Hi, I'm Jason

I built this body from the worst starting point I could have asked for.

Narrow shoulders, long limbs, wrists you can wrap two fingers around, and strength that started at zero. What got me here wasn't a single plan or diet. It was ten years of testing one change at a time, tracking how my body responded, and adjusting. That's a system. I'm an ISSA-certified trainer now, and I can teach you the same method, on your body.

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The journey

Ten years. One body. No shortcuts.

Every one of these taught me something I can now share.

Where I started, 150 lbs, age 15 — 150lbsWhere I startedAge 15

The mid transformation, 170 lbs, age 16 — 170lbsThe mid transformationAge 16

The first major transformation, 185 lbs, age 18 — 185lbsThe first major transformationAge 18

After time away, 175 lbs, age 19 — 175lbsAfter time awayAge 19

Lockdown, 220 lbs, age 21 — 220lbsLockdownAge 21

Back in the gym, 195 lbs, age 22 — 195lbsBack in the gymAge 22

The second major transformation, 220 lbs, age 23 — 220lbsThe second major transformationAge 23

Before any of it

Who I am

Hi, I'm Jason.

My name is Jason. I was the skinny one — always. The kid who ate everything and stayed a stick.

I came to Toronto alone at 15 — barely spoke English, no guidance, had to figure everything out myself. I landed on bodybuilding with zero idea what I was doing in the gym.

There was no guide available, so I did it the only way I knew — try something, run it, watch what my body said back, adjust. Ten years of that. Eight of them actually training. All natural: protein powder and creatine, nothing else.

I built to my biggest, lost it during lockdown, cut it back down, and built again. Every phase taught me the same thing: the plan was never the hard part. The hard part was knowing which question to ask next, how to track and stay consistent, what and when to adjust.

If it worked on a frame genetics didn't hand me, it can work on yours.

The credential

ISSA certified personal trainer certificate

I'm a certified personal trainer through the International Sports Sciences Association.

What I actually bring

Two things ten years taught me to do well.

Most of what I know I learned by doing it wrong first. Two things I got good at, because I had to: making the right muscle do the work, and knowing what to change when the numbers stop moving.

01 · Form and the target muscle

Making the muscle you meant to train do the work.

The difference between a good session and a wasted one usually isn't the program. It's whether the muscle you were trying to train actually did the lifting. With long limbs and a light frame I learned this the hard way — I could move the weight and still get almost nothing out of it. Most of the corrections I make are small, and you feel them within a set.

01Pulling with the arms — on rows and pulldowns, most people yank with the biceps and forearms and the back barely joins in. Start the pull by driving the elbow back and down and think about the shoulder blade, not the hand. If your grip gives out before your back does, that's the tell.
02Letting the traps take over — on lateral raises the weight goes up, the shoulders shrug, and the side delt does very little. Lighter weight, lead with the elbow, stop before the shrug. It feels like less work. It's more.
03Chasing the number — adding weight before the movement is owned. Every cheated rep is a rep the target muscle didn't get, and it's usually where the aches start. I'd rather see clean reps at a lighter load and build from there.

These aren't rules. They're the patterns I see most often, and the first things I look at when someone trains in front of me.

02 · A system to track and adjust

Knowing what to change — and when to change nothing.

A plan that fits you on day one is the easy part. The hard part is month three, when the scale does something you can't read and every app tells you something different. What I do is simpler than it sounds: change one thing at a time, log a few numbers a day, and read the whole month before touching anything. Sometimes the right answer is to change nothing, and being able to say that with a straight face is most of the job.

01One change at a time — move calories and training volume in the same month and you can't tell which one did what.
02Weekly averages, not daily weigh-ins — one morning on the scale is noise. Four weeks of averages is a trend you can act on.
03A verdict at the end of every month — change this, or change nothing. Either way you know why, and the arithmetic is there to check.

I've written the same system down as a self-paced guide, if you'd rather run it yourself — read about the Zero-to-One guide.

Coaching

Work with me.

I take on a small number of people, online and in person. Tell me where you're at and what you're after, and I'll read it myself and come back to you.

01In the gym with you — form and technique, session by session, until the right muscle is doing the work without you having to think about it.
02Online — your training and nutrition built around your numbers, logged simply, and adjusted once a month as the data comes in — or left alone when it's working.
03Anything else — a one-off form check, a question, or something not on this list. Ask.

Got it — thank you. I read these myself and I'll reply to you personally. If it's urgent, email me directly at [email protected].

Your details are used to answer this enquiry and nothing else — no mailing list, and no sharing with anyone. Sending this isn't a commitment, and you can ask me to delete your details at any time. Coaching is for ages 18+.