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John Rusin

About John Rusin

Dr. John Rusin is not your run-of-the-mill physical therapist. His innovative vision and knowledge brings together high-performance strength and hypertrophy programming with a cutting-edge, pain-free training methodology.

With more than a decade of elite-level training experience and advanced degrees in both exercise science and physical therapy, Dr. Rusin develops performance, regeneration, and aesthetics programs for some of the world’s best power athletes, NFL and MLB athletes, gold-medal Olympians, competitive powerlifters, and bodybuilders.

John is an internationally recognized coach, speaker, and writer, whose work has been popularized in media outlets such as Testosterone Nation, Mountain Dog Diet, Breaking Muscle, and Muscle and Strength, just to name a few.

John is the owner of John Rusin Fitness Systems, an online fitness platform geared toward synergizing the best of high-performance training and physical therapy to athletes and clients worldwide. This past year, John’s website, Dr. John Rusin, was named to Breaking Muscle’s Top 10 Fitness Sites of 2015.

John also is the owner of Dr. John Rusin Physical Therapy, a sports performance physical therapy practice, located in Madison, Wisconsin. In office, John has been able to develop and perfect his game-changing Hands-On Self Myofascial Release (SMR) Techniques on an impressively diverse athletic population ranging from Ironman athletes to bodybuilders.

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