The right trainingincreases opportunitiesby decreasing limitations

I used to believe more was the answer. More reps, more sets, more days. The premise made sense until my body proved me wrong.

What I learned the hard way is that volume isn't the same as progress. You can push harder and not get fitter. You can move forward in one area and move backward in all the others. You can train more and end up with less.

So I rebuilt how I train and how I coach. I stopped chasing volume and started looking for the smallest amount of work that still produced what I actually wanted:

• • Strength
• • Power
• • Muscle
• • Mobility
• • Conditioning

Which all come together to form a capable body. A body that stops being the thing that holds you back.

Because fitness isn't life. It's a tool to access more of it, and it doesn't need to consume your days. Find the dose that moves you. Cut the rest. Run it with precision.

There's more to me than the methodology. Here's what influences it.

I've been with my fiancée Heather for almost seven years. There's a saying out there that says something along the lines of 'behind every man trying to build something is a woman laying the foundation he stands on.' I can vouch for that.

Together, we have a young daughter, and being her dad fundamentally changed the way I think.

I realized in a way I hadn't before just how finite our time actually is. I wanted to spend more of it with her, as much of it as I possibly could. So the question became: how do I keep my own fitness moving forward without trading away the time I have with my family?

That's where minimum effective dose stopped being a coaching philosophy and started being a personal one. It's a big part of why I built this business. To have the autonomy to work on my own schedule, train on my own schedule, show others how to do the same, and be present for the times that matter most.

I train in my own barn gym most days. Nowadays, I'm really focusing on mobility. I want to access every bit of strength my body has, and a lot of it is locked behind positions I can't currently get into. And strength is only useful if I can still move well in 20 years. Mobility is the work that keeps that possibility open.

I know firsthand how much mobility matters. I learned the hard way.

In 2022, I trained for and ran my only marathon at 215 pounds. My hip mobility was already limited, and running over 600 miles in 20 weeks with not-so-great mechanics while carrying that much weight is likely the combination that led to a diagnosed herniated disc in my L4-L5 later that same year.

The first four to five months after were the worst. Almost everything I normally did was off the table. It took close to two years of consistent work to really get back to where I wanted to be, and another two on top of that to come out the other side stronger than I started.

Going through that taught me how much one limitation can take from you, and how much getting it back can give you. It gifted me the ability to help others who are also going through something similar, and this has become some of the most meaningful work I do.

Why I coach

In the broadest sense, I've always been a teacher. I started as a swim coach, became a high school teacher, and now I do this.

At the core, the work's always been the same. Helping people figure out what they're capable of, and then helping them get there. But before I taught any of that, I had to learn it myself.

Fitness has been my greatest teacher, both past and present. It's taught me how to listen to my body and trust what it's telling me, and my goal is to help every person I work with tap into that same thing.

I know how to help because I've walked it myself first. The shortest path to where you haven't been is walking with someone who has and can show you the way.

If you've read this far, I appreciate you. The next step is yours. I'd be grateful to walk it with you.