a specific cookie-cutter method, it’s easy to individualize effective strength training principles with your goals and circumstances. That’s why my clients, from youth athletes to soccer moms to 60+ year olds just discovering strength training, keep coming back for more.

My History & Why I Care About Strength

How can I get the best results? In the least amount of time? With the least amount of effort? For the longest staying power?

These four questions have steered my own training and career since 2007. I began as a weight loss coach after solving my own “weight gain” problem doing the exact opposite of what is conventionally touted to lose weight: eating more and moving less! (Click here to read the long version)

In 2014 I noticed myself, my clients, and fellow peers experiencing nagging aches, pains, and recurring injuries from training. We basically had three options: Stop doing things that hurt; Use an increasing variety of bands, balls, and “distractions” daily; or spend hundreds and thousands of dollars dulling (yet never resolving) pain at the Chiropractor’s, Massage Therapist’s, or Physical Therapist’s office. After using all three I thought, “WOW, life is way too short to have a part-time job managing pain!” (This is eerily similar to my struggle losing weight… do more, try harder… it’s YOUR fault you aren’t losing)

After returning to my four questions and learning from some pretty smart dudes, I went the opposite way of my peers, rebuilt my coaching practice from the ground up, and developed a simple assessment and programming model that includes everything each and every client needs and nothing they don’t. My clients loved it. Word kinda spread.

Flexibility first, mobility second, endurance third – all under an umbrella of strength – keep a body prepared and ready to do anything at any time, pain-free. The rest is history.

• Johnny Davis @ CrossFit Knoxville, TN
• Total Performance Sports , MA
• Gil Cohen @ CrossFit Newton, MA
• Coach Christopher Sommer @ GymnasticBodies.com
• Sean Pastuch @ The Active Life

Looking for the certs???

My last semester of college I used Amazon for the first time to purchase my textbooks & realized I’m paying thousands of $ each semester to be told what to read. If I could go back in time, I would have spent less time at expensive weekend seminars and would have sought out more high quality coaches to intern under, work with, and learn from on a deeper level.

But here you go if you care about this sort of thing:

• Spin Instructor @ UTK TRec (forgot the cert!)
• CrossFit, Level 1 Trainer, 2009-2016
• BA Psychology, University of Tennessee, 2009
• NSCA – CSCS, 2011-present
• Total Performance Sports Internship, 2013
• Gymnastic Bodies, 2014-2017
• StrongFirst, Level 1, 2017 – 2020
• The Active Life Coach Workshop, 2017
• Kilo Strength Society, Online Program Design Course, 2018
• Muscle Nerds Health, Program Design, 2019
• Joel Jamieson’s BioForce Conditioning Certification, 2020
• Lisa Lewis: Psych Skills for Fit Pros, 2020
• Pregnant & Postpartum Athleticism, 2022
• Girls Gone Strong: Pre & Post-natal Coaching, 2022
• Sarah Duval, DPT: Pregnancy & Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist, In Progress