Personal Trainer Overview

I train hard and ask my clients to please let me know when they need a break. I will not just walk around the gym and watch you work out. Why would you want to hire somebody who only gives you what you can get by yourself? I am always changing the workouts up and never doing the same thing twice!

Training Philosophy

"Walk The Talk" is what I do and live by! My best training method is to always change up training methods! By that I mean that our bodies want to achieve one thing more than anything else and that is to maintain status quo. So if you allow that to happen then you will never grow. You have to change up all aspects of your workouts so you keep your body responding. An example is that if you always do bicep curls slow and in the same way then your body always sees it as the same and your body does not get "stimulated" to grow. But if do you some staggered reps(or something else different and more difficult) where you hold for a few seconds in between the start and midpoint, then that will "wake your body up" so to speak and the muscles contract more and stronger. So that the next day your biceps are soar and you know you have really "done something" So that is what I do, always "shaking" things up!

Education

Registered Nurse, Personal Trainer,Pilates Instructor, SAQ(Speed, Agility, Quickness) Specialist, Group Fitness Strength Training, Degree Computer Programming (I do not know if that will be useful to you, but it is something I have got!)

Bio

Rick grew up in Kentucky where he worked on the family farm.He developed his passion for fitness while working out in his grandmother's barn. He initially began training after being repeatedly picked on by a bigger boy on the school bus. Rick soon found out that all he had to do was to develop his body and the bulleys of the world would no longer pick on him. He never had to even raise his clenched fists once! Rick has been working out ever since. He moved to Oregon in 2001 and found his love for running mountains. Since then he has run the Pikes Peak Marathon once and the Pikes Peak Ascent 3 times. In 2009 Rick ran 11 marathons, one half marathon and a 50 miler!