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Michael Ring, TPT

Las Vegas, Nevada

Michael Ring, CPT, TPT, is a Las Vegas-based personal trainer who specializes in working with older adults and recreational athletes. After beginning his personal-training career with a major U.S. fitness organization, an interaction with a member helped point his career in a new direction. A tennis player approached Michael with questions about stretching and physical preparation for tennis. Wanting to provide better, sport-specific guidance, Michael began researching specialized education in racquet-sport conditioning.

That research led him to the International Tennis Performance Association and the Tennis Performance Trainer (TPT) certification. Michael was particularly interested in expanding his knowledge of movement, mobility, strength and conditioning, recovery, and injury-risk reduction for racquet-sport athletes. He successfully completed the TPT certification examination with a score of 92%.

During that process, Michael began looking beyond tennis and recognized an opportunity to apply his growing knowledge of racquet-sport physical preparation to another population he frequently works with: older recreational athletes. That eventually led to the development of Pickleball Strong, an online fitness and conditioning program he is creating to help recreational pickleball players improve their off-court strength, mobility, balance, movement and conditioning.

Michael plans to continue incorporating his iTPA education into his personal training while developing programs for recreational racquet-sport athletes. His goal is to help people become physically better prepared to participate in the sports they enjoy and continue enjoying them for years to come.