We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Tyler Roach a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Tyler thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.

About 6 months after starting my first job, the gym I was at gave me a client. This client was a 14 year old kid who played baseball, basketball and football. He was ranked as the 5th best pitcher in the state of GA at the time. His fast ball was at 82mph, in the year and couple months we’ve been working together his velocity has gone up to 86-87mph and is currently ranked as the second best pitcher in GA. He recently went to a college for a training camp and was told by the head coach that if the kid wasn’t a freshman in high school he would offer him a scholarship right then and there (with the new rules students can’t receive offers until their junior year) the kid hasn’t even pitched his first high school baseball game and is already on radars. It’s a testament to his work ethic and how had he wants it. I’m happy to be apart of his career and am looking forward for the opportunity to help other kids elevate their games

Tyler , before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I’m a very basic person, I don’t need too much to enjoy life. I love sports (basketball is my favorite), I love clothes, obviously the gym, time w family and friends, and music (I listen to a lot of different music, very seldom I listen to country but I do have a playlist, I listen to a lot of rap, metal and emo music. When I’m in the gym it’s either head banging to metal or probably Big Yavo or BigXThaPlug. Music is my fuel. Growing up I struggled finding myself, I wanted to please other people, I wanted to be accepted by people, I never really knew who I was until recently. I’ve done music & photography, but I think personal training is where I really found myself. I always wanted to play sports growing up but never got to, in high school I tried out for the basketball team but didn’t make the team (I didn’t get my physical until the last day of tryouts. I had weight training but honestly I slacked off in that class… I was very skinny for my height. I’m about 5’10 and was 130lbs throughout high school, I always had a number I wanted to reach on the scales but never made any changes to reach the goal. In 2020 right before Covid really sprung up I got into the gym and started to try to put the weight on, I was really inconsistent through the first 3 months or so and didn’t know what I was even doing. I downloaded an app and paid for a workout plan to get me started & after about 6 months I started doing my own thing. When I first started working out I was doing your typical “gym bro” workouts, until I met one of my now best friends who works out primarily using kettbells. I switched the way I train completely, the way I look at fitness completely changed and I really started to enjoy it. I’ve now found what works best for me and what I find joy in, which is training similar to how an athlete would. As we age we don’t only need to keep our muscles strong but we need to be mobile as well, we need to be able to move through different planes of motions, different ranges of motion and be able to stabilize ourselves. I think what helped me find the style of training that I enjoy was when I started training a couple of athletes. I went on instagram and started watching some of the trainers there and really started to educate myself on what it’s like to train for longevity and functionality.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

Scientifically proven workouts. Sure maybe there is scientifically backed evidence that certain exercises build the most muscle, however some of those exercises have too much risk for the reward (If you’re not a body builder) and some of them just aren’t applicable to every day. They say machines build the most muscle because you get maximum stability… shouldn’t we want to be able to move weight without being stabilized by a machine? I get it… it builds the most muscle, but the same repetitive thing over and over gets old, spice your workouts up, make them fun & challenge yourself by doing things “out of the norm”

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

About 2 months after beginning my personal training career I got kicked out and was living in my car for about a year and a half. I could have went back to my old job and made more money, I could have found something else that pays more than training did at the time… Training brings me fulfillment, happiness, it’s what I love to do… I’d take a pay cut and deal with temporary instability to be able to do what I love in life, before I spend my life miserable at a job that I come 2nd to. With training I make my own schedule, I see the people that I want to see and I get to see first hand the good things that my business does.

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