Staff Bio's

John Philbin, M.A., CCS, CSCS, CPRS, CPT President & CEO

Coach Philbin is founder (1985) and President of the National Strength Professionals Association (NSPA). NSPA is an internationally recognized certification agency that certifies strength conditioning coaches, personal trainers, physical education teachers, and post rehabilitation specialist. NSPA has been recognized by the International Dance Education Association (IDEA) as one of the top ten leading certification agencies in the United States. NSPA has certified over 15,000 professional educators and physical education teachers.

From 2001 to 2003 Coach Philbin was hired as a physical conditioning and weight management consultant for Shaw Productions (Gary Shaw). Coach Philbin has been credited for taking professional boxers to a greater level of performance through high-intensity strength training, anaerobic threshold training, PNF stretching, and sport specific conditioning specificity. He has trained numerous world class boxers and was instrumental in winning two World Boxing Association Championship Titles on HBO. (Click here for more information)

Kevin Sweeney , CCS, Executive Director

Kevin is a Certified Personal Trainer and Certified Conditioning Specialist. He is the Executive Director of NSPA and Regional Sales Manager for Nautilus. In his 20 year career in the fitness industry Kevin has been a Personal Trainer, Fitness Director, General Manager, and Owner of 4 health club facilities. Kevin was the founder and President of the non-profit Human Opportunities through Physical Education (HOPE), and received the Volunteer of the Year award from the Achilles Track Club for physically challenged athletes. He resides in Mount Airy, MD with his wife and children.

Khalid McLeod, M.S., CCS, Personal Trainer, & Nutrition Consultant

With more than a decade of experience, Khalid McLeod is one of the nation’s leading health and fitness experts. Having grown up with diabetes and heart disease in his family, Khalid has dedicated his life to teaching and reinforcing the importance of both fitness and nutrition and how both play major roles in creating a fit and healthy lifestyle.

Khalid’s areas of expertise include body sculpting, weight management, and the development of specialized training programs for highly conditioned athletes, including numerous celebrities from Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Football League (NFL).

Most recently he has appeared on National television with BET-TV, on top shows such as “106 and Park” and “The Center”, Chicago’s top-rated WGN-TV, as well as appeared in front of producers of the Today’s Show for “Regis and Kellyl” . Khalid has been featured in periodicals such as: the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Arizona Republic, Asbury Park Press, and Fit.Style magazine, as well as key radio and television affiliates across the country.

In addition to being one of the nation’s top fitness experts, Khalid is a national spokesperson for the National Strength Professional Association (NSPA), an organization that sets the certification standard for thousands of health and fitness professionals, as well as a consultant for Sport&Health and Bally Total Fitness. Also, Khalid is a football coach for Calvert Hall High School, a prestigious catholic school in the Baltimore Suburbs.

Khalid holds a Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology from George Washington University, as well as certifications from the American College of Sport Medicine, the National Strength and Conditioning Association. A former college football star, he was a four-year Varsity Letter Winner at Towson and is a two-time all conference player in the Patriot /Independent leagues.

Mike Romatowski, Certified Master Golf Fitness Instructor(Advantage Golf Body/Swing Connection Series) , Co-Owner CORE Fitness, Timonium, MD., Certified by the Titleist Perfomance Institute

Mike Romatowski , is a multi-certified personal trainer and post-rehab exercise specialist. Mike co-owns CORE Fitness in Timonium , MD. He is currently certified by the American Council on Exercise and holds a Master Golf Fitness Instructor Certification from Natural Health and Sports, Inc. in Rockville , MD. This certification has since become the Titleist Performance Institute certification series.

A contributing writer for and certified by the Titleist Performance Institute (website(MyTPI.com), Mike has also authored two books: The Super Power Golfer (Pierpoint-Martin, 1998), and 18 Magic Moves for Golf Conditioning (Five Star Fitness, 2006). 18 Magic Moves is currently being expanded into a book entitled Ultimate Golf Conditioning , and will be published in July of 2007 by King Sports Publishers.

His competitive golf clients include 2005 U.S. Women's Open participant Marlowe Boukis, 2005 AJGA (Chicago) champion Michelle Grilli, and Mid Atlantic PGA multi-event winner Damon Lucas.

From 1997-2000 Mike taught the popular “Weekend at the Function Junction” workshop series, which gained popularity for its “100% hands-on” approach. During that time he also lectured extensively for the American Fitness Professionals Association (AFPA).

In creating the NSPA Golf Conditioning Specialist Certification, Mike is drawing on 10 years of experience in working with golfers. “What I have found,” he says, “is that many exercises which, in theory, should be great for golfers, in fact have little value. Conversely, many exercises which, upon first glance, would appear to have no value to golfers, instead turn out to be among the best for golfers.”

“ I've also found that, although there are dozens of tests that one could use to evaluate golfers, there are really a select few that yield information of the highest value. The trainers and health professionals that attend this NSPA certification program will get the inside track to this knowledge. Using the 100% hands-on approach, we'll all learn together, and learn faster and more efficiently than with any other method.”

Joannie Mallett, CCS, CPRS

Joannie Mallet is a certified Conditioning Specialist and Post- Rehabilitation Specialist through NSPA (National Strength Professionals Association) and certified Personal Trainer through NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine). She has been with Fitness First Health Club(s) for the last 8 years teaching, training and selling memberships. Joannie is the developer and presenter of “Cut To The Core Stability Ball” and “Balance, Bounce and Roll” workshops. Her focus is on functional and stability training as well as post- rehabilitation. Joannie’s background includes over 20 years as a professional equestrian rider/trainer working with Olympic coaches in hunters and jumpers, breaking and training race horses, and training polo ponies. She holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Her hobbies include rock climbing, ice climbing and skiing; making her a master of balance and strength, core training.

Jamey T. Schrier, MPT, OCS is the Owner and President of Schrier Physical Therapy, Inc., located in Rockville, Maryland. He holds a Masters degree in physical therapy from the University of Maryland, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Delaware. He has the unique distinction of being recognized as a Board-Certified Clinical Specialist in Orthopedics from the American Physical Therapy Association.

Mr. Schrier has extensive post-graduate education and experience with manual physical therapy. His particular interests include back and neck pain conditions, sports injuries and athletic performance enhancement programs. In his spare time, when he is not with his family, Jamey is an avid basketball player and loves to play golf.