After spending some time doing manual labor by day, and personal training by night, Sam’s mentor inspired him to enroll in a local university and start working toward a degree in health and fitness. Fast forward 4 years, and a ton of hard work, Sam was applying to doctoral level therapy programs in the United States. After years of strength building, competing, and thriving in olympic lifting, powerlifting, and strongman, Sam has evolved into a true hybrid athlete. He’s run marathons, and longer, done day long cycle races, and takes full advantage of the diverse and beautiful mountain and lake landscape in his home of Kelowna, B.C.. Sam is also a girl dad, family man, and amateur cake baker. As a coach, Sam will tell you it’s always been about helping as many people as possible. As a small town boy from modest upbringings, he sometimes has to pinch himself to realize this online world and the people he’s been able to meet along the way are all real.