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. For context, I’ve lost about 30lb of muscle since my “prime”, which is not pictured — that picture was taken about a year after I stopped bodybuilding, at a time when I was convinced I had shrunk a bunch. And I sort of had. I had shrunk as soon as I stopped squatting 405 pounds for 15 reps and as soon as I stopped doing I wont tell you how many calf raises. I had plans to be the best at whatever cost, until one day I suddenly realized, or rather saw on the mirror, that I was huge, obsessed, and up to that point, entirely blind to it.
Since then ( it’s been like five years now), it’s been my mission to heal myself and to better understand how I could continue to push the body without hurting it, instead aiding it. This led me to develop a very varied approach to exercise that aims to minimize unwanted harm and to maximize results, an approach I ultimately learned to refine and make enjoyable with the help of my 100+ clients I have now dutifully and personally served. This life-long insistence on adaptation and discovery, taken together with my degree in Philosophy and NASM certification in personal training, allows me to be the force of positive influence I am today in my client’s life and fitness journey. If health, positivity, and progress excite you, I want you on board!
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Personal training begins with care, motivation, and a deep understanding of proper body mechanics. But in addition to that, it requires the creation of effective, multifaceted, and highly personalized training plans and progressions. This sees me integrate my client’s goals, their unique profile, and the non-negotiables: mobility, flexibility, health of joints, of bones, of muscles, and of mind: that is, striving without compromising our integrity. Advancing without tradeoffs. And without being too hard or serious with ourselves ! If you’ve read this far, I’ll tell you this much: I can tell a bad joke — and laugh about it. And I can also make a training routine fun.
To that end, a good program is holistic and balanced (accounting for a number of bodily capacities) — it promotes adequate recovery — and it unfolds and transforms at the right pace and in the best ways. By now, determining what that is is almost intuitive for me — but still I put a lot of effort into keeping at least some aspects of every session fresh and fun. We are, after all, there to have fun :) And to pretend we like Dylan’s jokes and stories!
Beyond this, my beliefs in this area are wide, ranging from the technical to the more philosophical, and my responsibility includes passing down this information without hurting your ears. 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.