Specialties:

• Powerlifting
• Autoregulating Training Programs 
• Mental Preparations
• Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation

Background:

Mark brings more than 42 years of weight training experience both as a competitive bodybuilder, powerlifter, and coach. Mark has been working with Reactive Training Systems as an athlete since 2009 and joined the coaching staff in 2015.

Thus far in his powerlifting career, Mark has accumulated an impressive array of accomplishments including multiple world records in the squat, deadlift, and total, 7 times undefeated USAPL Masters National Champion and 3 time World Champion in 2014, 2015, and 2019 in IPF Competition, Masters 2 and 3 divisions in the 105kg weight class earning a total of ten gold medals and one silver in international competition, and awarded Best Lifter Award at 2014 World Championships. He is one of only two men over 60 years old to have squatted over 600lbs in drug tested, IPF competition in any weight class.

He has been a member of 5 U.S. National Classic Teams. He served as an Assistant Coach on the U.S. National Masters Team as well.

Mark brings experience in working with the mental aspects of training and competition, injury and prevention as well as implementing a wide variety of training methodologies.