Today we’d like to introduce you to Garrett Mezzanatto.
Hi Garrett, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I began my fitness journey when I was four years old. I picked up a baseball, a bat, and a glove and started off playing T-ball. A few years later, I began playing soccer, then football around the age of 7 and by age 11. I was playing all four sports Year-round.
Coming from a small town called Boonville, CA, roughly 100 miles north of the Bay Area, there was nothing to do but play sports.
I began lifting weights when I was 12 years old to become a more well-rounded athlete, but mainly to gain strength, endurance, and agility for football.
I continued to lift weights Year-round throughout junior high and high school and eventually stopped playing soccer and stuck to football, basketball, and baseball.
Out of the three sports, I excelled most at football. I was an all-league, all-empire, and team captain and MVP as pitcher in baseball. I was an all-league and team captain Center as a basketball player.
In football, I was the quarterback, the team MVP, the team captain, and the runner-up for league MVP my senior season.
Since I was best at football, my late quarterback coach, Todd Capuzulo, who also worked with NFL qbs and receivers such as Jamarcus Russell, Wes Welker, Dwayne Bowe, and Julian Edelman, suggested that I attended the now late “Tom Martinez Football Camp” in Redwood City, CA. Tom Martinez was actually the QB coach who Tom Brady worked with at a young age, and one of the reasons why he has such great mechanics.
The summer between my junior and senior year (2011), I attended this camp and worked extra hard on my mechanics before my day job and during practices. My craft, mechanics, and form improved and I was ready for the season. I ended up taking our team to the league championship game but lost during the final minutes of the game.
I suffered a complete Lateral collateral ligament tear in my right knee on a fluke play. My season, my career, and my chances at playing college ball were shattered.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
It has never been a smooth road. I come from a hard-working, lower-class family, where my mother works three jobs just to Anel ends meet.
During high school, I worked on the weekends and went to school and practices/games on the weekdays to help my mom pay for my food, athletic gear, clothes and equipment.
After my knee injury, I began suffering from severe depression and anxiety and ended up Gaining 100 pounds of fat within six months. I basically continued to eat like a football player without exercising whatsoever.
I struggled with this weight for two years after high school until almost 21 years old, and then I got into bodybuilding.
After bodybuilding made me want to become a trainer, I moved to San Diego at age 22 and began working at LA Fitness. After spending 4.5 years at la fitness and becoming a District Vice President of Personal Training up in Los Ángeles, I was laid off due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
After sitting around for a month or so, I built a gym in my garage and started my own personal training business with the help of my wife.
There are pros and cons about this because being a small business owner, money is not always consistent and the market can always fluctuate, but if you take care of your clients and offer good service, the word will always get around.
Great, so let’s talk business. Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I offer personal training, group training, nutritional guidance, online coaching, and bootcamps. I specialize in fat loss, weight management, strength and conditioning, performance enhancement, and corrective exercise.
What sets me apart from others is the fact that I have been skinny, I have been overweight, I have been in the middle, and I have been absolutely as lean as possible.
I feel like I understand the human body, nutrition, and exercise science on a level that most other trainer don’t, only because I have been on both sides of the weight loss spectrum. At La fitness, I worked with thousands of different types of clients and trainers and my job was to teach the trainers how to train.
I am proud to be able to offer affordable services for anyone who has any sort of goal, and I am confident that I can get anyone the results that they want, as long as they follow my plan.
We’re always looking for the lessons that can be learned in any situation, including tragic ones like the Covid-19 crisis. Are there any lessons you’ve learned that you can share?
The pandemic taught me a lot about self-worth and that corporations believe their employees to be replaceable.
I believe I was underpaid and undervalued for what I have to offer and I do not think that I’ll ever be able to work for someone else again.
Contact Info:
- Email: garrett.trainz@gmail.com
- Website: www.Garrett-Trainz.com
- Instagram: @gainzwithgarrett
- Facebook: /garrett.trainz
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCrpr1PdLBnQr37OIM4-WDzw
Image Credits:
Wolf Media Studio
