I started my journey in Health and Fitness when I was about 3 years old. My mother told me that when I went into a doctors office, the doctor handed me a ball and I immediately threw it to her with decent form. That is when my mom knew to put me into sports.

I began to play baseball at age 5 and basketball at age 7. I was always active in both, sometimes playing on 5 different teams at one time. Outside of baseball and basketball though, I was always interested to see if I could play other sports. During recess and PE, I would always experiment to see if I was able to pick up different sports or games. I definitely knew from a young age that I had a unique ability to watch someone play or perform and be able to duplicate it. This was a gift and a curse. It was a gift because I would catch on quick and be able to play or perform right away. The curse, though, was that I got bored very fast. There is a great sense of accomplishment when someone is not able to perform or learn a task, but tries really hard and eventually is able to perform and they become really excited. For me, I would be able to watch someone for a little bit and then perform the task, do it for a while, then get bored and move on to the next task.

I remember when I was younger, watching Sherlock Holmes for the first time. This move was so fascinating to me because of the way that Holmes would be able to deduce what had happened in a certain crime. He had this incredible amount of knowledge that he would see certain details that no one else could see until he pointed them out. This sparked my interest in deduction really fast. I decided to try and learn as much as I can so that I would be able to have the superpower of deduction like Sherlock Holmes.

School was not the best place for me growing up. I definitely loved going to school, but to hangout with friends and play sports. Classes were another story. I got good grades but gave minimal effort because I wanted to learn so much more than just memorizing subjects to pass a test. Once I got into college and began studying Kinesiology, I became obsessed about the human anatomy and how all of the physiological systems of the body worked.

After graduating from California State University, Fullerton, I began my career in personal training/bodyworker. After graduation I was still working at a golf course in Costa Mesa, CA and made a lot of connections with different types of people. One particular connection introduced me to Muscle Activation Techniques. This technique fascinated me because it dealt with the neuromuscular system (how the brain and muscles connect). The MAT certification taught me how to assess peoples range of motion and pinpoint where they were having lack of connection to the related muscles. After 9 months of flying back and forth to Denver, CO, I completed the certification and started to help my clients. Then another connection that I had made in class, introduced me to yet another certification that had blown his mind. The certification deals with the nervous system as a whole and how it plays a role in pain, movement, and disease. The certification is called Propioceptive-Deep Tendon Reflex, or P-DTR for short. I started this certification in March 2018 and will be done with the full program in November 2018. After a few months of the course I made another connection with a trainer/bodyworker that has gone through several certifications that interested me more and more. The Sherlock Holmes in me wants to learn as much as I can to hone my deduction skills of the body, so after completing the P-DTR program, I look forward to many more certifications to learn and help as many people as I can.