Meet Austin Basketball Strength and Speed Coach Kyle Fisher
I want to introduce our newest team member to you. After years of hearing of injuries, lack of progress, and strength and speed programs designed for football players being used for basketball players… I sought a solution and found one within my network. Meet Kyle Fisher. We are very, very luck to have Kyle on board.
Kyle served as the Strength & Speed Coach for the UMaine Fort Kent Bengals Men’s Basketball Team and I personally watched the amazing growth he got that team this year. (I trained the team in skill development this year and one of their stars trained here in Austin this past summer.) Kyle is a spectacular basketball player himself… playing above the rim and with breathtaking speed. He could play college basketball today. His speed was a magnet for football, however, and he has had two training camps with NFL teams and you can read more on that below. Kyle also served as a UMaine Fort Kent Track Coach.
Most important to us, is his Passion | Purpose | Power commitment to being an expert on all things speed, strength, and wellness/nutrition for young athletes. He is not only expert… he is a lifelong learner. I am looking forward to this new hire to provide injury prehab, rehab, and performance gains to my own children. Kyle has a Bachelors in Exercise Science, Masters in Athletic Training, and a broad range of experience that we can now deliver to you and your family.
Chris Corbett – Austin Youth Basketball Founder
About Kyle and his path to excellence… in his own words:
Where it all started
From 5 until I finished playing football nothing mattered to me more than sports- By the time I was six I was playing baseball, basketball and football
- Baseball eventually was replaced with track in 8th grade
- Basketball ended my freshman year in high school when the entire coaching staff changed
- By the time I finished my freshman year of high school I had already been hospitalized 5 times
- Two sprained ankles, bilateral Osgood schlatter disease, stress fractures in L4 and L5
- Best sport in high school was track
- currently hold the school record for the 100, 200 and 400
- I recorded the second fastest 100-meter time in PA my senior year (10.57)
- While finishing the first heat of the 100-meter dash at the PA state meet I strained my hamstring
- The end of my track career
- Was getting recruited by Syracuse and UConn
- The injuries only continued throughout high school
- Multiple ankle sprains, concussions and hamstring strains mainly from football
Bloomsburg University
Bachelors of Science degree in Exercise Science from Bloomsburg University- Masters of Science degree from Florida International University in Athletic Training
- Successful DII scholarship athlete for the BU football team
- Top 15 DII pro-hopeful list
- 3 year starter
- Record 39-10
- Multiple injuries sustained while playing at BU
- Sprained ankles, hamstring strains, fractured pinky and clavicle, grade 3 separated AC joint and concussion
- I trained every day and was extremely dedicated to my craft
- I made sure there wasn’t a person out there training harder than me
- Principle of Overtraining was in full effect
- Stayed every summer to work with my QB and train at the facility
- I couldn’t make sense of why I was always injured yet training so hard
- It got to the point to where I just assumed it was bad luck
- Not once did I ever look into fixing my diet or addressing these complications
- Until I began to dive deeper into the true meaning behind all of these injuries
- Began studying nutrition and alternative therapies
- Ran a 4.41 40 at my junior pro-day with the Philadelphia Eagles
NFL Tryouts
Left Bloomsburg prior to graduating to pursue the NFL during the spring of 2013- I signed with an NFL agent and trained in multiple facilities
- 3 different strength and conditioning experts in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and California
- Mini-camp invites Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New Orleans Saints
- Diagnosed concussion at the Saint’s try out
- Met with the team’s neurosurgeon that highly recommended I discontinue playing
- I agreed with his opinion ending my athletic career
Life Transition
- Returned to BU to finish degree and volunteer as assistant football coach
- Father began struggling with the loss of his leg along with my own injuries
- Directly steered me into discovering my true passion in life
- Which is finding ways to heal, improve and expose the endless opportunities of performance gaining potential we all hold inside of us
- Graduated from BU
- Applied to FIU’s athletic training program
Florida International University
- FIU gave the foundation to chase this passion and to work as a student
- Division I athletes in football and soccer
- Orthopedic urgent care center
- High school athletes in basketball, lacrosse, water polo, football, soccer
- Continued studying functional medicine and nutrition
- Z-health essentials of elite performance certification
- Graduated Magna Cum Laude from FIU
University of Maine at Fort Kent
Head Athletic Trainer- Men’s Track and Field Coach
- Strength and Conditioning Coach for Basketball Team
- 6 sports teams that is made up of over 100 athletes
- Men’s and Women’s soccer national titles with undefeated seasons
- First final four appearance in the men’s basketball national tournament
- Women’s volleyball second straight national tournament appearance
Kyle has been an absolute pleasure to work with. He has been without a doubt the most hands on trainer we have ever had and he had a direct result in our greatest season in over 30 years at UMFK.
Tom Bird – Head Coach – UMaine Fort Kent Bengals Men’s Basketball – USCAA Coach of the Year 2017
My diet was bad, my workout techniques were wrong, my mobility was next to nothing, all because I didn’t know any better. Kyle taught me how to be the healthiest/strongest I could be, and transformed me into a rock solid basketball machine in 3 months. I had the best season of my life, Kyle is the real deal…
Joe McCloskey – All American – UMaine Fort Kent Men’s Basketball
Kyle was a tremendous help to us this season, he gave us a much needed element to our team. Prior to Kyle, our strength and conditioning was irrelevant and he brought a new dimension to our team in not only our preseason strength program but our in season rehab and stretching regiments. He took our athletes to the next level and allowed our guys to last through a 40 plus game season and eventually to a final four finish in our national
tournament.
Fletcher Brown – Assistant Coach – UMaine Fort Kent Bengals Men’s Basketball
I had the good fortune to have Kyle coordinate and run my specialized strength and conditioning program for elite high school and college athletes. He did an amazing job of organizing, coordinating and most important motivating the athletes to work smarter to achieve results they initially couldn’t believe. In a fraction of the time, they achieved results their coaches were amazed at!
If you want to take your strength and conditioning to the next level, work with Kyle.
Dr Lee Lausch -Proactive Pain Relief & Wellness -Founder of Fitstrength
