What got me started pursuing this line of work?
I’ve personally been where my clients are currently at, having struggled for many years with carrying around extra body fat, prediabetes, high blood pressure, insomnia, debilitating low back pain, completely out of shape, and low physical performance.
My fitness, health, and coaching journey began in 2003 becoming a client of a local personal trainer who helped me get in better aerobic shape and get stronger. Then one afternoon in 2005 I was eating lunch, and asking myself is walking into the next customer’s house to clean their carpets for Stanley Steemer the impact I want to make on people’s lives…then it just clicked in my brain that helping people overcome their health, sleep, and fitness struggles is the meaningful thing I want to do. I put my notice in and dedicated myself full time to going to college to acquire the knowledge, resources, and coaching skills to help myself further and all of my future clients.
Over the past 20 years I’ve earned a Masters Degree in health and human performance, strength & conditioning specialist, reflexive performance reset specialist, kettlebell lifting, heart rate variability, national board certified health & wellness coach, advanced health coaching expert, and a primal health and nutrition expert.
Then, I applied what I learned to myself by setting goals, implementing lifestyle action steps, and completing many effective fitness programs helping me overcome the following:
Overweight (210lbs to 160lbs, 21.5% body fat to 7.89%)
Prediabetes (5.8% a1c to 5.4%)
High blood pressure (140/100 to 108/57)
Insomnia (went from 60 minutes to 8 minutes)
Fragmented sleep (waking up 10 times per night to staying asleep all night long)
Eliminate my back pain (Throw my lower back out and moving around for the next 2-7 days would be debilitating to pain free)
Aerobic performance
Run 1 mile in 6 minutes (Started at 11 min.)
Resting heart rate of 40 (Started at 52)
Peak vo2 55.56 ml/kg/min (Started at 35)
Physical performance
Back Squat 335lbs (Started at 45)
Bench Press 265lbs (Started at 45)
Dead Lift 385lbs (Started at 205)
Do 30 pull ups (Started at 0)
Do 100 push ups (Started at 10)
Do 153 sit ups (Started at 20)
Do 234 squats (Started at 50)
Over the past 20 years I’ve coached and empowered more than 330 clients that successfully overcame their chronic health conditions, sleep issues, chronic stress, look amazing, and now feel stronger, more mobile, less pain/pain free, and in the best aerobic shape of their life.
My mission since 2007 has been to coach, educate, and empower 1,000 dedicated people to achieve optimal health, look the way they want, physically perform at a high level, and functionally move optimally so they can always do the things they love in life.
Why is the work I do important to me?
I like my clients to feel happier, healthier, perform better, functionally move better and not hurt anymore, and most important for them to feel a sense of accomplishment on goals that their efforts and my coaching helped them achieve.
Millions of people every year are being diagnosed with chronic health conditions, are told that they need to change their lifestyle, are given a couple sheets of paper with very little actionable holistic educational material that will specifically help them, rarely a referral to someone that can, resulting in continued frustration, and the saddest part is hundreds of thousands of people dying every year from them.
The good news is that 99% of everything you do throughout the day holistically has the power to give you terrific health, a lean body, thriving energy, the ability to physical perform at a high level, and the freedom to do whatever you want pain free.
I’m passionate about fitness and health coaching because I have the opportunity to fill the knowledge, lifestyle skills, resources, technology, exercise programs, and coaching support gaps to empower them to overcome their health struggles and achieve their ideal level of health and fitness.
When a client sits down to talk with me, they are going to get the client-centered experience they deserve, and meet a coach who understands where they are and is committed to supporting and empowering them to achieve the healthier person they want to become.
What Motivates me to keep going?
My clients motivate me to keep going every day when they express how grateful they are for my coaching support and share with me their wins for the week, ah ha moments they noticed doing something they enjoy, how much better they feel, that they are finally experiencing measurable progress from their exercise programs or lifestyle action steps they’re experimenting with, or best of all have achieved their goal and need to set a new one.
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS
Masters Degree in Applied Kinesiology: Health and Human Performance
National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach
Strength and Conditioning Specialist
Primal Health and Nutrition Expert
Advanced Coaching Expert
Reflexive Performance Reset Level 2
Heart Rate Variability Analysis
Kettlebell Lifting
Personal Trainer
CPR, AED, First Aid
What makes fitness coaching with me better?
I offer you a client-centered coaching partnership vs a dictatorship
I do goal specific baseline and ongoing performance, functional movement, aerobic conditioning, and body fat testing to individualize your programs and quantify how much progress you’re making
I help you create, set, and achieve specific and meaningful goals that have an attached self-accountability plan
We co-create your program together where you get to choose the methods, exercises, what metrics it tracks, how many workouts per week you want, and much more. I’ll guide you through the program design process, give you my recommendations, and I design it from the ground up - Not using Artificial Intelligence.
Your digital fitness programs include:
Exercise coaching videos that thoroughly demonstrate how to set it up, and perform the exercise safely and effectively
What exercises to do, how many sets, what weight to use, reps, rest time, load volume calculated, and notes that guide you further like if there are timed sets or deliberate number of seconds to take for a certain part of that exercise.
Boxes that track your specific goals every month
Home stretches program tab to make faster progress
A benefits tab to educate you on all the cellular and physiological upgrades your program is doing for you
A walkthrough and coaching tips tab so you always know how to do every workout from start to finish
You get the flexibility to get coached in person 1 on 1 or in small groups at your home, office, Los Campeones Gym in Minneapolis - Uptown, Los Campeones Gym - Burnsville, or live online. You can also choose to workout remotely with text/email support as needed so they can workout whenever it fits your schedule best at whatever gym you’d prefer to workout in.
You make progress without overdoing it or hurting yourself:
Each workout has daily and weekly average heart rate variability cells (if you’ve enrolled in HRV Coaching) where you can plug in those numbers from the app on your phone, then your program will show you how to train smarter, not harder giving you the most progress and avoid injury.
If you aren’t enrolled in HRV coaching each workout will have a 3 question survey asking you to rank your current energy, motivation, and muscle soreness. Then it will show you the best way to likely approach your workout so that you make the most progress and avoid injury.
I’m flexible and understanding when unpredictable work, family, vacations, and medical emergencies arise
I’m personable, knowledgable, present, listen to you, make you feel comfortable in an intimidating to some environment, and 100% dedicated to help you achieve your goals.
I show up on time, full of energy, with a positive attitude, and excited to coach you through the next workout from your program so that you execute everything safely, with the proper intensity, and when it is suppose to be done so you get all the benefits from the training methods and make progress towards your goals
Receive posture corrections so you use the correct muscles every time and avoid injury
Receive goal specific exercise technique instruction so you adapt your muscles faster for strength and additional performance qualities
Spot you during an exercise removing any doubt you may have allowing you to focus on giving 100% effort on that exercise
You will get a free 30 minute goal progress check ins every month to make sure you’re doing everything in your program consistently, measure how much progress you’re making, and discuss additional holistic things you can add to your lifestyle to help you make faster progress towards achieving your goals
Give you a goal-specific holistic blueprint with what blood tests will reveal secret obstacles stopping you from making progress, holistic knowledge/skills/healthier food alternatives, and technology that will boost your capability, self-accountability, and belief that you can achieve your goals.
You get a customized and goal-specific client profile on my coaching app
Track your daily lifestyle action steps
I check in on you daily to see if you are doing your daily action steps and assigned workouts or not
I will assign you the educational lessons, skills, and resources from your holistic blueprint to read and reference on the go at any time. Just let me know what lesson, skill, or resource you’d like next.
I will build your muscle resets and home stretches programs that will appear as daily workout routines with videos linked to it and I can see how often you're doing them
I will send you monthly check-in forms to make sure you’re enjoying your programs and doing them frequently enough, along with a link to schedule your free 30 minute goals progress check in session. In this in person or virtual session we will measure how much progress you’re making, and discuss additional holistic things you can add to your lifestyle to help you make faster progress towards achieving your goals
You can send me daily private messages if you have questions or videos of you doing part of your workout if you want coaching feedback and I’ll respond to you during open business hours
You can integrate the following apps to track data that is specific to your goals.
Apple health data and program the app to track any metrics that are specific to your goals and it will graph them
You can upload progress photos for body composition.
Cronometer app or myfitnesspal app so that I can see all of your food logging on my end with all of your calories, macros, minerals, etc. and help you make substitutions or adjustments to help you achieve your goals faster
You can integrate the oura app so I can see your activity minutes, average breaths per minute, average HR variability, total hours of sleep, resting heart rate, steps, and total burned calories
What makes Health and Lifestyle Coaching with me Better?
I offer my clients a client-centered coaching partnership vs a dictatorship
I do a comprehensive health and lifestyle intake to thoroughly review everything they currently do throughout the day/week in the areas of nutrition, sleep, exercise, physical activity, lifestyle, stress reduction, and medically. Affirm everything they’re doing that will help them, and point out the things they’re doing that is sabotaging them. Figure out what they already know about what they’re struggling with and what current knowledge they can tap into to help them overcome it.
I help them create, set, and achieve specific and meaningful goals that have an attached self-accountability plan
I co-create their health and lifestyle coaching programs with them so that they get the freedom to achieve their goals the way they want, and choose which educational topics, lifestyle skills, progress trackers, and additional resources they need to become 100% competent and confident that they can achieve their goal on their own.
My clients get the flexibility to get coached 1 on 1 virtually or on the phone where we acknowledge their successes, troubleshoot anything that derailed them over the past week, create/modify/upgrade action steps that will result in progress towards achieving their goal, and brainstorm any obstacles that might derail them in the near future and create backup plans if they happen.
Daily text message coaching support in the My Coach App
It offers you a one stop shop place to track your daily lifestyle action steps that we co-create together and I assign you on whichever days of the week you agree to
I check in on you daily to see if you are doing your daily action steps or not
I will assign you any educational lessons to read on here from your holistic blueprint to level up your knowledge and empower you to achieve your goals faster. Just let me know what lesson, skill, or resource you’d like at any time.
You can integrate your apple health data and program the app to track any metrics that are specific to your goals and it will graph them
You can upload progress photos for body composition.
You can integrate your cronometer app or myfitnesspal app so that I can see all of your food logging on my end with all of your calories, macros, minerals, etc. and help you make substitutions or adjustments to help you achieve your goals faster
You can integrate the oura app so I can see your activity minutes, average breaths per minute, average HR variability, total hours of sleep, resting heart rate, steps, and total burned calories
I will send you monthly check-in forms to make sure you’re enjoying your action steps and you’re happy with the coaching you’re getting.
You can send me daily private messages if you have questions and I’ll respond to you during open business hours
My interests/Hobbies outside of work
Strength & Performance Workouts
Aerobic Conditioning Workouts
Healthy cooking, grilling and smoking
Trying new fine dining restaurants
House remodeling
Traveling to tropical islands and other countries with my family
Paddle boarding
Kayaking
Snorkeling
Hiking
Reading strength & conditioning, health, and fantasy books
Playing role playing video games like diablo and assassins creed