Doug Larson is one of the founders of the Shrugged Collective. He's a functional fitness expert, co-host of Barbell Shrugged, and a passionate business owner.

Dave Lipson is the owner of Thundrbro Training. With a background in professional baseball and strength and conditioning, Dave travels the world training trainers on how to thrash clients and mold them into rock hard adonis Gods. He has trained entertainment celebrities, professional MLB and NFL athletes and CrossFit Games champions. Dave enjoys smashing drums and touring with Metal bands, lifting massive weights sexing it up with his beloved wife.

Meet Dominic Scalzo, one of the coaches here at Conquer Athlete. He's been coaching for 5.5 years, sober for 6.5 years, and has a crazy good story about his journey to where he is now.

Becca Chilzenkowski started CrossFit in 2010 and fell in love with it immediately. Especially the competitiveness (being a two-sport college athlete) and the way it changed how I looked at fitness. She decided in 2012 to quit her full-time job at Allstate and start coaching at O'Hare CrossFit alongside Angelo. Becca got into the competitive scene pretty quick after that and competed from 2012-2016 at regionals on a team once, as well as an individual 2x.

Sean Pastuch is in that minority of people who make the Earth spin as it does; not as a passive contributor, but as a relentless, forward-thinking agent for change. Massive change. Sean Pastuch ambitions to be the Steve Jobs of musculoskeletal health, and he’s on a mission to change the way people understand their pain and their ability to get out of it. Dr. Pastuch is a force of nature, but what’s more important is that he helps the rest of us realize we can be too.

Dr. John Rusin is a sports performance specialist and injury prevention expert that has coached some of the world’s most elite athletes including multiple Olympic gold medalists, NFL and MLB All-Star performers, and professionals from 11 different sports. He has also managed some of the most successful barbell sports athletes in the world including world record-holding powerlifters, CrossFit Games athletes, and IFBB professional physique athletes.