Meet the TEam
Torque Sport Performance coaches are not just coaches. They’re professionals, experts, competitors, and champions. Our team of coaches are here for our athletes with passion to match their knowledge and experience so there is no limit to what you can accomplish.
tyler reiter: Owner & head Performance Coach
Tyler Reiter has been a Performance Coach for 14 years and has owned Torque Sport Performance for 9 years. Tyler started lifting weights when he was only 12, so when he says he specializes movement, he means it.
Tyler played college Football at Augsburg where he earned honors and also professional football for three years in the SPFL, where his team was league champion three years running. Tyler coaches movement workshops, he has also been the guest speaker at various universities on programming and movement for strength and conditioning and travels nationally coaching movement specialty.
“My coaching is abstract, in your face, sincere, and truthful,” he says. “I will get you where you want to go as an athlete and a person, We were born with the strength and determination to push ourselves past mediocrity. “
EDUCATION
Bachelors of Science in Exercise Science and Human Performance with a minor in Coaching - Augsburg University
Masters of Science in Sport Performance - University of Wisconsin River Falls
CERTIFICATIONS:
Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)
Movement Specialist
Parisi Performance Coach
Pain Free Performance Specialist
USA Weightlifting Sports Performance Coach
USA Advanced Weightlifting Sports Performance Coach
USA Weightlifting Club Coach
Barbell Rehab Methods Coach
Injury Resilience for High-Performance Athletes
Tony Madline: Performance coach
Personal experience in primarily Powerlifting/Strongman.
Competitive Powerlifter for 19 years
Favorite Strength Athlete-Fenn Cournoyer/Bill Kazmaier
Favorite Strength Coach – Sven Erlandson
Favorite Movie-Rudy
Favorite Quote – “you’re either in or you’re in the way” –Mark Bell
Football/Strength assistant coach at Augsburg College from 06-11.
Currently works in finance and an assistant football coach at Mahtomedi. Resides in Stillwater, MN. Attended Mahtomedi High school and Augsburg College.
Beck Houston: Performance Coach
Becky Houston
CERTIFICATIONS:
Pain Free Performance Specialist
USATF Level 1 Coach
Coach Becky Houston began her coaching career coaching high school track and field athletes. Over the course of 8 years, she coached 300+ athletes in sprinting and jumping events. In addition to track, she coached various levels of volleyball and strength and conditioning for young athletes and teams.
Houston, trains strongman and has competed at the national level. She has qualified for World’s Strongest Woman and has won several local competitions. Her favorite events include moving and pressing.
Bob Jones: weightlifting coach
Weightlifting Coach Bob Jones has been weightlifting competitively for 12 years, so he’s the ideal coach for Torque Barbell athletes who want to raise their lifting technique to an elite level.
Bob’s awards list is as impressive as his strength, and includes being a member of the USA Weightlifting Team in the 1980s, 1987 National Championships (2nd place), 1987 Olympic Festival (gold medal), 1987 Moomba International (gold medal), 1988 National Championships (3rdplace), 1988 Olympic Trials (2nd place), 1989 National Championships (2nd place), 1989 World Championships (10th place), and so many more.
Tony Morelli: performance coach
Weightlifting Coach Tony Morelli enjoys the teaching component of coaching. “Program design and all that is fun, but implementation of the skills and exercises is what I love the most,” he says.
Tony has been a competitive weightlifter for two years and has had three big wins in the past few years: 2015 Minnesota LWC Championship (3rdplace), 2015 Minnesota Open (2nd place), 2016 Minnesota LWC Championship (4th place).
“I’ve always loved and done Olympic lifts since high school, but I never got the push to compete,” he says. “Finally, in 2014, Coach Tyler gave me the push I needed, and I’ve been competing ever since.”
CERTIFICATIONS:
B.A. in Health Fitness - Augsburg College
M.Ed. in Kinesiology - University of Minnesota
NSCA CSCS