About Burke Spencer

About Burke Spencer
BIOGRAPHY
BURKE SPENCER
As the inventor of the Sport Trainer, The Gold Medal Speed Bands, and the Bruce Jenner
hosted infomercial product “Burke Spencer’s Miracle Body Shaper”, Burke Spencer is
considered one of America’s foremost speed, agility, quickness and conditioning coaches. His
athletes have won numerous Olympic Gold Medals, Soccer World Cup’s, NBA Championships,
MLB World Series’, National Basketball Championships, and too many other collegiate and
amateur championships to mention. He 's been responsible for St Patrick’s Men’s Basketball,
St. Anthony’s Men’s Basketball, Linden HS Men’s Basketball, Roselle Catholic Men’s and
Women’s Basketball, Immaculata Lacrosse, Watchung Hills HS Lacrosse and Bridgewater HS
Lacrosse! He has trained at the Division 1 Level with St John’s University, Iona College, NJIT &
Fairleigh Dickinson University. He trained the US Navy’s Seals, US Army Rangers and the US
National Guard. For his work with the Army’s Rangers he was awarded the John O. Marsh
Physical Training Award from the Army’s Physical Fitness School at Fort Benning, Georgia. He
holds numerous training certifications from varied organizations. He was featured in the best
seller “The Miracle of St. Anthony’s” and the “Idiots Guide to Working out At Home”! He has
appeared on all the National Networks, HSN, QVC, E Entertainment and most cable channels
throughout the US. His revolutionary team conditioning programs blend aspects of speed,
agility, strength, quickness, and conditioning into a one hour high intensity workout that
develops a more effective, efficient and skilled athlete with improved recovery systems. His
strength training programs work an athlete based upon the needs of the particular sport he/she
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plays. His “ Gold Medal Speed Bands” is a revolutionary training system developed by he and
Derrick Adkins. Derrick won the Gold Medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in the 400
Intermediate Hurdles!
While based in Australia in 1989-90 he started the first professional baseball training school in
that country called “Baseball Camps Australia” and utilized the talents of future Australian major
league stars such as Graeme Lloyd, David Nielson and Carlos Reyes. As the conditioning
coach/consultant to Coach Mike Jarvis at St. John’s University he was instrumental in wins over
Duke University, Texas Tech, and UCLA. In the National Invitational Tournament Championship
Game against Georgetown, led by future NY knick #1 draft choice Michael Sweetney, St. John’s
overwhelmed Georgetown in the last 5 minutes to win the title. Under Strength Coach David
Oliver, Burke’s Sport Trainer was utilized to help the Women’s National Soccer Team led by Mia
Hamm win the 1999-2000 Women’s World Cup. Burke was honored by sitting next to the great
Pelé at the MVP dinner during the World Cup. The list of athlete’s that have utilized Burke’s
talents would fill a book. To name a few would be Amare Stoudamire, Steve Nash, Bobby
Hurley, Earl Clark, Roderick Rhodes, JR Smith, Derrick Caracter,Samuel Dalembert, Tiffany
Milbrett, Barry Larkin, Rafael Palmiero, Sean Alexander, Mike Nardi, John Oates, Mia Hamm,
and many others, too numerous to mention.
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