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JordanRichey.

Former degenerate. Sober since July 26, 2023. Triathlete. Lifter. Now I help men do the hard shit I wish someone had shown me sooner.

Where it started

Irritable. Discontent. Always.

I was always athletic. Genuinely gifted. And I did absolutely nothing with it. High school, college, my early twenties — all of it spent partying, chasing the wrong things, stuck in a cycle I didn't even know I was in. I worked corporate jobs I hated, answering Slack messages about things that didn't matter, collecting paychecks and spending them on more of the same nothing.

The frustrating part wasn't the chaos. It was that nothing ever stuck. I'd start something, lose interest, move on. Over and over. I was always looking for the next thing that would finally make me feel okay — and it never came. Not from the job, not from the money, not from the lifestyle.

"I hit a physical, spiritual, and financial bottom in 2023. And that was the best thing that ever happened to me."

07.26.2023
Date of sobriety

I got sober on July 26, 2023. I found a group of men in Chicago who had been where I was and had built something different on the other side of it. They didn't just help me stop — they helped me rebuild. Physically. Spiritually. From the ground up.

For the first time in my life, something stuck. Training became the anchor. The structure it required, the discipline it demanded — it was exactly the container I'd needed my entire life and never had.

Jordan Richey
Before · 2023
Jordan Richey Chicago Marathon 2024
Chicago Marathon · 2024
The races

I trained for everythingwrong first.

A charity walked into my church in Chicago and offered to sponsor people for the Chicago Marathon. I'd grown up in Sarasota, Florida. I'd never heard of anyone running a marathon. I signed up anyway. My training was unstructured and undisciplined — but I finished in 4 hours.

Then I bought a road bike and was doing 100–200 miles a week around Chicago and fell in love immediately. One morning at 4:30am, getting ready for a private training session, I had the idea to sign up for Ironman 70.3 Oceanside. My girlfriend and I were already moving to Northern California. I figured — why not. It's good to do hard shit.

I let my pride get in the way of hiring a coach. I only started taking it seriously with 10 weeks to go. I still finished in 6 hours. Now I train the right way — and I know exactly what the wrong way costs you.

2024
Chicago Marathon
4:00:00 finish
First race ever. Unstructured training. Finished on grit alone.
2024
Ironman 70.3 Oceanside
6:00:00 finish
Signed up at 4:30am. Took it seriously with 10 weeks to go. Finished.
Upcoming
Century Ride Lake Tahoe · Ironman California · Western States Ultra
The next chapter. Trained right this time.
Why I coach

I can't stand the Slack messages.

I've had every kind of corporate job. I've hated every single one of them. The tedious bullshit, the meetings about meetings, the performance reviews that measure the wrong things entirely.

What I actually want — what I've always wanted — is to work one-on-one with men who are serious about change. Men who are done with the cycle. Men who are ready to build something real in their bodies, their minds, and maybe their spirit too.

My next goal over the next two years is to help as many men as possible avoid the mistakes I made and shortcut the path to becoming the person they're capable of being.

  • 01
    I've been where you are.The irritability, the restlessness, the feeling that nothing sticks. I know exactly what that feels like and exactly what it takes to get out of it.
  • 02
    I trained wrong before I trained right.I know what ego-driven, unstructured training costs you. My programs exist because I learned those lessons the hard way.
  • 03
    I built this life from scratch at rock bottom.Sobriety, training, triathlon, coaching — none of it existed for me three years ago. I know what it takes to build something from nothing.
  • 04
    I take the physical, mental, and spiritual seriously.Most coaches stop at the body. I've seen what happens when you work all three together. That's what I bring.
What backs the work

Coached at every level. Bloodwork included.

Most coaches give you a program. I give you a team. Every discipline of endurance training — swim, bike, run, strength, hypertrophy — has a dedicated expert behind it. And before any program is built, I work with highly accredited men's health clinics to understand and interpret your bloodwork so that what we build is grounded in what your body actually needs — not what works on average.

Coaching
Expert-backed
across the board.

Whether you're chasing strength, body composition, endurance, or all three — I have specialists behind every discipline. I personally train under a dedicated endurance coach and a running coach, and I bring that same commitment to structured, expert-led guidance to every client I work with.

Strength and hypertrophy
Endurance — running, cycling, triathlon
Body recomposition
Race-specific preparation
Bloodwork & Men's Health
Your labs aren't just
numbers on a page.

I work with highly accredited men's health clinics to interpret your bloodwork and translate it directly into your everyday habits, supplementation, nutrition, and training load. Hormones, inflammation markers, cardiovascular panels — all of it informs how we build your program and how we adjust it over time.

Hormone optimization — testosterone, estradiol, DHEA
Cardiovascular markers — LDL particle, ApoB, HDL
Inflammation and thyroid function
Supplement protocols built from your actual results

This isn't about optimizing numbers for the sake of it. It's about understanding what's happening inside your body so that everything we do on the outside — how you train, how you eat, how you sleep, how you recover — is actually working with your physiology instead of against it. That's the difference between a program that looks good on paper and one that actually produces results.

Ready to work

Stop wasting what
you're capable of.

I work with men who are serious. If that's you, apply. If you want to see what I'm building first, follow along.

Apply for Coaching → @jriicheyy on Instagram