About Derrick

Over the last 23 years, Derrick has coached celebrities, Olympians, beauty pageant winners, fitness models, TV personalities, newly minted personal trainers and goal oriented individuals just like yourself. He is considered around the fitness community as a trainer of trainers.

A certified personal trainer since 2002, he is also the co-founder of Mansion Fitness West Hollywood and The Phoenix Effect, Hollywood. He holds a double patent on popular functional fitness equipment and has documented hundreds of success stories. Additional qualifications are listed below.

Resume

• Former US Marine Corps

• 10's of thousands of hours of training experience as a full time, top performing personal trainer since August 2002

• Inventor / double patent holder of the doorway and cage mounted curl bar

• Co-Founder of Mansion Fitness private training gym in West Hollywood, CA

• Co-Founder of The Phoenix Effect group fitness facility in Hollywood, CA

• Former personal trainer for ABC's "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette"

• As seen on Basketball Wives of LA, Vanderpump Rules, US WEEKLY, Shahs of Sunset, Hollywood Cycle, Botched, The Doctors, Revenge Body, VH1, ABC 20/20, CBS, Bravo, E! and more! Check out some of the video clips in the "TV & Press" tab

• Extensive training alongside top celebrity trainers in LA

• Hundreds of documented success stories. See some of the before and afters!

• Former Southwester monthly fitness columnist

Fun Facts

Derrick started his career at Bally Total Fitness (now LA Fitness) in 2002 and quickly outgrew it achieving Rookie of the year in August 2002, top performer Oct/Nov 2002 (regional) and Most Valuable Trainer East Coast Dec 2002. He now operates independently out of a private gym in Dupont Circle DC and Easton Gym in LA.

For 4 years, he was the fitness columnist for The Southwester, a free newspaper distributed throughout Washington DC. Check out some of the archives in his "Press" section.

In July 2011, Derrick moved to LA and co-founded Mansion Fitness Gym in an effort to revolutionize gym culture. Since selling it to his business partner in 2016, the gym has become the premier training facility in LA hosting the worlds best personal trainers and their goal oriented clientele.

In Sept 2013, Derrick co-founded The Phoenix Effect at 7264 Melrose. This is a group fitness class like no other that is based upon the legendary instruction of the late fitness trainer, Max Phoenix. Though he is no longer with us, his incredible spirit lives on through its classes, dominating the Los Angeles workout scene with over 48,000 unique check-in's on Facebook alone.

Patents & Awards

Other Clients

• Johnny Rzeznik - Goo Goo Dolls Summer Tour 2014

• Eric Hilton - Thievery Corporation

• Andrea Metz - Producer, Keeping up with the Kardashians / Kourtney & Kim take Miami et al.

• Callum Blue - Dead Like Me, The Tudors, Smallville, Princess Diaries et al.

• Tommy Johnagan - Comedy Central, Late Show w/ David Letterman, Conan Presents et al.

• Jeffrey Sanker - White Party Group

• Sabrina Siddiqui - Reporter WSJ / CNN / The Guardian / Huff Post

• Rose Keravouri - Miss Virginia 2005; Miss America competitor