I’m Colbie, the Owner and Founder of Team Alpha Fitness. 

I’ve been a very active person since I was a little girl. I grew up playing all the sports you can think of, but specifically figure skating competitively from the age of three to twenty three. Due to skating for so many years, I built a lot of muscle in my quads. They grew to be quite dominant and still are to this day. 

I recall there were a few young girls that I skated with when I was young, that told me I was “fat” because I had big thighs. Only being seven years old, I didn’t know the difference between fat or muscle at the time, and started believing that I was genuinely fat after being told this. At a young, impressionable age, you tend to believe what you’re told. Kids are vulnerable, they don’t know any better, and are naive to logic – as a seven year old, I was exactly like that. 

I look back at this moment in my life and see how it quickly turned from just a moment to a long phase – having the mindset I was fat because someone told me I was. It got to a point where I wouldn’t eat the food my parents gave me. I remember I wouldn’t eat because I believed if I did, my quads would grow bigger, in turn they’d get fatter. I recall thinking to myself, “If I don’t eat I’ll become skinny, start to fit in more on the ice, and the other girls will stop thinking I’m fat, I just need to get my legs to look like there’s”. I remember there were mornings where my mom would catch me sitting in front of our TV, watching her at home workout videos. I’d sit on a chair and bicep curl soup cans as dumbbells – thinking this was the way to make my thighs smaller because I was “working out”. I have a memory of my skating coach Jamie pulling me to the side before I got on the ice one day for practice – she told me I needed to start eating again or I wasn’t allowed to skate. The purpose for this was to get me eating again and well, it worked. 

It took me many years, all the way up into my teens to realize I wasn’t going to get rid of the muscle in my legs, and the more I skated competitively, the more my legs became stronger. Any one who knew me growing up or saw me skate, would tell you I was a very lean, strong, skater. I had little amounts of fat on me to be completely honest, but because I was impressionable and didn’t know any better from a young age, I spent so many years thinking the muscle I had was fat. 

Then a year later when I was eight years old, I was hit by a moving truck pulling a horse trailer on the highway in my hometown. I luckily survived, but my left leg took a beating. I have a large scar now but originally, the wound was all the way through to my femur bone. I came out of the hospital with 140 some odd stitches, most of them being dissolvable. The doctors told my parents that I had lost a lot of blood, and was lucky to be alive, but that I should recover with the full use of my leg again with time and proper healing. The Doctors told my parents they believed the main reason I didn’t lose my life was due to the amount of muscle I had in my legs, that it was impressive how much of it I had for such a young age.

It took me many years to truly appreciate this comment, but as I grew older, I began to love the muscle in my legs, and began to become thankful for it, over not being happy about it. 

The point of this story is, it’s a large reason as to why I’ve always been passionate about the body – learning about it, how it works, why it responds the way it does, learning about fitness, and about health and wellness in general. 

As I grew older, I decided I wanted a career in policing. Bodybuilding and training for police school was all that mattered to me. So that’s what I did, and that’s what became my focus after I stopped skating. After police training ended and I was sworn in, my sole purpose other than becoming the best police officer I could be, was to build the best physique I could build, so I was always fit and ready on the road to keep my partners and I safe, and the citizens I would deal with. 

Come full circle, the experiences I went through growing up, and in my adulthood, ultimately led me to my fitness coaching journey over the past four years.

My coaching philosophy is to help people understand the beauty behind building muscle, and living a healthy lifestyle – as it does dictate the longevity of our lives and how our body runs. My goal is to help people achieve their dream physique, most confident mindset, first responders and citizens.