In the fall of 2020, I was looking for a strength and conditioning solution to help my team. I wanted a solution that could help me with workouts in the fall offseason, winter break, and maintenance for our  spring regular season. It was important that these programs worked seamlessly so that we were not stuck teaching and re-teaching concepts to our athletes. As a seasoned coach, like myself, Coach Mike was a professional when it came to planning our program. We scheduled an initial 45-minute meeting to determine what my top needs were with the plan. He came prepared with great questions and listened closely to my challenges. His initial feedback was principle based and easy to understand. He doesn't complicate his presentations with over-scientific jargon; he speaks at a level that is easy to understand.
Coach Mike's service for our team has been impressive. He has designed programs for each one of our seasons and has met with our athletes in team meetings and answered questions. He has committed to meeting with my players via Zoom over Winter Break to pinpoint challenges and find solutions. As a small college head coach who wears many hats, Coach Mike gets me and brings ideas for increasing athleticism, maintaining motivation, and even fundraising for my team! If you are a small school coach and you have the challenges of limited resources, like myself, I would highly recommend hiring Coach Mike. He has made the task of increasing our athleticism easy for me. His system is easily teachable and he provides great tools to teach my athletes and myself. As a consistent learner himself, he is always looking for feedback to help The Forge get better. He is flexible with his price points and payment plans to help all kinds of budgets. We are looking at having him come on-site during the spring semester and also help with camps in the summer.

Working with Coach Wilson and The Forge was awesome! I've known Coach Mike for over 5 years as a college coach and a private strength professional. He has helped both teams AND individual athletes at Fall River level up their performances. Coach Mike came down and helped our entire athletic department during our summer strength and speed workout sessions. He walked our groups through his movement and mobility teaching progressions. He also worked with individual athletes who had specific movement challenges. In addition, he helped put our volleyball athletes through a movement session where they focused on how to move properly and build strength to prevent ACL injuries. Coach Mike has written programs for our in-season football strength and conditioning. He has also held several Speed Clinics, that double as fund raisers, to help our athletes get faster. Our athletes and families have experienced instant positive results from working with Coach Mike. If you have an athlete for whom you want personalized training, there is not a better strength coach to go to! He has helped our athletes with remote personal training plans that include weekly workouts, eating plans, video feedback, and video conferencing! If you are looking for your athlete to get that extra push they need to succeed, Coach Mike is the man with the plan!
The best part about Coach Mike is his ability to work with what you have. He always strives to meet his teams and athletes where they are at. With all the concerns about COVID-19, Coach Mike understands the current constraints and can still work with your athletes from an onsite or remote perspective to make them better. Reach out to him and see if he can help, you won't regret it.

I've known Coach Michael Wilson for a few years now and he has been very helpful for me as I have been working with strength and conditioning. I reached out for some strength and conditioning thoughts from Coach Wilson and he has helped answer a plethora of questions that I had. Coach Wilson will bend over backwards for you and I would promote what he does to anyone!!

Coach Wilson is an extremely knowledgeable coach who is extremely passionate About strength and conditioning. He walked me through strength programming for almost 2 hours when the original meeting was only scheduled for 45 minutes. I am extremely thankful for what he taught me and his willingness to work with me.