About Me
Bod and Heart, with all it stands for, the care, the health, the balance, was born from its opposite: an obsession that drove me far past the edge of sanity and health. To put this into perspective, I’ve lost over 30lb of muscle since my peak craze, which is NOT pictured — that picture was taken about a year after I stopped bodybuilding(around 3 years ago), and compared to how I was, I look modest there.
Since then, I’ve worked and I’ve worked to amend the damage that was done and to expand my purview of training modalities and possibilities. As a result, I’m now uniquely positioned to facilitate and enrich other people’s fitness journeys, notwithstanding my NASM certifications, experience as a personal trainer, or degree in Philosophy(magna cum laude). Whatever their goals and whatever their preferences, I work to ensure my clients don’t commit the same mistakes that I did. Keep scrolling for more information.
Our Philosophy
Good personal training begins with care, motivation, and a deep understanding of proper body mechanics. But there’s more to it — namely, effectively crafting training programs. And that means a few things, beginning with the integration of a client’s goals, unique profile, and the nonnegotiables: mobility, flexibility, health of joints, of bones, of muscles and of mind: in a word, striving without compromising our integrity of being.
To that end, a good program is holistic and balanced (accounting for a number of variables) — it promotes adequate recovery — and it progresses and changes accordingly. Accomplishing that is the real task and requires some considerably complex planning( more than alternating the type of work we’ll do, we’ll also have to think about alternating our degree of effort, for example). And then of course there’s the little things, like bringing the fun and the ease and the empathy( a skill crucial to reading your limits and pushing you accordingly).
Beyond this, my beliefs in this area are wide, ranging from the technical to the truly philosophical, and my responsibility includes gently passing down this information. Examples include my conviction that spontaneity is essential to harvesting passion, that we should track progress in terms of the quality and presence of our movement, and that over-reliance on certain movement patterns encourages imbalances and injury. And now for a more far fetched one: our will is infinite! Though our body is not. And our imagination — magical, from beyond, creator of things from without.