About Mark

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For the first 13 years of my life, I spent a good amount of time playing sports, enjoying school and time with friends. But as I became a teenager, I began what would be a 7 year battle with drugs and alcohol. Everything started to change the moment my daughter was born. I began the hard road to sobriety as well as changing the person I was into who I needed to become. For me, fitness was the greatest tool to build myself into a better person; inside and out. 

I started in the fitness industry in my early teens during the same time I was a functioning addict. My first 4-5 years in the fitness industry was jaded by bad experiences and a very stereotypical view of fitness and gyms. 

After leaving the industry for a couple years, I came back to start selling supplements and receive a Nutritional Certification. That turned into meeting and working for some of the greatest mentors I could ever ask to have influencing me. Over the next 7 years I managed and trained all around the fitness industry from Big Box gyms to Small Box family owned, and the number one thing I saw was the lack of truly getting personal with people and learning their stories. 

After having a kid, getting married, learning many new things about psychology and human nature from Security Contract work and obtaining a handful of health and fitness certifications, I felt I was ready to start coaching people on how to become better, mentally and physically.