06/30/2026
I’ve had a 20+ year career as a personal trainer and gym owner that started working for MY personal trainer as a teenager. I’ll be the first to admit it’s been a very blessed career. It’s given me the opportunity help a lot of people see AMAZING transformations and truly lead longer, healthier, HAPPIER lives. I met many of the most important people in my life through my job. I have the opportunity to live a life I never really thought was possible growing up in Pennsylvania. I’ve been able to travel around the world and see awesome things. Allll while enjoying going to work, eager for what that day would bring and the fun that I would have with my clients that I love more than I can say.
That started to change a couple years ago. It started by hitting snooze on the alarm a few mornings where I just didn’t want to get up. I would cancel a client here and there to sleep in, get home earlier, or take breaks mid day…all very NOT ME.
I was creeping towards a “f**k it, I’m out” attitude. I thought it was just burn out or me getting older. I would still sometimes get excited to go to work, sure, but that was becoming more and more of a rarity. More and more I just looked at my job as a means to an end, a way to be afford to enjoy life but I ended up looking forward to my time off.
I started to look for my exit strategy, my way out. I started to think about what other industries I could make a mark in, what other businesses I could open. The problem was that that didn’t excite me at all.
I took a step back and objectively looked at the situation. I realized that the environment I was in was soooo toxic. I was working out of one of the largest gyms in Orlando. It was under new ownership and there was a massive influx of cash to bring in a new clientele. But with that, the whole culture changed. My rent started to double, then triple, finally it quadrupled. Then they not only wanted me to change my training style but also my business structure. I was making less money then I had in a very, very long time and my clients now were being charged more and more just to be in the bldg. they were taking random sums of money off of my clients in the name of “yearly renewal fees” even though they were just newly opened and charged everyone initiation fees.
After that, we had members stripping to their underwear and posing in the mirrors in the middle of the gym at the busiest times. I brought it up to a manager and I was told “well it IS a bodybuilding gym.” My clients all started to hate being in that atmosphere. Also, the brand new equipment started to break early and often. Pieces were crammed to tight together, movement and mobility work became impossible. We would let members work in with us and then would sweat all over the equipment, not wipe it up, then complain when it was our turn because we were “ruining their pump.”
Despite all that, my clients all stayed with me even though they were clearly very much over that gym. Most asked when I would again own my own gym.
Then I started to think. And plan. And an amazing thing happened….I was getting excited again. I saw my way out. It was through the industry that I was already in, the one that I was already leaving my mark on.
So I built the high end, science and technology driven, all inclusive, service oriented gym I always wanted.
When I first drove to WRTH, I realized that I had zero idea how truly unhappy I was until I was driving somewhere else to do what I love. I know what my purpose is. So by alll means, when we’re open in a few short weeks come in and be apart of what my dream is all about! See you there!!
