Co-Founder

Chris Mooney

Chris started playing American football at 15 and was identified early as a future talent, playing up in the open men's division (20 years and over) from the start. At 18 he became the first player in the league's history to win both Open Men's MVP and Linebacker of the Year in the same season, earning recruitment interest from two junior college programs in California by age 20.

At 21, Chris became a father and chose to put that US opportunity aside to focus on providing for his young family, something he is most proud of and continues to be motivated by his wife and daughters daily. Instead of walking away from the sport, he built his career around it at home: becoming a certified personal trainer and spending every hour outside his family commitments studying sports performance, nutrition, recovery, and the mindset patterns of high achievers.

He kept playing, too, competing at state, national, and international level and building a reputation for fierce competitiveness, leadership, and longevity. Twenty seasons later, at 36 Chris decided to call it a career, leaving an already impressive legacy by captaining his teams to five consecutive state titles and a national title on the way out, a direct result of the training and mindset philosophy he'd spent two decades refining on himself first and imparting on his countless teammates around him.

Off the field, Chris has owned and run fitness facilities ranging from small box gyms to large commercial operations, and has coached and mentored hundreds of personal trainers, building the same reputation as a leader and motivator off the field that he had on it. For the last four to five years he's gone deep into the tech side of the industry, and now brings AI and digital delivery into the business, the piece that turns his and Josh's combined 50 years of high-performance experience into the 1% Club.