My journey is ongoing, and I'm always learning, looking to better myself to be more able to help those around me. It all started for me at a young age when my father held me in one arm as a baby and played tennis with his other. At about age 3, I started tennis and my path to professional tennis. Throughout my childhood, I competed and had success in hundreds of competitions. I won many national and international level tournaments. At around age 13, I started lifting at the gym and was very fortunate that a family friend was an experienced fitness trainer that took me under his wing. He had many elite athletes as clients, from Olympic medalist cyclists, to NBA, NFL, NHL athletes. Some of my best memories were getting to meet them and even work out with some. It inspired me to do all I can to become an elite athlete. I also fell in love with bodybuilding. I was reading all the top magazines involved with fitness and health, which had a lot of useful advice and so much misinformation and myths about training, nutrition, diets, and supplements. I coached tennis at an early age to make funds to keep my dream alive. In my early twenties, I became a professional tennis player but struggled to make much headway due to lack of finances, improper training, dieting, and nutrition. Even though I had great potential in tennis. I beat some of the best tennis players in the world as a junior, who became top players in the sport.
I was lifting a lot because I loved bodybuilding and tennis, but due to inexperience, I was doing a lot of things wrong. I went for ego lifts, which along with
the difficulty of Tennis training and competition, led to injuries. My diet was terrible. I was force-feeding myself just to get bigger and stronger, eating the wrong things, spending hundreds on supplements that didn't work.
I knew something had to change. I read and learned from science-based articles on nutrition, diet, and training.
Learning from the top minds in sports, nutrition, fitness, and anything related to performance.
I took a science-based approach and experimented with various training methods and all the different diets. I got really fit and now I'm in the best shape of my life and only getting better. My results kept going up and up on the tennis courts, in the gym, and everywhere else. I used to dislike running or endurance type training. I could barely run a couple of miles without getting tired or getting some sort of pain. Now I run daily anywhere from 3-6 miles along with my tennis, gym, and other training.
These past years I've been working with hundreds of clients worldwide, from athletes to just people looking to be fit and healthy. I've kept track of what works and doesn't work for them.
Everyone is unique, has different goals, different bodies, different likes and dislikes. One size does not fit all. This is why the fad diets, crash diets, crazy training methods, overhyped supplements all fail even if they work for a short amount of time.
I've been around the world for my tennis tournaments and have won multiple titles both from an early age and in my professional career. I've worked in the top sports academies globally and top strength and conditioning coaches, nutritionists, and seen the diets and cuisines of many countries. My coaching goals and this guide are to help others with my experience in their nutrition, athletics, and any other goal they may have.
