David Grisaffi's Biography

David has been a sport enthusiast his entire life. Since watching Monday Night Football at age nine he knew his destiny was in the sporting arena. He participated in football, basketball, wrestling, swimming, tennis and baseball. The sport he excelled at was wrestling. The love for the sport taught him about nutrition, supplementation and work ethic.

At the time he was growing up in high school and college there was very little information about sport conditioning and sport nutrition. This led him to college wrestling and majoring in physical education. When his wrestling days were over he decided to become a personal trainer. Prior to becoming a personal trainer, Bellarmine Preparatory High School hired David as its Head Wrestling Coach. He also taught strength training for two years for the school. Then the independent bug hit him and he took the ISSA Personal Training Certification and became a certified personal trainer.

He learned from everyone and anyone. He landed a dream job of conditioning coach for former four-time world champion Greg Haugen. David knew he had more to learn and was directed to the CHEK Institute in Southern California. He was honored to be selected to participate in the Corrective High Performance Exercise Kinesiologist certification program.

This is an intense program where you learn from one of the foremost experts in the conditioning field, Paul Chek. The certification program revolves around the dynamics of kinesiology, physiology, functional anatomy and mind body spirit relationships. He went on to level II where he learned about physical assessment, posture analysis, gait analysis primal movement patterns length tension testing and range of motion testing. He is currently a Level II practitioner.

He is also certified by the CHEK Institute as a Golf Biomechanic. This program taught him more about the relationship between how muscles and muscle groups affect the golf swing and how to fix it. He has worked with professional golfer Michael Putnam of Tacoma, WA.

In the winter of 2002 he became one of the first Nutrition and Lifestyle Coaches from the CHEK institute. This program was developed to help practitioners deal with nutritional and lifestyle needs of their clients. The certification teaches how symptoms of disease and stress can be prevented through diet, exercise and stress management. He is currently a level II Nutrition and lifestyle coach.

Last spring he was one of the first to be certified by Ori Hofmekler the author of popular diet book title 'The Warrior Diet'. He is currently level II practitioner through the Warrior Diet Certification Program on Controlled Fatigue Training and Fat Loss.

David works closely with boxing promoter Brain Halquist of Halquist Productions. David began working with Greg Haugen and heavyweight Joe Hipp. His solid work with them lead Kenny Ellis, Middleweight Champion; Chad VanSikel, cruiserweight 18-1-2 and former amateur stand out; and Walter Wright to hire him. David manages these professional athletes' daily workout routines, diet program and stress management routines based on each athlete's individual needs.