John Krasinski

Despite growing up in rural Montana with no local resources for strength training information, John still began weight training at the age of 9. His only equipment was his father’s old Weider weight set, and his only training information came from the bodybuilding and weightlifting books and magazines he could find. He coached himself and his football teammates in high school and at Rocky Mountain College. It wasn’t until he transferred schools and began to play football at Montana State University that he met Rock Gullickson --his first real strength coach.

After completing his Bachelor’s Degree, Krasinski began his formal training in strength coaching and instruction as a graduate student at Montana State under the guidance of Gullickson. In 1991, Gullickson hired Krasinski to his first full-time coaching position at Rutgers University. After a year there, Krasinski became the assistant strength coach at Colorado State University where he stayed for four years and attended two bowl games with the football team. In 1996, Krasinski became an assistant strength coach at the University of Oregon where he continued to learn and grow as a coach under the guidance of Jimmy Radcliffe. It was during his tenure at Oregon that Krasinski finished the Master’s Degree he had begun eight years earlier. In 2000, after four years and three more bowl games, Krasinski left Oregon and Radcliffe to become the head strength and conditioning coach at Northern Arizona University. While at NAU, Krasinski accompanied the football team to the 1AA Play-Offs. In 2002, Krasinski took over the strength training duties for football at the University of California. In five years at Cal, Krasinski has attended four more bowl games and enjoyed five winning seasons. The Golden Bears have been ranked in the AP Top Ten in each of the last three years.

In 1993, Krasinski became CSCS certified and SCCC certified in 2001.

Coach Krasinski now resides in El Cerrito, California with his wife, Summer, and son, John Henry.

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