About Brian Grasso

Brian Grasso is considered one of the premier experts on youth athletic development in the world.

Over the past decade, Brian has held several highly esteemed positions in the youth sporting industry.

He served as a Conditioning Coach and later Director of Football Development for the well-regarded High Performance Specialists in Toronto and also spent two years as Director of Conditioning for SportScience International.

Additionally, Brian served as Director of Operations for the International Sport Performance Center in Crystal Lake, Illinois.  He is also former Director of Athlete Development for The Sports Academy Northwest.

Brian founded and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer for the International Youth Conditioning Association, which is an educational entity certifying Trainers and Coaches as Youth Conditioning Specialists (YCS) worldwide. To learn more about the IYCA, visit www.iyca.org.

A well-known, respected and outspoken leader in the youth athletic development industry, Brian has written feature articles for sport training magazines throughout North America including Men's Fitness, Men's Health, SportingKid, American Track & Field and Personal Fitness Professional. Brian also contributes to the monthly British sport training publication, Successful Coaching.

An accomplished presenter, Brian provides educational seminars covering youth athletic development and training topics to sporting organizations throughout the world. The list of governing bodies Brian has presented to includes the National Coaching Education Program, the National Alliance for Youth Sports, the United States Figure Skating Association, the Illinois Olympic Development Program, Skate Canada, the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association and the Korean Aerobic Association among many others.

Brian also serves as an educational consultant to Children's Memorial Hospital's Institute for Sports Medicine and has recently been named as a Director on the Men's Health FitSchools Initiative.

Brian began his sport-training career as a Performance Coach to Olympic, professional and elite athletes. He has worked with several professional and Olympic athletes from a variety of sports, and has traveled extensively throughout North America and Europe as a Conditioning Consultant for both the Canadian and United States National Team athletes.

Based upon his work in sport performance training, Brian has been interviewed and profiled by media throughout North America including, ABC News, ABC7-Chicago's “Connect With Kids”, Chicago Parent, The San Francisco Chronicle, MSNBC.com, CLTV, WRNJ 1250AM, The Daily Herald, Newsweek, The New York Times & The FAN590 AM.

In 2008, Brian will be presenting his concepts on youth athlete development to coaches, trainers and sporting organizations in Canada, the United States, Australia, England, New Zealand, India and South Africa.

Brian is the author of several internationally sold books, including his latest "Training Young Athletes - The Grasso Method" which is included in the Complete Athlete Development System.