What got me started pursuing this line of work?
I’ve personally been where my clients are having struggled with having plenty of extra body fat, prediabetes, high blood pressure, insomnia, debilitating low back pain, completely out of shape, and the low physical performance. I worked with a coach who helped me make a lot of progress, which one day while I was eating lunch at work, it just clicked in my brain that helping people overcome their health, sleep, and fitness struggles is the meaningful thing I want to do.
I committed 8 years to going to college acquiring the knowledge, resources, coaching skills to help myself further and all of my future clients.
Over those 8 years I earned a Masters Degree in health and human performance, national board certified health & wellness coach, advanced health coaching expert, primal health and nutrition expert, strength & conditioning specialist, kettlebell lifting, and heart rate variability.
Then, I applied what I learned to myself by setting goals, implementing lifestyle action steps, and completing many effective fitness programs helping me overcome all of my chronic health conditions, eliminate my back pain, have respectable aerobic/physical performance, and optimize many blood biomarkers to help me have terrific health.
Over the past 16 years I’ve graduated more than 300 clients who successfully overcame their chronic health conditions, look amazing, significantly upgraded targeted fitness qualities, and got their bodies functioning optimally so they can always do the things they enjoy in life.
My mission since 2007 has been to coach, educate, and empower 1,000 dedicated people to achieve optimal health, look the way they want, physically perform at a high level, and functionally move optimally so they can always do the things they love in life.
Why is the work I do important to me?
Millions of people every year are being diagnosed with chronic health conditions, are told that they need to change their lifestyle, are given little to no holistic educational material that will specifically help them, rarely a referral to someone that can, resulting in hundreds of thousands of people dying every year from them.
The good news is that 99% of everything you do throughout the day holistically has the power to give you terrific health, a lean body, thriving energy, the ability to physical perform at a high level, and the freedom to do whatever you want pain free.
Most people are simply missing the knowledge, lifestyle skills, resources, technology, exercise programs, and coaching support to overcome their struggles and achieve their ideal level of health and fitness.
When a client sits down to talk with me, they are going to get the client-centered experience they deserve, and meet a coach who understands where they are and is committed to supporting and empowering them to achieve the healthier person they want to become.
What Motivates me to keep going?
My clients motivate me to keep going every day when they express how grateful they are for my coaching support and share with me their wins for the week, ah ha moments they noticed doing something they enjoy, how much better they feel, that they are finally experiencing measurable progress from their exercise programs or lifestyle action steps they’re experimenting with, or best of all have achieved their goal and need to set a new one.
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS
Masters Degree in Applied Kinesiology: Health and Human Performance
National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach
Strength and Conditioning Specialist
Primal Health and Nutrition Expert
Advanced Coaching Expert
Heart Rate Variability Analysis
Kettlebell Lifting
Personal Trainer
CPR, AED, First Aid
What makes fitness coaching with me better?
I offer my clients a client-centered coaching partnership vs a dictatorship
I do goal specific baseline and ongoing performance, functional movement, aerobic conditioning, and body fat testing to individualize their programs and quantify how much progress they’re making
I help them create, set, and achieve specific and meaningful goals that have an attached self-accountability plan
I sit down with them to co-create their fitness programs so that they always enjoy them, they track progress towards their goals, and contain the methods/exercises that they’d like to do, and the workout duration aligns with their busy schedule.
Their digital fitness programs include:
Exercise coaching videos that thoroughly demonstrate how to set it up, and perform the exercise safely and effectively
A benefits tab to educate you on all the cellular and physiological upgrades your program is doing for you to boost your motivation
My clients get the flexibility to get coached in person 1 on 1 or in small groups at their home, office, Los Campeones Gym in South Minneapolis, or live online. They can also choose to workout remotely with text/email support as needed so they can workout whenever it fits their schedule best at whatever gym they prefer to workout in.
They make progress without overdoing it or hurting themselves:
Each workout has daily and weekly average heart rate variability cells (if you’ve enrolled in HRV Coaching) where you can plug in those numbers from the app on your phone, then your program will show you how to train smarter, not harder giving you the most progress and avoid injury.
If you aren’t enrolled in HRV coaching each workout will have a 3 question survey asking you to rank your current energy, motivation, and muscle soreness. Then it will show you the best way to likely approach your workout so that you make the most progress and avoid injury.
I’m flexible and understanding when unpredictable work, family, vacations, and medical emergencies arise
I show up on time, full of energy, and excited to coach them safely/effectively through each workout from your individualized program so that you get all the benefits from the training methods and make progress towards your goals
Give them daily text support from 7am-4pm and email support 24/7 where you can ask me any health or fitness question, confirm if you’re doing an exercise/training method correctly, help you plan out your workout schedule for the week so you make the most progress while factoring in your work/family busy schedules, need me to send you alternative exercises to do, want me to change certain exercises in your program so you enjoy your workouts more, etc.
Check in with you privately every month to make sure you’re enjoying your program, making progress towards your goals, and brainstorm what additional areas of your lifestyle you feel changing would help you make better progress.
Get 1 holistic content educational lesson, lifestyle skill, or resource ($35 value) with every fitness program that you get to keep to boost your capability and belief that you will achieve your goal: I have a library of more than 80 documents for you to look through that will help you.
Clients get 10% off all holistic content allowing them to acquire the additional lessons, lifestyle skills, and resources they need to achieve their goals.
What makes Health and Lifestyle Coaching with me Better?
I offer my clients a client-centered coaching partnership vs a dictatorship
I do a comprehensive health and lifestyle intake to thoroughly review everything they currently do throughout the day/week in the areas of nutrition, sleep, exercise, physical activity, lifestyle, stress reduction, and medically. Affirm everything they’re doing that will help them, and point out the things they’re doing that is sabotaging them. Figure out what they already know about what they’re struggling with and what current knowledge they can tap into to help them overcome it.
I help them create, set, and achieve specific and meaningful goals that have an attached self-accountability plan
I co-create their health and lifestyle coaching programs with them so that they get the freedom to achieve their goals the way they want, and choose which educational topics, lifestyle skills, progress trackers, and additional resources they need to become 100% competent and confident that they can achieve their goal on their own.
My clients get the flexibility to get coached 1 on 1 virtually or on the phone where we acknowledge their successes, troubleshoot anything that derailed them over the past week, create/modify/upgrade action steps that will result in progress towards achieving their goal, and brainstorm any obstacles that might derail them in the near future and create backup plans if they happen.
Give them daily text support from 7am-4pm and email support 24/7
Any on the go questions or freakout moments that you encounter.
Review your food diary or nutritional tracker.
Help you upgrade/modify a recipe to help you achieve your goals and avoid sabotaging you.
Review a restaurant menu and give you options on what to order that supports your goals.
Review any food online/grocery store and let you know if it is a goal-supporting or sabotaging option.
Answer any wellness/fitness question that you happen to think of
Help you understand the supporting research for any of your educational lessons that you learned about that week
Point you in the direction of special organizations applicable to your needs.
Act as a supporter and a mediator in their relationship with a medical professional.
My interests/Hobbies outside of work
Strength & Performance Workouts
Aerobic Conditioning Workouts
Healthy cooking
Trying new fine dining restaurants
House remodeling
Traveling to tropical islands and other countries with my family
Paddle boarding
Kayaking
Hiking
Reading strength & conditioning, health, and fantasy books