Melissa Copeland

I started working with Chris about 2 years ago.  At the time, I'd just hit the lowest total I'd had in competition in almost 5 years.  And I'd only been competing for 6.  It was pretty clear at the time that my training was going the wrong way and I didn't know what to do.  Within the next year, my total rebounded 40kgs.  Since then, working with Chris, I've won 2 Masters Classic World Championships, 2  Masters USAPL Raw Nationals Championships and set  multiple Masters American records.  

Working with Chris has been one of the easiest coaching relationships I've ever had.  He has consistently made me a stronger and more technically proficient lifter.  From telling me what I needed to hear (whether it was encouragement or calling me on my BS) to figuring out that if you program RPE for me, my ego will tell both of us stunning lies, I never doubted that the programming he wrote or the attempts he selected would help me get where I wanted to go.