Mike Boyle, a renowned strength and conditioning coach, shares his extensive experience from coaching the Boston Bruins to founding his own training business. He discusses how coaching has evolved, focusing on athlete safety and functional training. Boyle delves into the critical role of mastering fundamentals and how small improvements can drastically enhance performance. He also highlights essential resources for aspiring trainers, emphasizing the value of continuous learning in creating effective training programs.
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How Boyle Entered Strength Coaching
Mike Boyle switched from paid athletic training to being a volunteer strength coach at Boston University because the school lacked a strength coach.
He credited early mentors like Mike Wojcik and Rusty Jones for exposing him to professional strength coaching paths.
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Prioritize Smart, Safe Training
Boyle summarizes his program philosophy as "smart and safe," prioritizing methods that reduce injury risk while improving performance.
He evaluates exercises by risk–reward and favors approaches that keep athletes available to play.
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Train For Sport, Not For Looks
Do design athlete programs to improve sport performance, not to make athletes look like bodybuilders.
Focus on transfer to sport and reducing injury risk rather than chasing strength formats unrelated to performance.
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Mike Boyle's name is known across the world among the most successful strength and conditioning coaches. From his time working at Boston University to duties with the Boston Bruins and the World Series Champion Boston Red Sox, to founding Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning in 1996, he has found the most successful strategies and coaching methods in the industry. He joined Aaron Patterson and Human Kinetics for an exclusive interview about his career journey, what he has learned over the years, and his book, Strength and Conditioning Coaching: Winning Methods, Programs, and Facilities.
Strength and Conditioning Coaching: Winning Methods, Programs, and Facilities https://ecs.page.link/gXFt9
Mike Boyle
Mike Boyle cofounded Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning in 1996 as one of the first for-profit strength and conditioning companies in the world. Athletes trained range from junior high school students to all-stars in almost every major professional sport. The business now includes an adult fitness component. Prior to founding Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning, Boyle served as the head strength and conditioning coach at Boston University for 15 years. From 1996 to 2012, he continued to serve as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Boston University, primarily responsible for ice hockey. In addition to his duties at Boston University, from 1991 to 1999, Boyle served as the strength and conditioning coach for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL). In 2012 and 2013, he served as the strength and conditioning consultant to the 2013 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox. He was also the strength and conditioning coach for the 1998 and 2010 U.S. Women's Olympic Ice Hockey teams and served as a consultant in the development of the USA Hockey National Team Development Program now in Plymouth, Michigan. Boyle has been a featured speaker at numerous strength and conditioning and athletic training clinics around the world and has produced 30 educational products in the area of strength and conditioning.
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