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Strength and Conditioning Coach Gary Young has a career spanning over twenty years. He has worked with professional athletes at Olympic training centers in America, Korea, and China. He has served as a head coach and director for the Texas-based Ultra Quest Sports Performance Camps, coaching more than a thousand junior-level athletes during a five-year period – many of whom went on to become university athletes in baseball, basketball, American football, soccer, track and field, and other sports. He has served as a coach for the Aspen Basketball Academy, the Conley Soccer House, CrossFit, the Tennis Academy of China, and China’s NSTC (National Sports Training Center). He has served as a personal trainer at private gyms in Aspen, Colorado and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Coach Gary’s athletes include Korean national champions, Chinese National Champions, China’s Four-year National Games gold medalists, and four Olympic Gold medalists, in track and field, tennis, weightlifting, and speedskating. Gary Young is NSCA CSCS certified (#200424029), USAW certified (10/14/24), and USATF certified (#L1.10.6080).

When working with athletes - I have eight primary goals that have proven effective with athletes I've trained:

1) Optimizing hip and spine mechanics and coordination - COORDINATION

2) Increasing dynamic mobility - FLEXIBILITY

3) Aerobic / anaerobic economy and work capacity - STAMINA

4) Developing optimal acceleration / sprint mechanics - SPEED

5) Full-body explosive strength development (rate of force development) - POWER

6) Comprehensive core – abdominal strength - CORE

7) Optimizing recovery: low-stress physical activity, nutrition, sleep quality - RECOVERY

8) Athlete motivation, team community and cohesion - INSPIRATION

A typical training session will be tailored to the athlete's specific sport, specific level, and specific needs based on strength and weaknesses. Here is my last strength and conditioning GYM session with a sprinter from the University of Charleston Track & Field Team.

1) Pre-movement: Santa Monica Prep (10 mins.)

2) Low-Back, Hip Coordination: Mark Verstegen Mobility Warm-up (5 exercises, 5 reps each)

3) Power: Dumbbell Power Clean, Front Squat, Press: 4x5

4) Power: Single-arm Dumbbell Deadlift 4x6

5) Power: Romanian Deadlift 4x8

6) Upper Body Strength: Dumbbell Bench 5x8

7) Upper Body Strength: Chin-up 5x4

8) Core: Bicycle, Bird-dog, Bent-leg Body-twist, T-Push-up, Hyper-extension 3x8 for all

9) Stretch: Hamstrings, Hip-flexors (10 mins.)

Coach David Bailey was my high school track & field coach. He made us work hard every week, and pushed us outside of our comfort zone. Coach Bailey could see beyond your athletic ability today, and into the potential inside that might be realized tomorrow. He used to say to me, "Gary, You're untapped. You're untapped." Under Coach Bailey's guidance and love, I went on to break the high school 3200 meter record, to win three silver medals at state championships, to win the team state championships my junior and senior year, and then on to compete as a division one track & field athlete for Liberty University.

After my track & field career, I began short-track speedskating in graduate school. I trained for the Winter Olympics for over three-years with one of South Korea's top Olympic Development Teams, a team which included world champion and 6-time gold medalist Victor Ahn. I competed in the US Speedskating National Championships, where I won a bronze medal, but did not finish high enough to make US Olympic Team. You won't find many strength coaches who have trained at the highest level, but training four and five hours a day in Olympic-level programs teaches you things that you can never get from a book!