My name is William Pullar. Thank you for taking the time to come to my website and look around. Also, thank you for taking a moment to read a little (actually, a lot) about me. Growing up, I had an overactive thyroid (graves disease). This came with a lot of complications from a young age, from not being able to put on weight and attention deficit disorders, causing me to be put on a multitude of medications from a young age. 

As I got older and started learning more about my body, I found ways to use working out and nutrition to balance not only my body and mind but also what medications I needed to continue to take (it's crazy what you can learn about your body by experimenting in new but healthy ways). Through middle school and high school, I dealt with issues with my thyroid because of puberty and new chronic problems that occurred. 

I was diagnosed with chronic idiopathic urticaria (CIU) in 2009. This rare disease was not easily treated, and everything was mostly unknown (less than 1 million known cases worldwide at that time). This was one of the worst times of my life. My hands, feet, and face would all swell to the point that doctors were afraid of my throat swelling. Sadly, this caused me to miss a good amount of my sophomore year in high school, leading to many weekend trips to doctors that were hours away. And a new multitude of medications that they used as experiments to see what would work for me. Eventually, I found a fantastic doctor who came up with a cocktail of medications that worked even though it did involve the use of prednisone, which is a very powerful steroid that should not be introduced into a teenager's body because of the long-term side effects that come from it. Eventually, we got it under control, but my overactive thyroid was once again not controllable because of the amount of medications I was taking to neutralize the (CIU). 

Over the next four years, until my first year of college, my thyroid was up and down every time we had it tested, and we could not figure out the reason for it. In my first year of college, I was in the food court and passed out due to a thyroid storm. At this point, I knew I could no longer live the way I was living, so I pushed myself to do everything possible to get myself on the right path for my future. That summer, I had my thyroid removed. On the day of my surgery, I was 6 foot 2 inches and weighed 125 pounds with all of my clothes and shoes on. I went in for the surgery and had my thyroid as well as two parathyroids removed. (Most people have 4) the day after my surgery, I was doing and feeling great, but as more days went on, I started to feel weak, and my levels were dropping to dangerous lows. They put me on medications in the hospital to help me bounce back, and within 4 days, I was back home. 

On my first night home, my body went into a calcium deficiency, and my entire body started to tense up to the point that I couldn't open my hands or extend my arms, and my whole face went numb. I got my mother's attention, and she immediately saw something was wrong. We got into the car, and the only thought in my mind was that I was going to die on the way to the hospital. We finally got there, and they went to take my blood pressure. When they did this, every vein from my neck to my wrist was overfilled with blood rush to the point that my blood pressure was off the chart. At this point, they got me into an ICU bay, and my heart rate jumped to above 200. With my body in a total calcium deficiency, I started to stroke out. This went on for about 30 minutes, off and on, until the IV with calcium began to kick in. 

After that, they brought me up to a room in the hospital and had to keep me there for two weeks to see what was going on. It turns out that, once again, I was one of the rare ones who only had two parathyroids, so I no longer had any thyroid production in my body. This time, I was lucky that it was an easy fix and only one pill (Synthroid) a day for the rest of my life, and I would be the healthiest I would ever be. 

This was when I remembered my days in high school when I used working out and good nutrition to balance out my body's deficiencies. Within 3 months of training myself, I was up to 160 pounds at 7% body fat. As people started to see my progress, they asked me for tips and tricks about my workouts. At the time, I was working at Gold Gym as a membership salesman. As my boss saw me start giving more workout tips, he encouraged me to get certified as a trainer. 

It was the perfect way to use my story and also be able to give back in a significant way. As time went on, my clientele base doubled on an almost daily to weekly basis. Eventually, I broke away from Gold's Gym to start my own brand (Evolution Fitness HTX). The name came from the evolution that My body made through all the different times in my life, and it explains itself. As I started doing individual training, I met a boy and his dad, and the boy had autism. While working out in the gym, I saw his father trying to teach him how to train, and other people around them were getting frustrated. And that frustrated me because the gym is a place where you can be anyone you want to be. So, I approached the father and started trying to help to the best of my ability. The boy took to me very quickly (imitating my movements, grabbing my arm as I was doing curls, and feeling the muscle activate even to the point that he was watching his arm as he was curling with no weight to see if he could feel the same things.

This moment was a life-changing experience from being where I was in middle school, doing the extra work that I'm sure this boy had to do as well, and just knowing the bullying that comes from it, I wanted to make a change. 

The main reason I run this personal training business is because, eventually, down the road, I want to start a special needs program inside of schools where not only kids with special needs are involved but other children as well in an athletic sense. My goal is to have special needs children working with athletes in middle schools and high schools as well as colleges to promote not only mental health but also to help athletes transition from each stage of their life to their next big moves in athletics as well as schooling. 

On the other side of it, I want to be able to work with people with physical disabilities and also autoimmune and chronic diseases to work with their nutrition and workouts to help them live a healthier and better life without having to rely on medications that most of the time make things worse.

I believe everyone has something in them that drives them and makes them special, and I want to learn that one thing in every person I meet. My biggest drive is the great feeling I get when I help someone on their journey. I love to see the faces people make when they finally realize there's nothing in this world you can't do if you put your mind, body, and soul behind it. 

I believe this world is a great place filled with unique opportunities to learn new things every day, and I am grateful for the opportunity to go through everything that I have to get me to the point that I am today. I believe everything I went through was a test to put me where I am so I can help other people in any step or situation in life that they are in.

If you made it through all this, thank you so much for reading and taking the time to get to know me. My emails are always open, and no conversation is too much to have. I will be a listening ear and try to help everyone to the best of my ability. I hope I do get the opportunity to learn what drives you so we can work together to evolve you into the best you!