Founder: SURGE Strength
SURGE Strength was founded with Chris Ritter's years of experience as both a swim coach and performance coach starting in 2004. This coaching blend has given him a unique perspective on both the wet and the dry side of training for swimmers. His coaching experience includes working with Olympic Gold Medalists Cullen Jones and Mark Gangloff; as well as athletes from 8 years old to swimmers still going in their 70’s and 80’s. Chris has earned numerous strength and conditioning certifications, including: CSCS, NASM-PES, USAW and NASM-CPT. He also has a degree in Physical Education and Kinesiology, with an emphasis in Exercise Science.
Chris’s passion for dryland drove him to craft and hone programs that launched swimmers to another level of performance. His background in strength training combined with his passion for both coaching and competing in the sport of swimming has generated a brand unlike any other in the world of swimming: SURGE Strength.
Through continuous improvement in both methodology and delivery, SURGE Strength has delivered dryland and strength training programs, via app, to over 1,000 athletes worldwide, logging over 20,000 workouts.
More recently Chris and his team have created the first and only certification specifically for dryland training for swimmers, the SURGE Strength Dryland Certification. In about a year’s time they have already seen coaches from over 30 countries around the world become SURGE Strength Dryland Certified (SSDC).
The goal of SURGE Strength is simple:
Build Better Athletes to Generate Faster Swimmers.
