Growing up I was never the biggest kid on the playground but I did discover that I had a tremendous amount of energy that not all the other kids possessed. I was always intrigued by what it would take to beat the fastest kid on the playground in a race, shoot the winning shot over the tallest, and run a touchdown against the largest. It was this competitiveness that drove me to not always be the best on the court or field, but to be the most motivated and hard working.
It wasn’t until high school that I became “hooked” on athletics, competing in football, basketball, and baseball, and then truly falling in love with track and field. Other sports had always been more of a recreational activity than competition. After four years of competing at the varsity level in a number of events (long jump, high jump, 100m, 4x100, 200m) I sustained a dislocated hip which disabled me from continuing at the college level after high school. Soon after I began physical therapy for my injury, I discovered that if you apply a stress on the body it will adapt and eventually become stronger. It was that concept that drove me the same way that wanting to be faster in elementary school did. A year after recovering from my injury, I became very interested in the cause and effect injuries had not only on athletes, but on the general person as well. I then began an internship that later turned into an assistantship at Lane Community College in the Therapeutic Exercise Rehabilitation Class (TERC), and soon after completed my two year degree in the Fitness Specialist Program.
Through hard work and determination I believe that everyone has not only the strength, but also the ability, to become the athlete that suits their life.
One-on-one personal training, Olympic lifting techniques, proper phasing of exercise rehabilitation programs, and Group Exercise programming.