Born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, my early love for superheroes shifted into a fascination with strength training. For years before I ever stepped into a gym, I was doing push-ups, squats, and crunches alone in my room trying to beat the numbers in my training journal from the day prior.

After years of bodyweight training alone I was finally able to get a gym membership early on in high school. There I met one of my first mentors, Russell Chagolla, at an old gym called Boulder Lifting. At the time, I was working at a grocery store. He would later offer me a job cleaning equipment at his new facility Gym Number 5. From that point on, I spent every hour I could inside that gym. If I wasn’t working, I was training. If I wasn’t training, I was listening and learning from the top strongmen, powerlifters, and highly experienced coaches around me.

Fast forward years later, now a husband to my beautiful wife and a father to an incredible baby boy. I’ve been fortunate enough to work with many more brilliant coaches and researchers in the industry. I have my dream job, training real people with packed schedules, past injuries, and real-life obstacles. I work hard for every single person I coach, there is no copy and pasting and there are no week long gaps between communication. As long as my clients work hard and trust in the process they will achieve exceptional results.