Meet Carlos

My career began actually working on my own health and weight challenges.  

My unique training approach and attention to detail are the foundation of my personal training success.  I utilize over 11 years of experience in the industry, as well as an extensive military and educational background to provide an expert level of training services.

My beginnings are humble.  A combination of highly volatile family home situations and a dynamic military life routinely forced me to change schools in several different countries growing up. As a result, making friends was impossible, leading to me being further bullied throughout my teen years until I went to college.  I was the kid with no friends, the kid who ran and hid in the journalism classroom during lunch so I wouldn’t have to face the horrors of sitting alone in the cafeteria, the kid who was often-times terrified of even going home.  I was the poor kid, always the “loser.”

That was a long time ago.  As an adult, I’ve manifested positivity and enormous strength from those miserable years.  Now I’m in the unique position of being able to relate to and help people from a wide range of backgrounds achieve their goals, having now worked with over 600 athletes and clients.

Having a mostly traumatic past has had adverse effects on me as an adult, so to heal I have become very experienced in several different plant medicine modalities, which have positively affected my life in ways beyond description. Just like people mold their physical forms in the gym, I believe equal energy should be directed to healing from our past traumas - which is the only way to break the cycle and avoid passing it on - and hopefully along the way find self-love and self-worth.

Personal Training is a natural fit for me.  I’ve been through some of the worst of the worst.  Nothing, in the gym or out, can scare me. Nothing can stop me. 

Be fearless. Be unstoppable. If everyone did that, we could literally change everything.

Carlos is 35, having graduated in 2008 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a degree in Anthropology.  He then served in the United States Navy for 6 years as a Russian Linguist. Having lived all over the world, he now calls Los Angeles home. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University in Los Angeles, and is working on a sci-fi/fantasy novel based on his abusive childhood about generational trauma. He’s been writing his whole life, he just finally had the balls to go after it.