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all right. I think we are live. What's up, Mike?

Are you doing, buddy? I'm good, man. This is always the part where we pretend like we didn't talk for a few minutes beforehand. So,

how are you? Are you everything? Good. I'm hanging in there, man. It's another another crazy week as usual, but I'm doing all right. How are you?

We finally got this we got this scheduled ready to happen before we dive in. Can you just do me a favor and introduce yourself? Mike Mike is an old friend of mine.

A really incredible, not just coach, but individual, really great human. So, can you just introduce yourself? Tell a little bit about yourself who you are.

Tell them where they can follow you on social media and just tell them a little about yourself.

Absolutely. So, I've been fortunate enough to be a strength and conditioning coach for 18 years and over that time, I've worked with athletes of all ages, not even just athletes, but general population.

I mean, I've worked with anywhere from elementary school, middle school, high school, collegiate professional athletes from, you know, UFC, Major League Baseball NFL MLB, you name it.

And I do a lot of post rehab work. So, we get a lot of referrals from local orthopedic doctors and physical therapists that send us clients over so we can bridge the gap from, you know, physical therapy into personal training and getting them back on the quarter of the field or whatever they're doing.

So, yeah, I've been doing this for 18 years.

You know, my first job, I started off with really no experience. I was an intern. I went to school for sociology. I went to school to be a police officer.

And, yeah, so when I was done with school, I was taking the civil service exam and there just wasn't any spots open, even though I scored really well.

So, I was like, oh man, like, I don't know if I'm going to have the opportunity right now to get into the police force. So, at that point, I played college soccer.

And one of my dreams at that point was to play professional soccer and I had a bunch of friends with the revolution.

And I started training with these guys and I just got friendly with them and I ended up trying out for a PDL team based out of Rhode Island made the team. But then I realized it was like $5,000 a year for like five nights a week.

And I had to drive like an hour and a half each way. So, I was like, you know what? Like cool. Like in my mind, I had the opportunity. But I was like, all right, this is the juices and worst of squeeze.

So, at that point, I became friendly with the owner of the facility and we were just talking shop and he's like, hey, do you ever think about being a, you know, strength coach personal trainer and I was like, well, yeah, but I'm like, I don't have the formal education, man.

Like, I, you know, I used to lift weights in my basement with my old sears and robot like weight set made out of like, you know, concrete and plastic covering and stuff like that.

But I didn't have any formal education. So, I'd had to intern for a year of our, I was there at six in the morning, stayed till seven or eight o'clock at night.

And I just worked my tail off for six or seven years at that point. I had another opportunity to move on to be a director of personal training at a larger facility.

Was there for a little bit of time and then I just realized, listen, it's time to open my own facility and we opened our gym skill of strength, which is located in sheltered mass.

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