Meet Your Coach.

Charles grew up 1 of 6 kids in swampy South Florida near the Everglades. He grew up either playing outside with friends or participating in youth activities at church. His love for the outdoors and movement began long before he understood their importance for health.

It wasn’t until a close call with fate in high school that Charles realized there was more to exercise than just playing or having big muscles. At 15 years old, after Charles had just begun working out regularly, he was hit by an SUV while biking to his first job as a lifeguard. While in the ambulance the EMT asked him if he worked out, explaining that if he hadn’t had such a strong back the SUV could have injured his spine. This experience had a huge impact on his young brain, and from that point forward Charles related exercise with physical longevity and resilience over aesthetics. This shift in mindset is what set him on the path toward the movement coach he is today.

He graduated from UCF with a Bachelors in Sports and Exercise Science and began working as a fitness trainer for a corporate gym. As he moved up the corporate latter he couldn’t shake a feeling that what he was doing was designed to serve the corporation rather than the public; he was pressured to sell expensive training packages to people and then set them up with coaches who would train them like body builders regardless of their personal goals or experience. In his time there he saw many injuries that seemed like they should have been avoidable.

He realized that he needed a deeper understanding of injury mitigation to be able to truly help people move in ways that would improve their quality of life, so he enrolled in Physical Therapist Assistant school. After 2 years in PTA school he felt more competent in helping to rehabilitate and prevent severe injuries and had a deeper understanding of the human musculoskeletal system, but the application in helping the average person move better was still unclear.

He was left feeling unsatisfied with the medical field’s focus on specific joints and muscles rather than how they integrate into the whole system, and knew there was a deeper understanding to be had to truly help people. That is when Charles discovered the Functional Patterns methodology which treats the body as a complete, interconnected system and helps people move in ways that are directly relevant to our human biology. Charles is currently certified as a Human Biomechanics Specialist under the FP system.