The official introduction Vita sounds like this:
“Dan John picked up a barbell for the first time in about 1966 when his brothers bought a set from a local department store. It was the first time the world made sense to him and he has been lifting and throwing things since that day. And he thought he knew it all until he ventured out to the RKC training in San Jose. Newly humbled, he has begun a new journey of learning and lifting. Recently, Pavel Tsatsouline promoted Dan to the rank of Senior RKC Instructor.”
If you need his official “bio,” he usually sends this out:
Dan John has been teaching and coaching for well over thirty years. He is the former Strength Coach and Head Track and Field Coach at Juan Diego Catholic High School in Draper, Utah He remains a full-time on-line religious studies instructor for Columbia College of Missouri and contributing writer to Men’s Health. Originally from South San Francisco, Dan came to Utah to throw the discus for Utah State University and recently returned “home” after 35 years away. He currently lives in Burlingame, California.
Dan has Masters degrees in history and in religious education, as well as intensive work at the American University in Cairo, University of Haifa, and Cornell. Dan has written articles for Catechetical Update and Utah Historical Quarterly, as well as being a columnist for the Intermountain Catholic. Dan was also a Fulbright Scholar in 1985.
In addition, Dan writes articles for a variety of strength magazines and publishes a little newsletter called Get Up, which registers up to a quarter of a million hits a month. You can also read his work at dragondoor.com and tmuscle.com, and magazines like Men’s Health and Outside and his busy forum at davedraper.com . If you sneak over the border into Utah and want to work out, give him a shout.
At home, he is humbled by his lovely wife, Tiffini, whose middle name is not “long suffering” no matter how often it is repeated, and his two daughters, Kelly and Lindsay.
In his athletic career, among many other championships and records, Dan has won the Master Pleasanton Highland Games twice, American Masters Discus Championships several times, the National Masters Weightlifitng Championship once and holds the American Record in the Weight Pentathlon.
Personal Bests in Competition:Snatch 314
Dead lift 628
Clean and Jerk 385
Clean 402
Discus 190′ 6″
Multiple State Champion (California and Utah) Discus, Hammer, Shot, Highland Games and Olympic Lifting
Coached Multiple State Discus Champions (Utah) without a discus ring or throwing field
Coach at John Powell Discus Camp since 1994
Videos (at the Putting It All Together Seminar #1, aka PIAT #1):
Dan John on Joint Mobility
Dan John on Hypertrophy
Dan John on Quadrants & Athletic Qualities part 1
Dan John on Quadrants & Athletic Qualities part 2
Dan John on the Role of the Strength Coach
Dan John vs. the Pleasanton Challenge Caber
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