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Hey, nice to meet you. I hope you're doing well.
My name is Mitch, and this is not something I enjoy doing.
More likely than not, you don't know me. I'd like to change that a little bit.
In February I turned 22. This September will begin my third year as a strength and conditioning coach.
Before that, I was in college studying computer science, psychology, and criminal justice, bouncing between ideas of working for the DHS, FBI, or changing entirely to be an EMT.
Before that, I was a high schooler teaching MMA in a space rented by an older friend while working at the family business, going to college, and trying to manage a social life I became depressed and felt hopeless. Through loss and trauma, I gained many scars that have yet to heal.
Before that, I was a 12 year old obsessed with video games and trying to cram in as much play time between college classes, a social life, and normal middle school adventures.
Still before, I was a child with Asperger's who had difficulty speaking, trying his shoes, and being a part of society as a whole. I was not meant to be a "person". I was not meant to be who I am.
But none of that matters. How angry I was in my teens, how scared I was as a child, and how lost I was in college have been washed away with time. I was not meant to meet the wonderful people I have met. I was not meant to be as close with those I consider family as I am. Fate tried through cancer, illness, disorder, heartbreak, death, loss, and abandonment to stop me from living. Unfortunately for fate, above all else, I am relentless.
Through the help of my brother, friends, family, and girlfriend I have forged a path of my own. I have overcome many ails, am determined to overcome many more, and more importantly have found my calling to shepherd others to doing the same. I believe everyone can be better, and I know better than most what it feels like to be hopeless, lost, and defeated. I am not going to lie to those who seek help and tell them the path is easy. It isn't. But I will pick you up with every fall and we will walk together. I did it. If I can, so can you.
If you have made it this far, thank you for your time.
Fitness isn't one size fits all. I know that better than almost anyone.
That's why I have worked tirelessly for YEARS to make a system that can be scaled to anyBODY who is committed to getting fit
I've worked with grandma's who have never stepped foot in the gym
I've worked with
✅Combat sport athletes
✅Military personal
✅Football Players
✅Arm Wrestlers
✅Tennis Players
✅Pregnant women
✅Baseball Players
And any other demographic you can think of and everyone has walked away with tremendous results.
Clients have lost weight, gained weight, become stronger, more mobile, more enduring, and tremendously more athletic no matter the age group. Pain subsides and life becomes not only easier, but more fun.
I'm not only focused on making you look amazing, but I want you to FEEL it too. My clients are able to look at any physical task and know that they can at least try with confidence. Nothing is off limits.
What's more is that I'm a terrible business man. A client "cured" is a client lost? Good. Our goal here is to not only train you physically, but teach you how to move properly and create your own program that would be right for you so that we are no longer needed. I don't want my clients to rely on anyone, not even me. If you love challenging yourself as much as I do, I want to keep building your tool box. Not only will you get better physically, but mentally as well
Are you ready to start writing your own origin story? Comment or DM me "Origin" and let's get to work
We've all heard before that you should get 10000 steps in a day, but that advice is often misinterpreted.
You don't need to walk 5 miles in a setting and call it a day, just like how you don't need to go to a gym for two hours and spend the rest of your time sitting. Finding ways to cue yourself or prompt movement in your day to day life is the easiest and most reliable way of conditioning yourself to exercise more or simply be more active.
Choose stairs over elevators, make a point of getting up from the floor without using your hands, or use any of the advice I gave in this video to make training constant and habitual instead of a demoralizing punishment.
Or check out Traveling Man on the website. Those workouts take, like, 15 minutes. And I know you've been on IG for more than 15 minutes.
My coaching style isn't for everyone, and that's okay. It is for people who:
- Want to lift 300+lbs with one hand
- Avoid gassing out in fights
- Be able to throw an adult man over their shoulders
- Put a couple hundred pounds above their heads with one hand
But those are just my feats. Doesn't mean my clients can do it, right?
Well Sara is a mom of six and does Yoke Walks heavier than your max squat. Kaylee was doing 124# kettlebell swings for sets of 12 just a couple months after her 10 minutes of pushing. Dianne was told she couldn't lift above five pounds and ended her time with me performing sandbag over-the-shoulders and landmine snatches.
Orrie started out at 120lbs when he was training with me. He just weighed in at 170 and can do a full iron cross. Noah's a new dad, but still finds time to work on his mobility and gas tank. Brendan and Jason have gotten BEEFY since structured, intense programming came their way.
But like I said, not everyone wants these results.
Protect ya bones.
Many of the issues that people attribute to aging are a direct result of their lifestyle prior to the actual symptoms. As far as bone degredation goes, the more we aim to increase musculature, especially through methods that apply direct downward force through our bodies, the more we can fight against aging. Your skeleton can grow and heal just like your muscles can, it just takes time and a bit of discomfort.
It can be hard transitioning from the gym bro machines to the unconventional world.
Luckily, you're overthinking it
If your gym has kettlebells or sandbags, the process can be as easy as playing with hoisting maneuvers
Or, if equipment is the issue, there are plenty of old time strongman lifts using only dumbbells and barbells.
If you still can't figure it out, comment ORIGIN and I'll set you up with something new.
Looks like this one has been in the archives for a while.
My training is pretty consistent
Or at least I would like it to be
I'm consistently doing some combination of two things:
1. Violence. Moving my body or external weight as quickly as I can and as heavy as I can quickly. This, combined with low rest times, makes for fantastic S&C circuits which transfer perfectly to combat sports. This type of programming gets a bad rap by a lot of combat sport S&C coaches as more of a gimmick than anything, and to me that sentiment only shows a coach's lack of originality. If you move up in either mechanical difficulty or weight consistently, then we still meet all of the qualifiers for traditional training with the added benefit of endurance. Are kettlebell jerks inherently good exercises? No. Of course not. Are touch and go sets of five with 79 pounds torching for the shoulders as part of a circuit? 100%
2. Movement. When I'm exhausted or just low on time, I'll work my way through patterns where the point of failure isn't weight, but coordination. This leads to an almost meditative effect due to the necessity of intrinsic motivation. A hand stand feels good not because of some arbitrary notion of hold time, but because of an increasingly strong relationship with one's own body. Stretch, natural patterns, or even acrobatics all play a part here.
If you're interested in training that goes beyond the bodybuilding machines, comment ORIGIN and let's get started!
Hinging is arguably one of the most important movement patterns in athletics, responsible for not only a substantial amount of lower body power and strength, but also back health and overall fortitude. That's why they should be varied to leave no stone left unturned.
Playing around with different variations, tools, angles, and stances can all help to make you a more formidable athlete by forcing your body to adapt to new stimuli and produce force in odd positions.
This is by no means saying to never do traditional lifts, but instead an encouragement to branch out and find new weak links to patch.
I'm SHOCKED over just how many "fitness" "coaches" and "influencers" don't know how to properly do a kettlebell clean. They'll sell you padding before they teach you how to do it right.
Pro tip: any time you hear the words "clean", "Jerk", or "Snatch", that's a cue to get UNDER the weight. Our goal is to catch at the float point and absorb as little impact as possible.
The open hand does wonders
