“Give Us One Day and We’ll Show You How To Be A Better Coach, Develop Faster, Stronger, More Powerful Athletes…and We’ll Teach You Exactly What You Need To Know To Develop Your Own Championship Strength & Conditioning Program!”
On Saturday May 23rd an exclusive group of coaches will work personally with me and some of the best Strength & Conditioning Coaches in the country at the 2nd Annual St. Xavier Football Strength & Conditioning Clinic to develop their own championship programs…
…will you be one of them?
From the Desk of: Carlo Alvarez
On May 23rd, 2009 at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, along with 5 of the nation’s top Strength & Conditioning Coaches, St. X will be hosting the 2nd Annual High School Football Strength and Conditioning Clinic. This has become the premier high school football strength and conditioning clinic in the country.
This event has become the go to clinic for Jr. High, Club, High School Coaches, College Sport and Strength Coaches, Athletic Trainers, Physical Therapist, Personal Trainers and Fitness Professionals.
Our goal is to provide coaches and fitness professionals the opportunity to learn proper training principles for football from the most respected coaches in the football strength and conditioning field.
This will be an event you won’t want to miss. Over the last 15 years, I’ve been lucky enough to work at the highest levels of athletics and sports under some of the best coaches in the country. So, when I tell you that these are the top coaches in the country, I’m not making this up.
In 2005, I returned to the high school ranks. What I noticed when I first started working with high school athletes was that many of them were not very athletic, strong or flexible for that matter. With the St. X head football coach, we decided to restructure the football strength and conditioning program. This gave us an opportunity to rethink how we looked at the high school four year process instead of a yearly training plan.
In 2005, St. X won the Division I, big school state championship in Ohio with an undefeated record. In 2006, they lost one regular season game, to the eventual National Champions, Lakeland Florida and in 2007 they won their second state title with an undefeated 15-0 record. Their record for the three years was 40-2 with one regular season loss.
You might be asking yourself, why is this important? My point is that when a program wins championships, it’s not one person that takes the credit, many people help in that process. Over the years, I have consulted with the very best strength and conditioning coaches, have researched, visited and spent 100 of hours on the phone with the people who build championship teams and organizations. The goal – try to create the complete high school football strength and conditioning program.
So, I’ve decided to gather my favorite group of strength and conditioning coaches and ask them to spill the beans on coaching, training, motivating, designing, implementing and evaluating athlete development programs.
(Only 200, 75 Seats Available!)
This clinic is ONLY for those who are serious. The potential payoff from this event is literally a lifetime of success – but only for those that choose to take action.
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CLINIC SPEAKERS
Ken Leistner is an American strength training writer, personal trainer, chiropractor and strength consultant for the National Football League. He is often known as “Dr. Ken”. In 1992, Leistner founded the Iron Island Gym in Long Island and has been a regular columnist for Milo since its inception in April 1993. He was a monthly columnist for Powerlifting USA from February 1979 through November 2000, and was a long-time columnist for Hardgainer. He has written articles for a number of other strength training magazines. He started his own training newsletter, The Steel Tip, in 1985, and published 36 issues. Leistner also contributed a chapter to the book Maximize Your Training. He is married to the former Kathy Tuite, a photographer and world-class powerlifter in the early 1980s.
Joe Kenn is the Director of Athletic Development at the University of Louisville. Prior to Louisville, Coach Kenn spent seven seasons at Arizona State University, including five as the head coach of ASU’s Sports Performance program. Kenn came to ASU after serving as the director of strength and conditioning at the University of Utah from 1999 -2000. Kenn was the head strength and conditioning coach at Boise State from 1994-99, but spent nine years total at Boise State (1991-99). His first coaching assignment came as an assistant football and strength coach at Pine Crest Preparatory School in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (1989-1990). He then became the assistant strength and conditioning coach at Wake Forest University in 1991. Kenn was named the College Strength and Conditioning Professional of the Year in 2002 and has been a finalist for the award four times during his career.
Paul Longo is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at the University of Cincinnati. He joined the UC staff in 2007 after three years at Central Michigan. Coach Longo is responsible for the development and carrying out of the strength and conditioning program for all 18 UC sports, while working directly with the football program. He is a member of the Strength and Conditioning staff at Central Michigan from 2004-06. Coach Longo also served on the strength and conditioning staff at Iowa from 1988-2004 and was also an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at Wisconsin from 1987-88. He holds a BA from Wayne State University a BA from Central Michigan. Coach Longo was a four-year starter at wide receiver at Wayne State and a recipient of the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association’s Master Strength Coach Award, Longo was certified by the CSCCA in May 2001.
Scott Holsopple is the Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning for the University of Florida. Holsopple joins the Gators after spending the 2006-07 season with the University of Kentucky. Prior to Kentucky, he was at Marquette for six seasons. He was hired in the fall of 2000 to work specifically with the men’s basketball program, but served as the head strength and conditioning coach for five years. Prior to Marquette, Holsopple served as the strength and conditioning assistant at his alma mater, Penn State. During his time there, he helped develop and implement a comprehensive, year-round strength, conditioning, and agility programs for the school’s 28 athletic teams. A native of Happy Valley, Pa., Holsopple earned All-America recognition as a boxer at Penn State.
Brian Grasso is the Founder and CEO of the International Youth Conditioning Association. A well-known, respected and outspoken leader in the youth athletic development industry and accomplished presenter, Brian provides educational seminars covering youth athletic development and training topics to sporting organizations throughout the world. Brian began his sport-training career as a Performance Coach to Olympic, professional and elite athletes. He has worked with several professional and Olympic athletes from a variety of sports, and has traveled extensively throughout North America and Europe as a Conditioning Consultant for both the Canadian and United States National Team athletes.
Mike Gittleson, a pioneer in the field, spent 30 years as the strength & conditioning coach for the University of Michigan. He was appointed the athletic department’s first strength & conditioning coach in 1978 and oversaw the day-to-day strength & conditioning program for the student-athletes. He was recognized by the Professional Football Strength & Conditioning Coaches Society as the 2003 National Collegiate Football Strength & Conditioning Coach of the Year. A native of Manchester, N.H., Gittleson earned degrees from New Hampshire (1975) and Plymouth State College (1977). He graduated summa cum laude with a 3.9 gpa and was named the outstanding physical education student in his class at Plymouth State. Gittleson also lettered in football, wrestling and track and won the state weightlifting championship. A Vietnam veteran, he later came to Michigan and completed a master’s degree in exercise science (1980 and earned the prestigious Paul Hunsicker Award as an outstanding graduate student at the University. As an adjunct lecturer in Sports Management, Gittleson was honored with the distinction of becoming an “Honorary ‘M’ Man” in 1997.
Carlo Alvarez is in his fifth season as the Strength and Conditioning Coordinator at St. Xavier High School, the home of Ohio’s Division I Football State Champions in 2005 and 2007, where he oversees the program development of all 13 sports and 700 athletes. He began his coaching career at his alma mater, University of Cincinnati as a student assistant and in 1998, ventured to South Bend, Indiana to the University of Notre Dame. In 2000, he became the Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coordinator for the Cleveland Indians and in 2002, Strength and Conditioning Coordinator for the Cincinnati Reds. During his time in professional baseball, he developed one of the most comprehensive and recognized athletic development programs in MLB and Latin America.
Here is just a sample of some of the things you’ll learn at the clinic…
P.S. There is only one catch to this. You need to act now before all the spots are gone. It is filling up fast.
2009 St. X Football Strength and Conditioning Clinic
(Only 200, 75 Seats Available!)
