The Built To Last Podcast

Jerry Palmieri has spent over 30 years serving as a Strength and Conditioning Coach in both the NFL and NCAA. He has won two Super Bowl Championships with the New York Giants (2008, 2012), and has been the recipient of the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2018). Over the course of his career, he has trained athletes at the New York Giants, New Orleans Saints, Jacksonville Jaguars, Boston College, Kansas State University, Oklahoma State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jerry Palmieri has spent over 30 years serving as a Strength and Conditioning Coach in both the NFL and NCAA. He has won two Super Bowl Championships with the New York Giants (2008, 2012), and has been the recipient of the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2018). Over the course of his career, he has trained athletes at the New York Giants, New Orleans Saints, Jacksonville Jaguars, Boston College, Kansas State University, Oklahoma State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jerry Palmieri has spent over 30 years serving as a Strength and Conditioning Coach in both the NFL and NCAA. He has won two Super Bowl Championships with the New York Giants (2008, 2012), and has been the recipient of the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2018). Over the course of his career, he has trained athletes at the New York Giants, New Orleans Saints, Jacksonville Jaguars, Boston College, Kansas State University, Oklahoma State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jerry Palmieri has spent over 30 years serving as a Strength and Conditioning Coach in both the NFL and NCAA. He has won two Super Bowl Championships with the New York Giants (2008, 2012), and has been the recipient of the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2018). Over the course of his career, he has trained athletes at the New York Giants, New Orleans Saints, Jacksonville Jaguars, Boston College, Kansas State University, Oklahoma State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jerry Palmieri has spent over 30 years serving as a Strength and Conditioning Coach in both the NFL and NCAA. He has won two Super Bowl Championships with the New York Giants (2008, 2012), and has been the recipient of the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2018). Over the course of his career, he has trained athletes at the New York Giants, New Orleans Saints, Jacksonville Jaguars, Boston College, Kansas State University, Oklahoma State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jerry Palmieri has spent over 30 years serving as a Strength and Conditioning Coach in both the NFL and NCAA. He has won two Super Bowl Championships with the New York Giants (2008, 2012), and has been the recipient of the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2018). Over the course of his career, he has trained athletes at the New York Giants, New Orleans Saints, Jacksonville Jaguars, Boston College, Kansas State University, Oklahoma State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jerry Palmieri has spent over 30 years serving as a Strength and Conditioning Coach in both the NFL and NCAA. He has won two Super Bowl Championships with the New York Giants (2008, 2012), and has been the recipient of the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2018). Over the course of his career, he has trained athletes at the New York Giants, New Orleans Saints, Jacksonville Jaguars, Boston College, Kansas State University, Oklahoma State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jerry Palmieri has spent over 30 years serving as a Strength and Conditioning Coach in both the NFL and NCAA. He has won two Super Bowl Championships with the New York Giants (2008, 2012), and has been the recipient of the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2018). Over the course of his career, he has trained athletes at the New York Giants, New Orleans Saints, Jacksonville Jaguars, Boston College, Kansas State University, Oklahoma State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jerry Palmieri has spent over 30 years serving as a Strength and Conditioning Coach in both the NFL and NCAA. He has won two Super Bowl Championships with the New York Giants (2008, 2012), and has been the recipient of the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2018). Over the course of his career, he has trained athletes at the New York Giants, New Orleans Saints, Jacksonville Jaguars, Boston College, Kansas State University, Oklahoma State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jerry Palmieri has spent over 30 years serving as a Strength and Conditioning Coach in both the NFL and NCAA. He has won two Super Bowl Championships with the New York Giants (2008, 2012), and has been the recipient of the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2018). Over the course of his career, he has trained athletes at the New York Giants, New Orleans Saints, Jacksonville Jaguars, Boston College, Kansas State University, Oklahoma State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jerry Palmieri has spent over 30 years serving as a Strength and Conditioning Coach in both the NFL and NCAA. He has won two Super Bowl Championships with the New York Giants (2008, 2012), and has been the recipient of the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2018). Over the course of his career, he has trained athletes at the New York Giants, New Orleans Saints, Jacksonville Jaguars, Boston College, Kansas State University, Oklahoma State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Andrew Slay serves as Associate Pastor at Westwood Baptist Church. Andrew is a graduate of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary with a Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, he earned his bachelor's degree in RTVF and a master's degree in Exercise Science from Auburn University. Before joining the Pastoral Staff at Westwood, Andrew spent two years as the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Lee University and a year and a half at Auburn University as a Graduate Assistant. He is an invaluable asset to the Built to Last ministry as he continues to pour into the lives of coaches.

Jordan Bar is an Assistant Director of Sports Performance Coach at Duke Sports Performance. He joined the staff full-time in the Fall of 2015 as an assistant Sports Performance Coach after time spent as an intern and volunteer coach within the department. As a men's soccer student-athlete, Bar attended Fairfield University for two years before transferring to the University of Hartford, where he earned his bachelor's degree in Exercise Science with a concentration in Spanish Language. Bar is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, a USA Weightlifting Level 1 Coach, FMS Certified, as well as TPI Level 1 and TPI Level 2 in both Fitness and Power Bar played soccer for many years competitively as a goalkeeper at the elite youth level, winning the US Club Soccer National Championship in 2006, as well as at the division I level winning the MAAC Championship with Fairfield University in 2008. Between his time at Fairfield and Hartford, Bar spent time playing soccer at the professional level overseas in Europe. After Hartford, Bar gained more experience, competing at the semi-professional level in the US playing in the USL-PDL and NASL. In his sapre time, Bar is an avid golfer, and currently holds four club championship titles (2017, 2019, 2021, 2022) at Duke University's Golf Club.

In this episode, special guest host, Zack Fleming sits down for a candid conversation with Brad Perry of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Coach Fleming was a guest on the show back in Season 1 Episode 26 (check it out if you havent already heard it), and it touched our lives so much so, that we wanted to have him back on as a host.  Brad Perry is the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Area Director in East Tennesse/Southwestern Virginia. Beyond his primary role in ministry, Perry is a former Marine and a wrestling coach for over 20 years. In his current role with FCA he has implemented the 5 Star School Program and is passionate about seeing the lives of coaches and athletes transformed by the Gospel.

Andrew Slay serves as Associate Pastor at Westwood Baptist Church. Andrew is a graduate of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary with a Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, he earned his bachelor's degree in RTVF and a master's degree in Exercise Science from Auburn University. Before joining the Pastoral Staff at Westwood, Andrew spent two years as the Head Strenth and Conditioning Coach at Lee University and a year and a half at Auburn University as a Graduate Assistant. He is an invaluable asset to the Built to Last ministry as he continues to pour into the lives of coaches.

Hank Kistler was raised in North Carolina by his mother, Catherine, a Christian school teacher and his father, James Kistler, an Air Force veteran. He felt the call of God on his life as a teenager to preach the word of God and show others the love of Jesus. He met Allison his wife in high school and together went off to Bible college to pursue ministry together. They have served together in ministry for over 15 years. Just over two years ago they desired to start their own church. They wanted a place where the Word was preached, a love for all people was felt, and a heart for the community was lived. From that, Connect Church was born in July of 2020. Connect is in the center of Long Island in Centereach. Pastor Hank has been very influential in the Middle Country community showing that Connect Church is FOR them! His motto for Connect is... “For much too long the church has been know for what it is against, we want to show people what the church is FOR!” Hank has a heart to reach Long Island with the life-transforming message of the gospel and connect people to Jesus like never before. He and his wife, Allison have been married for 18 years and have 3 girls together, Emma, Kayla, and Ava.

Started with Navy-Tactical STRIKE at Little Creek-Virginia Beach, VA in September 2020. Prior to STRIKE, Morris worked with the Miami Marlins Organization from March 2019-September 2020. He additionally was a volunteer asst/consultant with the organization during the 2018 season.  Prior to joining the Marlins, Kyle was with the Florida Panthers during the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons as the assistant strength & conditioning coach. With the Panthers, he headed up all sports performance testing.  Before the Panthers, Morris was at IMG Academy from May 2015-September 2017. He worked primarily with both professional/academy track & field, football, and baseball. Additionally he worked with the NFL Combine prep.  Prior to IMG, Morris was an intern at LSU working with football and baseball. He has had additional internship or assistant roles at Wofford College, St. Louis Cardinals, Florida Panthers (2013-14), Florida International Univ, IMG Academy (2012), Salisbury University, Norfolk Admirals (AHL), Hampton University, and Old Dominion University.  Kyle received his master's in Sports Medicine from Nova Southeastern University in 2014 where he was a GA. He received his bachelor's in psychology from Palm Beach Atlantic University in 2011.

Rebekah started as the Chief Everything Officer for Art of Coaching in June of 2022.  As her title implies, she gets to have a hand in all branches of the business – from operations to marketing to event facilitation and 1-on-1 mentoring/ consulting.  Prior to Art of Coaching, Rebekah served as an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at The University of North Texas.  In addition to her responsibilities with Women's Soccer and Softball, she also oversaw facility management and served as the Internship Coordinator. Before UNT, Rebekah was the Olympic Director for Human Performance at Southern Methodist University, and an Assistant Director at both UW-Milwaukee and Arkansas State University.  Throughout her time at these institutions, she worked with a variety of teams in both leadership and assistant roles, mentored interns, lead staff development, and ran team building/ leadership curriculums. Rebekah received a bachelor's degree in Kinesiology – Strength and Conditioning from UW-Oshkosh in December of 2012.  She went on to intern with the Sports Performance staff at Marquette University, working with all teams on campus.  In the fall of 2013, Rebekah began her Graduate Assistantship with the Strength and Conditioning staff at The Citadel – The Military College of South Carolina.  She graduated with a master's degree in Leadership in the summer of 2015. Email: rebekah@artofcoaching.com Website: artofcoaching.com Instagram: @coach_bgold & @aocoaching FREE RESOURCE: artofcoaching.com/decision Artofcoaching.com/whatdrivesyou Rebekah also works with clients, 1-on-1 as a personal mentor. If you are interested in learning more about that experience, please feel free to reach out to her directly!

Andrew Slay serves as Associate Pastor at Westwood Baptist Church. Andrew is a graduate of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary with a Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, he earned his bachelor's degree in RTVF and a master's degree in Exercise Science from Auburn University. Before joining the Pastoral Staff at Westwood, Andrew spent two years as the Head Strenth and Conditioning Coach at Lee University and a year and a half at Auburn University as a Graduate Assistant. He is an invaluable asset to the Built to Last ministry as he continues to pour into the lives of coaches.

This one is for the SPOUSES! In this special episode, Justin sits down with his wife Jennifer to discuss some of the common challenges that can attack a marriage in the strength and conditioning industry. The spouse of the coach doesn't have it easy, and if we follow the old adage, "marriage is 50/50," we are headed for disaster. Feel free to share this episode with your spouse! We pray that as you talk through these points together, it opens the door for greater intimacy, oneness of thought, and a love that withstands the trials of a demanding profession.

J.D. Mehlhorn joined the Georgia State Athletics Department in June 2019 and currently serves as the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for Olympic Sports. He previously served as an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach for the football team at Connecticut for two years. As part of his role at UConn, he assisted the Director of Football Strength and Conditioning with all aspects of training for the team. His additional responsibilities included acting as a liaison to incoming student-athletes, coordinating the internship program, and handling the team's nutritional supplements. Prior to UConn, Mehlhorn served as an Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning at Minnesota from 2015-2017. In his time there, he oversaw all aspects of strength and conditioning for the baseball team, men's track and field/cross country and men's/women's diving teams. Furthermore, he assisted with the training for the men's/women's hockey teams while also maintaining an athlete fueling station and helping develop the internship program. Before being hired at Minnesota, Mehlhorn completed a graduate assistantship at Appalachian State. There, he directed strength and conditioning for the men's/women's tennis teams while also assisting with the training for the football team and the men's/women's basketball teams. Mehlhorn's other coaching experiences included working with Olympic, professional, small college, high school, and youth athletes in a variety of settings. Mehlhorn played football at Bethel University (MN) where he majored in biokinetics and physics while minoring in mathematics. Mehlhorn received multiple honors during his playing career including Academic All-American, Allstate AFCA Good Works Team, Bob Stein Scholar-Athlete of the Year through the Minnesota Chapter of the National Football Foundation, and two-time MIAC All-Conference. Mehlhorn earned his master's degree from Appalachian State studying exercise science with an emphasis in strength and conditioning. Mehlhorn is a certified member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (CSCS & RSCC), as well as USA Weightlifting (Level 1 Sports Performance Coach), and is a Reflexive Performance Reset Pro- Level 2. Mehlhorn and his wife, Katie, currently reside in Decatur.

Andrew Slay serves as Associate Pastor at Westwood Baptist Church. Andrew is a graduate of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary with a Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, he earned his bachelor's degree in RTVF and a master's degree in Exercise Science from Auburn University. Before joining the Pastoral Staff at Westwood, Andrew spent two years as the Head Strenth and Conditioning Coach at Lee University and a year and a half at Auburn University as a Graduate Assistant. He is an invaluable asset to the Built to Last ministry as he continues to pour into the lives of coaches.

Mike Sanders, M.A.Ed, CSCS is the Human Performance & Wellness Coordinator for 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne).  Mike received his Master's Degree in Education (emphasis Exercise Science) in 1999 from the University of Nebraska-Kearney and is also a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist from the National Strength and Conditioning Association.  He was the Director of Strength and Conditioning for the University of Denver from 2001 to 2010.  Mike was blessed to be part of back-to-back national championships in D-I men's ice hockey while coaching at DU.  In 2010 Mike accepted a position as a Human Performance Specialist physically preparing SEALs for combat in Virginia Beach.  Mike came to 7th SFG(A) in 2010.  He has extensive experience and knowledge working with tactical athletes in the Special Operation Forces community and has trained many athletes ranging in age, experience, and level.  Mike is also an author and is the president and founder of Junto Tribe Ministries.  Most importantly, he has been married to his wife of 18 years, Julie, and has two daughters, Chayla and Grace.