About Ken

Growing up I was always small and I got picked on a lot – probably no more than anyone else but I thought it was a lot.  My mom told me to tell them “you’re just a big bully”.  Well, that went over well.  Not.  Finally my dad, who was a 6’4″ and 230 lbs. ex-marine, heard about what was going on and asked me to exercise with him.  I did and after six months of exercising we had to take our shirts off in gym class and I heard the two boys next to me whisper “look at his chest”.  Guess what, no one picked on me after that!  I thought that was pretty cool and so I started exercising more.  So much so that my dad asked me if I could do this for eight hours a day.  I said that I could.

I promptly went off to college and got a degree in finance and was a banker for five years. I was the credit manager and one day when I was talking to a loan officer and I fell asleep! He had to clap his hands together to wake me up.  ‘I gotta get out of this business.’  I quit my job in Wyoming and moved to Houston not knowing what I was going to do.  I filled out this book called What Color Is Your Parachute.  It’s a workbook that narrows your answers to four things that you would like or be good at and guess what – personal training is what I should have been doing all along.

They say to find what you love to do and you’ll never work a day in your life.  Well I have found what I love!  Helping people achieve their fitness goals gives me great pleasure!

I have been training people for over 33 years helping hundreds relieve pain, lose weight, get strong, and recover from surgery as well as getting them ready for surgery by making their body strong and supple.

I have 3 certifications – ACSM Exercise Physiologist and The Brookbush Institute Certified Personal Trainer and Human Movement Specialist.

I invented and patented several products to improve posture.  You can check those out on my Stand Up Str8 website.

I have a beautiful wife and two wonderful children.