Director of Strength and Conditioning
Justin Lovett will be entering his 4th season with the Rams, his 3rd as Director of Strength and Conditioning.
Lovett joined the Rams as the Head Strength Coach on March 9, 2020 and was promoted to Director of Strength and Conditioning on February 23, 2021.
Lovett joined the Rams after spending three seasons as the Director of Football Strength and Conditioning with the Purdue Boilermakers.
In Lovett’s first season at Purdue in 2017, the team won seven games and experienced the program’s first winning season since 2011. Lovett built a strength and conditioning program utilizing athlete- and position-specific strength, power and multi-directional speed training progressions. Individualized corrective exercise prescriptions, as well as offensive/defensive line mixed martial arts/hand combat systems were also cornerstones of football performance programming during Lovett’s time at Purdue.
Lovett joined the Boilermakers after three seasons in a similar capacity at Western Kentucky. During his time with the Hilltoppers, Lovett helped build Western Kentucky into back-to-back Conference USA champions (2015 and 2016) and earning two straight bowl victories. Five players were selected by National Football League teams, with a school-record-tying three in 2016, including Rams TE Tyler Higbee. Western Kentucky went 30-10 overall during Lovett’s tenure, including a 19-5 mark in conference play.
Prior to Western Kentucky, Lovett spent two seasons on the football strength & conditioning staff at Georgia. During which time the Bulldogs posted a 20-7 overall record, played in the 2012 SEC Championship Game and in two January bowl games (2013 Capital One Bowl and 2014 Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl). Including Rams first-rounders RB Todd Gurley II and LB Alec Ogletree - a total of 15 players were selected by NFL teams in Lovett’s two seasons at Georgia.
Lovett worked for the Denver Broncos from 2009 to 2011, starting as an intern before moving to assistant strength & conditioning coach the final two years. While with the Broncos, the team won the 2011 AFC West Division and had eight players voted to the Pro Bowl.
Lovett got his start in the collegiate ranks at UTEP from 2008 to 2009 and previously served as the head strength & conditioning coach at Grandview High School in Aurora, Colorado, from 2004 to 2008.
Lovett earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise and sports science from Colorado State in 2003 and a master’s degree in exercise science from California University of Pennsylvania in 2012. Lovett holds certifications from the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association, National Strength and Conditioning Association and National Academy of Sports Medicine (Performance Enhancement Specialist and Corrective Exercise Specialist).
A native of Beavercreek, Ohio, Lovett and his wife, Amy, have two sons, Tillman and Lyndon.
