Strength Was My First
Language
I didn’t come into flexibility through yoga.
I came through the weight room.
Growing up I played a variety of sports; hockey, rugby, powerlifting but it wasn’t until a knee injury in high school that I discovered strength training. What started as rehabilitation quickly became an obsession with performance. I became a certified personal trainer in 2005, competed in powerlifting for years, and built my coaching philosophy around helping people become stronger.
Like many strength athletes, I let getting stronger sacrifice movement.
For a long time, I accepted that trade-off.
Until I couldn’t.
The Injury That Changed
Everything
A biceps injury in 2014 forced me to rethink everything I believed about training.
I had spent years chasing numbers on the bar, but I had also built a body that was incredibly strong in a few positions and limited almost everywhere else.
That realization sent me down a completely different path.
Instead of abandoning strength training, I started asking a different question:
“What if flexibility could be trained with the same principles we use to build strength?”
That question changed the direction of my career.
Over the following years I immersed myself in gymnastics, circus arts, flexibility coaching and movement training, while continuing to study strength and conditioning. Eventually developing skills like the front split, side split, pancake, bridges and head-to-toe positions as an adult.
Not because I wanted to become a contortionist.
Because I wanted to understand how adults actually change.
My Mission
Range of Strength wasn’t created to teach people how to stretch.
It was created to teach coaches and lifters how to program flexibility.
Over the last decade I’ve coached thousands of athletes and fitness enthusiasts, while teaching seminars throughout Australia, Hong Kong, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that flexibility isn’t about collecting more exercises.
It’s about understanding the principles that make them work.
Looking Back to Move
Forward
One influence that continues to shape my work is the philosophy of the old-time strongmen.
Long before mobility became an industry, they trained remarkable combinations of strength, flexibility and athleticism.
Their methods remind us that strength and movement were never meant to exist separately.
That philosophy sits at the heart of Range of Strength.
Not replacing traditional strength training.
Expanding it.
My goal isn’t simply to help people get more flexible.
It’s to change the way coaches think about flexibility.
To bridge the gap between strength and movement.
To help people build bodies that are not only stronger, but more capable.
Because I don’t believe flexibility should exist outside of strength training.
I believe it should be part of it.