Jordan Ellis

In my first year as a trainer, I was convinced that motivation was something you either had or you didn’t. I’d watch a client crush three weeks of early morning sessions, then vanish — and I’d quietly blame them. By…

I had a 44-year-old client — former college wrestler, still training four days a week — come to me frustrated and confused. He wasn’t slacking. His nutrition was solid. His programming was intelligent. But he was constantly sore, his lifts…

For the first eight years of my career, I told every single client the same thing: stretch before you work out to prevent injury, stretch after to cool down. I said it with confidence. I printed it on intake forms….

I remember the exact moment I realized I’d been watching the same mistake play out, over and over, for over a decade. A new client — late 30s, motivated, had just bought new shoes, a gym bag, and a six-month…

About three years into my career, I had a client — mid-40s, desk job, chronic low back pain — who told me her previous trainer had her doing 200 crunches a day. Two hundred. Her back hurt worse than when…