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Growing up, I was always the most skinny, unathletic, and anxious kid. To make matters worse, I suffered a crippling shoulder dislocation as a freshman in high school that left my shoulder chronically unstable. To try to change my narrative, I picked up weightlifting and spent years seeking different methodologies for improving strength, packing on muscle, and enhancing athleticism. In hopes of helping others with the knowledge I had accumulated over the years, I became a personal trainer at a commercial gym here in Orange County at 19 years old and started working with many clients who were dealing with chronic pain and injury.

I quickly realized that the industry-standard techniques were ineffective at best, and damaging at worst. No amount of traditional strength training, stretching, or corrective exercise could effectively build muscle or strength without causing more imbalances for myself and my clients. Frustrated at the lack of results and inability to help my clients, I researched alternative systems outside of mainstream health and fitness and came across Functional Patterns.

Functional Patterns immediately stood out because of its emphasis on real-world, practical results. Not only was FP’s theory of training in accordance with human evolution logically sound, but it was the only system that actually produced substantial before-and-after transformations on people from all walks of life. I fully committed to buying the Functional Patterns 10-Week Online Course and making the 1.5 hour drive to the nearest Functional Patterns facility in Santa Monica weekly to learn all I could about the system.

Functional Patterns practitioners were the only ones to identify and correct my scoliosis (that I was previously unaware of) which unlocked the athleticism I lacked my entire life. As I was experiencing incredible results untwisting my scoliosis and rehabbing my chronic shoulder instability, I noticed a lack of FP practitioners in Orange County despite there being an abundance of people in pain who could benefit from the relief that FP provides. In 2021, I got certified to teach this groundbreaking system to others and guide them towards living with an integrated, strong, resilient, and pain-free body.