Episode #082: Kyle Casillas

Kyle Casillas is the Lead Strength & Conditioning Specialist at Sanford Sports in Grand Forks, ND. He has served in this capacity since the summer of 2021 after a brief stint as a performance coach with Future. Casillas spent nine years in the United States Marine Corps, finishing off his last contract as an Infantry Platoon Sergeant. During that time he was able to intern with the University of Hawaii’s strength and conditioning department from 2015-2016 before serving in a self-employed coaching role and later working in hospital and health systems as a human performance specialist at Altru Health System powered by EXOS from 2019-2021. He has worked in other capacities involved with the military such as Purchasing Agent for Defense Logistics Agency in Joint Base Pearl Harbor from 2018-2019, but now finds himself full-time invested in strength and conditioning. 

Casillas continues to train and has channeled and utilized his military experience and his passion for weightlifting into the athletes he works with on a daily basis. He is still an avid lifter, a military dependent, and farther of 3 daughters that keep him very busy.