I grew up in the foothills of central California. When I was young, all I wanted to do was ride dirt bikes. My parents did not fully endorse it. I moved into team sports and sold my dirt bike. During my athletic career, I fell in love with strength training, even when I was not actively participating in sports, I never went very long without getting into the gym.

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Once team sports ran their course in college, after much time spent not attending classes, I moved to Wyoming, and shortly after...bought a dirt bike. I joined a gym in Jackson Hole, Wyoming that used to go by the name of Mountain Athlete. After 3+ years at Mountain Athlete, my girlfriend and I moved over to the Idaho side of the Tetons, and we started a strength and conditioning gym called Targhee Athletics in 2013.

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I tried my hand competing in CrossFit and spent 4 years training with different coaches and different approaches. During that time I competed at three different CrossFit Regionals as an Individual. After 2017, I decided that I was no longer fired up to train to compete at that level in CrossFit, as it was cutting into the amount of time that I could dedicate to riding. I wanted to take riding more serious and do some racing. So I retired from trying to be the best at exercising, and began to focus more on riding, and training to enhance my experience on the bike. Long story short, I have been lifting weights and sprinting intervals my whole life, coaching others how to do it for 7, and doing some desert/enduro races for the past 3. I can attribute my fitness to a huge part of why I am able to enjoy riding the way I do, and I want to share that with as many people as I can.