Our Instructors

Eric is a USA weightlifting certified coach who has a B.S. in Exercise Science from Bloomsburg University. He also has certifications in Reflexive Performance Reset and Parabolic Periodization.

As the owner and head coach behind Focused, Eric has worked with hundreds of athletes and developed a system that has helped them excel at the high school, collegiate, and professional level.

His gym’s success is grounded in the same values, work ethic, and care he employs with his athletes. From starting the business while working two other jobs and even training athletes in his backyard, Eric has built Focused into the Capitol area’s premiere training center for elite athletes. His system addresses absolute strength, sport-specific training needs, mobility, injury resiliency, and athletic confidence. His innovative training programs are the driving force behind Focused and are based on proven methods to optimize athletic development.

Eric was a multi-sport athlete growing up, and he played competitively in soccer, baseball, football, basketball, track & field, and volleyball. Football grew to be his main focus, and he earned a scholarship to play quarterback at Shippensburg University. Poor choices led him to be academically ineligible after his first year. He then worked as a tree trimmer, but in hopes of getting himself back on the right track, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps where he was deployed to Afghanistan and the Mediterranean as an infantry machine gunner. Following his military service, Eric returned to college at Bloomsburg University, where he walked on to their football team and was a four-year starter and voted a team captain in his senior year.