About Me

I grew up in North Jersey, and fitness was pretty much the opposite of my life growing up.

I was severely overweight. I didn't play sports. Most of my free time was spent playing video games, and at school, I was the kid who got made fun of for his weight. I had no confidence, couldn't talk to girls, and honestly wasn't happy with the person I saw in the mirror.

In 2021, when I was 13 years old and in 8th grade, I decided I wanted to change that.

I started the gym at around 230 pounds at 5'9" with basically no muscle. I had one goal: get shredded and finally be proud of how I looked.

The problem was, I had absolutely no idea what I was doing.

I never had a coach. Everything I know started with me researching on my own, experimenting, making mistakes, and figuring out what actually worked. I remember constantly trying to figure out who I could trust because there was so much conflicting fitness information online.

By the winter of 2021, something changed. The gym wasn't just about losing weight anymore.

I fell in love with it.

I eventually worked my way down from 230 to around 190 pounds. For the first time, I could actually see the results of the work I was putting in.

But my journey was nowhere near linear.

The next winter, I fell into the classic mindset of needing to "eat big to get big." I took my bulk way too far. Eventually, I worked my way all the way up to 260 pounds. I had built a lot more muscle, but I had also gotten fat again.

So I locked back in.

Over the next six months, I went from around 260 pounds to 180 pounds.

Going through both extremes taught me more about building an aesthetic physique than simply reading about it ever could. I've been the overweight kid desperately trying to lose weight. I've been the lifter who took a bulk too far. I've made the mistakes, learned from them, and figured out how to do things better.

But my relationship with the gym goes much deeper than my transformation.

When I was 13, shortly after I started lifting, I was diagnosed with pretty severe scoliosis. I was told I wouldn't be able to lift anymore and that the asymmetry it caused was something I'd have to deal with for the rest of my life.

For a kid who had finally found something he loved, that crushed me.

Then, about a week later, I found out my mom had cancer.

I grew up with my mom and without a dad in my life, so hearing that at 13 years old changed me forever.

During a period where it felt like everything was hitting me at once, the gym became my vice.

I kept lifting.

I kept learning.

And I kept trying to become a better version of myself.

That summer, I started posting my weight-loss journey online. At first, it was simply because I was proud of how far I'd come. But I also knew there were other kids looking in the mirror feeling exactly how I used to feel.

I wanted to show them that they could change too.

I looked up to creators like Jesse James West and Lexx Little when I was starting out. Seeing what they built made me realize that fitness could become something much bigger than just going to the gym.

From the beginning, I had this feeling that this was what I was meant to do.

Everything I've built since then comes back to the same reason I started posting in the first place: helping people avoid the confusion and mistakes I went through while building a physique they're actually proud of.

The guides and resources I've created are built from years of research, trial and error, successes, failures, and my own transformation.

I'm still building my story.

I'm still learning.

And I'm still chasing a better version of myself every day.

Five to ten years from now, I see myself doing the same thing I'm doing today—just on a much bigger scale.

Inspiring millions of people every day to get into the best shape of their lives.