Building a Strength and Conditioning Certification w/ Nate Palin, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash - Barbell Shrugged #533
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Nate Palin is the Director of Education at the FitOps Foundation, an organization that equips veterans who are passionate about fitness, health, and wellness to find success after the military.
Using fitness and the leadership skills that they gained during their time in the service, veterans are equipped with a new mission: to help improve the lives of others. Focusing on professional and personal development, veterans who graduate from FitOps are experts in fitness coaching, and are awarded a fitness industry professional certification and designated as Certified Veteran Fitness Operatives (CVFO), which gives them the tools necessary to launch a career in fitness and leadership.
Nate Palin served as a leader in the 2nd Ranger Battalion for seven years prior to his transition to strength and conditioning. Over the course of five combat deployments in support of Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom, Nate experienced the military’s performance shortcomings and observed the need for enhanced physical training to better support mission critical tasks.
He began his coaching career in 2010, narrowed his focus to tactical strength and conditioning as a Performance Specialist for EXOS in Washington, D.C. in 2012, and coached Special Operations Forces at Joint Base Lewis-McChord from 2015 to 2018.
In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:
- Incorporating mental health into a strength certification
- How to build a certification and the hierarchy of needs for trainers
- Fundamentals to coaching and tactics to get coaches there.
- The future for FitOps in a Covid-19 world
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Shrug family, this week on Barbell Shrugged Nate Palin, director of education at the |
| 0:04.7 | FITOPs Foundation. |
| 0:05.7 | If you've been paying attention this entire year, we've been hanging out with the crew |
| 0:08.7 | down at FITOPs doing amazing work, helping veterans with PTSD transition from their military |
| 0:14.9 | life into civilian life with PTSD, getting them into the fitness, profession, certifying |
| 0:21.6 | them and the person that is designing that certification process. |
| 0:25.4 | We have on the show today, we're talking about how to build a certification, how he |
| 0:29.3 | prioritizes specific things in those certifications. |
| 0:32.6 | It's just a really cool conversation. |
| 0:35.0 | Such top notch human beings that are a part of the FITOPs Foundation doing great work |
| 0:39.2 | down there, all the way from the top with Matt Hessey, who we just had on the show again |
| 0:44.8 | last week, we'll be releasing that on here shortly. |
| 0:50.0 | Cena, he's a big part of it and just an amazing human being that does so much good |
| 0:53.8 | in the world. |
| 0:55.5 | Harrison, Johnny Martin and now Nate Palin, you can add to that crew of just really awesome |
| 1:00.1 | people involved in the FITOPs Foundation. |
| 1:02.0 | If you know any military vets, looking to get into the training industry, their camps |
| 1:08.3 | are starting back up, so make sure you get over to FITOPs.org. |
| 1:10.8 | If you have not been a part or do not know anybody that is looking to get into it, but |
| 1:16.2 | would like to learn more about the FITOPs Foundation and maybe even be a part of donating |
| 1:20.7 | some money to help raise funds so they can build more and more, do better and better, |
| 1:27.4 | and do just amazing things for veterans that need help and want to get into the FITNESS |
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