Kari Schneider

As one of the top Strength and Conditioning coaches in Canada, Kari Schneider, is the specialist that can get you to your goals. She has helped to bring high performance athletes to the Olympics, injured athletes back stronger than ever and private clients to abilities they never knew they had!

Kari Schneider is the owner and founder of Empower Conditioning (founded in 2005). She is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and ConditioningAssociation, a Certified Exercise Physiologist through the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology, aFirst Responder and a Technical Level II Olympic Lifting Coach. Kari also certified as an Athletic Therapist through the Canadian Athletic Therapy Association in 2001 and completed her Master’s of Science degree in Kinesiology in 2008.

She has rehabilitated many chronic back pain patients and clients with sports injuries,has presented research abstracts at multiple National and International conferences, taught University courses and has presented for multiple sport groups and private clients.
Kari was the Manager of Strength and Conditioning for the Canadian Sport Centre Manitoba from 2001-2006 and trained multiple National, professional and Olympic level athletes. Kari was the Strength Coach for the Men’s and Women’s National Volleyball Teams (for 8 years), The Manitoba National Triathlon Centre (for 9 years) and other National and Pro-level athletes (including National Training Centre Soccer, pro football athletes, Paralympic Tennis, National Arial Ski, and many more). She was the Manitoba Provincial Director for the National Strength and Conditioning Association for 5years and recently returned from living and working in Izmir, Turkey. Kari consulted there as an exercise physiologist for her husband’s professional volleyball team- Arkas Volleyball. She considers her success to be measured by the success and goals attained by her athletes and clients.

Kari loves spending time with her family (husband, 2 daughters and 3 stepsons) and two dogs.She enjoys coaching, running, Olympic-lifting, hiking, climbing, weight training, snowboarding, skateskiing and motivating and educating people through presentations and seminars. She believes in continual learning and improvement and runs her company accordingly! www.karischneider.com