Strong Dogs. Strong Humans. Same Discipline.
Over the past few years, I’ve dedicated my life to two things — training dogs and training people. At first, I thought of them as two separate worlds and honestly, I wanted them to be. One side of me was coaching clients in the gym, pushing them to build strength, discipline, and confidence. The other side of me was training dogs, teaching patience, order, and focus.
If you read my first post, you’ll understand that I wanted to shred my past life. Completely. I thought I was done with that version of myself. I needed to evolve and grow for my own good. I guess when I move on I move on completely. To the point that ‘thing’ is dead to me. And that niche of being a personal trainer was dead in me.
But just because I’ve grown doesn’t mean I have to change what I do. It just changes perspective. Remember my whole goal for this Strong Dog Project. It was to do two things.
1) To help you develop and have the best and strongest bond possible with your dog.
2) To inspire at least one person to make a jump they are scared to make in their life. Whether personally or professionally.
Yes I wanted something of mine. Yes I wanted a break from training people. But here’s the thing, I realized fitness has been such a big part of my life and continuing to learn more in that department as well, I figured I’ll have to train people differently. Meaning there’s only so much time in the day, I can’t do the 10-12 clients in a single day anymore. Hell, at my peak got up to 15-20 clients in a day.
After a few conversations, I kept hearing the same thing from different people who don’t even know each other: find a way to do both. That stuck with me. So I went back to the lab. The more I thought about it, the more obvious it became — they were right. These aren’t two different worlds at all. They overlap. They always have.
With that I realized the deeper I got into both, the more I realized something: they’re not separate at all. There’s more at the center of the venn diagram than on the sides.
The same principles that help a dog reach its full potential are the exact same ones that help a person transform in the gym.
Structure.
Discipline.
Consistency.
Skill.
Learning to stay calm under pressure.
And most importantly — building a bond between effort and growth.
When I’m training a dog, I see the same resistance and breakthroughs I see when coaching people. The dog that doesn’t want to hold “place” is no different than the client who wants to quit on their last set. The breakthrough is always the same: stay in it, stay consistent, trust the process.
Don’t feel like working out, you do it anyway. Don’t feel like training your dog? Fuck you, you do it anyway.
That’s why I’ve decided to bring both worlds together under one roof, my roof:
Strong Dogs. Strong Humans.
This isn’t about choosing between personal training or dog training. It’s about showing that the discipline is universal. When we train our dogs, we train ourselves. When we push ourselves in the gym, we show up stronger for our dogs. And our dogs are a representation of us. They are our mirror. You see a high drive, active dog, typically the owner isn’t one to lay around on the couch. You see a overweight, inactive dog, well it’s possible the owner is a like. There are exceptions of course.
So what does this mean moving forward?
Here’s the deal: I’m bringing both worlds together. You’ll see workouts. You’ll see dog training sessions. You’ll see me bleed the lessons from one into the other, because they’re the same damn thing.
And for those who want more, I’ll be offering ways to train both — you and your dog — side by side with me.
Because whether you’re holding a leash or a barbell, strength is built the same way: in the reps, in the process, in the discipline.
Strong Dogs. Strong Humans. Same Discipline.