The Strength Game

Tony Bixler is the Director of Strength, Conditioning, and Sports Performance at Newberry College. Bixler directly leads the sports performance training for the Wolves Football, Softball, Women’s Soccer, Baseball (Pitchers), and Wrestling teams after being promoted to department director in summer of 2020. Additionally, he oversees 22 teams with a staff of three assistant strength coaches.  Prior to his current position, he was the Head Performance Coach for the National Men’s Rifle Team with the Chinese Olympic Committee in Beijing, China. Bixler was also a strength and conditioning coach and owner of Bixler Fitness for 8 years, in addition to simultaneously serving as a football coach and strength coach at multiple different high schools in South Carolina including Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, Richland Northeast High School, AC Flora High School, and Westwood High School. He also spent time as an intern coach at the University of South Carolina with Women’s Basketball. After undergrad Bixler began his career as a deputy sheriff and criminal investigator before shifting gears and finding himself in the coaching profession. He is an avid lifter himself and is currently competing in Olympic weightlifting in the Master’s division as a part of the Palmetto Weightlifting team. Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Ben Hoffman is the Associate Director of Strength and Conditioning for Olympic Sports at the University of Maryland. At Maryland he oversees all aspects of strength and conditioning for men’s soccer and women’s tennis. In addition, Hoffman oversees and manages all athlete monitoring and sport technology operations, platforms, needs and research as well as coordinating the sport science internship program for the Maryland Olympic sports performance department. Prior to this current position, Hoffman was a sports performance coach at Georgetown University and had stops at Webber International University, Valdosta State University and the University of Houston. A four-year collegiate athlete in his own right on the Southwestern University soccer team, Hoffman now trains and competes in Olympic weightlifting. Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Michael Robinson is an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at California Baptist University where he oversees training for the women’s basketball, women’s volleyball, women’s water polo, men’s and women’s swim, and wrestling programs. Originally starting as a part-time coach he was promoted into full-time role in 2018. Prior to CBU, Robinson was the director of strength and conditioning and player development at Citrus College in Glendora, CA as well as the Head-Assistant men’s basketball coach. He’s also spent time as a graduate assistant in the kinesiology department at Cal Baptist and self-ran his own training business working with athletes on skill, player development and sports performance. Robinson started his college basketball career at nearby UC San Diego before transferring to finish his last two seasons at Cal Baptist. He’s found new ways to compete and is actively training and competing in triathlons and various other distanced based endurance races. Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Chris Cervantes is an Assistant Director for Athletic Performance at the University of Tulsa where he works with the football team, leads the training for the Golden Hurricanes volleyball and women’s tennis programs as well as runs more of the programs sports science areas after being promoted from his internship role in 2019. Prior to his arrival at Tulsa, he spent time as an intern strength coach at the University of Texas, the University of Colorado and the University of Denver. A former college rugby athlete, Cervantes had a brief stint with a semipro club team before diving deep into heavy conjugate style training and even dabbling in a few half marathons to test his mettle. He is still heavily involved in lifting, using his own training to test out new programs, technology and ideas on himself prior to implementing them with his athletes.Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

James Perez is the Assistant Director of Football Sports Performance at Stanford University. Prior to being elevated to his current role, he had previous stops as an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at Fresno State University, as the Director of Athletic Performance at Sacred heart Schools in Atherton, CA, a Physical Therapy Aid at PT Northwest, as well as professional internships at both Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.  Perez was a dual sport athlete at Willamette University as a part of the baseball team for two ½ years and the football program for four years before beginning his professional career overseas in the European Football League. Perez competed in the 2011 and 2012 seasons in Finland as a triple-position threat, defensive back, wide receiver and return specialist, for the Jyvaskyla Jaguaarit. Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Phil Johnson is the owner and operator of Got Strength gym in Iowa City, IA as well the strength & conditioning coach for the Got Strength Weightlifting team, a USAW affiliated club team that works in partnership with the Iowa City Parks & Recreation department to offer the sport of Olympic Weightlifting to the local community. In addition, Phil is also an adjunct professor at the University of Iowa in the Health and Human Physiology Department. Coach Johnson has been involved in many different facets of the sports performance profession including the college sector as an Intern coach at the University of Iowa before coaching at both Northern Arizona University and Florida State University. He’s also spent time in the private sector, interning for Mike Boyle Strength & Conditioning all while operating his own facility since 2005. Phil Johnson is an avid adventure seeker and extreme sport enthusiast, whose athletic hobbies range from mountain biking to weightlifting to snowboarding. He’s competed for multiple years in both strongman and Olympic weightlifting and continues to train weightlifting and adventure bikes currently. Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Chris Tolzman is an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at the United States Naval Academy working directly with the sprint football, women’s soccer and the track & field programs. In addition to his work with his varsity teams, Tolzman is also a Professor of Physical Disciplines at The Academy where he is an instructor for various Physical Education courses including Boxing, Martial Arts and Weight Training. Prior to his current position he’s also spent time as a strength & conditioning coach at Georgetown University, American University, Athletic Performance Inc. in Millersville, MD and the West Michigan Whitecaps of the Detroit Tigers organization. He began his career as a student volunteer at East Carolina University in the strength & conditioning department and later as an intern at the Philippi Sports Institute in Las Vegas. Tolzman is also a competitive Olympic weightlifter where he’s been competing since 2013. Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Prince Williams is the Head Football Athletic Trainer at Cal Poly. Williams owns a variety of professional career experience that expands across various levels of athletics. Prior to his current position, Prince spent six years at Cal State Monterey, six years as the Head Athletic Trainer at Harnell College (CA) and experience covering football, rugby and gymnastics on the Sports Medicine staff at Cal. He has also worked with the NFL as an ATC spotter for the San Francisco 49ers during both the 2016 and 2017 seasons. Prince is certified strength coach, the Host of “The Hustle & Grit Experience” podcast, a columnist and published author for “Breaking Muscle .com” and sports medicine instructor and mentor. He holds two 5th-degree black belts in two systems and is an instructor/teacher in a weapons-based blade art called Eskrima. A former college football player, Williams is also heavily involved in bodybuilding and competes in powerlifting. Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

John Patrick is a Collegiate and High School Strength & Conditioning Coach. Patrick is a Master Strength and Conditioning Coach from the CSCCa. He’s held multiple positions throughout his career in the collegiate, high school and private sector of strength and conditioning. As a director he’s had stops at UNC-Charlotte, Kennesaw State, Central Connecticut, Youngstown State and Jacksonville University. Additionally he’s held graduate assistant coaching roles at Georgia Southern and the University of Texas at El Paso, has been an intern coach with the Jacksonville Jaguars, at New Mexico State, a minor league strength coach with the Cleveland Indians extended spring season and an intern with the Detroit Tigers during spring training. He also spent close to three years as a general manager of SET Performance, an athletic performance facility located in Florida. In addition to his coaching experience, Patrick competed for five years in arm wrestling and continues to train extensively in different powerlifting disciplines from single-ply, multi-ply and raw categories.Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Philip Reuer is the High Intensity Tactical Training (HITT) Coordinator for Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) at Camp Courtney, Okinawa, Japan. In his current position, Reuer, oversees HITT training for Marines at Camp Courtney. He has previously spent time as an Assistant Coach at American University, Graduate Assistant Coach at South Dakota State in addition to coaching internships at the University of Mary, the United States Olympic Committee in Colorado Springs, and the United States Air Force Academy. In addition to his coaching experience, Reuer is a former two-sport athlete at Valley City State University where he played two seasons on the football team and four seasons on the track & field program. Currently he trains and competes in Olympic weightlifting. Cerberus StrengthUse Code: STRENGTH_GAME at Cerberus-Strength.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show