ABOUT RIQ

I played sports my whole life.... but I was never that good. I was on my high school basketball team, but was a bench player. I ran the 100m decently fast, but I never qualified. I enjoyed jumping, but could only ever touch the backboard. As much as I loved playing and competing in sports, I was an average athlete across the board. I'm 5'7 with average genetics. Becoming an elite athlete was out of the realm of possibility, right? I was like that my whole life. Then 2020 hit and the world got hit with a global pandemic.

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While everyone was either freaking out, playing video games all night, or sleeping in every day, I didn't take my time for granted. I’d already been studying kinesiology and sports performance since I was 16 years old (2016), but 2020 was when I decided it was time to make a change and apply what I learned. I started my dunk/vertical journey. I built my own training system from scratch, obsessed over jumping and training, and studied as much as I could about performance training.

 

 

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Years later, I've officially tested a 41.5-inch vertical, earned a BASc in Kinesiology with Honours, become a Certified Personal Trainer, a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) with NSCA, and now coached hundreds of athletes worldwide to jump higher, perform better, and get healthy through GetUP Vertical. That foundation I started building at 16 turned into real, proven results not just for me, but for many athletes around the world.

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Greatness is possible when you go out and search for it. My goal is to train as many athletes worldwide as I can who are searching for THEIR greatness.

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There's a reason you're on this page reading this right now. You're searching for yours. You want to reach your athletic potential. We don't know what our genetics will allow us to do, but we won't truly know until we actually go for it.