Being a coach, and owning a gym was not my choice. It has became a necessity for my body to function, and to redeem what's been lost, and to help others do the same.
Out of high school, while pursing a professional snowboard career, I wrestled with the dark scene of bars, drugs, and girls. While I'm certain its not surprising for snowboarding and partying to find themselves sandwiched together, I battled to pursue good things in my life. I had multiple big name sponsors, and was close to living my dream. Getting paid to snowboard.
I struggled with the dark flesh driven desires and to stay focused on the gift God had given me. While wrestling with light and darkness, the gym was always a place that kept my athletic dreams alive. The go to action to create positive and powerful outcomes resulting in better performance, resilience, capability, and toughness. I know it’s a shocker, but training made me a better athlete.
The gym was only a tool however, and as a twenty something punk rock rebel, health was an annoying requirement to continue to shred better. While motivation burned hot inside me, it did not endure, and my lack of discipline eventually won out. The absence of discipline was only a by-product of a deeply septic heart.
I did not value my life, my spirit, and certainly my body. I wasn’t grateful for the opportunities God had given me, and I ultimately allowed the cocaine I was freebasing, to consume my entire opportunity, and almost my life.
Once Jesus broke me free, I pursued an education in exercise science. I landed a mentorship with an amazing world-renowned performance coach, and was shown the absolute raw power to change the human genome coiled inside the gym. You can literally change what you are made of through training.
As I continued to dig, learn, and become more educated, the evidence was clear that the body is wildly miraculous, healing is possible, and if you want to continue to do rad stuff you, had better start making your flesh wagon work nice.
It’s been fifteen years since, and I am just getting started.
