Karsten Jensen's Author Profile

Since 1993 Strength and Conditioning Expert I have helped World Class and Olympic Athletes from 13 different to European Championships, World Championships and ATP Tournament wins. I believe in the unlimited potential of the human being and share my viewpoints as an international speaker, author of several books and educator with Certified Professional Trainers Network. I currently work as a high performance trainer at the University of Toronto and also share “Insider Principles of World Class Strength and Conditioning Methods” through my website ww.yestostrength.com.

My newest book “The Flexible Periodization Method” – How personal trainers and strength coaches create completely individualized longterm training programs for the fitness enthusiast, the world class athlete and everyone in between is available from www.flexibleperiodization.com.

My passion for strength and conditioning started in University. We had a great track and field teacher, and sprinting intrigued me. I am naturally slow and was not very strong. How do you get strong? How do you create lightening speed? Those were the questions I wanted to answer.

I soon felt that "this is what I am supposed to do" and from the beginning, I felt that I had something to contribute. My first jobs - while I was in university - involved world class athletes from triathlon and badminton.

Location:  Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Occupation: Strength and Conditioning Coach

Education:

• University of Copenhagen - MSc. Exercise Physiology
• University Centre of Roskilde - Math and Physics

Certifications:

• Level 2 Chek Practitioner
• Level 3 Check Holistic Lifestyle Coach
• Certified Personal Trainer CPTN-CPT

History:

15 years experience as a Strength and Conditioning Coach. Strength and Conditioning Coach for The Danish National Elite Sports Institution. Developed annual periodized training schedules for and trained Olympic and World class level athletes from: figure skating, volleyball, ju jitsu, judo, wrestling, tennis, badminton, table tennis, waterskiing. Equipment selection and facility design for athletes training centre.

Strength and Conditioning Coach for Kvik Triathlon Team in Copenhagen, Denmark

• Strength and Conditioning Coach for Danish Badminton Federation
• Strength and Conditioning Coach for Holte Volleyball Club, Holte Denmark
• Strength and Conditioning Coachc for Danish Volleyball Federation: Men's National Team
• Assistant teacher in 2nd Year Biomechanics Course - University of Copenhagen
• Member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association
• Member of the Certified Professional Trainers Network

Athletic Achievements

I have competed in tennis, badminton, soccer, basketball, track and field and was nationally ranked as a junior tennis player.

Best lifts:

• 1RM dead lift (no gear): 160 kg (double bodyweight)
• 1RM parallel back squat (no gear): 140 kg
• 3RM half squat (belt): 180 kg
• 20RM parallel squat (no gear) : 100 kg (I was on the “Super squats” routine).
• 500 bodyweight squats in 15 minutes.
• 58 KB Snatches.
• 1000 walking lunges in 1 hour (20 soccer fields)
• 23 pistols on my right and 26 pistols on my left leg.
• 10 Handstand Push ups.
• 10 Strict chin ups on moving handles
• 60 consecutive Hindu Push Ups
• Body fat around 7% for the last several years.

The above listed  lifts by no mean make me a world class athlete. However, my own training gives me the personal experience of the movements – a personal experience that improves my ability to teach any lifts/movements to the athletes client in front of me.

Philosophy

In the training world you will find many coaches that spend a lot of effort arguing the superiority of one particular “type” or “style” of training over another. I believe in analysing the unique benefits of any training style in order to use those benefits in an integrated system – in the right way and at the right time to the ultimate benefit of my athletes/clients.

Also, I am a firm proponent for a “unified approach” to improve physical capacity because that is in alignment with the design of who we are as human beings. I analyse the various ways in which you can work towards a certain goal and subsequently provide strategies for those ways. Popular sayings illustrating the unified  approach are “surrounding the dragon” and “the devil is in the detail”.

For more information on Karsten Jensen please visit: http://www.yestostrength.com.