When I started really working out I was about 19 years old, I didn't know a thing about working out so I went through the motions. I did some running, push ups, crunches, lunges pretty much anything I've ever seen I was trying to do. This worked very little for me but I was a young kid who didn't have a lot of money to get a trainer or buy the equipment I thought I needed. Time continued and I still saw very minimal results so I kinda gave up at this point. I gained maybe 30lbs of fat and weighed 180lbs which isn't very heavy for me and I could feel it. I was no longer good at being active and I started smoking cigarettes and drinking excessively, partying and not focusing on anything but trouble.
A few years went by I continued my poor ways and I really felt like I hit rock bottom. I kept falling into and out of depression school was the least of my priorities and continued my destructive ways by drinking and partying til all hours of the morning every single day. Then one day a friend of mine asked me If I wanted to go try a strength and conditioning program. It was at The College of New Jersey and was being conducted by a student who was completing his thesis. This intrigued me a lot so I jumped on this opportunity seeing that I had just got back into my routine wanted to really see results and was looking for a positive way to redirect my energy.
The program went great I learned skills like proper dead lift and squat, how to bench press and dumbbell press, I learned about explosive training and I learned about proper program design. This completely changed my life. After the program I went into over drive, I enrolled in Okinawan Kenpo and started working out at a gym on my own. It went great I was getting stronger my squats went from a measly 155lbs to over 300lbs in a matter of 3 months and I exceeded all my Instructors expectations on athleticism in martial arts so at this point I knew I needed to follow further with exercise science because it had become my passion.
I enrolled in the Exercise Science program at mercer county community college and completed it, I then went on to achieve my NSCA-certified personal trainer certification along with my NHE-CPT, on top of that my martial arts had taken me to black belt level and I am currently studying nutrition and exercise science further trying to work on my bachelors degree. I am studying for my NASM-CPT and hopefully will begin my corrective exercise specialty shortly after I achieve this cert. I have now started my own personal training business with the F.I.T (Functional integrated training) being the foundation of my beliefs. F.I.T is taking everything in the gym, medicine balls, bands, Olympic weightlifting techniques, Kettle Bells, tabata training, meditation, Traditional body building, calisthenics, plyometrics, yoga, martial arts and agility training,nutrition and energy flow bringing all of these styles together in my opinion makes for total balance and keeps the routines fresh and fun.
In conclusion that 10 year span got me from 180lbs of chubby to 180lbs of muscle a new outlook on life and a career that I will be involved with until the day I die. Everyone I just want you to know that you can achieve anything in this world. The key is to work hard and live life with an open mind. Don't limit yourself because the road less taken might be the road to your dreams.
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