ERIC DIAZ // CPT

I’ve been in a weight room since I was 12 years old. One of my earliest memories was sloppily bailing on a hang clean in the junior high football weight room. Two main issues with that experience: I was not on the football team, and no one coaching us knew how to coach the lift in the first place. Thank goodness I only left with a bruised ego. 

Around the same time period, I started working with a personal trainer. I enjoyed it so much that during my senior year of high school, I managed the gym’s front desk on fall Sunday afternoons during Tennessee Titans games. Even after all the knowledge gained from having personal instruction for years, I still managed to get myself pinned under a bench press on a Sunday when NO ONE was at the gym. Go figure, every gym client was at home or the stadium watching the big game. Luckily, I survived that day. And learned about ego as well.

Without question, my time having a trainer during those formative years changed the trajectory of my life. It wasn’t but a year after my bench press stupidity, that I found myself on campus as a D1 college baseball player. Four more years of weight room time. Four more years of learning and application. 

Once the playing career came to a close, I floundered professionally, pursuing different avenues that really had nothing to do with my talents or passion. I mostly ignored a big portion of my life (fitness/athletics), assuming I could not make those things work as my profession. It was after watching my wife have a successful career as a trainer, and me banging my head against the wall for years, that I finally made the jump into training in 2018. 

After thousands of hours training clients on the floor, completing mentorships with top industry professionals, and spending practically 2/3 of my life in a gym, I’ve equipped myself with the tools that I believe work best for the majority of people, myself included.

I exercise because I want to feel good, look a certain way, and live my healthiest possible life for my family and my career. If those things are important to you, I hope that you will let me guide you along the way. 

I live in Nashville, TN with my wife, Jennifer, and our crazy dogs, Luna and Griffey.