Authors

Gray Cook

Gray Cook, the author of Athletic Body in Balance, is a practicing physical therapist and a lecturer for Functional Movement Systems, Perform Better, Titleist, Dragon Door, North American Sports Medicine Institute and other industry leaders. He works with professional athletes and teams in a variety of sports, and regularly contributes material to text books in the field of physical therapy and sports conditioning.

Dave Draper

Dave is a former Mr. America, Mr. Universe, Mr. World of the 1960s and ’70s, a time of great influence on how we look at exercise today. He began his training adventure at the age of eight; sixty years of bodybuilding experience form the nucleus of his life, his writing and his life here in central California. Dave writes an email column that goes out weekly to nearly 50,000 people and is a regular contributor to several muscle magazines. Our 4,000+ page IronOnline website, online since since its humble beginnings as a five-page biography site, is visited by over 5,000 people each day.

Dan John

Dan John is a strength coach and a track and field coach, a coach of the annual John Powell Discus Camp, a competitive Master’s throwing athlete and Highland Games competitor, and an RKC kettlebell instructor. He’s a writer who covers all aspects of weightlifting, athletic training and throwing, is a contributor to several online and print magazines, and is the editor of Get Up! newsletter for weightlifting, throwing sports and Highland Games competitors.

Coach John is an accomplished lecturer of the weight training sports, and commands a large following among competitive athletes and fitness enthusiasts worldwide. Dan has a reputation for advocating adherence to basic weight training principles, such as focus on form and nutrition. His popularity is due in part to his simple and effective approach to “the basics” of weight training. He’s also a heck of a writer, weaving stories of life into his thoughts on training.

Michael Boyle

Michael Boyle is an expert in strength and conditioning and what’s often called functional training, and while he coaches daily during the workday, he also writes articles and book, and lectures nationally a couple-dozen times a year. He’s the co-founder of Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning, where he trains athletes from junior high to collegiate level to All Stars in almost every major professional sport. I think he’d agree, however, where he learns the most difficult training lessons is with his aging, chronic-pain-ridden adults, who invariably improve in mobility and ability under his expert guidance.

Prior his work at MBSC, Michael was the head strength and conditioning coach at Boston University, where he continues as the strength and conditioning coach for men’s ice hockey. The eight years prior, he was the strength and conditioning coach for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League; he was also the strength and conditioning coach for the 1998 US Women’s Olympic Ice Hockey Team, the Gold Medalists in Nagano, and served as a consultant for the USA Hockey National Team Development Program.

Dick Tyler

Dr. Tyler has been a doctor of chiropractic for over 40 years, with practices in both southern and northern California and in Vermont. He was the editor of The Chiropractic Family Physician for the American Chiropractic Association, and served as the associate editor for the news publication, Dynamic Chiropractic. He has also had numerous papers published in professional journals, was a contributor to The Osteopathic Physician, and has authored two books on physical conditioning and health.

Dr. Tyler has lectured around the country on subjects such as diversified diagnostic procedures, nutrition, homeopathy, herbal medicine and various alternative treatment modalities. He is currently a member of the California Chiropractic Association and serves on the California Chiropractic licensing board.

Stella Juarez Post

Stella Post is a military wife currently stationed in Germany, a mother, an athlete and a freelance writer. She has applied and developed her artistic and technical skills in a variety of professions, but her expression is best displayed in her cooking expertise.

Stella is a bodybuilding enthusiast whose fitness adventures began far from the dumbbell rack: She started walking in her early efforts to shed 50 pounds. Walking led to recreational running and eventually she completed a marathon, raising money for a leukemia patient in the Vancouver International, 2000. Along the way, she grabbed a barbell, learned how to squat, press and curl, and embarked on a lifelong love affair with muscle and iron.

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