About Ken
After finding myself in a career without personal meaning I returned to my life’s passion, fitness. In 2009, I became a certified Personal Trainer and enrolled in the Kinesiology program at San Francisco State University. In 2010, I left my old career and embarked on my new one, as a Personal Trainer in San Francisco. As a Trainer, I have learned that health and fitness is a lifelong process that requires more than just lifting weights and riding an elliptical five days a week. True health and fitness requires a well thought out plan, dedication to change and a sound philosophy. Much like the Ancient Greeks, I utilize the mind, body and soul approach to health and fitness. Without one of these aspects it is hard to find a true balance in life and fitness. Studying the Ancient Greeks and how they considered education, philosophy and fitness to be equally important, made me realize that our society has largely lost that belief in the importance of a well rounded approach to health and fitness. That is when I came up with the idea of Telos Fitness, an approach to health and fitness that utilized much more than traditional resistance training design programming. My Telos, is to continue to help clients improve their health and fitness, by educating them in how to best train with and without their Personal Trainer. To identify and make significant yet simple enough changes to their everyday behaviors, such as eating habits and activity levels. To take a sound philosophical approach to both exercise, the structuring of their weekly workouts and how to accept what they can and can’t control in health and fitness.
As a high school and college runner I suffered through many preventable injuries caused by stubbornness, poor planning and over-training specific aspects of my fitness while neglecting others. In other words, I trained too hard, didn’t put much thought into how to effectively train and recover from my workouts, I didn’t do enough supplemental or cross training, and I didn’t eat well, sleep enough or release stress. When I learned that I was neglecting the very principals that I try to instill in my Personal Training practice I began to chart the journey to my own Telos, which was to be able to enjoy running, and be mostly injury free for the rest of my life. Using these principals, I began training smarter, listening to my body more closely, focusing more on recovery and improving my nutrition. In my mid and late 30’s I actually bested many of my personal records from the Mile to 10,000 meter races, some that I set in my early 20’s.
Although I had a much more well rounded approach to health and fitness, I still had much to learn about what it would take for me to work at achieving my Telos. For several years I had been experiencing aches, pains and even cognitive issues that I ignored while trying to survive my educational experience at SF State, while also dealing with a long commute and a still growing career in fitness. Eventually, I found myself dealing with very serious and disabling health problems. Today, I find myself on the right path to my Telos. I have made a breakthrough in my health and have mostly healed.
As a high school and college runner I suffered through many preventable injuries caused by stubbornness, poor planning and over-training specific aspects of my fitness while neglecting others. In other words, I trained too hard, didn’t put much thought into how to effectively train and recover from my workouts, I didn’t do enough supplemental or cross training, and I didn’t eat well, sleep enough or release stress. When I learned that I was neglecting the very principals that I try to instill in my Personal Training practice I began to chart the journey to my own Telos, which was to be able to enjoy running, and be mostly injury free for the rest of my life. Using these principals, I began training smarter, listening to my body more closely, focusing more on recovery and improving my nutrition. In my mid and late 30’s I actually bested many of my personal records from the Mile to 10,000 meter races, some that I set in my early 20’s.
Although I had a much more well rounded approach to health and fitness, I still had much to learn about what it would take for me to work at achieving my Telos. For several years I had been experiencing aches, pains and even cognitive issues that I ignored while trying to survive my educational experience at SF State, while also dealing with a long commute and a still growing career in fitness. Eventually, I found myself dealing with very serious and disabling health problems. Today, I find myself on the right path to my Telos. I have made a breakthrough in my health and have mostly healed.
