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Dr. Bryan Mann isn't just someone who teaches strength and conditioning — he's someone who helped write the science it's built on. His 2010 study comparing APRE (Autoregulatory Progressive Resistance Exercise) to linear periodization in Division I football was the first article to put the APRE protocol to the test with real athletes, and it changed how programs think about autoregulated training. He's also one of the researchers credited with popularizing velocity-based training, now used by collegiate and professional programs worldwide.

 

His career spans the Big 12, SEC, and ACC — with stops at the University of Missouri, Arizona State, the University of Tulsa, and Missouri State, plus a run as Director of Sports Science for Olympic Sports and Exercise Physiology Program Director at the University of Miami. He's coached student-athletes who went on to compete in the Olympics and consulted for professional sports organizations along the way.

 

Today, Dr. Mann serves as Academic Director of Performance Physiology and Strength & Conditioning at Texas A&M University (TAMU). His research doesn't stay confined to the weight room, either — his work on high-velocity resistance training has been shown to improve habitual gait speed in Parkinson's patients, a bridge between sport performance and clinical rehabilitation. He's shared this work everywhere from the NSCA Coaching Podcast to the NSCA Japan Conference, and wrote a regular column for EliteFTS.

 

After two decades mentoring assistants, interns, and students through the CSCS exam, he built this program around one observation: the people who struggle on test day usually aren't the ones who know the least — they're the ones who never learned to think the way the exam wants them to think. That's the gap this program is built to close.