In early October of 2013, after the Dallas Cowboys played, I was riding my bicycle down a hill to go back home, and a car swerved, struck me, and threw me into a light pole (the pole did not stand a chance).  I suffered a broken neck, clavicle, ribs, I bit through my tongue, cracked all my teeth, nerve damage on the left side of my eye, and my kneecap permanently sticks out.  

    Thanks to my stubborn nature I looked forward to working toward my recovery, which started a month later.  I found strength from my mother who was battling stomach cancer at the time and got up and started walking 3 miles every day to college, Shippensburg University.  I must admit at the time I must have looked crazy walking down the road with a neck brace, a debilitating limp, and a bookbag.   

     After most of the swelling went down in my knee I started to go to the gym (still in a neck brace), and doing what I could to keep my muscle tone despite the pain I was in.  

    I started to record my progress on Facebook and Instagram,

and showing people “despite how hard life may throw you down, like a rubber ball you just have to bounce back up higher” (President Bill Clinton).  The more I shared the more people who started to ask me for fitness advice.  

     I have been active all my life from doing martial arts since I was a young kid to working out for NFL scouts and coaches, so I used what I learned and what I have taught to others to help myself and the people who came to me for advice.  By December I got such positive feedback from my results, and people asking me to create a workout and diet plan for them that I decided to create an online fitness coaching business just to make a little extra money.  

    When I finished college, I went back home to be with my mother who was recovering from chemotherapy, and like any other graduate I started looking for a new career.  Which led me to a job interview in Connecticut, but I found out that my mother would have to go through another round of chemotherapy, so I made the decision to stay close to home.  I tried to get a good paying job around my area but there was nothing, so I decided to take what was lacking in my community and be a leader in health and fitness.  I got my personal training certification from NCCPT National Council for Certified Personal Trainers), and then Tru Training was born!  

 

I decided to take my love of helping people and my love of fitness, cooking, and learning about the human body to the next level.