My Story

I arrived into having my own business but it was definitely the scenic route.

Hello, I am Scott Kolasinski. I am from Toledo, Ohio and I have lived in the Bay Area since 2000. After high school, I went to Miami University wanting to become a pathologist. I majored in Microbiology and worked in a hospital as a patient transporter in Radiology after my freshman year of college.

After receiving my undergraduate degree in Microbiology from Miami University in Oxford, OH, I worked in Sunnyvale at a biotech company called Hyseq while finishing my Masters Degree in Exercise Science, with an emphasis on Exercise Immunology. I quickly learned that I did not want to stay working in a lab, so I began studying for the Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) test and volunteered at San Jose State as an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach under Coach Kim Sword. At the time, I thought I working as a professional CSCS with a pro football team would be the "dream job", but it was at San Jose State that I learned the opposite: in the pros, you have to deal with the egos. Also, a professional coaching job of any sorts, is very unstable - you need to be able to move around the country if necessary to find the next CSCS job until you find stability, but that is more dependent on the head sport's coach's winning record than your performance as a strength coach. As one of my collegues once said, "You have the most responsibility to get the athletes in shape to win with the least amount of credit."

That sent me down the road to work as a personal trainer at F. I. T. in Los Altos, CA. It was/is a great place. It was there that I honed my skills and learned how little I knew coming out of getting my Masters degree. The clients asked great questions, and my collegues asked greater questions and we challenged each other on various strength and conditioning topics.