Mason is a Columbia native and graduate of the University of Missouri, where he completed his bachelor's in Nutrition and Fitness. After Mizzou, Mason pursued graduate studies in Kinesiology at A.T. Still University. His passion for fitness was born in the Hickman weight rooms and cultivated during long bike rides and runs on the MKT Nature and Fitness Trail. Mason's personal athletic background includes football, triathlons, marathons, and Olympic-style weightlifting. Currently, he is a coach and competitive weightlifter for the Mid-Missouri Weightlifting Club. For more than a decade, Mason has gathered experience in sports conditioning and coaching, corporate fitness, spinal rehab, cardiac and pulmonary rehab, and medical fitness.