Why I built this
In 2022 I was training for the Pan Americans when I blew my back out during a sparring session. I drove home, sat down, and couldn't get back up. I ended up bedridden for days and eventually in the emergency room, where they ran an X-ray, found nothing structurally wrong, gave me pain meds, and sent me home.
What happened next stuck with me. The moment I stopped believing something was catastrophically broken, my body started responding. Nobody explained that to me. I had to land on it myself.
That wasn't my first time seeing the system fall short either. Years earlier I'd studied exercise science and spent time inside PT clinics watching patients get cycled through clamshells and electrical stimulation, checked off a list, sent home, and told to come back next week. Nobody was getting stronger. Nobody was actually building any capacity. They were just being managed. That experience pushed me toward a different answer -- one that was sitting in plain sight the whole time. Strength training.
I spent seven years in tech sales before jiu jitsu pulled me back in. Getting serious about training again, and finding myself helping people around me move and recover better, I kept running into the same gap. People dealing with pain or coming back from injury being told what not to do instead of being built back up. So I started building something different. A strength coaching practice grounded in how the body actually responds to load, and why getting stronger is almost always the most direct path to feeling and moving better.
That's what HMN AIDE is. I'm a strength and conditioning coach currently in physical therapy school, and this is where those two worlds meet in a way that actually makes sense.
Chase Yoselowitz, CSCS
A Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu brown belt and competition-tested grappler with gold medals at IBJJF Pan American and multiple IBJJF Opens, a F2W veteran, and years of high-level competition experience. He has trained and worked alongside the Miyao brothers, Vagner Rocha, and multiple BJJ world champions and MMA fighters, giving him a working understanding of what high-level combat athletes actually need from their strength and conditioning, not what looks good on a program.
He earned his undergraduate degree in Kinesiology from CUNY Brooklyn College and is currently pursuing his Doctor of Physical Therapy at Nova Southeastern University, with a projected graduation in 2027. He holds his Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist credential through the NSCA and is certified in Functional Range Conditioning.
Through HMN AIDE, he offers application-only remote coaching to athletes around the world, in-person and small group coaching out of South Florida. His clients range from UFC and ADCC competitors to IBJJF champions to active people and even those whose sport is simply winning in life without breaking down.
His philosophy is built on a simple idea: you become what you train. Whatever lever you pull on in training, if you pull on it well enough, your body will build the adaptations to match. Train for strength, you become strong. Train for resilience, you become harder to break. Most people aren't broken, they're under-built for the lives they're asking their bodies to live. The work is in choosing the right levers and pulling on them with intent. The long-term vision behind HMN AIDE is a clinic that treats it that way.