My background (and first love) is Massage Therapy. I graduated valedictorian with a 4.0 GPA from Cortiva - CSMT and I've had my license since Jan 2010. Later, I went to NPTI for a NASM Personal Training Certificate in Oct 2014 and went on to receive my Crossfit L1 the following year, Oct 2015. With these fundamental disciplines I was introduced to Functional Range Systems in 2017 and attended my first course - Functional Range Conditioning - in 2018. The content of this course hit me like a ton of bricks and I immediately realized my perspective on human movement, massage therapy and training was lacking, to say the least. This led me down a rabbit hole of passionate personal study into understanding the behavior and mechanisms of human cells/tissue to apply (with great success) to my manual therapy and training. For the rest of 2018 and 2019, I collected the Functional Range Release Spine/Upper Limb/Lower Limb certificate as well as the Functional Range Assessment certificate, all of which which are hands-on therapy-based practices. As for fitness, I consider myself a jack of all trades and am intrigued by many different disciplines. As a result, I have pursued many different types of fitness but have yet to become a master of one. Most recently my interest and focus has been Powerlifting, increasing aerobic/anaerobic capacity as well as learning Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I've also been doing more personal study on the effects of stress, heart rate variability/polyvagal theory, whole food nutrition/microbiome and their relationship to health optimization.  

In March of 2019, I decided to mesh all my education together and practice Functional Range Systems inside Big Shoulders Crossfit under the "The Better Humans Project". The rest is better humans in the making!