Author: Loïs Monaco

Loïs is a lifelong martial artist as well as a strength and conditioning coach for professional athletes.

He started training martial arts young and has a Kyokushin Karate black belt ( Compete in a world championship in 2007, win a french national kempo tournament in 2010), a Sambo 2nd level black belt( vice-french champion 2009), as well as a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu blue belt.

For fifteen years, he competed in grappling, full contact and MMA competitions.

At 10 years old, he started practicing yoga, together with his mother, and he now is a certified yoga teacher.

As a certified trainer he started working with kettlebells in 2009 thanks to Pavel's books and DVD, and then passed certifications in Girevoy Sport. In 2014 he started studying the StrongFirst system and hasn't stopped since.

He currently works with French olympics swimmers and he is teaching sport science in university of Nice Sophia-Antipolis in the South of France. He is subject matter expert in training strategies and programming.

His approach as a coach is to find solutions for the average Joe in personal training, apply those findings for high-level athletes, and vice versa.

With, at it's core, the StrongFirst methodology.

Loïs considers himself a full-time student and a part-time teacher.