Meet Tyler Emery

Today we’d like to introduce you to Tyler Emery.

Tyler, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
I was a class clown and a trouble maker growing up. I always wanted to play high school football. But by the time I got to high school I was very undersized for the sport. The result: I was literally the worst kid on the team in my first year. However after five years of nutritional focus and weight room I was able to take control of my physical person and direct it towards my goals. So not only was this my life’s first personal accomplishment(and first time doing something other than get into trouble) but it was the world of fitness that brought it to pass, from then on, I was hooked. I went on to become a personal trainer at the local Ymca and eventually heard of CrossFit. I signed up at a local CrossFit gym immediately and that’s where my road really began towards where I am at professionally today.

I worked at this gym for 6ish years and together, the owners and I grew it from a tiny strip mall location in north Hollywood to premier facility and experience in the heart of Burbank. This gave me the professional skills and just raw hours teaching and working directly with members that I needed. A truly great opportunity as I was able to monopolize all the available teaching hours, logging hundreds and hundreds of hours of experience in a very short amount of time. All the while I was still a young man and still had ego left to live out, I was also pursuing CrossFit as a competitive athlete!

After several years and injuries and a continuing self-education, I began to find that CrossFit wasn’t quite the approach I wanted for my own fitness community, something I knew I wanted for quite some time. Over the years I’ve tweaked my approach and pulled from many many sources but the emphasis still being: restore individuals to the blessing of movement. Once I had outgrew my ego, finally, it became less bout being the best and more about expressing my passion. I didn’t want to make good athletes better, I wanted to bring people back to activity who had lost it for whatever reason.

Whether it be to build a career or get an education, most Avenues to success in one’s life will cost them their physicality, their ability to do work safely. So that’s where our gym comes in, we’re the puzzle piece that lays between “it hurts when I run or when I sit down” and being able to safely participate in most activities that are physical in nature.

Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
No way. Well for starters. When I started, I was still very concerned about being competitive myself in the sport of CrossFit so I had that pulling my energy and focus. Which didn’t end up being a waste as I still learned quite a few valuable lessons on the body and how it behaves. But more so I’d say that the biggest struggle was digesting the reality of who I am, and who I am not. That is to say, I had to accept that I wasn’t the bulletproof entrepreneur my ego wanted to believe that I was. I had to learn to accept help, outsource missing skill sets in me, and more importantly learn to work moderately so that I didn’t continue a pattern of crashing and burning from continually overworking myself.

Please tell us more about your work.
I sort of addressed this in the other section but I’d say what makes me most proud is how frequently I hear members say “oh I never would have been in a gym otherwise” to me that encapsulates success in our mission best as we want to reach the formerly unreachable. It is a greater expression of what we can do to take someone who has not seen success using the traditional gym and fitness experience and find a way to get them moving. Everything is geared towards this purpose, from the colors of the paint on the walls to the pricing structure of our membership, and even right down to the routines we do in our classes.

This isn’t about getting better at your sport or passion per say, this is about restoring your ability to explore sport and find whatever your physical passion may be. The reality is that exercise itself is rarely the factor that people’s success in their New Years’ resolution or whatever, hangs on. It’s almost always something outside of the class. I’d say what sets us apart is not our exercise routines but just the sheer amount thought and vigilance that goes into having answers prepared for all the psychological, emotional, and intellectual hurdles that are the real culprits in derailing even the most passionate of all attempts to find fitness in one’s life.

Do you look back particularly fondly on any memories from childhood?
Playing. I grew up on a street with lots of kids my age. Play was a big part of my life as a child and I brought this with me into adulthood. Ultimately, this is likely my greatest success as an individual. I have had to learn most personal skills folks need later in life because I was so unruly as a child but on the flip side sooo many suffer from the emotional side effects that the absence of playing like a child can have in one’s life. But if you’ve lost the ability to move safely because you were pursuing other goals, what do you do? The frank reality is returning to activity is dangerous. Almost every person needs some sort of preparation before taking their kids out on the front lawn for a good wrestle and not leaving that with some sort of discomfort.

Contact Info:

• Address: 4320 magnolia Blvd BURBANK ca 91505
• Website: Www.tylersgym.com
• Phone: 8184157725
• Email: Tyler@tylersgym.com
• Instagram: Instagram.com/tylersgym
• Facebook: Facebook.com/tylersgym

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