I’ve dedicated my life to learning about the rehabilitation, athletic development, and weaponization of the human body.

My rehabilitation experience spans the entire spectrum of human ability, from being bedside in the acute care wards of Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA as an occupational therapy student to the highly subspecialized realm of outpatient orthopedic hand therapy as a former certified hand therapist (CHT).

Sadly, getting people healthy as quickly as possible isn’t good for the healthcare business. Healthcare is about taking your money, not about you getting strong, functional, or healthy. As an OT, I am oathbound to serve my clients, not my employer’s bottom line. My personal morals and ethical responsibility clashed with the sobering reality of the American healthcare scam. When I realized this, I hung up my lab coat and left the clinic forever in December 2018. Good riddance.

Now, I serve my oath by helping people like you build strength, function, and deep health in the gym as a coach. Though my practice has included strength and conditioning coaching for world champion grapplers and professional athletes, I enjoy training everyday people the most.

From blue-collar workers seeking to maintain their strength and stamina until retirement to stay-at-home mothers looking to keep up with their young kids, to weekend warriors looking to remain combat-ready, everyone is welcome to train with me.

My only rule: don’t give me a reason to be a dick and I won’t be.

Certifications & Accomplishments

• BS/MS, Occupational Therapy (MOT), SUNY at Buffalo
• Former Certified Hand Therapist (CHT), 2015–2018
• Former Starting Strength Coach (SSC), 2017–2020
• Barbell Logic Exclusive Staff Coach (BSC-E), 2020–Current
• Professional Barbell Coach (PBC), 2022–Current

• Taekwondo 1st Dan – under Grandmaster Pyong Tuk Ko (Kukkiwon 9th Dan)
• Judo 4th Kyu – under Sensei Kenton Givens (USJA 3rd Dan)
• A-Force BJJ Blue Belt – under Professor Kenton Givens (Black Belt, 1st Degree)
• Kudo 6th Kyu – under Sensei JD Alexander (KIF Daidojuku 2nd Dan)