Professor Lon Kilgore (PhD) is not your typical coach, personal trainer, writer, scientist, illustrator, or teacher. He has successfully done them all. He was a certifying instructor for USA Weightlifting for more than a decade and a frequent lecturer at events at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. He has competed in weightlifting to the national level since 1972 and coached his first athletes from a garage gym to national-championship event medals in 1974. He is a decorated military veteran (sergeant, U.S. Army). His illustration, authorship and co-authorship efforts include the best-selling books “Starting Strength” (first and second editions), “Practical Programming for Strength Training” (first and second editions), “Anatomy without a Scalpel”, “FIT”, “Deconstructing Yoga: A Secular Guide to Learning & Teaching”, "Barbell Sports: Weightlifting-Powerlifting-CrossFit Total", numerous learning resources for the CrossFit instructor training system, magazine columns, academic textbook chapters, and many dozens of research and theoretical journal publications. His professional goal is to provide the best quality, most practical, most accessible and highly affordable educational experiences to sport and fitness professionals through his writing, university work, and his online endeavors. His students have gone on to become highly notable figures in weightlifting, powerlifting, football, cycling, fitness and academia. He has worked in the trenches, as a coach or scientific consultant, with athletes from rank novices to professionals and the Olympic elite, and as a collegiate strength coach. Find out more at the links below.