Built from the bottom.
Refined at the top.
Still in the work.
Before KVFL, there was just a lost young man. Depressed, anxious, completely afraid of the life I'd created for myself. Days spent skating, doing drugs, binge eating. No job. At points, no home. Then a torn ACL forced me to stop running from it. I moved back in with my family and began confronting everything that scared me. Gave up drugs. Started reading. Went back to college. Got into fitness, not to look good, but because structure was the only thing that made the chaos feel manageable.
...But it wasn't clean. No programming, no rest days, massive deficits, nearly passing out weekly. My CNS was fried and my sleep was destroyed. I learned by getting everything wrong first, then studying relentlessly until the knowledge caught up to the effort...
...Now I coach full-time and build a business. I've lived the burnout. The energy crashes, the brain fog, giving everything 110% because anything less doesn't feel acceptable. I've had to learn what to protect and what to let go of. How to subtract without losing ground.
I don't coach from theory. I coach from every version of this I've personally built my way out of.