Jenny Rearick | Great Coaches are Professional Communicators

Do you fear public speaking? It may seem counterintuitive for coaches who command the weight room every day, but it’s more common than you’d think. On the floor with your athletes, you’re in your element, but shifting audiences to administrators can have you second-guessing. Honing your communication and public speaking skills shouldn’t be saved until you’re eyeing a promotion — Coaching & Presentation Skills Coach Jenny Rearick advises getting in as many early reps as possible. Combining her experience as a collegiate athlete, strength and conditioning coach, and corporate marketer, Jenny founded Fit to Speak to empower fitness professionals in the “sport” of public speaking. Discover concrete strategies like the BLUF method to make sure your key message is heard. Learn how to seek out low-risk scenarios that can transform your speaking skills from just getting by to getting ahead. Plus, don’t miss her simple mindset shift to ease pre-presentation nerves.

Connect with Jenny on Instagram at: @fit_to_speak or online at: fit-to-speak.com | Find Eric on Instagram: @ericmcmahoncscs or LinkedIn: @ericmcmahoncscs 

Check out Jenny’s episodes in the new NSCA Presenter Playbook series on NSCA TV. Ready to take the big stage? Apply online to speak at a 2025 NSCA event before the May 15 deadline.

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“Maybe a strength and conditioning coach is part of a recruiting visit for an athlete, and having to connect with a high school athlete, or their parents coming through the weight room. You're essentially having to sell that program in a different way than you would to your athletes on the day-to-day.” 9:35

“If people are going to see my body language and hear my voice in the way I'm delivering this information, that's going to impact how they perceive that information. Because if they perceive me as being grounded and competent and confident in what I'm saying, they're more likely to buy into the information I'm sharing.” 24:20

“Whenever I talk about nervousness or anxiety, I love this quote by Mark Twain. He said, "There are two types of speakers in this world, the ones that are nervous and the ones that are liars."” 28:15

“I think it can be really empowering to know – what's the most effective way to organize information so that it can be easily understood or acted on as an example. There is an acronym that they use in the military called BLUF, B-L-U-F. They follow it mostly in writing, but it applies to speaking as well. It stands for Bottom Line Up Front. Some of you might be familiar with it. Essentially, what it means is the very beginning of what you're writing or saying should be the bottom line. It should be, what is my main takeaway? What is the most important thing I need to say?” 31:45

[00:00:02.55] Welcome to the NSCA Coaching Podcast, season 8, episode 2.
[00:00:08.16] I think it can be really empowering to know what's the most effective way to organize information so that it can be easily understood or acted on as an example. There is an acronym that they use in the military called BLUF, B-L-U-F. And they follow it mostly in writing, but it applies to speaking as well. And it stands for Bottom Line Up Front. Essentially, what it means is the very beginning of what you're writing or saying should be the bottom line. It should be, what is my main takeaway? What is the most important thing I need to say?
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[00:00:57.68] This is the NSCA Coaching Podcast. I'm Eric McMahon, NSCA's coaching and sports science program manager. Beyond exercise science and technique, what does it take to be an effective coach? Today, we're learning about communication skills for coaches and are joined by Jenny Rearick, a professional communication and presentation skills coach. Jenny, welcome.
[00:01:20.00] Thanks, Eric. I'm excited to be here.
[00:01:22.52] Yeah, it's great catching up. Just caught up with you at the 2024 NSCA Coaches Conference. You gave a presentation there, and it really went well. I thought it was really exciting to see coaches engaging with these presentation and communication skills as part of your session. To kick this off, I want to ask you, what really led you down the path of being a coach for communication and public speaking?
[00:01:54.10] It's an atypical role, isn't it?
[00:01:57.19] Yes.
[00:02:00.01] I was a college athlete. So just sports in general and being in strength and conditioning has always been a part of me and my identity. But when I graduated college, I actually worked in the corporate world for about nine years in advertising. I was running project management teams. In a part of that role, I was delivering presentations and running meetings several times a day. And then at the end of that time in the corporate world, I got the chance to take a public speaking and presentation skills course, and it was being run by a professional acquaintance of mine.
[00:02:42.79] At the end of that course, which I absolutely loved, and it was surprising to me that I had not taken something like that in earlier in my career. It felt so valuable. This person said that they were looking to hire another coach to bring into their company to do corporate training.
[00:03:02.52] They knew that I did coaching in the fitness space outside of my corporate job, and they asked if it was something that I was interested in, which I was because I was in the middle of making some career moves, some personal moves, physically moving from Chicago to California. Long story short, I ended up shadowing them for a little bit, absolutely loved it, decided to make a career change. I joined their company, and then, from 2017 on, full-time, I both created and then delivered and facilitated business communication skills trainings.
[00:03:42.00] And then, in 2020, when COVID hit, I found myself with some time. And I realized that I wanted to start sharing more of what I knew with coaches and fitness, sports, and health practitioners because that's an industry that I continue to be involved in, my husband is involved in, and I saw that there was a gap in that a lot of these technical skills that I was teaching in the corporate environment weren't being taught in our space or not in a way that I felt was as effective as it could be. And I started this company Fit To Speak, which is what I know you through. And that's how I got to where I am today-- a little bit of a windy road.
[00:04:27.93] It's really interesting to hear that you found a void in the field of strength and conditioning and exercise science. And one thing that when you were sharing that came to mind is that early days of coaching, a lot of coaches came from physical education backgrounds and were really good at instructional technique, even if the strength and conditioning science wasn't really there. Well, today, it might be the opposite, where we get a really strong scientific foundation, but we haven't had as many repetitions of drilling instructional practices of coaching athletes and watching and listening to yourself and how you deliver a message effectively. So there really is that need right now in the field.
[00:05:20.11] And I know you're on social media, and I see this a lot-- coaches are really craving this type of content right now. It's communication, and some of that does connect to where you came from on the business side. The business communication world is making its way into coaching. You see that with the analytics conversations and all these different areas. We're starting to see some connection points. And I can think, just from getting up in front of a group and leading a dynamic warmup, well, you're public speaking when you're doing that. Or one-on-one in a crowded gym, but you're one-on-one with a client. Well, that's also another form of public speaking, or giving a presentation, or doing this podcast.
[00:06:02.65] So for you, when you're working with coaches, and they say, hey, I want to be a better communicator or a better speaker, what does that actually mean to do that?
[00:06:15.75] That's a big question. And it's what a lot of people come to me and they ask. We'll have a call, and they'll say, I want to be a better communicator. And communication is such a big umbrella that-- and there are so many-- I always tell people. I said, there are so many free resources out there. I can give you countless books to read, YouTube videos to watch.
[00:06:44.44] Really, it's a matter of we need to be better about being reflective on what our communication looks like for our specific role and wherever we're at in our career and begin to identify what are all of the touch points in which I need to have these speaking skills or I need to have skills that force me to organize my information and then frame it a certain way to deliver to these different types of people across any formality.
[00:07:18.08] And so often, I find myself on calls with coaches who are wanting to improve their communication skills. Really starting there is saying, tell me about what a day in your life looks like. Who are you interacting with? What style of communication are you using with each of those people or those groups of people? At what times do you leave interactions and question your effectiveness? At what times do you leave interactions and feel really confident?
[00:07:48.07] And you begin to find-- and they begin to realize-- that there are all these different identities they have to take on as a communicator in their role. There are certain identities that they're already very strong at and they feel most comfortable in. And then there are certain identities where it feels counter to who they are. And we realize that those are the areas we really need to focus on in terms of improving skills.
[00:08:15.37] To make this more tangible, imagine you're a strength coach. Most strength coaches are going to feel most comfortable and confident working with their teams or their groups of athletes. But then maybe they're asked to lead a meeting with some of the school administration or give a presentation to the school administration at the start of the season.
[00:08:37.71] Then, all of a sudden, even though they're talking about something they feel confident in, they don't feel comfortable or confident executing in that specific scenario. And once the coach-- or I've helped the coach identify those scenarios, now, all of a sudden, we have areas that we know, OK, we can improve in this specific area and we can target specific skills to work on related to those scenarios.
[00:09:06.74] I liked how you focused on the coach is going to be effective at communicating well with athletes. But there's sort of a continuum that happens there then-- with sport coaches as well. And we've, for years in strength and conditioning-- how do we communicate effectively with our head coach, with our sport coach. Those can be more challenging conversations with our athletic trainers.
[00:09:32.18] And we do that sort of part of our jobs. But there's other layers too, where maybe a strength and conditioning coach is part of a recruiting visit for an athlete, and having to connect with a high school athlete, or their parents coming through the weight room. And you're essentially having to sell that program in a different way than you would to your athletes on the day-to-day. Administrators-- that's a big one.
[00:10:00.08] Do you feel like these skills allow for strength and conditioning coaches who may be early in their career-- hey, I just want to be on the floor. I just want to coach and be on the rack. But later in their careers, they maybe are seeking leadership positions within the field or moving up the ranks to be more of that administrator. Do you feel like this is why coaches should engage with public speaking?
[00:10:28.10] Yeah, often, this started-- I first noticed this in the corporate space. And it holds true, then, in our industry as well as, often, we get by with the skills we have for quite a while. But then, at some point, when we want to make some type of career move or we want to be promoted or move into a new position where we're at, often, then, our skills go under scrutiny a bit.
[00:10:57.14] And that's when people begin to hear feedback where they can improve in their communication. And what's interesting is they probably-- most people, I found, have never, never get feedback before that point. And so, all of a sudden, it feels like, well, are these skills really only valuable as we move into more leadership type or senior-level positions? But they're not.
[00:11:18.59] And what I find interesting is that these skills-- the longer we can develop these skills, if we can start this development early in our careers, the more reps we're going to accumulate as we move toward more senior-level positions. And then we'll probably see a faster transition into leadership positions or having an easier time navigating being promoted because then we're not having to stop at the stoplight and, all of a sudden, develop this whole skill set that we could have had the time to develop over the course of the beginning of our careers.
[00:11:59.00] So even though I think we tend to focus feedback on these skills as we get further into our careers, they're skills that are present throughout the entirety of them. We just choose not to focus on them until later on when they're maybe more visible to those people that are responsible for assessing our performance or deciding whether or not we advance in our career.
[00:12:24.07] Yeah, these skills allow us to move from getting by to getting ahead. It's a new skill set, but it also refreshes our current skill set in a way that we can communicate things more effectively. That allows for professional advancement in different areas or maybe a jump to a different area of the strength and conditioning or, sometimes, other careers, as we see. I think it's really interesting.
[00:12:52.87] At coaches conference--
[00:12:54.38] May I add something here?
[00:12:55.78] Absolutely, go on.
[00:12:57.05] Do you mind if-- OK, I was just going to say, too, is when we're employed, we are a representative of the organization or the team that we're employed with. And as we advance in our career, communication skills become more important because we just-- usually, we get more visibility to partners of that organization.
[00:13:22.96] And because now we're all of a sudden visible, I think that's when communication, speaking, presentation skills become more important for these organizations to develop within us because they now know, OK, you're going to have more visibility outside of this organization, and you're representing our organization. There are certain criteria that we want you to meet to know that, when you're out there, you're presenting yourself as well-spoken, clear, articulate. You understand how to get our vision across. You understand the tone we want to deliver our message in based on our mission statement, our values.
[00:14:01.64] And again, I just think it-- if you can find a way, whether you manage people now or you are responsible for the development of a team, how can you get more of these skills to begin being groomed earlier on because now you're just giving people more quality reps to practice them in low-risk scenarios. Because, as you know, when we advance in our careers, some of these speaking opportunities are more high-risk because they have maybe donors on the line. They have recruiting on the line for big players. And there's just a smaller margin of error there, whereas the margin of error is usually bigger earlier on in our career.
[00:14:44.14] What advice do you have for coaches who maybe want to seek out some of these low-risk scenarios where they can get practice on their public speaking or putting things out there in a little more comfortable arena?
[00:14:57.15] Yeah, most often that means that you're looking for opportunities to speak up either in front of a group of people that you are comfortable with or in a scenario that you feel comfortable in. So, as an example, if I'm a support staff, and let's say I'm an assistant strength and conditioning coach, and I have a head coach. If I notice that we have a weekly staff meeting, I might ask, are there any opportunities for me to prepare and contribute something to the staff meeting next week? There's very little risk there.
[00:15:38.34] Yes, I'm probably going to feel a lot of anxiety around doing that since I haven't done it before. But when you think about the long game here, the worst thing that's going to happen is that I'm not going to sound as good as I want to sound. I might be a little bit embarrassed. I might sound nervous. But I'm not going to get fired for that. This is a staff meeting. I'm just simply looking for opportunities to get myself some reps.
[00:16:03.06] And then, on the other side of that, I do think, if you're managing people, it's also your responsibility to look for ways to get those lower-level positions, the reps, to be speaking up and to have to articulate what's in their head in words out in front of a group of people that they admire and respect. And if that means that you have a rotate-- maybe, once a month, everyone's responsible for delivering a 20-minute presentation on something they're interested in or they're currently learning about. You're just getting people reps. And exposure is so important early on.
[00:16:40.55] And then I think the technical aspect of speaking and presenting and message organization becomes more important once you've got a little bit of exposure to work from.
[00:16:51.37] Yeah, Jon Jost cohosts this podcast with me sometimes. And one thing he did-- I remember this-- he was the director of strength and conditioning at Florida State for a long time. And at NSCA events, he would bring his entire staff there, and they would present together. And so you'd have him, an experienced leader in the field, some of his senior assistants. But then you'd have some of the GAs and junior assistants getting repetitions, getting up there, sharing. It usually wasn't the biggest room at the event, but it was an opportunity to share a few slides for that young presenter.
[00:17:30.85] And we've actually seen some of those coaches go on to taking on the session one, the big room at Coaches Conference years later. And that's really rewarding for them. It's really exciting for the NSCA to see that pipeline that gets created of getting those early exposure opportunities, putting yourself out there, getting out of your comfort zone a little bit, and then learning different ways, acquiring the skills to make that more of a comfort zone for you. That's one thing I love about working at the NSCA. It's great to be able to connect with people, but also bring people into the fold that can have an impact on so many others.
[00:18:16.49] And at the Coaches Conference, you presented. You had a session. But behind the scenes, you were also recording some sessions for us. And these were resources for our speakers. We don't want to bring in people who have a topic but don't have an opportunity to develop the skills to be great presenters and delivering those topics. And so please tell us about the sessions you helped us create that we're going to put out there to the NSCA community and also all the future presenters we have.
[00:18:50.14] Yeah, it was a really neat opportunity and a lot of fun to put some training content together. I worked with Scott Douglas, and we landed on three different topics that we developed, some from my world, short training content around-- one was specifically about principles on how to organize information in a way that makes it easy for people to follow along with and act on, and then some information on putting that information into visual form. If you're using slides, how to do that in a way that keeps the spotlight on you as the presenter or the information sharer, but then gives a clean visual aid to the people that are in your audience. That was the first piece of content was around message organization and then the visual design of a presentation.
[00:19:49.13] The second was about presentation delivery. We touched on basic speaking skills for how to be effective when you're speaking to the audience, and then how to layer those skills in while you're also presenting from slides, which adds a whole other component to it.
[00:20:07.48] And then the third, which was a lot of fun, was we created content around how to be effective in facilitating a hands-on session. Hands-on sessions, I think, come most natural to a lot of coaches. But then when you think about, OK, not only am I running a hands-on session, I also have to build in some lecture into this and achieve learning objectives, it muddies it a little bit. And I think some of us can lose confidence when we think about how do I marry my natural coaching abilities but also make sure that the people attending my hands-on leave having learned something that aligns with the learning objectives.
[00:20:47.77] And so those are the three trainings that we put together, and all of them are under 40 minutes. I think the facilitation, the hands-on one, is 40 minutes. So they're really quick, but they're full of really incredibly helpful and practical information that anyone who, whether you're speaking at the NSCA event or you're just speaking in general, can use.
[00:21:15.22] Hands-on sessions-- you keyed in on that. And so I just had the opportunity to watch all these videos after the fact. I was running around at Coaches Conference while you were recording these, so I couldn't experience them firsthand. But having watched them, I liked how you were able to actually pull up some session content from previous NSCA events and really give some positive critiques and best practices with a visual example.
[00:21:44.72] And I was actually talking to Ryan Metzger right before we got on here, and I know you used some of her session for delivering those videos. And I think it's really great, just the community we have and the ability to feed off each other and take sessions from a year or two ago and build those forward into new content. The videos are available on NSCA TV for our listeners here today. And I'm going to put those in the show notes for everybody.
[00:22:15.64] But this episode is coming about the time when, every year on May 15, we have a speaker deadline to submit presentations for the following year. That deadline gets-- you talked about getting muddied. It gets muddied sometimes because we have so many events we have to fill throughout the year from Coaches Conference, National, Tactical, Personal Training. All those events need top-level speakers and content.
[00:22:44.36] And so one of the goals with this is to get out in front of that. And when you submit a topic to present, we're not just giving you a speaker contract and say, OK, we'll see you at the event, send us your slides. We're giving you more than that to build your session on. And it goes to what we really believe. We're trying to develop education and quality content to take the strength and conditioning field forward.
[00:23:09.65] And what you're saying, Jenny, I really, really love the message of being an effective communicator for coaches at various levels. It means a lot to me. I mean, I got thrust into this job from coaching on the floor to being a podcast host. Who would have thought? But it's something that we all find ourselves in different scenarios than maybe we expected. And I actually see a lot of these skills being delivered on social media pretty regularly with coaches and programs. Do you think this is something that maybe social media is a skill now that coaches need to be more aware of?
[00:23:48.41] Yeah, I mean, I think any time when you are getting on video or even writing a caption that's longer than a sentence, all of those are built on some foundational communication principles about organizing information in a logical way, thinking about how do I frame this information through the lens of what makes it important to the people that are going to be receiving it, even if that's different than why it's important to me as the one delivering it.
[00:24:20.67] If people are going to see my body language and hear my voice in the way I'm delivering this information, that's going to impact how they perceive that information. Because if they perceive me as being grounded and competent and confident in what I'm saying, they're more likely to buy into the information I'm sharing.
[00:24:44.13] I mean, I could be the smartest person in the room and have all this research-backed information to share. But if the way I deliver it is off putting or it doesn't follow a flow, that's easy for my audience to receive or it's not framed in a way that tells them exactly how they can either use this practically in their lives or how it can impact their identity as a coach, that's going to be a huge miss.
[00:25:13.65] I think we put so much effort into expanding our knowledge base intellectually. Why are we not putting in as much effort, then, understanding how do I take this well-earned knowledge and learn how to deliver it in a way that's going to mean something to each of these very unique audiences that I'm speaking to? Because that in itself is a skill.
[00:25:41.09] I personally like to think of communication as my professional sport. I say that a lot in my social media, and I think that's something those of you listening to this episode can identify with. There are aspects of communication that are technical. There are aspects of communication that are based on feel. And it's a lot of fun to get yourself in a head space where you think, I can actively and intentionally practice certain things with my communication. I can then spend time reflecting on that and refining that. And it becomes this long journey of mastering these communication skills.
[00:26:22.71] So 100% with social media, in both writing and video and the way you're framing that information, it's all so important, and it will absolutely impact the success that you have professionally.
[00:26:40.83] Public speaking is one of probably the most feared things out there for a lot of people. I know, in the workplace, we learned this during COVID when we were all putting on our screens and we're on Zoom calls, and you just see different behaviors across with people's comfort level of should I turn my camera on or muting my microphone or speaking up in certain situations.
[00:27:12.23] So the arena that we speak in really does change how maybe the emotional side or our nerves about that. But one thing-- I saw you put this on social media, and it really helped me a lot, so I want to share it with our listeners today was prepare what you want to say and know what you want to say, but not necessarily how you're going to deliver it and say it. And what I took from that there's a lot of ways to deliver a message. There's no one right way. And if you don't do it perfectly this way the first time, then you're wrong and you're off track and you can never get back.
[00:27:53.39] And I think that's something that I've learned just from seeing what you put out there and listening to you present on these topics. Do you have any advice for other folks that maybe they're just really nervous about public speaking, this is a really fearful area for them-- how do they get past those initial feelings?
[00:28:14.14] Whenever I talk about nervousness or anxiety, I love this quote by Mark Twain. He said, "There are two types of speakers in this world, the ones that are nervous and the ones that are liars."
[00:28:29.98] Being nervous is always going to be present. I do this for a living, and I still get nervous. I do think-- and a frame of mind that I find really helpful and a lot of the clients I work with find helpful is when you feel nervous, often, it's because we are internally focused on our experience as the one sharing information. And the best and easiest way to overcome our nerves is instead to take that focus and focus outward on how do I create a great experience for the people that are receiving me and my information right now. And you take on that role of being almost a host.
[00:29:11.76] If I become obsessed with the experience my listeners are having as they listen to me, you're not even thinking about your nerves because you're just looking for ways to frame your information in a way that makes it easy to receive. You're looking for ways to say your information clearly and in a tone that's going to be really receptive for your listeners. You're just trying to create a great experience. It's pretty high level, but I do think just a simple mindset shift of anytime you find yourself nervous, you'll notice that your self-talk is very internally focused. It's what if I mess up, I feel nervous, my voice is going to be shaky. They're not going to what I have to say. The common theme in that is "I." It's all focused internally.
[00:30:04.09] But instead, if you're projecting out and you say, how do I need to say this so that they're excited about it-- as excited as I am about this? You're just thinking, how do I create a great listening experience for these people? And often, you will just naturally do things that make you an effective speaker without having to go through a checklist of technical skills that you're trying to exhibit.
[00:30:31.39] Yeah, finding your cues that allow you to be able to connect in a given scenario, situation, conversation, or presentation-- I think that focusing outward on who's receiving the information, that's great advice.
[00:30:50.89] A lot of what we've been talking about is prepared content or prepared presentations, where I know I'm going to be giving this session or I know we're going to be on this podcast together. What advice do you have for listeners who may be in a hallway conversation or get in just a random or impromptu situation, where they actually have to deliver good information quality? How would you approach that?
[00:31:21.48] The most helpful thing you can learn to feel confident in those situations is message structuring. Because if you understand how to scaffold information so that it follows logic, then all you have to do is figure out what you want to populate into that scaffolding. I think it can be really empowering to know what's the most effective way to organize information so that it can be easily understood or acted on as an example.
[00:31:54.36] There is an acronym that they use in the military called BLUF, B-L-U-F. And they follow it mostly in writing, but it applies to speaking as well. And it stands for Bottom Line Up Front. Some of you might be familiar with it. Essentially, what it means is the very beginning of what you're writing or saying should be the bottom line. It should be, what is my main takeaway? What is the most important thing I need to say?
[00:32:23.76] Often, when you're even in just casual conversations or someone asks you, hey, can you give me an update on this, the very first thing that you should say is your bottom line. What is the takehome message of what you're trying to get across? If you give that, and then, all of a sudden, they get a phone call and they say, you know what, I actually don't have any more time, I got to go, you can at least know that they've left and they've gotten the most important information.
[00:32:50.00] From there, the next thing you want to think about are what are some-- usually, I say between 1 and 3 supporting points that support that main message you just shared.
[00:33:02.82] Giving them the why, essentially.
[00:33:05.21] Yes.
[00:33:06.06] I know athletes would appreciate this too. When you have them on the line and you're saying-- if you at least start with, hey, we're going to do a different warm up today, this is what it is, before you just run them out there and start getting different drills and they're out-- they don't know what you're going to say next. And so getting that message out there in front is extremely valuable.
[00:33:30.06] Coaches probably do this in a lot of ways in different areas of their coaching, but how do you scale that and take it to other areas of when you're sharing information. You gave a lot of really good points and takeaways for listeners today-- setting your context, information structuring. A lot of these points are covered in the videos that we're going to have connected with this episode on NSCA TV. So members will have access to that, future presenters for the NSCA.
[00:34:00.56] If you think you might one day want to present for the NSCA or any other organization, this information is going to be really valuable for you. Like Jenny said, these are short sessions, but they're packed with information for our listeners. If they want to reach out to you, what's the best way for them to do that?
[00:34:22.94] Yeah, my website is the best way. I recently decided to stop posting on Instagram and more so focused on some long-form content. But my website is Fit, F-I-T, hyphen, To, T-O, hyphen, Speak.com My contact info is on there, and anyone-- I'm on the phone multiple times a week with people, whether we're going to work together or not. So if you just like what we talked about on this podcast and you want to talk more about it, I'm always open to just chatting on the phone, so email me.
[00:34:59.28] Thank you. That was Jenny Rearick everyone. If you missed her at the 2024 Coaches Conference, there's going to be a lot of content on NSCA TV about how to become a better public speaker and presenter in your next speaking engagement or just every day with your athletes. So we hope you enjoyed this episode, and special thanks to Sorinex Exercise Equipment. We appreciate their support.
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