FAQs
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
Typically the client determines much of the pace. I can move as fast, or as slow, as you want to go. Generally, the more people are around me, the more information they absorb. Most clients experience frequent "aha!" moments when I convey concepts and ideas to them.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
My self education has never been put on pause - not even for one second. I possess formal degrees and multiple certifications, but I consider my personal experience, over 30 years of developing my skills and methods, and my ongoing, self-directed research and reading, far superior to any institutional education. There is simply no substitute for experience. I am at a level where I can identify, analyze, and resolve the errors in what the various, commercially available, certification organizations are teaching to students enrolled in their programs. I am developing new standards in eating and exercise that other personal trainers, coaches, and certification organizations can adopt to improve their own methods and programs.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
There was never really a "decision" to become a personal trainer, teacher, and coach. This is just who I am in the world. These are my natural roles in life. I started exercising, primarily lifting weights when I was 12 years old and have continued with that obsession every day of my life since. I began instructing others when I was still in my teens, opened my first training studio when I was 23, and opened my first gym when I was 33. It has been just a completely natural turn of events that I would be instructing and coaching others in a subject area that I have such a passion for.