Today we’d like to introduce you to Steadman Rogers.
Hi Steadman, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
Chosen Uno Training came to fruition my sophomore year of college when I moved to the University of South Carolina, after being cut from the Coastal Carolina football team. There was so much opportunity ahead of me, so I took a leap of faith and started training friends who were college athletes. A few include University of South Florida Wide Receiver Demarcus Gregory, University of South Carolina Defensive Back Jaylan Foster, and now former Gamecock Wide Receiver and Head Trainer at Chosen Uno Training, Chavis Dawkins played a huge role in helping me decide this.
I won three state championship weightlifting meets in high school as I had one of the best strength coaches in the world in high school, Mike Srock. I was also awarded the Strength Athlete of the Year award my senior year of High School. Training has been one of the biggest blessings and I’m grateful I took the leap of faith and started! I fell in love with training after a few months and told myself I wanted to be my own boss!
I trained several hours everyday Monday – Friday while taking 16-18 credit hours each semester while enrolled at the University of South Carolina where I graduated in May 2020. Fast forward two and a half years later, I’m opening up a physical location in Columbia, SC. We launched our soft opening on October 19th, 2020. Only God is responsible for all of this happening and I’m beyond grateful to help so many people accomplish their fitness goals each and every day!
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle-free, but so far would you say the journey has been a fairly smooth road?
In the beginning, it was rough getting clients because I was brand new in the fitness industry, but I had a lot of knowledge through strength coaches and mentors. The only struggle was getting my first handful of clients.
After getting my name out there and marketing myself more, the Lord took care of everything else. I wake up every day looking forward to what the Lord has in store for me and I let him work through me in everything I do.
Great, so let’s talk business. Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
Chosen Uno Training is more than just a gym, we’re truly one big family. All of our clients know one another and there are no strangers at Chosen Uno Training. We are a private and appointment-only gym. Everything is well organized and we take great pride in everything we do for our clients. Our clients have built relationships within the gym with each other and they have taken those relationships into their life outside the gym. Every session you complete, you will know you got stronger physically and mentally!
Our knowledgeable trainers and the style in which we teach our workouts sets us apart from others. The passion Chavis Dawkins (Head Trainer) and I (Steadman Rogers, the Owner) put into the atmosphere, you can’t teach it. You have to have it inside you! The enthusiasm and energy behind our voices is the reason we have our clients sign up month after month. We have a 100% renewal percentage for clients who purchased a one-month package meaning that any client who purchased a month package bought a 2nd month worth of sessions.
A few people that we train/have trained that the readers may know to include Deebo Samuel (49ers), Bryan Edwards (Raiders), Shi Smith (Panthers) and we’ve trained a few pageant contestants as well which include 2020 Miss SC USA Swimsuit winner Shaylyn Simmons who was also 2nd Runner up in the 2021 Miss SC USA pageant. Laney Quickel won most photogenic in the 2021 Miss SC USA pageant and Meera Bhonslé won the 2021 Miss Upstate, SC USA.
We offer nutrition plans, virtual training, one-on-one training, small group training, speed and agility, and sports performance training. We’re most proud brand-wise, by simply being able to help people feel better and more confident about themselves and to help people wake up and smile at who they see in the mirror. That is what makes us the happiest, being able to help others!
So maybe we end on discussing what matters most to you and why?
Being comfortable in your own skin is what matters to us most! If you aren’t comfortable with who you see in the mirror, the world can be a frightening place. We help our clients mentally and physically to be in the best shape possible and to take on any task that the outside world may bring to them.
This is why we are more than a gym, we’re family and we help one another and build everyone up to take on the outside world and to ignore all the body-shaming the outside world does. Each client is in competition with themselves and the main goal is to be better than you were the previous day!
Contact Info:
- Email: steadman.chosenunotraining@gmail.com
- Website: www.chosenunotraining.com
- Instagram: @chosenunotraining
- Facebook: @trainwithuno
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