Mark Verstegen

Mark Verstegen (born June 9, 1969 ) is an American fitness expert , trainer and author.

In 1992 he became the assistant director of the Georgia state sports promotion program and developed the Core Performance fitness program for American football , basketball , soccer, and golf .

In 1995 he founded the International Performance Institute in Bradenton , Florida . The institute became known all over the world after it pursued a completely new approach of training team athletes as well as individual athletes.

Verstegen became known to a wider public in Germany from 2004 when he was hired by the then German national soccer coach Jürgen Klinsmann as a fitness trainer for the German national soccer team in preparation for the 2006 soccer World Cup . Klinsmann wanted to introduce new methods in German football that were more oriented towards training in the USA. After initial skepticism, the top management of the DFB welcomed the fitness trainers and their new methods, also in view of the success of the German team at the 2006 World Cup (reaching third place). They are also part of the training under Klinsmann's former assistant, the current DFB team boss Joachim Löw .

Publications

• Core performance. The revolutionary workout program for body and mind. Riva, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-936994-31-5 .
• "Core Performance for Women" Riva, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86883-056-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Mark Verstegen in the catalog of the German National Library