Coach Gabe has been a personal trainer and coach since 2016, and has been coaching full time since the summer of 2019. He was the head wrestling coach at Forest High School in Ocala, FL from 2016-2021, but stepped away to focus on his own business.

In 2021, Gabe helped open Optimal Strength & Performance, and then in 2023, after two successful years in that partnership, decided to step out on his own and opened Invictum Strength & Performance. As the Head Coach at Invictum Strength & Performance, Gabe has coached dozens of athletes and clients with several of them qualifying for strongman nationals, placing highly in their respective HS sport competition seasons, and several went on to play sports at the Collegiate level. 

As an active strongman competitor, Gabe has qualified for USS Nationals four times, in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. He also actively trains jiu-jitsu and used to perform occasionally on the independent professional wrestling circuit as GabeZilla (those matches can be found on youtube). 

 

In the spring of 2025 Coach Gabe welcomed his son, Caius, and in the small amount of remaining free time he has left, he enjoys playing guitar in his band, Vile Serpent.

Credentials/Experience
 

• NSCA CSCS

 

• BA in Psychology and Peace Studies from Manchester University (formerly Manchester College in North Manchester, Indiana)

 

• NASM CPT (former)

 

• Head High School Wrestling Coach (2016-2021)

 

• Personal Trainer/Strength & Conditioning Coach (2016-present)

 

• 4x USS Nationals Qualifying Strongman Competitor