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What sent you down the strength and conditioning career path to begin with?

“I was here undergrad majoring in sports medicine and the majority of my time had been spent in the training room trying to help my mentor Ethan Saliba fix people and learning how to fix people through his teachings. But I got to a point where dealing with kids who come in and who are injured and going through that process wasn’t for me. I wanted to be on the other end of things so I kind of soul-searched and looked at what I could do from a standpoint of keeping people out of the training room and enhancing their performance. So I kind of transitioned from a rehabilitation role into a performance enhancement and injury prevention role my first year of grad school.”

One thing you hear a lot in regard to strength training these days is core, core, core. Is that part of your philosophy?

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