MEET BLOC EXCLUSIVE COACH
RANDY WINFREY
With over 26 years as a strength and conditioning coach, Randy has the knowledge and experience to help you develop the skills to reach your strength training goals. Whether you’re looking to stay fit with a strong and healthy lifestyle or train for competitions, Randy will help you understand the training you need to achieve your goals regardless of your age, background, lifestyle, and life’s demands. He is a former competitive endurance athlete who served in the military as a Special Agent Investigator before becoming an Athletic Director and Track & Field Coach. He has been a Barbell-Logic online coach since its inception in 2016.
Learn More About Randy
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Randy helps clients understand the difference between training for competition performance and training for healthy performance.
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He understands how life can impact training and adapts his training accordingly. His underlying motto is, “Life is the forgotten variable that ultimately dictates training.”
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Has been a Strength and Conditioning Coach since 1997
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Former competitive endurance athlete from 1984-2004
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Has taught at various seminars and coached hundreds of people in barbell lifts
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Coached 11 Track & Field Championship teams (five boys’ and six girls’)
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Served in the United States Air Force as a firefighter and Special Agent Investigator conducting criminal investigations, multiple undercover operations, and offensive espionage operations.
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Along with lifting heavy barbells, he enjoys cycling and cooking Italian food
Randy grew up in Houston, Texas where he started lifting weights as a teenager. Despite being very athletic in high school, he pursued individual athletics rather than team sports, ultimately propelling him into endurance sports during his military career in the 1980s. Moving to Europe, he became an avid cyclist and began competing in triathlons around the world. Realizing that strength was the foundation of his endurance performance, he continued to lift weights as part of his training.
Leaving the military service in the late 1990s, Randy moved back to Houston and became a private strength and conditioning coach focusing on endurance athletes. In 2010 he shifted his attention more toward strength training and became a certified Starting Strength coach through Mark Rippetoe in 2012, coaching clients from all over the world both in-person and online. Most recently he worked as a Physical Education Teacher, Athletic Director, and Head Track & Field Coach at a private school in Houston from 2014-2023. He has been with Barbell-Logic since it’s inception in December 2016.
At 60 years of age, Randy still lifts heavy barbells and rides his bike as often as possible. With an active family—his wife a runner, his daughter a gymnast, and his son a football and baseball player—he enjoys helping to keep his family fit.
