Functional Patterns 10-Week Course
Functional Patterns Human Foundations Certified
Personal Trainer Since 2020
The Bar Athletics' Coaching Apprenticeship Program
Growing up, I battled weight issues and health problems that sometimes put me in the hospital. Even though I was active playing football, basketball, soccer, and later practicing mixed martial arts I knew something wasn’t right. Over time, that disconnection from my body turned into daily pain. Eventually, I was staring down the possibility of spinal surgery. I tried every option physical therapy, chiropractic, traditional workouts but nothing created lasting change.
Then I found Functional Patterns.
For the first time in years, I experienced relief not just from pain, but from the mental fog and emotional tension I didn’t even realize I was carrying. This method didn’t just manage symptoms it addressed the root. I learned that trauma is stored in the body, and that by changing the way I moved, I could change the way I lived. Functional Patterns helped me rebuild from the inside out physically, mentally, and emotionally.
That transformation led me to make a bold choice. I left a career in business and marketing one that never felt meaningful to me to dedicate my life to helping others heal the way I did. I saw an opportunity to blend my business background with a deeper calling: creating a place where people could reclaim their health, and their lives.
Cleveland Biomechanics is more than a gym. It’s not just therapy or training it’s a place where people come to change. We help clients get out of pain, restore function, and reconnect with who they truly are. This is where healing starts and momentum begins.
We don’t sell hype we build results. We work with people who are tired of quick fixes and ready for long-term solutions. Our work manufactures hope: hope that your body can heal, that your pain isn’t permanent, and that you can take back control of your life.
This is my mission. This is my story. And now, it can be yours too.
My turning point was in 2018, when I stopped doing kickboxing and CrossFit.
Training habitually and beating my body into submission got me “the body I wanted”:
10% Body Fat, 215 lbs, and aesthetically appealing.
Conversely, I was biding my time, as reality was about to set in, with all the dysfunctions I created, or made worse, through those specific training modalities.
My knees, hips, lower back, spine, neck, and shoulders were all causing me pain.
Running the proverbial gauntlet wore me out, and albeit appealing to the eye, my body was not functioning correctly.
I had a mindset that pain is gain and that pain let me know I was alive, but the reality was that this was leading me down a path to many potential surgeries.
Fortunately, right around that time, I found Mr. Ryan Manista.
I had seen physical and massage therapists, acupuncture, practiced yoga, and none of it was solving my pain.
Ryan introduced me to Functional Patterns, back when he was an infant in the field of human biomechanics.
In one session, just doing some Myofascial Release and a few basic postural techniques, I found the relief I had been searching for, high and low.
The problem came in when I thought that the relief meant “fixed,” so I went back to doing the same things and continued to worsen my dysfunctions until my pain became even more overwhelming.
At this point, I knew I had to stop everything and return to see Ryan, but things were different now.
I went from someone who needed help to someone who needed assistance and worked in the same field as Ryan.
He helped me, but was reserved because the information he was sharing could be used for my financial gain on my end.
It was about this time I realized that he was offering a superior service to any training I had done previously.
The thought came to mind that we needed to start shifting in this direction of Functional Patterns if we genuinely wanted to help people.
The problem would be convincing my team, who were ingrained in the traditional methodologies, to see the light.
It took two years of healthy civil discourse with my business partner, Heath, to get him to open his mind and see the light.
You can read his bio to get a better description of his turning point.
In 2021, after two years, I started to open Heath's mind, and we set the course.
Ryan joined our team, and we knew we needed to make this change in our entire organization, but it wouldn’t be easy.
Nothing worth it, ever is…
We are finishing 2023 and have successfully switched our organization to being fully Functional Patterns.
Something I realized in hindsight, was that the service we were selling to people before we made this switch to FP, which was cross-fit, was hurting people and not helping them in the best ways possible.
Now, I am confident that we are delivering the best service in the fitness and health industry when it comes to fixing the human body and helping it perform at its highest level.
We are the only facility within 300-400 miles practicing this life-changing method.
My mission is to bring this methodology to our region, giving people who feel lost on their health journey a chance to make sustainable changes that respect nature and our biology.
One where their genetics can change for the better, giving people a body that allows them to navigate life's mental and physical challenges efficiently.
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