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Matt Poe
Mr. Poe is one of the top Master Sports and Tactical Performance Development Specialist in the USA with an extensive concentration in physical rehabilitation. Mr. Poe holds a Master of Science Degree in Exercise and Health Promotion from California University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in Injury Prevention and Performance Enhancement. His specialty is applied biomechanics within movement development. Mr. Poe also holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology from the University of Tennessee. He continues to hold the CSCS certification from the NSCA.
Matt walked onto the University of Tennessee Football Team which went to three bowl games (The Hall of Fame Bowl, The Citrus Bowl, and the Gator Bowl). Matt became a letterman through a Service Award, achieved weightlifting records each year, and was awarded All-Academic South Eastern Conference for the Vols. He proudly graduated high school from Montgomery Bell Academy where he was a four-sport letterman.
Known as “The PushPress King”, in the sport of strongman and powerlifting, Matt has also had a successful career in sports in the area of biomechanics instruction. His speed and strength development programs have been used by athletes and coaches all over the world. He has done extensive training as a special instructor for United States Special Operations and Special Forces personnel.
Matt has been featured on ESPN for his outstanding overhead pressing talents. The Nashville based Poe’s Gym has been a filming location multiple times for Warner Brothers. Poe’s Gym was also a major setting for the sports documentary/movie, Journeyman, which was a finalist recipient of The Los Angeles Film Awards. He is the author of the book, The PushPress Methodos.
Matt is a board member for the Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research and for Atofia Cryptography. He has been nominated by Tennessee’s former Governor Bill Haslam on behalf of the President of the United States of America as an active member of the Selective Service Board.
Matt’s father, Martin Poe, was the first strength coach at Vanderbilt University as well as an outstanding weightlifter and college offensive line coach at Tennessee State University and Wichita State. Matt’s brother, Monte, also a Montgomery Bell Academy graduate, is Director of Special Operations for the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts. Monte was a former walk on at the University of Alabama.
As one of the top finishers, in the 2005 Atlantis Strongest Man In America Contest, Matt still enjoys executing lifting demonstrations and developing sports and tactical athletes. He is an active member of The Omega Force Strength Team Christian Ministry.
Parallel to Matt’s work and participation in sports, Matt has spent several years in the healthcare industry. Matt was the former CEO and founder of Tracktion Healthcare specializing in building therapeutic service lines and in aiding in improvement of existing service lines. Some of his major work has been in orthopedics, oncology, sports medicine and human performance, wellness, and disease management.
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Matt is currently an active United States Weightlifting Champion and is known for his outstanding Pushpress. He currently holds records in the Pushpress at The Atlantis Strongest Man in America Contest in Boston, Massachusetts , The Strongest Man in Texas Competition in Dallas, Texas, and the "Barrel Press" at the Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic in Columbus, Ohio. He recently pressed one of the World’s Largest Burmese Pythons over his head, a strength feat that had never been attempted by anyone in the world. Matt often travels with Randy Richey's Christian Ministry Omega Force Strength Team across the United States demonstrating over head lifts to crowds of all ages.
Bill Kazmaier, 3 Time World's Strongest Man and World's Strongest Man Commentator, calls Matt, "The Pushpress King".
Ed Coan, The Best Powerlifter Ever, says, "Matt Poe does Overhead Presses like most men Benchpress".
Matt is a member of the former Power Systems Total Training Team which educated other professionals in the field of sport performance development and variable fitness fields. He has also been a featured presenter in 2008 and 2009 for the American Fitness Professionals and Associates Conference in Ocean City, MD. He has also is on the Advisory Board for the American Fitness and Professionals and Associates.
He has been recently interviewed by Pulitzer Prize winner Jere Longman of The New York Times in reference to the "Tommy John" injury concerning the misguided views of this popular surgery in amateur and professional baseball. Matt also conducted the study that was printed on the front page of The New York Times.
He has been in partnership with St.Thomas Health Services and Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee where he had programs available for sports performance and post therapeutic protocols. Matt has been in partnership with University Medical Center in Lebanon, Tennessee where he was sponsored by the hospital to present "Strength for the Game™", a program focusing on the ill effects of steroids and the safe alternatives. His speed camps have been offered through the YMCA of Tennessee as well.
Matt has been involved with the NFL on Tour, the Word Wrestling Federation/XFL Axcess Tour, MTV's Show "Made", and "Life and Sports" camp in Monterey, Mexico with his program "Speed for the Game™" which has been sponsored by Sports Illustrated and Spalding.
Matt is the inventor and designer of the "SPEEDLINEUSA™" and the "Poe Course Distance Formulas™". He has been frequently contracted by Jarrard and Ingram Public Relations Firm in the area of sports marketing.
He formerly served a three year chair as the Public Relations Representative for the National Football League Players Association Retired Chapter in Nashville, Tennessee.
Matt also founde and sold Orthoceuticals. Orthoceuticals is a full line of supplements for sports and life concentrating on soft tissue repair, bone hardening, joint integrity, and sports performance. His PSP system for athletes and patients is used on a national level.
He continues to be a guest and host on television and radio sports shows across the United States.
Matt lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee and Seacrest Beach, Florida.
