A Doctor of Physical Therapy who is also a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist — and a lifelong athlete. The practice exists because those three usually live in different buildings. Here they're the same person, and that person comes to you.
Most in-home training is a compromise. You either hire someone who can push you hard but has no idea what your body can safely handle, or someone careful who never actually makes you stronger. Those two skills usually live in different people — and different buildings.
Augment Performance was founded in 2022 to put them in one: a Doctor of Physical Therapy who is also a competitive strength athlete, coaching you privately, in your home — so the clinical judgment and the serious training come from the same person, in the same session.
The Doctor of Physical Therapy background isn't a service sold here — it's the lens I coach through. It's what lets me load a program hard while reading exactly what your joints, tendons, and old injuries can tolerate, and adjust in real time before something becomes a problem. You get to train like you mean it without gambling your body to do it.
If you're dealing with an actual injury and need rehabilitation rather than training, that's a different job — I see patients as a physical therapist at Ignite Physio in La Habra, and I'm glad to point you there.
Movement has been the through-line for most of his life. Taekwondo and basketball in middle school, wrestling in high school, an urban dance team his freshman year at USC — then powerlifting, where he rose to team captain of USC Powerlifting and became a drug-tested California state record holder in the squat, bench press, and total. In physical therapy school he added competitive Olympic weightlifting and go-kart racing.
He worked as a personal trainer and mentor to novice trainers at USC's Recreational Sports Division from 2021 to 2026, with a roster spanning a wide range of bodies and goals:
That range matters. Knowing what a client does outside the gym — how a go-kart corner loads the spine differently than a deadlift, or why stage performance demands different proprioception than a sport court — is what makes programming specific instead of generic.
Deliberate practice: training with intention, so that when life asks more of you, you have more to give. Progress isn't only the number on the chart — it's the confidence that the number holds up when it counts.
That applies on both sides of the practice. Most patients get discharged at "cleared for activity." Most coaching clients get programmed without anyone asking what they were cleared from. Working as clinician, coach, and athlete means neither question gets skipped.
"Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity."
Skydiving, canyon roads and kart racing, competitive weightlifting, and the performing arts — he's a former member of USC's Freshmen Dance Off team and still sings and writes music. He takes his steaks seriously, dry-aging them at home and finishing over live charcoal. Any dog or cat that crosses his path is getting pets, no exceptions.
If you want serious training that respects your body, start with a 15-minute call. If it's a fit, you'll have a tailored proposal within 48 hours.
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