Tracy Steven Peal, Sr., is an Elite Speed Coach and Movement Specialist. He has been engaged in the field of individual and group athletics, strength training and physical conditioning for over 15 years and continues to expand his field of expertise. As a Movement Specialist, Tracy analyzes sports biomechanics to provide the most effective way to increase speed, efficiency, quickness, agility, power and endurance. Through a unique re-engineering of the athlete’s understanding of movement potential and body perception - coupled with intense focus on specialized drills and exercises that re-trains an athlete’s neuromuscular firing patterns in order to improve to form and technique - athletes quickly develop the skills needed to markedly improve performance and significantly decrease injury potential.  

Working with TracyPealSpeed, young Moroccan runner Bouchaib Chakir improved his marathon time by 20 minutes and placed 9th overall at the 2010 Philadelphia Marathon going sub-2:30 in only his 2nd race.  Chakir, now a US citizen, aims to qualify in 2011 for the USA Track & Field Olympic marathon trials in January 2012.

Bio

Name:  Tracy Steven Peal, Sr.

Secret Identity: Closet poet, father, hoops junkie, Perrier and green tea addict, Hitchcock-obsessed, staunch Realist

Favorite Athlete:  Usain Bolt

Books I Am Reading:
Web of Life, Fritjof Capra
Human Motor Actions, Nikolai Bernstein
Movement of Animals, Aristotle

Favorite Vacation Spot:  Barcelona

Personal Motto:  “Pick your goddamn foot from the goddamn ground.”

Previously, he worked as a consultant for various sports teams, most notably University of Pennsylvania Men’s Rugby and Malvern Prep Track & Field.  Presently, he is the Head Coach of the Kilimanjaro Athletics Foundation, a non-profit organization created to assist underprivileged athletes, and a Special Consultant to Athletics Tanzania’s national team preparing for the 2011 World Championships and 2012 London Olympics. He is also a Director of Team Peak’s 1:59 Project, which is training elite athletes with the goal of redefining the potential of human sports performance, the centerpiece of which is breaking the 2 hour marathon barrier. 

Tracy works with athletes from a wide range of sports and movement disciplines, including:  endurance (distance runners, cyclists, swimmers and triathletes); track & field (sprinters, throwers and jumpers); team sports (basketball, football, soccer, lacrosse, baseball and field hockey); and performance (skaters and dancers).   His expertise has helped his clients to achieve high-level results, as well as recover from otherwise previously debilitating injuries.  Tracy works closely with Dr. Lee Cohen, the Philadelphia Eagles and Philadelphia 76ers podiatric consultant, helping Dr. Cohen’s patients during their rehabilitative process through correction of deficient movement skills.

Tracy played Division 1 basketball for Pennsylvania State University and the University of Delaware. After his collegiate career, he competed as a powerlifter, cyclist, runner and duathlete, and raced a variety of criteriums, time-trials, sprint and olympic-distance duathlons and half-marathons.  He has been Certified as a Coach in Triathlon (USA Triathlon), Running (Pose - Level IV), Cycling (USA Cycling), Strength and Conditioning (NCSA) and is now working towards his thesis for a Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology.  He is writing a book entitled, “The Law of Running: the Case for the Perfect Stride, and the Crimes Committed against Athletes by Shoe Companies, Coaches, Doctors, and Scientists”. 

Quote by a famous person

"I always loved running...it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs."

- Jesse Owens

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