Our Team is led by Aaron Lakanen, a dedicated and passionate fitness professional, who entered the field in 1999. He has spent his entire career learning more about the human body, the greatest creation, to best serve his clients and students in their desire to seek optimal function and performance. He has a thriving Muscle Activation Techniques and Performance practice in the greater Cincinnati, OH area, and is sought out by elite amateur and professional athletes and anyone hoping to reach optimal muscular system function.

Beginning his career in Minnesota as a trainer, he was quickly exposed to great educators and information in the fitness industry. One of the people he met was Tom Purvis, who directed his students to study MAT, as he believed it was the future of the fitness industry. As his career developed, he was recruited to work in Cincinnati, Ohio as an educator and manager for fitness pioneer Bob Esquerre. Bob met Aaron at a workshop and discovered his talents as an educator. Under Bob’s guidance, Aaron started teaching workshops focused on biomechanics and exercise at a regional and national level.

At the same time, Aaron developed and implemented a personal training model for a sports club chain in the Midwest, teaching managers to run their personal training department as a profitable business unit and trainers to best impact their clients with great skills and programming.

In 2005, Aaron met Greg Roskopf at the MAT Internship in Columbus, Ohio, and the missing link he was seeking in his fitness practice was finally found. Successfully integrating MAT into his existing fitness practice, he sought out further education in the MAT Paradigm.

After becoming a MAT Mastery Level Specialist and excelling with his personal practice, he sought out being an educator for MAT as he wanted to be able to pass on the skill-set to others. His fitness industry experience as a trainer, educator, business developer, and collegiate track and field coach, allow his thought provoking workshops to immediately enhance the skill-set of attendees.

Day to day, Aaron leads NRG Fitness and Performance, a group of fitness and performance professionals, teaching and mentoring them in their practical and theoretical tools. They strive to optimally impact their clients and community. He is a MAT Rx Full Body practitioner and utilizes MAT along with Strategic Resistance Training to deliver amazing results to his clients and community.