For more than 8 years, I have been in the fitness industry and have been involved with Personal Training, sports specific conditioning, athletic training, injury prevention, weight loss specialist, muscle gain specialist, endurance athlete training, and elite athlete conditioning. My role for the past 5 years was to develop personal trainers and to grow and maintain their business so that they could be successful in this industry. My personal training academic background includes:
- Fitness Manager for 5 years for one of the biggest fitness chains in the world
- Olympic Weightlifting Coach Accreditation (NSCA)
- 2 years of Sports Medicine Training (Modesto Junior College)
- National Academy of Sports Medicine Sports Fitness Specialist(NASM SFS)
- National Academy of Sports Medicine Optimum Performance Training(NASM-OPT)
- National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA)
- Advanced Performance Nutrition(NASM)
- Advanced Supplementation (NASM)
- Movement for the Everyday Athlete (NASM)
- Breaking Plateaus (NASM)
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I have given corporate presentations for the Importance of Personal Training and Education. Also, I have prepared Professional Athletes for the upcoming seasons, and have aided a multitude of private clients to there specific goal in under the desired target date.
I enjoy weight training for my health and fitness and I am now currently enrolled with a fighting club to challenge my conditioning and to shake things up with my program. I currently reside in San Diego, California; and I am always searching and reading for new exercises and ideas. The one big idea that I always preached to my trainers is that you can never stop learning enough because this industry is always changing and evolving. The moment you feel comfortable is the moment you lose the will to pursue.
The reason why I got involved with this industry is because someone told me that I could never be trainer and I didn’t have what it takes to make a great one. I started out as a front desk receptionist at a small gym in Modesto, California. One of the main reasons why I wanted to become a personal trainer was too help people out and to make sure they had the correct knowledge besides what they had read in magazines, and what they’re closest friends had told them.
Practically everyday I was working out and the members had started noticing my transformation too my body. I had started out at 160 pounds and my body was gradually gaining lean quality muscle. I owe the trainers at this tiny club much thanks because the only way I knew how to work out was by my football coach and friends. The personal trainers recommended some books to read, supplements to take, the best exercises for my goal, and how many calories I needed to get to my goal. I admit without this help I would still be struggling at 160 pounds. Along the way I was learning proper form and biomechanics, different intensities, and changing up your routine.
Soon enough when I was working out by myself the newest of members were asking me If I was a personal trainer or when I was planning on becoming one. This was the sincerest form of flattery for me because this was something that I never thought I would do. The more and more compliments and responses I received the more I wanted this. Now at this point I’m sitting at 202 pounds with 6% body fat.
I decided to put this too the test and I was giving fitness tips to the members for their goal. Suggestions such as how many repetitions to perform, foods to eat, and how much cardiovascular to do either before or after the workout. Even my school friends were asking me on what to do because they are seeing me change the right way. Some even asked me if I was taking steroids to enhance my look. Again I took it as a form of flattery and politely told them no!
The weeks went by and the members are thanking me because I had helped them burst through their plateau and helped them shed that last bit of fat. This for me decided it all and I was going to ask the head personal trainer about a job.
I thought I was a shoe in because of the way I looked and the knowledge that I had gained. I got along with everyone that I worked with except for this person. I admit when I had watched him trained his clients he was always doing the same things. I thought to myself how can someone change and achieve their goals if they are always doing the same exercises, weight, and cardiovascular with no progressions. But as time showed their bodies had never changed which led me to believe that he didn’t know what he was doing.
So I approached him regardless because I was as confident as can be, and I told him what I wanted to do. He had told me “NO,” your are not good enough and you are not what I am looking for in a personal trainer. I justified everything that I had been doing at that point to him and how all the personal trainers wanted me to be with them in their department. He still didn’t want me, for the only purpose that I know is that he didn’t like me for some reason and the actual intention why, never surfaced.
The answer he gave me extremely pissed me off and made me want to show him that I can be better at this than he was. It gave me a vendetta and all I needed was a reason to do so. So I read more and more, worked out harder and harder, and studied three times as hard. I went over to another gym in a different city called Manteca, and had interviewed with their head personal trainer. I owe a friend of mine thanks for setting up this interview for me through my small gym because he knew how hard I had worked.
I did extremely well with the interview, I took a practical test of 200 questions referencing to anatomy, physiology, and nutrition. He said he would give me a phone call on the results in a few weeks. One day when I got home from school I had a message waiting for me on the answering machine.
I was so nervous to hear the response, and the message said,” Josh, congratulations you passed and I hope you are ready to become a personal trainer.” I was overfilled with joy, I was on cloud 9 for the next few weeks I did the training classes that my new gym required and started to grow my clientele within a matter of weeks. My clients were losing the most amount of weight and achieving their goals in less amount of time. Soon I had referrals and the word spread around town to come train with me.
Ever since that day when I was told I wasn’t good enough to do this, that was my motivation to be the best. I went back to my small gym and thanked everyone that had helped me get to where I was at, except for the head personal trainer. I went to his office and presented a plaque that I received within my new fitness club. The award was for, ” The Number 1 Personal Trainer in the company.” This was all that I needed to say to crush him.
