Athletic Republic, a franchisor of sports performance training centers, announced that Jim Walker has joined its corporate team as the head of science, education and trainer development.
“In this role Jim will be expanding our program offering and teaching our trainers across the Athletic Republic network how to apply the principles of sports science to sports training to help every athlete improve their performance. Jim’s influence on Athletic Republic’s training programs, protocols, and trainer development spans the past 20 years and I’m excited that he will be able to continue contributing his insights and intelligence to our athletes’ and trainers’ development,” said Athletic Republic CEO Charlie Graves.
Walker, a native of Montana, was the Sport Science Program director at TOSH-Intermountain Healthcare for 27 years. His professional interest and expertise is in the connection between physiology and movement mechanics and how they relate to performance, and injury risk and prevention.
He competed as a distance runner collegiately and post-collegiately, and he was a U.S. Junior National Champion and U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier. He has advised and coached athletes in multiple sports over the years, most notably some of America’s best distance runners, at the high school, collegiate, and Olympic levels and most recently was a nationally ranked USA Track and Field Masters runner at 1500 meters, the mile, and 5000 meters.
Said Walker, “I’m excited for the opportunity to continue my professional career with the first and only sports training franchisor based on performance best practices, fundamental movement mechanics, and injury risk reduction. I began my affiliation with AR more than 20 years ago because the program utilizes the scientific literature and sound principles of sports training theory and methodology. These characteristics are extremely important to me with my background as a competitor, coach and sport scientist.”
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