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Amanda Sheppard, SSC

Amanda is an SSC who currently coaches out of the Starting Strength Beaverton location. She is originally from the Chicagoland Read more...
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Jacob Pearce, SSC

Jacob, 29, is a combat veteran who spent four years as an infantryman in the ARMY’s 101st Airborne division. He Read more...
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Scott Acosta, SSC

Scott Acosta is the Head Coach and General Manager of Starting Strength Memphis. Prior to working with the Starting Strength franchise, Read more...
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Jared Nessland, MSCC, SSC

Jared Nessland is a Starting Strength Coach based in Denver, Colorado and the Head Coach at Starting Strength Denver.  Originally Read more...
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Darin Lovat, SSC

A former collegiate student-athlete and coach, Darin brings a combined total of over 50 years of both training and coaching Read more...
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Shelley Hancock-Wells, SSC

Shelley earned a BS in Athletic Training and MS in Exercise Physiology from Midwestern State University. Prior to being an Read more...
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John Dowdy, SSC

John Dowdy is a Starting Strength Coach in Boise, Idaho and is the Head Coach at Starting Strength Boise. He Read more...
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Bruce Trout, SSC

Bruce was in a car accident in 2019 which resulted in the loss of his lower left leg. He attributes Read more...
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Victoria Diaz, SSC

Victoria Diaz, a Starting Strength Coach since 2017, began her professional career pursuing fitness in New York. After earning a Read more...
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Tony Stein, SSC

Tony Stein is a Starting Strength Coach based in Houston, TX. He enjoys working with people from a variety of Read more...
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Mark Diffley, SSC

Mark Diffley has been involved in barbell coaching for over a decade. He discovered Starting Strength in 2011 while coaching Read more...
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Chris Reis, SSC, DPT

Born and raised in Cincinnati, OH, Chris has been a practicing Physical Therapist since 2016 primarily in the outpatient setting, Read more...
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Jordan Claypool, SSC, CSCS, USAW L1

Jordan started his fitness journey as a track and field athlete at a young age. His desire to improve his Read more...
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Jordan Burnett, SSC

Jordan has been in the fitness industry for 6 years, and has been coaching full-time at Starting Strength Dallas for Read more...
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Adam Martin, SSC

Adam Martin has a history training and coaching Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in West Virginia. He began training with the Starting Strength Read more...
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Aaron Frederick, SSC

Aaron Frederick began strength training about 9 years before becoming a member of Starting Strength Austin in June 2020. In Read more...
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Michael Jones, SSC

Michael Jones has been in the Fitness industry since 2016 working with NCAA Football strength and conditioning coaches, briefly training Read more...
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Xavier Lima, SSC

Xavier was born and raised in Ecuador and his family moved to the States in 2006. He attended UCF pursuing Read more...
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Alex Ptacek, SSC

Alex has lived in Chicago all his life. In 2016, he discovered the Starting Strength method and has been applying Read more...
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Jarret Beck, SSC

Jarret grew up in Northwest Ohio where he found a love for sports and fitness. While in college at Bowling Read more...
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David Laws, SSC

David has spent the last decade providing bodywork and massage therapy. In that time he worked with thousands of bodies Read more...
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Jeff Bernitz, SSC

Jeff is a Starting Strength Coach at Starting Strength Austin. Jeff began training with the Starting Strength method in 2020 Read more...
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Brent Carter, SSC

Brent Carter has been a Starting Strength Coach since 2013 and a Seminar Staff Coach since 2014, coaching Starting Strength Read more...
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Josh Wells, SSC, USAW 1

I work with a wide array of clients. From Olympic weightlifting, nutrition, young, old, novice lifters, advanced lifters and anyone Read more...
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Gretchen Geist, SSC

Gretchen is a SSC based out of Memphis, TN. She has experience & enjoys working with clients of all different Read more...
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Chase Lindley, SSC

Chase is the head coach at Starting Strength OKC. Originally from Wichita Falls, TX, he has had the opportunity to Read more...
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Michael Shammas, SSC

An alumnus of Berklee College of Music, Michael developed a love of teaching when he began giving guitar lessons in Read more...
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Pete Troupos, SSC

Pete has been a Starting Strength Coach since 2016. As well as Head Coach of Starting Strength Orlando, he runs Read more...
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Brian Payne, SSC

Brian is a 21 year combat veteran of the US Army. Fitness has been a key part of his entire Read more...
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JD Shipley, SSC

I found Starting Strength in 2016 and became an online coaching client around the same time.  In early 2018 I Read more...
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Andrea Mates, Ph.D, SSC

Andrea Mates is a coach at Starting Strength Austin. Teaching strength training with barbells is only the latest in a Read more...