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(over 4 years ago), and compared to how I was, I look modest there. And yes, all natty!
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. But this only came after a decade of ambitious bodybuilding and a life of athletics before that. 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 your goals and whatever your preferences, I work diligently to ensure you 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 progressions. And that means a few things, beginning with the integration of a client’s goals, unique profile, and the non-negotiables: mobility, flexibility, health of joints, of bones, of muscles and of mind: in a word, striving without compromising our integrity of being. And without being too hard or serious with ourselves !
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.