About CJ
I attended The National Personal Training Institute to get a full hands on approach at training and how the human body reacts to the workouts we put it through. I understand that getting the body you want and reaching the goals you desire doesn’t come easy to all of us, actually that it doesn’t come easy to most of us.
I have lived in Sioux Falls, SD my whole life and have been in the gym setting since sophomore year in high school. It was about then when I realized that I wasn’t the most in shape kid in class and wanted to feel better about the way I looked and felt. So I started to wake up early before school and go to the gym. I would do my best at the exercises I thought would build muscles where I wanted them and ran on the treadmill to help burn fat that I didn’t want.
To be honest I really didn’t know what I was doing but hey, I was doing something, right? As graduation came closer and the thought of a career started to be a more common topic, I found myself continually turning to the thought of the gym. How awesome would it be to be able to work in a place where I could help better the lives of others! So that’s what I decided I would do, go to school, become a trainer and life would be great. I did just that, attended school learning so many things that basically had me in aw, like man if I would have known that all those mornings going to the gym I’d probably be an Olympian.
I was so excited to have this knowledge of the body and the gym and how I could start helping people win back their health. I quickly found a job as a trainer at one of the local gyms in town. That’s also when I found out that “life would be great” mindset that I had started to slip away. Life got busy real fast and I found myself leaving the training world to work for a family business in town. I knew deep down that I needed to get back in the fitness world and wanted to help people achieve their goals. That’s when I started digging, trying to figure out how I could get back into it and really make an impact on the people of our community.