My name is Jake Hanson. I grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And I didn’t exercise AT ALL until I went to college. I focused on playing guitar, watching movies and making money doing retail gigs.

In 2004, Freshman year of college, I ended up in the hospital for a couple nights. No I didn’t drink myself to death from Jack & Cokes, but had a bad reaction to meds the Doctor prescribed me. I felt like 100% garbage, WEAK, and soft. And to add to the misery I had a nurse ask if I was eating enough daily.

“Great, I look like a skeleton and people think I have an eating disorder”

After that I said enough, it’s time to get healthy and in great shape. Fast forward three years into my training and I decided to push myself further and enter into a bodybuilding competition. One of the hardest things I’ve done but am so glad I did it!

Fitness is fluid. You can start in one place and end in another. While I continue to live a bodybuilder’s lifestyle, I took up kitesurfing/snowkiting in 2010, a great cardio and core sport. And in the spring of 2019 I spent a month on Koh Samui, Thailand and got Muay Thai lessons from a 300-bout professional fighter. Another great cardio workout. Also, you get to practice useful techniques if you should ever need it. (hopefully you don’t!)

Travel has been a big part of my life. I’ve traveled to over 30 countries. I’ve lived in Sweden, Australia, Mexico, Thailand, and several states in the U.S. And I have exercised in many gyms in all those locations and learned a lot!

After years of self learning I decided to make it official and I received five Personal Training certifications. ACE, NASM performance Enhancement Specialist, NASM MMA conditioning, ACTION. And more recently I became certified as an Online Personal Trainer through the Online Training Academy.

I worked for a year as a personal trainer in a well known big box gym in Minnesota. I trained many types of clients; young and old, thin and overweight. no injures to severely injured. Im happy to say all of them saw improvements while we worked together. And I always helped guide them, to show to themselves, that they can do this and take ownership of their health.

Fitness is my passion. It’s was I love, and do. I read about it, I practice it, I live it. And I want to help as many others achieve their fitness goals so they can finally feel what its like to achieve something they never thought was possible.

GET AFTER IT!!!

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