A Boy Finds His Unique Path
 Imagine a 7 year old boy hitting tennis balls on a wall for three hours - only stopping so as not to disturb the midday nap in the old folk's home next to the tennis court.
He wants to excel, he desires unlimited, superior performance.
The big names of that time were Swedish player Bjorn Borg and American players John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors.
During the next 12 years the boy plays a lot of tournaments, he never excels to the extent of his dreams, but occasionally shares the locker room with the biggest Danish talent of that time.
That guy grows to become the best Danish player in the past century.
The other boy, well, he is now a Strength and Conditioning Coach.
And as this is written, I have worked as the Danish player's Strength and Conditioning Coach for the past 7 years, during which time he has won two ATP tournaments.
My passion for strength and conditioning started in University.
We had a great track and field teacher, and sprinting intrigued me. I am naturally slow and was not very strong.
How do you get strong?
How do you create lightening speed?
Those were the questions I wanted to answer.
I soon felt that "this is what I am supposed to do" and from the beginning, I felt that I had something to contribute. My first jobs - while I was in university - involved world class athletes from triathlon and badminton.
 Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Occupation: Strength and Conditioning Coach
Education:
Certifications:
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Level 2 Chek Practitioner
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Level 3 Check Holistic Lifestyle Coach
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Certified Personal Trainer CPTN-CPT
History:
- 15 years experience as a Strength and Conditioning Coach
- Strength and Conditioning Coach for The Danish National Elite Sports Institution
- developed annual periodized training schedules for and trained Olympic and World class level athletes from:
- figure skating
- volleyball
- ju jitsu
- judo
- wrestling
- tennis
- badminton
- table tennis
- waterskiing
- equipment selection and facility design for athletes training centre
- Strength and Conditioning Coach for Kvik Triathlon Team in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Strength and Conditioning Coach for Danish Badminton Federation
- Strength and Conditioning Coach for Holte Volleyball Club, Holte Denmark
- Strength and Conditioning Coachc for Danish Volleyball Federation: Men's National Team
- Assistant teacher in 2nd Year Biomechanics Course - University of Copenhagen
- Member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association
- Member of the Certified Professional Trainers Network
Athletic Achievements
I have competed in tennis, badminton, soccer, basketball, track and field and was nationally ranked as a junior tennis player.
Best lifts:
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1RM dead lift (no gear): 160 kg (double bodyweight)
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1RM parallel back squat (no gear): 140 kg
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3RM half squat (belt): 180 kg
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20RM parallel squat (no gear) : 100 kg (I was on the “Super squats” routine).
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500 bodyweight squats in 15 minutes.
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58 KB Snatches.
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1000 walking lunges in 1 hour (20 soccer fields)
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23 pistols on my right and 26 pistols on my left leg.
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10 Handstand Push ups.
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10 Strict chin ups on moving handles
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60 consecutive Hindu Push Ups
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Body fat around 7% for the last several years.
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A decent split (see photo)
The above listed lifts by no mean make me a world class athlete. However, my own training gives me the personal experience of the movements – a personal experience that improves my ability to teach any lifts/movements to the athletes client in front of me.
Mission Statement
To demonstrate how the human being can develop unlimited physical powers when the methods used are applied in a state of playful determination. The methods used should target all aspects of, and be in resonance with, the inherent principles of body, mind and spirit.
Philosophy
In the training world you will find many coaches that spend a lot of effort arguing the superiority of one particular “type” or “style” of training over another. I believe in analysing the unique benefits of any training style in order to use those benefits in an integrated system – in the right way and at the right time to the ultimate benefit of my athletes/clients.
Also, I am a firm proponent for a “unified approach” to improve physical capacity because that is in alignment with the design of who we are as human beings. I analyse the various ways in which you can work towards a certain goal and subsequently provide strategies for those ways. Popular sayings illustrating the unified approach are “surrounding the dragon” and “the devil is in the detail”.
Selected Seminar Topics Previously Presented:
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“Functional Training”: Is it Necessary?
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Kettlebell Training
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Core Training
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Martial Arts Assessment, Treatment and Training (with Dr. K. Kinakin)
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Goal setting in strength training
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Core training – from multifidus isolation to ¼ squats with 500 pounds.
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Strength training: A practical Approach
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Periodization and program design
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Teaching the Multidirectional Lunge: A Phase Approach
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Strength Training
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A Strength Training Program for Beginners
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Periodization of Strength Training
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Strength Training in Volleyball
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How To Create A Periodization Plan
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Combination Exercises
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The Art & Science of Personal Training
Selected Articles, Publications and Contributions
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Author, The Magnificent 35 - vigorous Variations of Classical Exercises
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Contributing Writer, Puls Magazine,
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Mixed blocks – a new periodization model for strength training
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“Functional training” – is it necessary?
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Don’t waste your time with strength and conditioning
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Progressive Overload
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Individualized strength training programmes. With Mikael Trolle, Danish National Volleyball Coach
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Multiple short sets
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Variations of Shoulder Exercises for Minimal Risk: Optimum Benefit. With Christian Couppé, MSc. PT
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