Marty Mills, M Ed, CSCS, USAW, RKC
Email: millsm@centergrove.k12.in.us.
Certifications: Bachelors Degree: Exercise Science; Masters Degree: Education; National Strength and Conditioning Association: Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist; USA Weightlifting: Certified Sports Performance Coach; Pavel Tsatsouline RKC Certified Kettlebell Instructor. Coach Mills has coached thousands of young athletes along with over one hundred all-state athletes and over 100 hundred athletes who have went on to compete at the collegiate level.
Admittedly I am not the most naturally talented athlete and the athletes I train are not the most genetically gifted either. However, great feats have been accomplished with our system in my personal life as well as in the lives of my athletes. At the writing of this, I am a 35 year old strength and conditioning coach at a high school of 2,400 students. Along with being an RKC certified kettlebell instructor through Pavel Tsatsouline, the certification I am most proud of, I am also a certified strength and conditioning specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and a sports performance coach through USA weightlifting.
Everything I have achieved in athletics I credit to superior training and hard work. I am 5’10 and weigh around 220 lbs. I am a former high school football player and wrestler. I won some Greco-Roman and Freestyle State Championships, was named all-American, and was a nationally ranked Greco-Roman wrestler while in high school. After high school I received a scholarship to wrestle at the University of Indianapolis where I graduated cum laude with a physical education degree. I developed my talent in wrestling from training hard with weights and by learning from good coaches and partners who taught me what hard work was really all about. However, I would have been a much better wrestler then if I had known what I know now which is one reason why I am so passionate about our training system.
After college I began a 10 year powerlifting career that ended with me winning a USA Powerlifting national bench press championship, making the USA powerlifting national bench press team, finishing 5th in the world championships in Hungary, and setting an all-time state bench press record of 620 lbs. in the 242 lb. weight division. Although I do not compete in powerlifting at the present, I still train hard with heavy weights, kettlebells, sandbags, ropes, and sleds, and I can honestly say I feel stronger and better conditioned now than when I was competing in wrestling or powerlifting.
I teach and coach at a very large and successful high school on the southside of Indianapolis called Center Grove High School. The conference we compete in (the Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference) has been rated by some as the toughest overall sports conference in the Midwest. Our conference turns out numerous division 1 scholarship athletes every year and many who have gone on to compete at the professional level. Last year Max Preps ranked our football team the 13th best in the country, and USA today ranked our conference the 5th toughest football conference in America.
Our teams since joining the MIC in 1996, have won 33 (individual and team) state championships and 31 (individual and team) state runners-up. We just completed the “Best Ever” Athletic Year in Center Grove history. Over the past couple of years alone our athletes have accomplished the following: football state championship, softball state championship, boys volleyball state championship, individual and team boys tennis state championships, multiple individual girls swimming state championships and state runners-up, girls swim team state runners-up, girls individual cross country state champion, girls individual all-around gymnastics state champion, girls volleyball final four, boys weightlifting state champions, two of our high school swimmers swam in the Olympic trials and one of them placed 1st in the Pan American games. Also in just the past two years we have had over 50 athletes receive college athletic scholarships in various sports. These numerous accomplishments are attributed not only to our great kids, coaches, and parents, but also to the workouts that we do and by simply outworking our opponents.
I do not say all of this to “toot my own horn,” but to offer evidence that we have a proven system for developing champion athletes.
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