Michael Yessis
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Michael Yessis in 2011
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| Born |
June 16, 1932 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Professor Emeritus, author, sports performance trainer, training and technique consultant, technique analysis specialist and athletic coach |
| Notable work | Explosive Running, Explosive Plyometrics, Kinesology of Exercise |
| Spouse(s) | Edith R. Evans-Yessis |
| Website | http://www.doctoryessis.com/ |
Michael Yessis is a teacher, sports performance trainer, biomechanist, and author. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He has done work translating, adapting, and implementing sports training methodology from the former Soviet Union, including work by Yuri Verkhoshansky, Anatoliy Bondarchuk, and Vladimir Issurin, for over fifty years. Yessis has worked extensively with professional and amateur athletes, including Marv Marinovich, Evander Holyfield, Dianne DeNecochea, Jose Luiz Barbosa, and others in over 50 years of active work. Yessis worked with the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Raiders professional football teams, as well as Team USA Volleyball. Muscle & Fitness Magazine referred to Yessis as a “legendary biomechanist.”
In 1975 Yessis and Fred Wilt, noted athlete and running trainer, coined the term plyometrics while observing Soviet athletes warming up. In 1982 Yessis traveled to the Soviet Union to work with Yuri Verkhoshansky, a leading biomechanist and sports trainer from the USSR at a time of Soviet sports dominance.
Yessis’s teaching career focused on a performance-based version of sports conditioning & training. As a biomechanist, he emphasizes technique analysis and movement pattern training in conjunction with strength building based on the specific physical requirements of each sport. Yessis has authored 16 books and over 2,000 articles in various publications, and has appeared often on television, radio, and the internet as an expert guest or commentator. As a highly respected educator, Yessis was selected as a member of The Society for Unconventional Physical Education.
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