A native of Atlanta, Andrew Johnston has been personal training on some level for over ten years. He got into the business for self-improvement, arming himself with knowledge to combat the performance enhancing drugs that inundate the sport of professional cycling. This strategy worked, and in 1992 he was invited to be a resident athlete at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Upon graduation from Eckerd College in 1994, he turned pro and took his ambitions to Europe to race for the Belgian Haverbeke GB team. After the 1996 Olympic Trials, he moved to Spain to race for the Palafrugell and Homs squads until 1998. Andrew devoted his full attention to personal training in 1999 after a crash ended his cycling career just as he was entering his prime. But his competitive juices were quenched for only a year before he discovered an interest in triathlon. In his first full season of triathlon competition, he was the 2001 Olympic Distance Champion of Georgia and 5th overall at the National Long Course Triathlon Championships, earning All-American status as well as a slot on the U.S. World Triathlon team.

Andrew founded Triumph Training in 2000, turning his athletic experience and insatiable appetite for knowledge into a successful training business. Not content with having obtained his Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist degree, arguably the most respected credential in the fitness industry, Andrew became the first Corrective Holistic Exercise Kinesiologists in the state of Georgia in 2001. His passion for the body and its limitless potential has since grown only stronger with Men's Journal naming him one of the Best Trainers in the U.S. in 2005 and again in 2006. Now he takes his knowledge as a Holistic Lifestyle Coach and CHEK practitioner to guide people in their pursuit of wellness, ultimately helping them to realize that the only limitations they truly have are the ones they set for themselves.

Designations & Degrees

• Coaching since 1998
• Holistic Lifestyle Coach Level 3, 2007
• Holistic Lifestyle Coach Level 2, 2006
• Voted One of the Top 100 Trainers in the U.S. by Men's Journal, 2005 and 2006
• Holistic Lifestyle Coach, Level 1, 2005
• Corrective Holistic Exercise Kinesiologist, Level 2, 2004
• Corrective Holistic Exercise Kinesiologist, 2003
• USA Triathlon Level 1 Licensed Coach, 2002
• Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist, 2000
• Certified Personal Trainer, 1998
• BA, 1994, Creative Writing, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL

Athletic Experience

Cycling

• 1991 to present, USA Cycling Licensed Racer (currently Category 1)
• 1994-1998, US Professional Licensed Racer
• 1996-1998, Team Member, Palafrugell/Homs, Spain
• 1996, Qualifier for Olympic Trials - Cycling
• 1995, Team Member, G.B. Haverbeke, Belgium
• 1992, Olympic Training Center Resident Athlete

Triathlon

• 2001 to present, USA Triathlon Licensed Racer
• 2002 and 2004 World Duathlon Championship Qualifier
• 2002 World Long Course Triathlon Championship Qualifier
• 2001 5th place, National Long Course Triathlon Championships
• 2001 to present All American Triathlete
• 2001 Georgia Olympic Distance Triathlon Champion

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