Week 1July 17
The architecture
Why we assess, the pipeline from raw number to Monday decision, and which qualities actually belong in your score.
You leave withYour population defined and your system mapped on one page.
A six-week live cohort for performance coaches
Building an Assessment System
I have spent sixteen years figuring out how to test athletes, score them honestly, and let those scores decide the training. This summer I am teaching the whole system to thirty coaches, live, and every one of us builds a working version on our own athletes while we go. We do this together: live Friday sessions, Sunday morning Table Talks, and a discussion that runs all week.
Rich Burnett has consistently demonstrated a passion and desire to advance human performance through innovative, applied athletic assessment methods.
Dr. Jay Dawes, NSCA Education DirectorSix FridaysJul 17 to Aug 21, 2026
2:00 PM ETLive, recorded and recapped
30 coachesCapped enrollment
Fridays 2:00 PM ET
Modules and Builds
Two hours, live, split down the middle. The first hour is the module: I teach that week’s piece of the system with real athlete data on screen and real decisions argued out loud. The second hour is the build: we work on your version of it while the room is there to help. Weeks 4 through 6 are the focused build weeks, where we use AI tools to stand your system up in your own sandbox and troubleshoot together live. Every session is recorded and recapped, so a missed Friday is never a lost week.
Sundays 9:00 AM ET
Table Talk
Coffee, cameras on, no slides, no agenda. We talk through whatever Friday stirred up: your build, your athletes, the tool you are trying, the standard you are second-guessing. Optional every week, and recorded, so even the ones you sleep through are yours. In my experience this is where the best questions get asked.
What you will be able to build
Four working templates, one data foundation
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 room
Nobody builds this alone
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 August 21, because everyone in it is still running their system and the comparing does not stop when the course does.
First draft of my before and after report. Be honest.
How the discussion runs
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?
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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.
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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.
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What you get
What you walk away with
Six Fridays with the whole room
Two hours live every week: the module, then the build, with real athlete data on screen the entire time.
Every session recorded and recapped
Fridays and Sunday Table Talks both. Miss one, watch it the next day, show up to the following session like you never left.
Your own sandbox
Starting in week 4, once your scoring decisions are made, you get a private build space on the platform: your athletes, your standards, your scoring, your athlete-facing reports. You build it during the course and it is still yours after.
The room
Coaches who built this with you, still comparing standards, reports, and tech stacks after August. The discussion space stays open when the course ends.
The reference library
The research behind every framework in the course, cited and collected, so your system stands on more than my opinion.
Enrollment
$799 $599, one payment.
The course is $799. The first 30 coaches in this inaugural cohort take it at $599. We start July 17. Join the July cohort.
Who is already in
22 members already inside
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Why assessment
Assessment creates commitment
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.
What your grades are for
Program Allocation
Grades are worth nothing if they do not change training. So every quality gets scored on a five-step staircase: Foundation, Fit, Fortified, Fast, Freak. The step an athlete is standing on tells you what their training earns next. Foundation athletes earn movement: groove the pattern until they own it. Fit athletes earn volume. Fortified athletes earn load. Fast athletes earn velocity. And the kids at the top of the stairs earn novelty, because there is no ordinary program left for them, and that is the point. That staircase is mine, built off sixteen years running it at Triple F, and it is what the course runs on. But you are not stuck with my five steps: you will be encouraged to look at your own population and decide whether Foundation, Fit, Fortified, Fast, Freak fits your athletes as is, or whether your system needs its own names and its own number of steps. Under the staircase sits the plumbing: what you measure, how you normalize it for bodyweight, age, and maturity, and how you grade it with two lenses, points that drive decisions and percentiles that tell the athlete where they stand. Standards round to clean numbers athletes can celebrate. 14.0, not 14.17.
The bench protocol
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.
Asymmetry and the bilateral deficit
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 six weeks
Decide it, then build it
Every session is live on Friday, two hours, recorded and recapped. Weeks 1 through 3 you decide: your qualities, your tests, your standards. Weeks 4 through 6 are the focused build weeks: your sandbox opens and we use AI tools to stand your system up, together, live.
Week 2July 24
Tests that hold up
Validity, reliability, the real cost of a test in floor time, and protocols you could hand to another coach, from the bench protocol to the 5-10 fly.
You leave withYour test battery selected and written down.
Week 3July 31
Standards and scoring
Normalizing honestly for bodyweight, age, and maturity, then cutting standards from your own population, with the small-sample humility to say "I do not know if this is good yet."
You leave withVersion one of your standards and every scoring decision made.
Week 4August 7Build week
Build week one: move in
Your sandbox opens. We configure your grading, your tiers, and your athlete-facing reports inside it, live, with AI tools doing the heavy lifting and the room watching each other’s builds.
You leave withA sandbox that scores an athlete.
Week 5August 14Build week
Build week two: wire it to training
Program Allocation built as literal decision rules: the tier to training table, asymmetry flags, retest cadence, and the improvement report, generated from your own build. Your first athletes go through end to end.
You leave withGrades that change training and real athletes in the system.
Week 6August 21Build week
Run it and defend it
The audit: drift, stale standards, scheduled skepticism. Then the capstone, where every coach presents their system to the room.
You leave withA working assessment system, presented, defended, and yours to keep.
Proof, not slideware
Real reports from the system this course teaches
The workspace
The same platform as the course
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.
Beyond the six weeks
What this can become
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.
Integrations
Your force plates, timing gates, and spreadsheets feeding one system instead of living apart.
A trainer app built on your system
The same scoring and standards you build in the course, in front of your staff on the floor.
Internal communications
One place your staff sees the same numbers you do, instead of a group chat full of screenshots.
Athlete-facing views
Reports and scores an athlete or a parent can actually read, built from the same data.
Who is teaching
Sixteen years of building this, not talking about it
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.
16years coaching
3,000+athletes trained
79,000+test results behind the standards
What coaches say
Endorsed by the people who do this work
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
The next run
Not ready for July? There will be a cohort 2.
Cohort 2 runs this fall at the standing $799 price. Leave your email and you hear when it opens, before anyone else.
Enrollment
Thirty seats. We start July 17.
One payment. Everything above is included. No tiers, no upsells. The course is $799; the inaugural cohort takes it at $599, first 30 only.
Six Fridays, Sunday Table Talks, and a room full of coaches building the same thing you are. July 17 to August 21, 2026.
10 of 30 paid seats remaining
Checkout runs through Stripe. Your seat is confirmed the moment payment goes through, and setup takes about two minutes. On the fence? Email me and ask whatever you want. It goes straight to me.
Enroll early and you also get a set of standalone mini tools from my workshop, released across the course: velocity-based dosing and profiling, set and rep scheme builders, and sprint analysis.
This course is for you if
- You coach real athletes and you are done guessing: private facility, high school, college, or team setting.
- You have testing data, or want it, and you know a spreadsheet is not a system.
- You want your athletes chasing a score they trust, and you want to defend that score to any parent, AD, or director who asks.