Jesse Dammann

971-***-**** admcg0@r.postjobfree.com

instagram.com/kinesthetic.fluency

To whom it may concern at Entourage Consulting LLC, I am writing this letter to signify my interest in a strength and conditioning specialist position at your facility. I believe I am qualified for this job because of my 4 years prior experience teaching functional fitness, olympic weightlifting, bodybuilding, and injury prevention in both a group and 1-on-1 setting. I am currently pursuing an associates degree in exercise science at Portland Community College, and plan on completing a bachelor’s degree at PSU. My passion for fitness coaching began in the Cleveland High School weight room. The peer-coaching community was the cornerstone of the program’s success in the face of injury risk and large class sizes. This led me to adopt responsibility and find purpose in helping other people improve their movement. I was able to apply my knowledge of physics (torque, force transfer, mechanical advantage, etc.) to think up a few coaching cues for my friend’s squats, deadlifts, and olympic lifts. To my surprise, they found value in my perspective. This was a rewarding experience and I realized that movement coaching could be an awesome platform for my mechanically oriented brain. At this point, I became obsessed with absorbing knowledge from weightlifting coaches, youtube channels, and academic research to better myself as a coach and athlete. Later on in high school, I mentored the freshman CrossFit class, which eventually led to a coaching position at my teacher’s CrossFit gym and kicked off my career in the industry. Over my four years of coaching, I have always tried to promote longevity; honing in on postural analysis, how certain habits tend to show up in complex movements, and how my clients can use resistance training as a tool to combat pattern overload from work, hobbies, and sport. I have done a great job at my gym of emphasizing the importance of moving well, not just fast. In an effort to get my clients off of the as-many-reps-as-possible mentality and into the as-many-years-as-possible mentality, I proposed and initiated weekly Olympic Weightlifting clinics. These clinics are focused on improving client’s ability to recognize and identify the faults in their olympic lifts, and then ultimately learn drills that will help rebuild habits going forward.

Technical analysis has always been my strong suit, but over the last four years I’ve come to realize that my advice on that front is only as good as the client’s trust. When I was thrown into group fitness as a 17-year-old, gaining the trust of a client base with an average age of 30 was a big challenge for me. It forced me to rethink age, class, credibility, and ultimately reform my confidence as an individual. I have since developed the social and psychological awareness required to gain trust, create buy-in and ultimately nurture lasting behavior change. I am qualified to write and execute resistance training programs for a broad range of needs that will develop higher jumps, faster sprints, and bigger muscles, but also promote better posture, joint health, and a lifetime of physical wellness.

I am fresh into this career and I have a lot to learn, but an equal amount of potential to explore. Entourage Consulting would be an excellent next step for my career. If you feel I would be a good match for your facility, I have attached my resume and look forward to hearing from you soon!

Sincerely,

Jesse

Jesse Dammann 6710 N Michigan Ave.

Portland, OR 97217

971-***-****

admcg0@r.postjobfree.com

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

Torque Strength and Conditioning — CrossFit Coach

February 2017 - Present

I have logged about 800 hours over 4 years teaching kids, teens, adults, and older adults how to move safely and e ectively under load. Portland Pedal Power — Bicycle courier, Research & Development, Social Media, General Marketing

May 2018 - Present

Delivered large amounts of food all over town via bike, organized and worked on catering events, aided in bike maintenance, helped maintain and improve cargo bay used for food delivery, produced content for social media. Portland Parks & Recreation — Lifeguard, Swim Instructor, and Swim Coach June 2015 - August 2017

Communicated with customers and peers regarding swimming technique, merchandise, services, transactions, kept a clean and safe workplace/public destination, saved drowning kids, and administered first aid. EDUCATION

Portland Community College — Exercise Science

September 2017 - Present

Currently studying exercise science. I have also taken a lot of mechanical engineering and computer science courses as well as general ed like public speaking and writing.

Cleveland High School — H.S. Diploma

September 2013 - May 2017

This is where I really developed my passion for fitness and teaching others. During my senior year, I spent most of my lunches helping my peers improve their technique and prevent injury. I mentored a Freshman CrossFit class for 4 months and then started coaching at Torque during this time. I also Completed higher level physics and calculus courses which eventually lead to my thesis; a physics research paper titled “How does 1 RM Squat Compare to Vertical Jump?” In this paper, I collected and analyzed data among novice and professional weightlifters to further explore the relationship between squat strength and vertical jump.

SKILLS

800 coaching hours.

3 years of First Aid, CPR, and

AED experience.

Understanding and love for

math, physics, and

biomechanics.

Movement and postural

analysis through an

engineering lens.

Skills in Microsoft, music

production, some coding

language, and 3d modeling

software.

ACHIEVEMENTS, EXTRA

CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES,

AND QUALIFICATIONS

Olympic Weightlifting

Ongoing Weekly Clinics

March 2019 - present

Initiated ongoing weekly

1-hour clinics to try and get

clients to better understand

these complex movements

as well as learn how to

identify and correct common

flaws going forward.

CF-L1 — Certified Level 1

CrossFit Coach

May 2017

CF-L2 — Certified Level 2

CrossFit Coach

July 2020

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