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College athletes: own your summer.

The athletes who keep their roster spot treat summer like a season. Structured training for college athletes home in the Riverbend area, built to complement your program's plan.

Coach JR holding a barbell upright, focused, in a dark gym

The summer sort

Every college roster runs the same experiment each summer. Athletes scatter home in May. In August, testing tells the truth about who trained and who maintained. Coaches do not have to ask. The forty times, the lift numbers, and the first conditioning session say everything.

If you are home in the Riverbend area for the summer, you have a choice about which side of that sort you land on.

Training that respects your program

College athletes come with a structure I take seriously: a strength staff, a packet, and testing standards that will be enforced in August. My work fits inside that reality.

Trained by someone still competing

I hold myself to a competitive standard year-round, and in 2026 that standard won the NPC Missouri State Men’s Physique overall title. I know exactly what it costs to show up prepared when the date is circled on someone else’s calendar, because I live it. Your August testing date is my show day.

Summers are short. Apply now, tell me your sport and your testing standards, and we start building.

Questions, answered

My program sent me a summer packet. Do I still need coaching?

The packet is the what. Coaching is the how: technique standards, load management, and eyes on your movement three times a week. I build around your program's packet, not against it.

Can you work with my school's strength staff requirements?

Yes. Bring the packet and any testing standards. My job in summer is to send you back stronger in exactly the metrics your staff measures.

What about training through a summer job or internship?

That is normal, not an obstacle. We schedule around it the same way I schedule professionals: minimum effective dose, maximum consistency.

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Tell me where you are and where you want to be. I will tell you honestly what it takes to get there.

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