Arnold Classic– March 4th. I am 8 days out from this meet. This will be my first meet as a team member of California Strength! This meet is held in Columbus, Ohio. Collegiate Nationals– April 9th. This meet is held in Shrevport, Louisiana. At this meet I can possibly quali

Today’s training was pretty rough. We started out the morning by snatching up to 130kg (286lbs), then coming back up on a 2nd wave up to 130kg again (286lbs). Then, I Clean and jerked up to 150kg (330lbs). Then, in the 2nd session I snatched up to 135kg with no misses, then miss

This was really the saying that changed my competitive mindset. I was in 7th grade and we were in the middle of our junior high wrestling practice. Bryon Hoffman was our coach at the time. He is one of the most fiery guys you have ever met. He might have had the biggest impact on my c

The PERFECT way to end my wrestling career that started when I was 5 would be a state championship. My career would be complete. So I thought. It was a minute after I had been crowned a state champion and I was crying…out of anger. I was angry with the way I wrestled in the fina

Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I had a great talk with Steve Gough this morning and am definitely ready to attack today and the rest of the week with a different mindset. I haven’t been training the way I have wanted to the last week and a half or so. But, I am r

I wanted to have another blog about saying thanks…I really appreciate all the support I have been receiving. Whether it’s through product sales or donations, every single bit of it I appreciate!! Everyone has been amazing so far. The first few years I was out of high schoo