{"id":13154,"date":"2025-04-28T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T08:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/?p=13154"},"modified":"2025-04-29T12:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:55:11","slug":"peter-twist-on-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/peter-twist-on-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Twist on coaching outside the mainstream for health, movement and happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Peter Twist on coaching professional team sports &#8211; <\/span><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">JP explores training movement for happiness <\/span><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">in this FitPro webcast<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Another industry giant, Peter Twist, is the guest in this interview with JP. As a global influencer before social media even existed, and still in 2025, JP explores Peter\u2019s journey through our industry from athlete, to student, to coaching professional team sports, having training facilities across Canada, creating a physical product line, advising the Olympic training approach for both winter and summer programs for the Chinese team, writing books, courses and so much more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\"> Alongside this, JP and Peter talk about how high performance is so much more than physical training \u2013 covering brain, beliefs, attitudes, environment and philosophy. If you love understanding what it is to be human, training movement not muscles, and creating health and happiness, then you\u2019re in for a treat!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Getting Twisted \u2013 stepping outside the mainstream for health, movement and happiness\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/St-pO8--kpM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13179\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13179\" class=\"wp-image-13179 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/author-blog-size-3-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/author-blog-size-3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/author-blog-size-3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/author-blog-size-3-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/author-blog-size-3-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/author-blog-size-3-140x140.png 140w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/author-blog-size-3-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/author-blog-size-3-350x350.png 350w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/author-blog-size-3.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Twist<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Sport scientist, author, CEO. Peter Twist coached 11 years in NHL, Operated 12 Training Centers in 4 countries, TWIST Conditioning developed 20,000 college &amp; high school athletes, 2,000 pro &amp; Olympic athletes, including 5 major league MVPs. He also led modernization of training for China Olympic Program. Peter shifted the fitness and sport industries\u2019 training paradigms when he introduced the world&#8217;s first 3 Functional Training certification courses. He has authored 22 certification courses, built <a href=\"https:\/\/twistuniversity.inspire360.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TWIST education<\/a> and a product business to 330 global distributors. He\u2019s also Under Armour&#8217;s selected Global Education Partner and brought IDEA World to Shanghai China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Incredibly, he has delivered 1,500 lectures, authored 20 books, 44 DVDs, was the recipient NSCA President&#8217;s Award, IDEA Programmer of Year &amp; Inspiration Awards, China&#8217;s Most Inspiring in Fitness Award, CFP Presenter of the Year Award. Peter is a stage 4 cancer &amp; stroke thriver inspiring keynotes speeches on Champion Mindset. In his spare time he enjoys hiking &amp; skiing the mountains &amp; rainforest on the west coast of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Watch another in JP&#8217;s series of interviews with global influencers in the fitness industry, this one with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/animal-flow-founder-karen-mahar\/\">Karen Mahar, co-founder of Animal Flow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Twist on coaching professional team sports &#8211; JP explores training movement for happiness in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,3074],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athlete-interview","8":"category-webcast"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13154"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13180,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13154\/revisions\/13180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}