The beginning of my personal trainer journey

It was in 2005 that I decided to become a personal trainer. I was a university student studying criminology at the University of Ottawa. Back then, I had two things on my mind: playing soccer at the highest level possible and becoming an RCMP officer or teacher.

I decided to go the Orléans Recreation Complex after supper in order to get a quick workout before heading downtown with my friends. Halfway through my workout, I saw a local personal trainer teaching a few of his clients how to do deadlifts. I approached him and asked him if he could help me train so that I could make the top soccer team in the region. At that point in time in my soccer ‘career’ one of the top team was the Gloucester Hornets Men’s premier team. The trainer told me that for 500$ a month, he would train me a minimum of three times a week. I remember thinking to myself that for 500$ a month, I can become a certified personal trainer through Can Fit Pro, so why would I want to pay another trainer that type of money?

The following week, I went to my weekly coaching clinic with the Gloucester Hornets and I met a man there. This man was a local community soccer coach but he was also a PRO Trainer with Can Fit Pro. What a coincidence, just the other day I was thinking of taking my personal trainer specialist course and here I have in front of me the same man who teaches that class. Needless to say, I signed up for the next PTS[1] course with Can Fit Pro. I received the manual a couple of months prior to my first PTS class. I read the book in its entirety a couple of times before the course even started. I had never read the same book twice and here I am reading over and over again the PTS manual. I went to every class with enthusiasm (this rarely happened in my five years of studying at OttawaU). Afterwards, I passed the written and the practical test. I had found my first passion – personal training.

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[1] Personal Trainer Specialist