Redefine core.
Elevate your game.
Stay injury free.
Two prominent local legends, Peter Park and Mike Swan discuss how core strength and flexibility can elevate your game, help you get fast, go long and keep you injury free.
About our speakers:
Peter Park
(bio and photo from platinumfitnesssummerland.com)
Peter is the Founder of the Platinum brand and co-owner of Platinum Fitness Summerland. He brings a past rich with his own professional athletic achievements to his 23 years of experience training elite athletes, big-screen celebrities, top touring musicians, and common citizens that are serious about their fitness, mobility, and longevity. Peter’s training style teaches people about proprioception, which means "one's own" sense of their relative position in space as compared to the strength of effort being employed in their movement.
- 4 time All-State Volleyball player in high school
- College volleyball at University of Hawaii.
- Graduated BS degree from UCLA
- Numerous top 10 finishes in Ironman Triathlons
- 3x Worlds Toughest Triathlon winner
- 3x Catalina 50 mile ultra run winner
- 3x Nine Trails Ultra Winner
- Worked with numerous athletes in wide variety of sports
- Author of Foundation: Redefine your core, conquer back pain, and move with confidence
- Husband and father of 2
Mike Swan
An active ultra-runner, Mike spends time on the trails apart from his calling as owner and practicing physical therapist
(bio and photo from eliterehab.com)
at Elite Performance and Rehabilitation and gracious sponsor of the club. Podiums are quite commonplace for our April Speaker. With gifted athleticism, grit, and persistence, our speaker has been honored:
- the title of All American, 5 times,
- qualified and raced Hawaii's Ironman World Championship, a club record of 7 times,
- still holds the age-group record (1994) for long course (4:23:07) and (1990) for the Olympic (1:33:17) at Wildflower.
- All the while, training and rehabilitating athletes from finisher to Kona qualifier even before Elite's inception in 2002.
Scott Tinley, a 6th generation Southern Californian, is an accomplished teacher, author, and athlete. He teaches sport humanities courses at San Diego State University and California State University, San Marcos and has authored several books, including Racing the Sunset: An Athlete’s Quest for Life after Sport, a personal and in-depth study of life transition. Tinley has also written for CBS News and Sports Illustrated, among other popular and academic sources. He is a member of the Triathlon Hall of Fame, a two-time Ironman World Champion, and has competed professionally in over 400 triathlons since 1976.
Sandy and Elke have more than earned their spots to Kona and we've been itching to celebrate their huge accomplishments this year. Come join us for dinner and a bit about their journey. Dinner and drinks served. Francisco will be cooking up an amazing dinner for us so don’t miss out. Enjoy a few drinks and have a good time! This is one of our favorite events of the year!
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