Opportunity

It takes a special person to do what I do— a person who is 100% selfless and puts the needs and thoughts of the Athletes that I train in front of my own and often times in front of my family. It takes a different person to wake up every day at 4:00 a.m., most of the time not by the alarm clock but by the passion of getting the chance to make someone better.
I have been knocked down and dealt with a lot of adversity in my life, for this reason I believe the athletes feel that I am one of them because I have been through a lot of things that they have been through. I am not just a trainer to the guys that I train, a lot of times I am a mentor, a big brother, or sometimes a shoulder to cry on. I have been blessed to train over 250 professional athletes in the last four years including: Brandon Roy, Reggie Bush, Chris Johnson and Matt Lienart, but I am still driven and hungry to do more. I am never satisfied or content with where I am at and where I want to go. I know I want to positively influence and give an opportunity to every athlete possible.
Opportunity is not only something that a lot of people choose not to take advantage of, but Opportunity is also something that the majority of people want. All I ever wanted in my life was an opportunity. I was raised in a environment that did not have a lot of constructive opportunities, so whenever I am given one I have always made the most of it. Kim Sword, who was my strength coach at San Jose State, gave me my first job ever as a Strength Coach at the University of Louisiana Monroe. It was a great job that paid little, but Coach Sword told me if I worked hard and stayed humble I would be presented with a lot of opportunities. At the time I really did not understand what he was saying, but by the next season I was working my dream job at Louisiana State University. The time I spent in Baton Rouge working under Tommy Moffitt in the daytime and spending my evenings with Gayle Hatch was by far the best opportunity I ever received in my life. I learned so much from those guys; I still think about them everyday when I train athletes. When I moved on to the private sector, a lot of athletes gave me the opportunity to make them better; Erik Coleman, Hamza Abdullah, Reggie Williams and Marcus Trufant were some of the first guys I trained while on my own. Marcus Trufant ended up having the best year of his career and was named to the Pro Bowl. My move to Los Angeles was the next big opportunity that came knocking on the door. Elite Athletics and Billy Miller gave me a platform and presence in Southern California, which is a huge training hub for Professional Athletes. I learned so much about myself and the direction I wanted to go with my training program, so when I was given the opportunity to reach and influence more athletes than just the ones that came to Westlake Village, I seized it.
All that I want to do is give athletes the opportunity to be successful and help them reach their goals. Someone once said to me: “What good is an opportunity if you don’t take advantage of it?” I translate that to mean: One never knows when his next opportunity will come so it is imperative that he takes advantage of it…
Travelle Gaines
-Carpe Diem!

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