What is the strong parent collective?

This movement centers on a pretty simple idea:

Us parents have a responsibility to be the best version of ourselves so that our kids can learn how to be the best versions of themselves.

We all want to do everything possible to help to our kids, but we often forget that a critical part of that is prioritizing our own health. It’s not a secret that being healthier improves most every aspect of life. From mental clarity to physical capacity, a healthier you provides more bandwidth to be the parent your kids deserve.

Now that doesn’t mean working out every single day or getting shredded like a bodybuilder. We’re parents, most of us have limited time for extracurriculars. Instead, we should consistently prioritize exercise and nutrition in our lives as a mean of becoming a better parent every single day.

I think we all agree that our kids deserve the best version of us. The Strong Parent Collective gives you the tools to be that.

The 3 tenants of Strong Parenthood

  • It's no secret that a strong body is a capable body. As a parent it's easy to lose track of our own health and forget this simple fact. Well, it's time to reprioritize our health and utilize it to be better for our families.

    Health improves our mental, emotional and physical capacity, which allows us to better enjoy the time we spend with our kids.

  • The same way that health improves our quality of life, it will improve the quality of our kids lives. It is critical that kids understand the importance of making healthy decisions, and the most impactful way to do that is for us to model that behavior.

  • The biggest reason people put off a fitness routine is they get intimidated by the scale of what they think a program entails. Just because you can't commit to working out every single day or running a marathon is no reason to neglect your health as a whole. We are parents, time and energy are not abundant. What matters is that we strive to make fitness a part of our lives in whatever capacity is possible. As long as you are focused on progress, it will never matter if you are perfect.

About Sam

If you asked my wife Kinsey, she’d say I’m energetic, enthusiastic and sometimes a little loud. If you ask me, I’m just a guy that’s excited about life and what I get to do in it.

Fitness began for me in 8th grade at our local YMCA. I had always been involved with sports, so my older brother dragged me in for a workout to show me the ropes. I don’t think he knew the Pandora’s box he opened, because from that day on I never stopped going to the gym. By the time high school rolled around, I was lifting five days a week and reading up on exercise physiology by myself.

I earned my first personal training certification at age seventeen, and started working with clients. Immediately, I fell in love with training people, which caused me to change my future major from Engineering to Kinesiology. From that point on, you could say the rest is history. I continued working in gyms as I earned different degrees and certifications, refining my practice and learning what actually works. Fitness became the driving force in my life, and it led me to some beautiful experiences, most significantly, meeting my wife at the athletic club where we used to work.

Seven years later, we welcomed our daughter Olivia into the world and my life changed forever. I fell in love with being a father and became passionate about helping other parents improve themselves for their families. My passion for fitness had a newfound meaning and I wanted to share that with every parent that would listen to me. However, I could only help so many parents working together in person. Enter the Strong Parent Collective, a way for me to empower parents from all over to embrace fitness and improve for their families.

Looking back and planning forward, fitness is the greatest gift I have in life. It is the ultimate tool to improve mental, emotional, and physical health, and it teaches lessons that last a life time. I don’t know many other tools that are as powerful in elevating our ability to parent kids. I’m incredibly grateful that I found exercise, and I’m excited to share that experience with you.