I have spent sixteen years figuring out how to test athletes, score them honestly, and let those scores decide the training. In this cohort I teach 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.
4.9/5.0Overall cohort valueBased on 8 Summer 2026 survey responses30+Summer 2026 participantsRich Burnett has consistently demonstrated a passion and desire to advance human performance through innovative, applied athletic assessment methods.
Dr. Jay Dawes, NSCA President (elect)Fall registration is closed. Spring Cohort is planned for March 2027.
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. In Weeks 4 through 6 your Intake, Intel, and Insight decisions become a working application, built with a coding agent in a private repository you own. Every call is recorded and accessible for life. You do not need to attend live to follow along: watch the recording when your schedule allows, then continue the work with the cohort.
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. Spring Table Talk times will be announced. In my experience this is where the best questions get asked.
Explore these working interface examples to see different ways assessment data can support a coaching day. Your cohort build starts with a shared assessment starter, then takes shape around your own decisions. These examples are not four separate applications you are expected to finish.
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.
Every Friday teaching session and Sunday Table Talk is recorded and accessible for life. If a live time does not work for you, that is completely fine. Watch the recording when it suits you and follow along at your own pace.
Starting in Week 4 you build the application itself, working with a coding agent in a private repository under your own account. You wire it to your own database, publish it at your own address, and finish owning every account it runs on.
The cohort does not close after six weeks. Your cohort workspace, recordings, resources, and discussion stay available so you can keep learning, building, and connecting with the other coaches.
The research behind every framework in the course, cited and collected, so your system stands on more than my opinion.
Enrollment
Spring Cohort is planned for March 2027. Exact dates and call times will be announced. Every call is recorded with lifetime access, so attending live is optional.
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“The Cohort was a challenging and refreshing look at how we can organize and leverage data, and use AI to communicate it more effectively with coaches and athletes.
Rich Burnett is a forward thinker and, more importantly, a doer. His experience across multiple performance environments gives him a unique perspective on what matters. He’s been an invaluable resource throughout the Cohort and beyond.”
“I’ve been able to build a full assessment system for our strength and conditioning program that we’re now actually using with our athletes.”
“Rich went all in, not just openly sharing his wealth of knowledge, but also sharing his time to ensure every single person gets out of this what they signed up for.”
“Then once I realized what was actually shared…GAME CHANGER.”
Already part of the Summer Cohort? Your recordings, resources, and community remain available. Open your cohort home.
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 Spring Cohort is planned for March 2027. Six live sessions build the complete specification through Intake, Intel, and Insight, then scope, wire, publish, and take ownership of a working application you build yourself. Exact Spring dates and call times will be announced.
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 withAn Intake Blueprint connecting a coaching decision to a test and usable measurement, with remaining collection work clearly identified.
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.
Read the results with the right context, decide what should change next, and communicate it clearly. Explore when a shared training emphasis is enough and when a more individual prescription is justified.
You leave withA report concept for one reader, with a clear interpretation, coaching action and review point.
Learn how to direct a coding assistant, create your private copy of the provided starter, and make one change you can verify. Bring your Studio work into the project when you have it, or begin with the starter and build from there.
You leave withA working local app, a private GitHub repository under your account, and a verified first change.
Connect your database, decide how groups and records belong together, and build an importer with a review step. Rehearse with fictional records and check access controls before moving in real data. Publish the app at an address you can open on your phone.
You leave withYour own numbers, in your own database, visible at a live address.
Publish for real and understand why a live site can still show the app you started with. Give the right people accounts, decide what each of them can see, wire the password reset email nobody thinks about until a coach is locked out, and put your own name on every account the app runs on.
You leave withA checked sign-in and password reset path, clear access rules, and an ownership and operating plan for your app.
Your cohort home holds the curriculum, schedule, recordings, resources and discussion. Studio helps you organize your assessment decisions. The application you begin in Week 4 lives separately in your own project folder and private repository, with its own database and hosting. Share progress and questions with the room while keeping control of the app itself.
You do not need to arrive knowing how to code. We explain the tools, provide setup guides and prompts, and work through examples together. Bring a computer and time between calls to practice, test your work and ask questions. More ambitious features will take additional work beyond the six weeks.
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 athlete-data platform demonstrated throughout this course. 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 in March 2027. Join the waitlist for exact dates, the call schedule and enrollment details. Joining is free and does not reserve a paid seat.
Join the Spring Cohort waitlistExact dates and enrollment details will be announced.
The Spring 2027 cohort is planned for March. Exact Spring dates and call times will be announced. Every call is recorded with lifetime access, so attending live is optional.
Cohort tuition covers the teaching sessions, teaching materials and continued access to the recordings and community. Coding assistant subscriptions, hosting, database usage and an optional domain are separate expenses. The cost depends on your tools and how you use the app. We explain the options before you purchase them.
Join the Spring waitlist for registration updates.
Joining is free and does not reserve a paid seat. You agree to receive Spring Cohort updates and can unsubscribe at any time.
You keep control of your app and its accounts. The cohort provides instruction and feedback, not managed hosting or ongoing custom development. Before using real athlete records, you need to verify sign-in, data permissions and recovery, and confirm your authority to use those records.
Spring 2027 is planned for March. Exact dates and call times will be announced before registration opens. Every call is recorded, so you can follow along even when you cannot attend live.
No. We explain the tools and provide a starter, setup guides and prompts. You will learn how to direct a coding assistant and check its work. Bring a willingness to practice and ask for help when something does not make sense.
You will work toward an assessment application shaped around your coaching decisions. The first three weeks cover Intake, Intel and Insight. The next three move into your own project, database and hosted app. Start with a focused version you can test and use. More ambitious features may take work beyond the cohort.
No. You can begin by deciding what you want to measure and why, and use fictional records while learning. Studio helps organize your thinking; you do not need to complete every field before you can begin building.
Every Friday teaching session and Sunday Table Talk is recorded. Watch when your schedule allows, then bring questions to the community or contact Rich. Recordings, resources and the community remain available after the six live weeks.
Plan for the weekly teaching session or recording, plus time between sessions to apply the ideas and work on your build. The amount depends on your starting point and the size of your project. Sunday Table Talks are optional. You do not need to keep pace with the fastest builder in the room.
One payment covers the six-week cohort, teaching materials, recordings and continued community access. Coding assistant subscriptions, hosting, database usage and an optional domain are separate. We explain the options before asking you to purchase tools.
Yes. Your independently created work, private repository, database and service accounts stay under your control, subject to any third party licenses. The cohort provides instruction and feedback, not managed hosting or ongoing custom development.
Ask. Bring your question to the discussion, an optional Table Talk or Rich directly. You can keep learning from recordings and resources after the live weeks end. There is no requirement to arrive with a finished app or to solve every technical problem on your own.
Give the lessons and practical work an honest try. If the experience has not been useful to your coaching, email Rich within 30 days of the first teaching session for a full refund of your cohort payment. You do not need a finished app or perfect assignments. Separately purchased tools are not covered. See the refund policy for the full details.
Tell me what you’re hoping to build, where you’re starting, or what you’re unsure about. I’m happy to help you decide whether the cohort is a good fit.
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