{"id":5968,"date":"2020-09-08T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=5968"},"modified":"2020-09-08T17:00:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T21:00:52","slug":"matrix-fitness-announces-partnership-with-strength-and-conditioning-mogul-boyd-epley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/suppliers\/matrix-fitness-announces-partnership-with-strength-and-conditioning-mogul-boyd-epley\/","title":{"rendered":"Matrix Fitness Announces Partnership with Strength and Conditioning Mogul Boyd Epley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Matrix-300x56.png\" alt=\"Matrix: Strong, Smart, Beautiful\" width=\"300\" height=\"56\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-290\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Matrix-300x56.png 300w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Matrix-200x37.png 200w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Matrix-800x148.png 800w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Matrix.png 847w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Matrix: Strong, Smart, Beautiful<\/p>\n<p><strong>COTTAGE GROVE, WI<\/strong> &#8211; Matrix Fitness has announced a new partnership with Boyd Epley, the trailblazer for modern strength and conditioning and recently retired Assistant Athletic Director for Strength and Conditioning at the University of Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>Epley joins the US Matrix team after an award-winning career as the first paid strength and conditioning coach in collegiate athletics. During a decorated 50+ year-career in the field, he pioneered the \u201cHusker Power\u201d Strength and Conditioning Program for Sports Performance at the University of Nebraska, setting the gold standard for other universities to follow and positively impacting millions of athletes as a result. Epley also founded the National Strength and Conditioning Association, which has certified over 60,000 strength coaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very pleased to welcome Boyd Epley onto our team as a Matrix Brand Ambassador, and I see this partnership as a proud moment for our company,\u201d said Kent Stevens, Executive Vice President of  Commercial Sales for Matrix Fitness. \u201cBoyd thinks big and has always been committed to helping others be great. Our missions align, making this relationship a perfect match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In retirement, Epley\u2019s legacy as The Godfather of Strength &#038; Conditioning lives on as he continues to dedicate time to athletes and their improved performance, develop big ideas and create partnerships to innovate accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatrix has great potential for growth in the [performance training] market,\u201d said Epley. \u201cI think we can make a huge impact with this partnership by taking advantage of the things I\u2019ve learned in my 50+ years to help athletes build muscle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Epley is recognized as the first paid strength and conditioning coach, along with numerous other achievements such as the first ever recipient awarded the National Strength Coach of the Year Award (1980) and induction into the USA Collegiate Strength Coaches Hall of Fame (2003). His industry affiliations include NSCA, CSCCa and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>COTTAGE GROVE, WI<\/strong> &#8211; Matrix Fitness has announced a new partnership with Boyd Epley, the trailblazer for modern strength and conditioning and recently retired Assistant Athletic Director for Strength and Conditioning at the University of Nebraska. Epley also founded the National Strength and Conditioning Association, which has certified over 60,000 strength coaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5969,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions\/5969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}