Personal Trainer in Edmonton, helping people prove to themselves their best years of strength & independence are still ahead of them.
15+ years, 15,000+ sessions. I never really got the chance to shine athletically growing up—I didn’t play sports, and gym class caused more stress than anything. Judging from this, being a Professional Personal Trainer for the last decade might sound kind of stran
ge. I am literally a walking contradiction though;
I was a small town country boy who happily grew up camping and having his own quad before he was 10. And was also (somewhat melodramatically) proclaiming to his parents he was going to move to LA or NYC. I was a teenager who decided his career choices were either in the theatre arts or fitness industry, without much experience in either. I grew up with Bon Jovi, ACDC and Cher blasting in the background. Today I still enjoy the occasional emo-punk-pop throwback, and at any moment can get down with all the big voiced divas like Beyonce and Christina Aguilera. I hated gym class but loved the gym.
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And what got me here wasn’t initially my own interest in health and wellness. My mom took charge of her health and completely transformed her life for the better. And when this mama’s boy saw the positive force exercise had on his mom’s life—I was done. I enrolled in a 2-year diploma program for personal training. Unfortunately, my life and what it looked like forever changed, when my mom passed away a year before I graduated, on the Dean’s Honor List. Though I couldn’t see her physically with me on my graduation. Still numb to the experience of what was my new life; I like to imagine the energy I felt that day was my mom’s sense of pride.
10 years later…
I do this for my mom. And I do this for those of you who also didn’t get the chance to excel athletically. For those of you, who felt like they are “too old to start.”
For those of you, who feel like the gym “isn’t for them.”
For those of you, who were picked last in gym class. For those of you, who felt like they were never good enough, smart enough, fit enough, pretty enough…. Through health and fitness, I aim to show people like you, the strength you have inside of you and who you have always been…
Enough.
