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I have spent sixteen years figuring out how to test athletes, score them honestly, and let those scores decide the training. This fall I am teaching the whole system live to a small room of coaches, and every one of us builds a working version on our own athletes as we go. We will work through the decisions together, live, with recordings, recaps, and a discussion that continues between sessions.
Rich Burnett has consistently demonstrated a passion and desire to advance human performance through innovative, applied athletic assessment methods.
Dr. Jay Dawes, NSCA Education DirectorThe inaugural cohort is underway. The Fall Cohort begins October 9, 2026.
Built around decisions instead of lecture time. We retrieve the week’s essential idea, work a real coaching case, teach the framework, then spend the largest block building and critiquing your version. Weeks 4 through 6 move into Arkitect, where your Intake, Intel, and Insight specifications become a working application. Every session is recorded and recapped, so a missed live call is never a lost week.
Coffee, cameras on, no slides, no agenda. We talk through your build, your athletes, the tool you are trying, and the standard you are second-guessing. Timing and cadence will be shared with the priority list before enrollment opens. In my experience this is where the best questions get asked.
Four real, running interfaces built on the same assessment data your course teaches. Click any of them to load a live version.
Marquee
A big-screen broadcast display for a lobby or a training floor wall.
Session Capture
Running a testing day live: log reps, flash personal records, keep the queue moving.
Roster Builder
Assign today’s session with real dosing math and a readiness gate.
Foundry Admin
The facility admin a busy strength coach lives in all day.
The honest reason to join a cohort instead of buying another video course is the other coaches. A room of us, building assessment systems at the same time, on wildly different populations.
Someone posts the report they just built and asks whether a parent would actually get it.
Someone shares the tech stack that finally worked.
Someone’s standards come out weird and other coaches spot why before Friday.
That back and forth is where this course actually lives. The space stays open after the cohort ends, because everyone in it is still running their system and the comparing does not stop when the course does.
Adam Atallah
Finished my first retest report build tonight. Before and after for a 15 year old I have had since March. Screenshot attached. Would you actually hand this to a parent, or is it too much?
Cody Hughes
This is clean. Two things. Lead with the 5-10 fly, not the vert. A parent does not know what a good RSI is, but faster is faster. And flip your tier colors. Right now Foundation reads like the top of the mountain and Freak looks like a warning label.
Rich
Agree with Cody on the order. This report has one job: show the kid got better and make it undeniable. Biggest win at the top, numbers rounded so they land, and I would cut the third chart entirely. Bring it Friday and we will put it on screen and walk it together.
Focused teaching, one coaching case, guided work, peer critique, and a visible decision checkpoint each week.
Live sessions and Table Talks. Miss one, watch the recap, and show up to the following session ready to build.
Starting in Week 4, Arkitect turns your specifications into a hosted synthetic build. You test one complete workflow, preserve the source history, and finish with a clear choice between hosted continuation and participant owned source.
Coaches who built this with you, still comparing standards, reports, and tech stacks after the course. The discussion space stays open when the course ends.
The research behind every framework in the course, cited and collected, so your system stands on more than my opinion.
Enrollment
Fall Cohort begins October 9. Join the priority list for the live-call time, complete calendar, and first access when enrollment opens.
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Most of us have been guessing and half tracking for years, squinting at a spreadsheet and calling it a system because the alternative is admitting we do not actually know. There are two reasons I stopped doing that. The first is so I know what each kid actually needs instead of handing everyone the same program. The second one stuck with me from Ernie Reimer years ago: any good strength coach should be willing to audit their own body of work and make sure it is actually working. This course is not a new sport. It is the same tests and the same athletes you already have, run through a system that is prettier, faster, and easier to defend, so the numbers finally make sense instead of just sitting in a tab you dread opening. Everything in this course comes off those two reasons, taught from sixteen years of building the system, including the mistakes that cost me seasons of data.
Grades are worth nothing if they do not change training. Program Allocation turns the result into an assignment for what an athlete needs most. Foundation is movement quality first. Fit exposes quality movement to fatigue through volume. Fortified pursues high strain through load. Fast turns relative strength into power and high outputs. Freak uses complex patterns, broad exposures, and high performance maintenance. These are coaching buckets, not personality labels and not permanent identities. Every active bucket must map to an explicit dose, emphasis, or review rule.
Bar velocity at stages of bodyweight, 15 to 105 percent, with a regression across completed stages predicting max regardless of where the athlete stops. The athlete watches live which step their bar speed is trending toward, and the retest conversation stops being only about the max.
Velocity at each bodyweight stage, regression to estimated one rep max.
Double-leg against single-leg reactive strength, left against right, and what the gaps actually justify changing in training. Thresholds that mean something instead of alarm bells on every athlete.
The Fall Cohort begins October 9. Six live sessions build the complete specification through Intake, Intel, and Insight, then use Arkitect to scope, wire, test, ship, and establish ownership of the working application. Live-call details will be shared with the priority list before enrollment opens.
Choose tests that earn floor time, separate recorded, calculated, and scored results, and keep unfinished protocol or collection work visible until it is ready.
You leave withA committed Intake Blueprint at an honest Ready for Intel, Collection Ready, or Operations Ready milestone.
Turn raw results into fair comparisons. Scope standards to the decision, use percentiles as drafts, apply allometric scaling only where size bias is real, keep maturity as context, and make uncertainty visible.
You leave withAn Intel Ruleset and one complete Studio scoring route another coach can inspect, defend, and use.
Connect signal to meaning to action, design reports for coaches, athletes, and parents, and turn Program Allocation into explicit training decisions.
You leave withAn Insight Decision Spec with report logic, allocation rules, overrides, retest cadence, and audit triggers.
Publish the committed Assessment System Manifest, verify its Intake, Intel, and Insight provenance, choose the Platform and Look, then inspect the first hosted synthetic build.
You leave withA version pinned system manifest, an Arkitect Build Brief, and a first build that completes one real interaction.
Wire Intake validation, Intel context, and Insight decisions into one loop. Test the happy path, boundary values, missing inputs, provisional standards, overrides, and recovery.
You leave withAn Arkitect QA Scorecard and a synthetic workflow that passes the agreed end to end test.
Pass the ship gate, present the capstone, choose hosted continuation or source export, and establish ownership, backup, privacy, support, and audit responsibilities.
You leave withA working application and a Ship, Own, Operate Plan for the next ninety days.
Your cohort home holds the curriculum, the live schedule, the recordings, the discussion, and from week 4, your build. It is the same platform your assessment system runs on, so learning the tool and building your system are the same act. You will also see the other builds taking shape, which is half the fun.
You do not rent this system. You build it, and at the end of six weeks you get the keys, the same way a homeowner gets the keys to a house they built. What you do with the keys is yours to decide.
Your force plates, timing gates, and spreadsheets feeding one system instead of living apart.
The same Intake, Intel, and Insight rules you build in the course, in front of your staff on the floor.
One place your staff sees the same numbers you do, instead of a group chat full of screenshots.
Reports and scores an athlete or a parent can actually read, built from the same data.
SCCC, CSCS, APCC, CAFS, M.S. Kinesiology
Rich Burnett is an SCCC, CSCS, APCC, and CAFS-certified strength and conditioning coach with an M.S. in Kinesiology, sixteen years into a career that runs D1 head strength coach at Texas A&M Corpus Christi across seven sports, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Greater Atlanta Christian, and now Director of Athletic Development at Triple F in Knoxville, where he leads NFL Combine training.
He is also the founder and CEO of Plyomat, a jump and force measurement ecosystem used on real training floors, and he built the Triple F app end to end, the same athlete-data platform this course runs on. He is a published researcher, including work co-authored with Jay Dawes. The standards taught in this course come off more than 79,000 test results and 3,000-plus athletes trained, the assessment system he has been running and refining at Triple F the whole time.
Rich is one of the best performance coaches that I’ve collaborated with. He takes a progressive and forward-thinking approach to building an athletic performance system. What stands out most is his ability to blend practical coaching experience with structured, data-driven evaluation methods.
Collin Crane
UGA Men’s Basketball S&C
Quality athlete assessment is the foundation of everything we do as performance coaches. Rich Burnett gets that; and more importantly, he’s built a course that teaches it in a way that’s immediately applicable, regardless of your level or your setting. This is the kind of professional development that actually moves the needle.
Donnie Maib
Assistant Athletics Director for Athletic Performance, University of Texas
Rich is in a tier of his own as a human being and a strength coach. One of the most humble and knowledgeable people that you’ll meet. If you want to learn from someone that has been in the trenches and knows how to develop complete athletes...he is your guy.
Andy Fata-Chan
Owner of Moment PT
Rich is an elite coach and thinker who consistently pushes sports performance forward with innovation and creativity. Sticking to what breeds results while challenging the status quo has allowed him repeated and long lasting success in developing athletes. The depth of his approach to assessment and implementation of problem solving separate Rich from the masses.
Tylor Henry
Notre Dame Football S&C
Building an Assessment System returns as a six-week live cohort beginning Friday, October 9, 2026. Join the priority list for the schedule, live-call time, and first access to enrollment at the standing $799 price.
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