About Riq

I wasn't born a good athlete. I was on my highschool basketball team, but I was a bench player. I ran the 100m decently fast, but I never qualified. I enjoyed jumping, but could only touch the backboard. As much as I loved playing and competing in sports, I was an average athlete across the board with nothing really special to offer. I'm 5'7 with average genetics. Becoming an elite athlete was out of the realm of possibility, right? I was like that pretty much 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 everyday, 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 it. 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 can about performance training.

 

 

Years later, I officially have a 41.5 inch vertical, earned a BASc in Kinesiology with Honours, became a  NASM-CPT, and have now coached hundreds of athletes worldwide to jump higher, perform better, and get healthy. That foundation I started building at 16 turned into real, proven results not just for me, but for 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 around the world 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.