My Journey
I’ve always been drawn to helping, teaching, and developing others, which naturally led me into coaching and performance.
I earned my B.S. in Kinesiology from the University of Maryland and continued developing through the CSCS, USA Weightlifting, Barbell Rehab, USA Boxing, TPI, and Golf Digest education. Coaching across multiple sports, working with Keiser technology, and competing in Olympic weightlifting gave me different perspectives on how performance is built, expressed, and restored over time.
A significant low-back injury that kept me out of competition for three years further shaped my interest in durability, repeatability, and re-attaining previously developed performance.
Over time, those experiences converged into Evans Velo Zone™ and one central question:
How is performance retained, transferred, developed, and re-attained over time?
How EVZ Was Built
EVZ™ was shaped through years of coaching, competition, continuing education, and performance technology use.
I did not set out to create another performance metric. I was trying to make sense of patterns I kept seeing in practice, athletes who could produce impressive outputs, but whose performance changed as demands changed.
My experience in Olympic weightlifting exposed me directly to longitudinal strength-and-power development and to how performance is built, progressed, reduced, and restored across training cycles. Coaching athletes across multiple sports added another layer of context.
EVZ became my way of organizing those observations and experiences into a structured developmental framework that could be used, tested, and refined over time.
Applied practitioner experience, translated into a structured system for athlete development.
