Skyler Holt

Throughout High School, wrestling was Skyler's true passion, and the weight room was largely centered around furthering his wrestling career. After finishing top 3 in Section Five for his weight class, he went to SUNY Brockport to study Exercise Science and continue his wrestling career. While his love for wrestling soon ended, it opened up an entire world to grow into his fitness career. From here, Skyler began to train solely for powerlifting. While continuing to coach his friends for free, he began to turn it into a more formal endeavor. He created his own spreadsheets, check-in forms, video chat calls, and interacted with them every single day like a full time job. 

Skyler did this for years until he received his NSCA-CPT in 2020. After college, Skyler spent time in different In-Person training facilities for two years, including commercial gyms like Esporta, Blink Fitness, and Lattimore Physical Therapy, where he also completed his college internship. He spent over a year working with older adults post rehab, where he furthered his passion for understanding pain science through the lens of the biopsychosocial model of pain. While powerlifters and general population individuals are vastly different, he was able to borrow from his powerlifting background to encourage his in person clientele to more passionately pursue resistance training to live a healthier lifestyle. Further, he trained all of the high school teams that Lattimore had contracted with through Pittsford School District, working directly with all of the mens and womens teams in small and large group settings.

Throughout this, he continued to build his powerlifting team roster on his own, prepping and handling many of them for competition. He further used this time period to gain as much knowledge as he could with his in person clientele, athletic teams, and personal team of powerlifters. Eventually, he moved on from in person training and was offered a coaching position at Gameday Barbell, based out of Austin Texas. Skyler joined GameDay Barbells team of athletes in the Summer of 2023 by assisting in spotting, loading, and handling during the regular and primetime sessions in Memphis, Tennessee. 

“I’ve always valued the art of program individualization. Understanding the nuances and intricacies of program design tailored to the individual in front of me was a challenge when I first started writing programs for my friends in high school and college. Through years of helping countless individuals across a wide variety of athletic settings, I’ve developed my own methods of program design, while acknowledging and mastering basic fundamentals and principles of resistance training to help all of my athletes make progress. While having all of my athletes make progress is the goal, when things aren’t going to plan, a part of me gets excited knowing that it's time to dive into the weeds and use the different tools within my toolbox to problem solve for the athlete in front of me.”

Skyler holds a Bachelors degree in Exercise Science, is a Certified Personal Trainer through NSCA, and has completed Mike Tuscherer’s “Programming With Emerging Strategies” Course. Outside of coaching, Skyler enjoys playing old school Nintendo video games, collecting hip hop vinyls (he named his dog after rapper Blu and producer 9th Wonder, Blu Wonder), and eating ice cream with his girlfriend. 

Special Interests:

Programming Individualization, Building Momentum in Training, Troubleshooting Training Blocks, Bio-Pyscho-Social Model, Training Minutia

PR Songs:

Momentum - Russ feat Benny the Butcher and Black Thought

Dr Birds - Griselda

The Butcher and The Blade - Westside Gunn

We Gonna Make it - Jadakiss 

Hive - Earl Sweatshirt