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Greg Everett is best known as a coach and educational content creator for the Olympic sport of weightlifting. In his over 15 years of coaching, he’s worked with multiple national champions and national record holders, Pan Am and European Championships competitors and medalists, and World Championships competitors from multiple countries. He’s coach of the Catalyst Athletics USA Weightlifting national championship team, a USA Weightlifting International Coach, and was named 2021 Danish Coach of the Year—the first non-Danish coach to be awarded the honor.

He and his wife Aimee are the only married couple to have ever coached athletes at the same World Championships (Tashkent, Uzbekistan 2021, where he coached Laura Alexander (USA), Line Guide (DEN), and Nadia Yangui (CAN) and Aimee coached Mattie Rogers (USA) and Jules Riotto (USA)).

He's the author of multiple books, most notably in the weightlifting world, Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches, first released in 2008 and now in its third edition. It quickly became the best-selling book on the sport in the world, has been translated into multiple languages, and is used as a textbook in many university courses. His 2021 book Tough: Building True Mental, Physical & Emotional Toughness for Success & Fulfillment broke out of the sports and fitness world into a wider audience, also translated into multiple languages.

Work

Writing

Everett has authored a dozen books and over 350 articles since 1999. His first book to earn notice was Screaming at a Wall (2000), written at the age of 20. In 2008, he released Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches, which quickly dominated the market and has stayed the best-selling book on the topic through three editions and multiple translations. 2021’s Tough: Building True Mental, Physical & Emotional Toughness for Success & Fulfillment has been successful well beyond the borders of the weightlifting world.

Publishing

Everett founded Grundle Ink Publications as an independent literary press in 1999, prior to the ubiquity of desktop publishing software and print on demand technology, and published several books prior to ending the business in 2005. That same year, he, Robb Wolf and Nicki Violetti founded the Performance Menu Journal, a digital monthly focused on nutrition and training. In 2006, Everett bought the partners out and took it over. He continued publishing the journal for 17 years and 203 issues before shutting it down in December 2021.

Online Content

Everett is arguably the most prolific content creator in the weightlifting community with multiple books and long-format videos, thousands of videos, hundreds of articles, and other educational content like the world’s most complete Olympic weightlifting exercise library.

Seminars & Coaching Certification

Everett has been giving seminars to coaches and athletes around the world since 2007. Catalyst Athletics has certified hundreds of coaches internationally with his original curriculum.

Coaching

Everett is a USA Weightlifting International Coach and has coached over 40 weightlifters to the national and international level. He has coached multiple national champions and national record holders in multiple countries, as well Pan Am Championships and European Championships medalists, and World Championships competitors.

Gyms

Everett co-owned NorCal Strength & Conditioning in Chico, California from 2003-2006 with Robb Wolf and Nicki Violetti, which was the fourth CrossFit affiliate gym in the world. In 2009, he and wife Aimee opened the Catalyst Athletics gym in Sunnyvale, California. In 2016, they closed the gym and relocated to Oregon to focus on coaching the national team and the content side of the business.

Film

In 2013, Everett released the first feature-length documentary film on the sport of weightlifting in the US, American Weightlifting, which he wrote, filmed, edited and even recorded scoring for—a completely independent production.

Athletics

Everett was competitive at the national championship level as a weightlifter, was a masters national champion and American record holder, and retired after a severe shoulder injury at the 2015 National Championships. He was coached by Mike Burgener and Bob Morris. After retiring from weightlifting, he began competing in the newly-created Tactical Games in early 2019, qualifying for the national championships in the elite division in all years he’s competed. As a teenager, Everett competed in bicycle trials, modified class. In addition to playing all the typical American sports growing up, he’s spent time rock climbing, training Brazilian jiu jitsu, and backpacking.