I was born competitive

From a young age I have always been competitive with the attitude second place was the first loser. Throughout my schooling I was always an athlete, from track and field, a long distance state runner, Camden representative cricketer, rugby league. You name it, I played it. Well except soccer, that was, and still is something that doesn’t interest me.

Moving into my mid to late teens I dropped the footy and cricket and moved into triathlons which I excelled at winning both my age and senior champion in the first year. I competed at my club and competed in a lot of the major Sydney and south coast competitions. One of my best finishes was within the top 10 in the sprint event in a field of two hundred.

Then life happened. I had to get a job. I had 2 boys at a very young age, so sport took a back seat to family life until my kids were old enough to play sport then it all started again.

I had my first assistant coaching role at age 13. This was for my younger brother’s rugby league team. Once I had my own kids I started coaching again as well as coaching development officer for the local Junior Rugby league club, and in the off-season assistant coach in baseball for junior teams until baseball became life and my coaching took another step being accepted on the Macarthur Colts representative coaching team. During this time, I was also playing local baseball in the first grade local competition then moved to the Blacktown league where it was more competitive.  

Fast forward a bit more to 2012 and I found CrossFit. Over the next ten years and still currently today, to a lesser extent, this is where I got to become competitive again and blow off steam. 2018 I moved to more of a weightlifting based training, and I quickly rose up the Masters rankings within Australia and in 2022 took fourth place worldwide in the Masters World Championships in Florida USA. In the 2023 CrossFit open I finished in the 89 percentiles in the world rankings.

Coaching has always been part of my life naturally. Over the last 5yrs I transitioned into taking classes at a local gym in both their functional fitness groups, when needed, but mainly the weightlifting classes which then turned into MM Weightlifting House you see today. I’m currently in the process of gaining both a AWF level 3 weightlifting and CrossFit level 1 certificate.

For me, the key to progression is to be always learning, never except just being normal and always better yourself that 1% every day.