About me
I’m Andy, a 26 year old full-time powerlifting coach. To give you a little background about myself, I graduated from Merrimack College with my B.S. in Exercise Science in 2021, and since then have bounced around in the fields of both physical therapy and strength & conditioning. After graduating, I worked in a physical therapy clinic for about a year and a half as a rehab aide, absorbing knowledge from the physical therapists that I worked alongside while studying on my own. Feeling that physical therapy wasn’t where my passion resided, I obtained my C.S.C.S and shortly afterwards moved onto a strength & conditioning internship at Champion PT & Performance in Waltham, MA. There, I was able to work with a variety of athletes ranging from children, to high level collegiate / high school athletes, professional athletes, and adults. This internship gave me an extremely valuable base of knowledge when it came to assessing movement, in-person coaching, and biomechanics. Around this same time, I had recently competed in my first powerlifting meet, and since then my passion for the sport has only grown. I have been actively competing as an athlete since late in 2021, and have been coaching powerlifting athletes since 2022.
Shortly after establishing Triumph Strength & Performance alongside Chris Scaplen and Devan Tenney in 2022, I found myself quickly developing my roster. In order to provide the best service possible for my athletes, I have committed my time towards constantly trying to better myself as a coach. Whether this was in the form of mentorship through being coached by higher level coaches, networking with other coaches of similar standing, learning through experiences with my own athletes, or simply spending time consuming content, everything has been geared towards trying to better myself and provide the best service I possibly can. As things continued to develop for our business, it became possible for me to fully sustain myself on just my income from coaching, and in April of 2024 I was able to quit my part-time job and go full-time. To this day, my priorities as a coach are to be the best coach I possibly can to each and every single athlete on my roster, giving everyone 110% effort regardless of their strength or experience
Coaching philosophy
As a coach, I take my line of work extremely seriously. This is what I do for my full time living, and I expect that effort to be reciprocated by the clients that I work with. My ideal clientele are individuals who are motivated and looking to be in the sport / compete for the long term. Communication is the pillar that my coaching philosophy revolves around. I believe that a collaborative approach between the coach and client is what yields the best results, whether that client is a beginner, intermediate, or advanced athlete. To go alongside this collaborative approach, I am extremely invested into the progress of each and every single one of my clients, regardless of their strength level. I do not look to work with clients who are looking for a babysitter. I am here to provide objective feedback about your training and guide you in the right direction, not to chase you for feedback and ask about whether or not sessions are being done.
My system revolves around the collaboration between the coach and client to gather data on you as an individual and create a training protocol that yields sustainable, realistic, and consistent progress for the athlete within each block. Communication and collaboration plays an extremely important role in expediting the speed at which we are able to land on this training protocol, which is why I place such a big emphasis on it.