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Cressey Sports Performance Round Table: Carving Your Path as a Strength Coach

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This week at Cressey Sports Performance Massachusetts, we received an email from an athlete looking to pursue a career in fitness when his playing days are over. This is a common scenario and one to which many athletes-turned-coaches can relate. Here’s the email (edited slightly to protect privacy): To the Guys at CSP, My name is …

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3 Qualities That Separate Great Lifters from Good Lifters

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This Sunday, I’ll have the honor of coaching/speaking at Greg Robin’s Optimizing the Big 3 seminar at Cressey Sports Performance. Greg is a tremendous coach, lifter and mentor. He’s made a huge impact on my coaching career and I can confidently say that had he not taken me under his wing, I wouldn’t be half …

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Cressey Sports Performance Internship Diary – Part 3

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I could never fit everything I’ve learned at Cressey Sports Performance into a couple of blog posts. But over the past few months, I’ve consolidated  the most important things I’ve learned into nine traits of great coaches. In part three of this mini-series (read parts one and two here), I’ll cover the final three characteristics that …

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Cressey Sports Performance Internship Diary – Part 1

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I’m continually blown away by how quickly things can change. As I write this, I just got home from day one of the Elite Baseball Mentorship at Cressey Sports Performance, just in time to catch the second half of the Patriots-Broncos game. A few weeks ago, who could have imagined New England going from four straight weeks …

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Stop Saying These 4 Phrases If You Want to be Successful

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Thoughts become things. What you think about, you bring about. Your thoughts will manifest your physical actions. – Brian Cain This past weekend I drove down to Pennsylvania to coach my good friend Dave through his first powerlifting meet. Dave’s been training hard and kicked ass on the platform, hitting PRs across the board. I was …

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