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Dedication ribbon cutting for the Angie and Sam Kelly (center) Strength and Conditioning Center at North Greenville University.
The facility features Sorinex strength and weightlifting equipment with customized premium power racks, pullup rigs, squat stands, weightlifting bars, weights, and plates for the facility.
“The purpose of the facility is to help our athletes perform at the highest level by making them bigger, stronger, faster, more powerful, and to help them avoid injury,” Andre Bernardi, NGU Director of Strength Conditioning, said. “We train for performance and functionality. The weight room is designed to be functional through ground-based movements and the best way to do that is with free-weight, multi-joint movements.”
Bernardi’s wife, Kaitlyn, has been named Director of Olympic Sports and coordinates the strength and conditioning for all female athletes. Andre coordinates the programs for male athletes.
The facility will help the athlete in time-efficiency because all circuits of the workouts are designed to be completed at the rack through an average 15-minute routine. Each rack has two Olympic bars, power blocks, bands, kettlebells, and chains.