About Me

My name is Dominic Leachman, I’m a Certified Personal Trainer and a 1st Dan Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. I've been certified with American Council on Exercise since February 2021 and I’ve gained a great deal of experience since; from training at the UH Recreation Center while still in collage, to coaching for Orangetheory Fitness to teaching Tae Kwon Do and now doing personal training at Dynamic Fitness. I’ve trained in fitness and sports for many years, starting with my Tae Kwon Do training at the age of 8, which I continued in for 8 years. After my time in Tae Kwon Do I continued training martial arts on my own until I started training with a friend who had taken multiple styles of martial arts. From him I broadened my abilities as a martial artist, learning techniques from Muay Thai, Boxing, Wing Chun, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. It was in collage at the University of Houston that I got serious about weightlifting, I joined the UH Powerlifting Team my Junior year and trained with them for about 3 years. I also took Wushu Kung Fu at UH for about 2 years. I graduated December 2021 with a Bachelor’s in Kinesiology and thus began my career journey. Both Orangetheory and the taekwondo school I’m currently working at were a major learning experience, holding me to different standards and requiring different types of energy. Both places I felt I was restarting. In collage I was learning to be a personal trainer and while I was still working in fitness, both these jobs required me to learn entirely new skills as group fitness is quite different from 1 on 1 training.

Now it is time for me to start personal training again. I have no doubt that my new skills and experiences will not only serve me well but also my clients. I want to be able to bring all that I’ve learned and all I’m learning to those I work with. Not just in terms of fitness, but also in virtue. I am a man of faith, born and raised Catholic; and I have seen the connection between our natural virtues and fitness. Such as the pursuit of excellence, something we tap into and grow when we work to see how strong we can become and how that can be brought into every aspect of our life; or the masculine desire to protect those weaker than us, and how it connects to learning how to fight. These are virtues we should all tap into and we can do that in fitness, by turning our focus away from things that are vain and towards glory.