About Me
Hi, I'm Mike
Also known as Hybrid Athlete Guy.
I love to lift.
I love to run.
And I love trying to be good at both, at the same time.
I'm 6' tall and ~192 pounds.
Here are some of my recent hybrid accomplishments:
December 2023: 20:35 5k
March 2024: 18:46 5k
June 2024: 1:26:19 Half Marathon and a 1200# Total (290# Bench, 400# Squat, 510# Deadlift) in the same week.
July 2024: 5:05 mile
September 2024: 17:23 3 mile
Here are some of my goals over the next few months:
Maintain the strength to total 1200# while running the following times:
-sub 5:00 mile
-sub 17:00 5k
I also plan to compete in my first Hyrox Open competition in November and a Hyrox Pro event in February 2025.
And next year, I plan to total 1200# and run a sub 3:00 marathon in the same week, among many other hybrid ftiness challenges.
My Story
The thing I care most about is my family: my wife and two kids (3 and 1).
The next most important thing to me is my health and fitness.
I've had a mixed realtionship with health and fitness over the years.
I have a BS in Sport and Exercise Science and worked as a personal trainer and CrossFit coach from 2012-2018.
In 2018, I left the health and fitness industry to pursue a career as a firefighter.
As a firefighter, I see firsthand what happens to those that neglect their health.
It's not pretty, trust me.
I've recently decided that I want to get back into coaching, this time (mostly) online.
I want to help others improve their health and fitness, and thus, their lives.
I truly belive, and can tell you from experience, that if you don't have your health, you have nothing.
No amount of money, fame, or power can compare with having your health.
Everything is better when you are fit and healthy.
Everything.
Your mood, your sleep, your happiness, your sex life, your relationships.
It all gets better.
And I want to help you experience that.
My Health and Fitness Journey
It's a long story that I'll share in full someday, but for now, here's the abbreviated version:
Ages 12-14:
Obsessed with running, fully believed I would be an Olympian some day.
Age 15:
Non stop running injuries for a year, got introduced to drinking and online poker.
15-23:
Spent most of my time drinking, partying, and playing online poker.
20:
Started infreqently lifting.
Started more frequently drinking.
23:
Found CrossFit, switched major to Kinesiology, quit drinking.
24-28:
Obsessed with CrossFit, coached it, spent all day in the gym, and planned to open my own gym.
28-30:
Injuries, lack of career growth, and a disillusionment with CrossFit all cause me to rapidly lose interest in CrossFit and health and fitness in general.
30:
Decided to become a firefighter.
Got hired.
Remotivated to be fit.
30-32:
Pretty fit.
Did mostly CrossFit style workouts then chronic injuries started piling up again.
32-34:
Had a kid, injuries slowly worsened, lack of sleep due to work, and a whole bunch of other "excuses" as to why I let myself go.
Slowly started working out less and less and got skinny fatter and skinny fatter.
35:
One day, a few months before my 35th birthday, I woke up, looked in the mirror, and said "What the fuck happened to you?"
Seriously.
I said that out loud to myself.
I can still remember it.
I just stood there for a few minutes disgusted with myself.
And not just because of how I looked.
Because of how I felt, how I was living my life, and the example I was setting for my kids.
I had completely stopped doing the thing I had loved most for so long: working out.
So I took a picture and commited to spending all of my free time regaining my health and fitness.
36:
I honestly can't belive how much my life has improved in just over a year.
Morgan Housel has the best definition of happiness that I"ve ever heard:
“Happiness is the gap between expectations and reality."
Well, my reality is currently far better than my expectations were a year ago.
Thinking about it still blows my mind.
Every aspect of my life has improved since then.
Every single one.
And it's all because I took responsibility and made some changes.
I didn't blame anyone.
I didn't blame having two kids under 3.
I didn't blame a job that wrecks my sleep a minimum of two days per week.
I didn't blame my recurrent, chronic injuries that have been causing issues my whole life.
It wasn't anyones or anythings fault but my own.
I got myself into that situation, and I got myself out.
12 years earlier, I had gotten myself out of a brutal, soul crushing alcohol addiction.
Comparitively, this was easy.
But I still had to put in the work.
And I did.
In one year, I changed my life.
And I want to help you do the same.
