Michael graduated with a Bachelor of Podiatry from the University of South Australia (2006) and is a certified Sports Podiatrist (APodA 2017). He currently is a partner at Adelaide’s Sports & Arthritis Clinic with 2 of the state’s leading Sports Physicians, where he is a clinical Podiatrist working predominantly in sports medicine. 

He has competed in athletics for over 2 decades, and now continues to work in athletics via coaching middle-long distance runners (Level II advanced MD/LD coach - Athletics Australia) at Adelaide Harriers, along with continuing to compete himself. More recently he has begun his part-time masters by research (UofA) where the focus of his thesis is looking at the training characteristics of recreational runners and the association with performance and sustainability.