My Approach
There’s no magic bullet. Most coaches lose the forest for the trees, getting caught up in biomechanics or complex systems without asking the most important question: Is this actually helping?
I focus on finding the simplest, most effective solution to accomplish your goals — not the most complex. Consistency over time is your strongest lever for improving your healthspan.
I help people take control of their health by focusing on what actually moves the needle — and cutting out what doesn’t.
Client Success Story
Walter, age 56, came in looking to lose some weight. He fell off a ladder 20 years earlier and as a result lived with chronic pain in almost every joint on the right side of his body. Doing almost any physical activity didn’t feel great on his joints whether that was golf or playing with his grandkids. I performed his assessment, identified his gaps, and developed a personalized program to help close those gaps.
We did absolutely nothing special. There was no magic exercise or secret sauce. I gave him a well-balanced exercise program, personalized to his body’s unique needs and Walter’s was consistent in execution allowed him to close the gap on his biomarkers. Over his first 6 months he:
lost 18.5 lbs of fat
gained 2.4 lbs of muscle
knee, hip, back, shoulder and elbow pain (on his right side) all went away.
He lived with this pain for 20 years and had accepted it as permanent after the accident. This was Walter’s epiphany that empowered him to take control over the second half of this life. He was 100% bought in. Over the next few years Walter became religious with his keeping up the habits he had made, letting nothing get in his way. He was performing turkish getups, kettlebell swings and even hiked Mount Everest. Looking at pictures of himself from before this change, he doesn’t even recognize that person he once was.
I can’t promise that you will have Walter’s results, however I can give you the blueprint that has led Walter and many others to see life changing results. Trust the process and reap the rewards.
My Approach
I look at the whole person as an individual with a unique anatomical, biomechanical, physiological, and neurological profile in order to tailor personalized strategies rather than one-size-fit-all solutions. An analogy is to think of the human body as a car.
Anatomy tells me what makes your body unique [the physical structure of a car].
Biomechanics tells me how your unique anatomy interacts with the world, reacting under movement and load [how the car interacts with the road].
Physiology tells me how your internal processes are powering your bodies operation [how the battery and engine supply energy to all the systems of the car].
Neurology tells me your brain’s operating strategy, acting as the control system for it all [the software’s operating system that controls and manages all the car’s operations].
Through comprehensive assessments I can narrow down where problems are coming from and identify the low hanging fruit that will give you 80% of the benefits with 20% of the effort.
You can make hardware improvements, but if the software is the limiting factor then that may not fix the problem.
Step 1: Define Your Needs (Prerequisites)
For the activities in your life that you want to be able to keep doing, I examine the demands which those activities require through each lens to determine the prerequisites needed to do them effectively.
Step 2: Assess Your Capabilities
Through assessments and biomarkers, I will determine your capabilities. Some examples below:
Step 3: Perform a Gaps analysis
The difference between the prerequisites of your life’s demands and your own capabilities exposes the gaps that we need to close in order for you to do the things you love without apprehension. Your Gaps Analysis will be the guide for your training roadmap, action plan and key performance indicators.
Step 4: Adaptive Programming
Exercise programming is an iterative process. Exercise is an intervention employed with the intent of driving a specific physiological outcome, but often times it may drive different outcomes that we didn’t intend or drive the intended out, but with unintended secondary consequences (like side effects from medicine). Most programs are one-way in nature where you are told what to do and you do it even if it doesn’t yield the results that were intended. This is more of a conversation, where exercise programming needs to be iterative and adapt to your feedback. Similar to control system theory in engineering.
With 1-on-1 coaching, we can create safe to fail experiments to determine the best path forward to help you achieve your goals.
Step 5: Physical Freedom
Through Adaptive Programming you will build towards your initial goals, but that isn’t the end of the road. I have clients that started training because they wanted to lose weight or to do [insert activity] again pain free, but along the way they found their physical capabilities expanding beyond their wildest dreams.
Regardless of where you start, you can create your own future.
Walter started with 20 years of chronic pain and hiked Mount Everest.
Michelle started post breast cancer and rebuilt her strength and confidence.
Jeff started post shoulder surgery and left bench pressing and working on his handstand.
Scott started out wanting to learn how to use kettlebells and then because StrongFirst certified.
Jay started post brain surgery removing a tumor and regained his strength and motor control.