Daniel Thiessen

Daniel Thiessen is the Founder and Owner of RadixGym and CrossFit Radix in Oakville Ontario Canada. Daniel believes in changing people's lives through fitness and nutrition and the methodology of CrossFit. Daniel is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach, Programmer, and Nutrition Expert at Radix, building the foundation of training and nutrition for all the members who have gotten world-class results. In addition to his role with Radix Members Daniel works with some of the best athletes in the World, including Canadian Super Middleweight Boxing Champion JM Bianco. Daniel has been coaching world-class athletes, High-End CEOs, Fathers, Mothers, and teens for the past 20 years. His list of clients includes former CFO of CIBC Kevin Glass, Toronto Argos Fullback Declan Cross, WBC Intercontinental Boxing Champ Mo Aberdeen, and many more. Daniel has helped clients with 100+ pound weight loss transformations and 500-pound Deadlift PR. His mission is to change the lives of every single person who walks in Radix doors.
Growing up Daniel played AAA Baseball and Hockey for the Streetsville Tigers he then transitioned and fell in love with fight sports competing in everything from Boxing, K1 Kickboxing, BJJ, and MMA. He spent 10 years developing and competing before retiring and transitioning into CrossFit, during this time he got his CSCS as well as other certifications and became the Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Fighters at Kombat Arts.
Daniel then competed in CrossFit and Olympic Weightlifting qualifying for National Championships and eventually breaking the Men's 96 kilo weight class 35-39 year old National Snatch record, Snatching 128 kilos.
Daniel has worked alongside and trained under some of the best Coaches in the world including Olympic Gold Medalist Oleksiy Torokhity, IHP Owner JC Santana, Aerobic Capacity Coach Chris Hinshaw, Olympic Gymnast Dave Durante, and more.
Daniel not only wants the best out of his clients he pushes himself every day most recently rode a Rogue Echo Bike for 12 hours straight to raise money and awareness for his Brother’s Not for Profit Orphanage in Haiti, he completed 7011 calories and 391 km. raising over $7500 for the orphans. Fitness, Nutrition, and changing lives are his passions.

As a kid, I played high-level hockey and baseball and was naturally good, so I didn't have to try that hard or practice that hard, I loved playing so I played. When I went to  Kombat Arts for the first time and wanted to learn how to fight, I got the crap kicked out of me again and again and that was my turning point. I learned determination, grit, persistence, patience, and hard work and over the next decade, I changed and turned into a better human.

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My purpose for coaching is to change lives and to build healthy, strong humans not only physically but mentally as well. I believe this translates to all areas of people's lives and the effect compounds and grows and they become something they never even dreamed of.

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