Jack Germain

I started going to the gym for water polo when I was 14 and became obsessed with it very quickly. There were no barriers to continue progressing until my 4th year into training. When that fourth year came around I started getting all these aches and pains that were limiting my ability to push myself in the gym. At the time as an 18 year old kid, the gym was the most important thing in my life. If I had the choice of missing a meal or missing a class I would miss a class. School has been a major obstacle for me my entire life and I've had a lot of struggles around it. I was very lost as an 18 year old just out of high school. All I knew is that I loved the gym so I started working the front desk at a local gym called Form Fitness. I struggled a lot in my first semester at college and ended up dropping out for a year and a half and only worked. While I was working at Form I met one of my good friends who became a great mentor to me. He was genius when it came to fixing issues related to injuries and wear and tear. Everybody at Form went to him with their physical problems and there wasn't a single problem that he couldn't solve. Coincidentally this knowledge is exactly what I needed in order to fix my own problems so I could keep progressing. He similarly to me has crazy obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD). He had lot of problems in school which resulting in him dropping out to become self taught. I related to him in almost every way and decided I wanted to do the same thing. I talked to him everyday when he was at the gym and did everything that he suggested me to do in order to get smarter. It started with anatomy, learning 2 new muscles everyday. This included muscle function, nerve innervation, origin, insertion points, functions, medical conditions, injuries and surgeries related to those muscles. I took all the information and put them into individual documents for each muscle. Over the course of many months, I began to see the full picture and saw how he developed this x-ray vision like power and used it with his clients. Little did I know at the time, that this is the exact knowledge I needed in order to be the most valuable to clients who are middle aged and wealthy. I didn't know that at the time though. I did it because I loved the gym and needed to fix my own problems. During this time I also completed my NASM certification and started training clients. I was 19 at this time and I had been training very seriously for 5 years and competed in a bodybuilding competition placing 4th place in my division.

About a year a half later, 2020 came around and Covid hit. I lost all my clients and was stuck at home. During my time at home, I started to think and reflect a lot about my life and where I wanted to go. I decided that I wanted to be the smartest I could possibly be and that being self taught was not enough, so I rerolled in community college with plans on getting a graduate degree related to kinesiology. I had been only self taught up to that point and it was tough going back as I barely graduated high school with a 1.6 GPA. When I returned to college my GPA was 2.2. My first 3 quarters in community college were awful and I had to retake a lot of classes that I had Fs in. It was scary at first because school in the past made me very self conscious. However, in that year in a half away from school I became very confident in myself; mostly because of the gym. I had been training for 6 years at the time and gained nearly 50lbs of actual muscle since I started at 14. The life skills that I learned from doing that (discipline, work ethic) I realized could be applied to any area of my life. So I applied the same work ethic, discipline and expectations to school and it worked instantly. After my first quarter at community college I felt confident I could start working again and continue school. So I started training again at Form Fitness meanwhile managing the gym meanwhile going to school. I was a workaholic during this time. By the time I left community college which took another year and a half I had a 4.0 GPA and was furious if I was not the highest scoring student in the class. I then transferred to University of San Francisco for a degree in Kinesiology with an academic scholarship. I told myself I was going to graduate as valedictorian in my class and I meant it. Meanwhile being a student at university, I always continued my self taught education. Little did I know that school was going to take a downhill turn. I stayed in San Francisco during the week and come back Saturday and Sunday for clients. The reason I did so well in community college was because I had hope that the upper division classes were going to be amazing and incredibly useful. The general education classes were the reason I dropped out previously. I remember looking at the course curriculum at USF before I transferred and could not wait to take upper division classes. Within a few weeks of my first semester I started becoming disappointed with the courses that I had worked so hard at community college to take. My grades my first semester were pretty good As and Bs. My second semester they were Bs, Third semester they were Bs and Cs. Fourth semester all Cs. By fifth semester or first semester as a senior I was so furious with the courses that I stopped attending class. This happened last semester. I felt like I could learn more useful information in 1 hour of my own self taught time than I could in an entire semester of my university classes. I had completely lost the hope I had in community college which drove me to be as successful as I was then. Now I'm transferring my credits to an online university so I can finish my degree and start working.

- Playing golf with my friends and family

- Snowboarding

- Reading about fitness

- Watching fitness videos

Luiz Belardinelli : 650-704-2805 (One of my clients)(Chief Medical Officer, InCarda Therapeutics)

Sassan Golafshaun: 408-666-8844 (Owner of Form Fitness)