Today we’d like to introduce you to Mychael Murphy.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Mychael. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
My name is Mychael Murphy and my story starts off on the South Side of Houston where I spent the first part of my childhood. I was born and raised in Houston, Texas to two amazing parents and a loving older sister. My last year of elementary school, my family and I moved to Galena Park, Texas where I’d attend MacArthur Elementary School. Although I did not grow up loving sports, I later decided to choose my career based off of just that. Once I got to middle school and was of age to play middle school sports, I was told by my mom that I had to pick two sports to participate in, so I chose football and track. In the beginning, I did not have what I call “natural talent”, so I worked for everything that I got out of my body. By the time my middle to late high school years came around, I was able to reap the fruits of my labor and became a member of the Galena Park High School Varsity football team.
Though a great accomplishment for me, I had soon learned that the road to my goal of playing college football would not be easy. To help me reach that goal, I took the time to develop myself as an athlete on and off of the field with the help of two personal trainers. At the time, my schedule consisted of five days a week of training and practicing with the team during and after school, two to three days with one personal trainer after the after school practices, and weekends with the second personal trainer. Even with the extra time spent, I was constantly overlooked by coaches and had other athletes chosen to replace me despite my consistency, work ethic, numbers in the weight room and reliability. During one summer practice, I was the only player for the running back position that showed up and played every rep for the first, second, and third group but was quickly replaced during the season by those same players that didn’t show up. There were also games where I was replaced when a teammate was injured or played poorly despite being the next man up on the roster and games where as a senior, I was only put on the field during the last 3 minutes of the first 3 games.
During that 3rd game of my senior year, I decided that I was going to quit football, choose a new path, and create new goals. I wanted to put myself in the position to build myself from science-based methods and ideologies that I agreed with, help athletes defy the odds, and help general population people reach emotional and physical highs through exercise.
After quitting football, I chose to work a 9 to 5 job at Discount Tire to pay for my Personal Trainer Certification. Fast forward to nearly a year later, I was graduating from high school and would be a Certified Personal Trainer 1 month later. Over the next few years, I would spend my career hitting financial highs and lows, exploring business ventures, exploring other gyms, and learning tons of information. Today, I am going on 4 years into my profession as a Personal Trainer, have 3 certifications, working on my 4th and am a part of a three-man crew as a trainer at Sutaria Training & Fitness where we help professional athletes and general population clients become healthier than ever.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
Like every road, there have been some bumps but without those bumps we would not learn how to overcome failures and find success. One of the struggles that I had faced included attempting to start my own Personal Training business a year after high school. During this time, I worked to get general population people active through personal training and boot camps at neighborhood parks. Although I did have some participants, it was not enough to provide a means of support for myself. At the time, I had only worked at two gyms and realized that I did not have the experience, business management skills, nor finances to successfully run a business. In efforts to build my reputation and finances, I decided to get back out into the big box gym industry and learn more. The next gyms I worked at included LA Fitness in Northwest Houston and Houston Next Level Fitness in Southwest Houston. As my journey to better myself continued, I continued to face occasional challenges. In between working at La Fitness and Houston Next Level Fitness, I spent a short time working at The Home Depot. I decided to leave the fitness industry to look for more financial stability only to realize that what I thought would be best for my pocket was actually not the best decision for me and where I wanted to go in life. I then decided to return to the fitness industry. The brief time I spent off-course helped me to refocus my mindset on what I was passionate about and get to work changing lives. With that being said, the road was not the smoothest but the lessons I learned were x10 more valuable than I could have imagined at the time.
Sutaria Training & Fitness – what should we know? What do you do best? What sets you apart from the competition?
Sutaria Training & Fitness is a company that specializes in bridging the gap between physical therapy and performance training. We are known for helping professional athletes and general population clients get healthy and on their way back to the court, field, or office. As a company, I am most proud of the detail put in to make sure each and every client reaches their goals in the smartest and most efficient way possible by the owner (Jay Sutaria), the director (Daniel Kissoon), and myself. What sets us apart from other companies is the fact that we are one of the few businesses that connect corrective exercise with performance enhancement. We focus on getting clients out of pain or in as little pain as possible then focus on performance. We have worked with a variety of athletes and general population clients who have experienced pain or discomfort and through our work no longer experience the same issues that they came in with.
What is “success” or “successful” for you?
I define success by the measure of a person’s happiness. I believe that a person can achieve great financial success but if one is not truly happy with their day to day life, then those finances mean nothing. The markers that I look for are satisfaction in my career, am I doing what I am passionate about, and am I helping others.
Contact Info:
- Address: 5830 Star Lane, Houston, Texas 77057
- Website: stfhouston.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachmmurphy/
Image Credit:
Blake Hobson
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