YOUR CLINIC HOST

 Robert dos Remedios, MA, CSCS

Director of Speed, Strength, and Conditioning at College of the Canyons.  With Robert’s guidance, COC has had nothing less than dominant results with many of its athletic programs. In fact, the 2004 COC Football team was crowned National Champions.  Robert has been in charge of the physical development of all of the college’s 16 athletic teams since 1999 and has been involved in sport-specific conditioning for over 20 years.  A Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist who holds a masters degree in Kinesiology and a USA Weightlifting Club coach certification, Coach dos is a highly sought after speaker, a published author, and consultant to many high school and college athletic programs. Robert was named the National Strength & Conditioning’s (NSCA) Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Professional of the year in 2006. His best-selling first book, Men’s Health Power Training (Rodale books), was released in September 2007 with his follow-up book Men’s Health Cardio Strength Training scheduled to be released in early 2010.

This Year’s Presenters:

 ·         Greg Vandermande, MA, CSCS – Head Strength and Conditioning Coach, Cal State Fullerton University

·         Sean Skahan, MS, CSCS – Head Strength and Conditioning Coach, Anaheim Ducks

·         Chad Waterbury, MS - Director of strength and conditioning for the Rickson Gracie International Jiu-Jitsu, Los Angeles

·         Valerie Waters – Hollywood’s premiere Personal Trainer

·         Ken Vick, CSCS - Director of Sports Performance, Velocity Sports Performance, Redondo Beach

Day’s schedule:

Description:

Over the past ten years, the Cougar Strength “Building Better Athletes” clinic have built a reputation of being the best strength and conditioning clinic in Southern California. From hands-on workshops to day-long presentations from some of the premier experts in the field of strength and conditioning and performance enhancement, this clinic will be invaluable to you. 

This year’s clinic brings us an exciting group of speakers from right here in the Southland. We start the day with former College of the Canyons student-athlete and Head Strength and Conditioning coach at Cal State Fullerton University, Greg Vandermade. Greg will talk about designing programs for various Division I intercollegiate sport teams. Next up is strength coach and author Chad Waterbury to talk about neuroscience-based training. Chad is the director of strength and conditioning at the legendary Rickson Gracie International Jiu-Jitsu center in Los Angeles and his Book Men’s Heath Huge in a Hurry was recently released by Rodale books. We have the great fortune to have renowned NHL strength coach Sean Skahan talking about off-season training for his hockey athletes. Sean and his Anaheim Duck won the Stanley Cup in 2007! I am pleased to have my good friend and one of Los Angeles’ premiere personal trainers, Valerie Waters as a speaker at this year’s clinic. Valerie has been called “Hollywood’s Hottest Trainer” by U.S. Weekly magazine and has a who’s who of celebrities that she gets into amazing shape for their roles. Valerie will talk about the ins-and-outs of training the Hollywood clientele. Lastly, we have long time strength and conditioning specialist Ken Vick spending some time with us to talk about the differences between training for sport performance versus training for combine performance. Ken trains hundreds of athletes at his Velocity Sports Performance facility in the South Bay including many professional and aspiring pros whom he trains for the NFL combines.

As always, We are confident that you will walk away with an arsenal of training exercises that you can immediately put to use in your own programs. We hope you will join us for this one of a kind clinic and support Cougar Strength and College of the Canyons in this 100% fundraising event.