About ME

Nicholas J. Ainsworth
NASM CNC

I was overweight for most of my life. As a child, I was the “husky” kid who wanted to stay home and play video games. In my junior year of high school, my friends peer-pressured me into joining the powerlifting team and I fell in love with the sport. I was a 235 lb 16-year-old who just wanted to pick up heavy things and still play video games.

When I began college, I stopped powerlifting and going to the gym altogether. My only form of physical activity was playing trumpet in the university’s marching band. In 2016, I began my 3rd year of college and weighed 300 lbs. This put me in a state of depression. I didn’t know or understand anything about health, fitness, or nutrition. However, I decided to do something about it anyway. I went back to the gym and started a diet that was borderline an eating disorder. In 4 months, I went from 300 lbs to 210 lbs. Not realizing it, I had created an extremely unhealthy relationship with food and was very malnourished. Fast forward a few months and I was back at 285 lbs.

Over the next 5 years, I would continue “yo-yo dieting”, constantly gaining and losing 60 to 80 lbs. I tried every “fad diet” you can think of, from keto to carb-cycling to IIFYM. Nothing was sustainable because those “diets” were either too restrictive, stressful, or forcing me to suffer through unhealthy habits. To keep my motivation during these years, in 2020, I signed up for my first USPA Powerlifting competition and won 2nd place.

In 2022, I had enough of trying all these things different things just to “lose weight.” Instead, I set a goal to be “healthy.” While obtaining this goal, I learned TONS that led me to discover a way to lose weight and KEEP IT OFF, more importantly, a way that is simple and sustainable.

I signed up for my 2nd USPA Powerlifting competition in 2023 to prove to myself that my “health” journey over the last year was worth it. I not only got another 2nd place win, but I was able to compete 20 lbs lighter in a lower weight class and was nearly 100 lbs stronger.

In the US, of everyone who goes on a weight loss journey, only 17% can keep it off for more than a year. Today, I am not only part of that 17%, but I am the healthiest, strongest, and happiest I have ever been. Learning about nutrition has changed my life and I hope to share what I’ve learned to help others in the same way.

As a coach, and as an educator, my goal is to help others reach their health and fitness goals with the knowledge that I wish I had when I first started in 2016.