Coach Charlie

CrossFit Coach, Fitness Trainer, MMA Athlete, Author & Therapist

I’ve been a Personal Trainer since 1997 and have been Neuro-Muscular Therapist since 1994. Through out this time, I have received certifications through various agencies such as NSCA, ACE, NFPT, ISSA and Mad Dog Athletics for Spinning. I have also attended seminars with the likes of Dr. Leon Chaitow, Dr. Hatfield, Aaron Mattes, Martin Rooney, JC Santana, Danny Inosanto, Master Chai, the Sayoc's, the Gracie’s and Rhadi Furguson. I’ve been involved in martial arts and fitness since I was 4, and have earned my Blue Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu over a year ago under Rob Kahn and the Royce Gracie Network. I currently run a Fitness Boot Camp, train personal clients and am the Strength and Conditioning Coach for Tampa Muay Thai.

I first began lifting weights when I was 13, inspired by Arnold. From there my training progressed throughout the years from the Bodybuilding style protocols to Power Lifting into Corrective Exercise & Neuro-Muscular Facilitation and Athletic Conditioning including Speed, Agility and Quickness Training and Metabolic Conditioning protocols. My dedication to the world of fitness is driven by my interest in the study and practice of human athletic peak performance.

Then I rediscovered CrossFit over the summer of 07. After reading about CrossFit’s history, I realized that I first came across it years ago when it was just a simple page site. At the time, it seemed like my training was already going in the direction of CrossFit, due to how Bruce Lee’s training theories influenced me in the value of cross-training to develop a more well-rounded fighter and athlete.

Since finding it once more, I feel like I have found a home and a community that is interested in the whole athlete and person, motivated by true results. Finding CrossFit is like finding a long lost community of people who passionately feel as I do about what exercise and fitness should be and truly is. For so long I have been telling and pushing my clients to test their perceived limitations and that training for fitness is so much more than 30 minutes on the treadmill and 3 sets of 10, and now I know I have found so many others that have been voicing the same message.

Being a CrossFit Affiliate enables me to band together with people who I can call brothers and sisters to help and support each other in showing the general public how fun, interesting and rewarding getting in shape can be.

I have been personally utilizing the CrossFit protocols on myself and with my clients and the results have been awesome. Getting 60 year old women to be able to perform jumping pull-ups including their reaction, is just a sight to see!

The value of CrossFit's WOD’s is that you know that there is a whole army of people, from all walks of life, all levels, all over the world, suffering and training as one. So even if I am training alone, I know I am not really alone because so many others are sharing in my experience.

I hope to continue to be able to broadcast the message of true fitness to so many more people, and have them know that there are so many others just like them, that are discovering that fitness can be a group thing, and that everyone, no matter who or where, goes though the same experiences in their journey towards a higher level of fitness and quality of life.

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