M.S. Kinesiology · CSCS
The programming at Loenhart Health is built on graduate-level exercise science and ten years of applied coaching across professional sport, amateur competition, youth development, and general-population health. The result is a system grounded in evidence and tested across the widest possible range of human needs.
Matt also competed for the University of Toronto Varsity Blues in football (offensive line) and track and field (throws), and was a two-time U SPORTS Academic All-Canadian.
The difference between a credential that matters and one that does not is what it required to earn. Both of these required demonstrating mastery of the science and application of human performance.
Degree
Graduate-level study of human movement: biomechanics, exercise physiology, motor learning, and the science of how the body adapts to training. This is the academic foundation that separates evidence-based programming from guesswork.
Certification
The CSCS is issued by the National Strength and Conditioning Association and is widely regarded as the gold standard in strength and conditioning. It requires a university degree, a rigorous two-part examination (scientific foundations + practical application), and ongoing continuing education. It signals a demonstrated ability to design, implement, and evaluate programming across populations.
The same question runs through all of it: what is actually happening to this athlete, and what should the training do about it? Answering that at the professional level means measurement — GPS and accelerometer load, jump testing, motion capture, movement screening — and then programming that responds to what the numbers say. Lucky Health is that loop, scaled to one person and delivered remotely.
Toronto Argonauts Football Club
Canadian Football League
Builds the collection and analysis pipelines behind GPS and accelerometer monitoring for a professional football roster, including automated processing for injury surveillance and an intelligence layer that interprets athlete data during the training week.
University of Toronto — Varsity Blues Preseason Evaluation
U SPORTS varsity athletics
Designed a preseason testing battery combining jump testing, movement screening, and biomechanical analysis, and implemented a multi-camera markerless motion capture system to measure how varsity athletes actually move rather than how they are assumed to.
KX Yorkville
High-performance training facility
Delivered individual strength and conditioning programming for high-performing professionals and athletes, and managed and mentored a team of ten coaches to a consistent training standard.
University of Toronto — Fitness & Performance
Varsity and general population
Delivered strength programming for varsity athletes and general-population clients, and was head strength coach for track and field — the one group he led outright. Also led development of the institutional exercise training library used by athletes and coaches.
The Barn Elite Performance Centre
Private performance facility
Directed training for professional athletes from the CFL, NHL, and NLL, alongside youth and collegiate athletes working toward the same standards.
Coaching breadth matters because the principles of strength and conditioning are universal, but their application is not. Having worked across every level and age group means the programming at Loenhart Health reflects a genuinely wide evidence base — not a specialty in one narrow context.
Professional athletes
High-level sport demands precise load management, injury-prevention programming, and the ability to read an athlete's readiness in real time. Working at this level builds the instincts that carry down to every other population.
Amateur and youth athletes
Developmental programming requires patience, long-term thinking, and the ability to match load and intensity to a body that is still growing. It also demands clear communication with athletes, parents, and sport coaches.
General population — across the lifespan
From deconditioned adults beginning their first consistent routine to older adults training for independence and longevity, general-population coaching is where evidence meets real life. This is where most programming falls apart — and where the difference between knowing the science and applying it is most visible.
Strength and hypertrophy clients
Strength and hypertrophy programming runs through every group above, from professional rosters to someone training three days a week. The principles hold — enough hard work, progressed over time — while the dose, the exercises, and the schedule change with the person.
Athletes and clients returning from injury
Coming back from an injury or a concussion is its own phase of training. It starts once a clinician has cleared the person to load, and it moves forward in steps that are tested rather than assumed, with the clinician still making the clinical calls.
Adults on GLP-1 medications
GLP-1 medications suppress appetite aggressively. Without deliberate programming and protein targeting, that appetite suppression accelerates muscle loss alongside fat loss. This population needs a coach who understands both the pharmacology and the exercise science — and can use objective data like DEXA body composition scans to track what is actually changing.
Applied sport science sits underneath all three: measure what is happening, program in response, and check whether it worked.
Strength and hypertrophy programming is the common thread across every population Matt has coached — CFL, NHL, and NLL athletes, varsity and youth athletes, and general-population clients. The goal changes with the person; the principles do not.
Getting back to full training after an injury or a concussion is its own phase of programming. It begins after clinical clearance, and the aim is a return to full training that rests on testing rather than on guesswork.
The single most common clinical error for adults on GLP-1 medications is losing significant lean mass alongside fat. The medications work — but they do not protect muscle. That requires exercise programming and nutrition discipline that most general fitness guidance is not designed to provide.
Alongside the coaching, Matt builds the tools that make measurement practical: testing batteries, motion capture, data pipelines, and app-delivered exercise protocols. The reason is the same one behind the programming — a training decision is only as good as the information underneath it.
Research · Preprint, accepted
Research on whether a structured exercise protocol for concussion rehabilitation can be delivered through a mobile app, so the work can reach people outside a clinic. Accepted as a preprint on JMIR Preprints.
Build · Testing
Jump testing (countermovement and drop jump), movement screening, and strength and performance testing, put together as one battery. Repeating the same tests is what turns a single result into a trend that training decisions can rest on.
Build · Biomechanics
A multi-camera markerless system using Theia3D and Visual3D, built to measure how athletes actually move — without fitting markers to them — rather than how they are assumed to move.
Build · Data
Pipelines in Python and R that collect and process athlete data for injury surveillance and monitoring.
Build · Delivery
Exercise delivery protocols written for a mobile app, developed from the concussion research.
Certificate
Completed 2023–2024, alongside the M.S. Kinesiology. It is the formal grounding behind the data side of the work: the pipelines, the monitoring, and the analysis that feeds the programming.
Good programming is not complicated. It is grounded in the science of how humans adapt to training, honest about what is and is not within the scope of exercise coaching, and designed to survive real life.
Scope
Loenhart Health provides exercise programming, strength and conditioning coaching, and health education. This is not medical care, diagnosis, or treatment. Clinical decisions — medication, lab ordering, treatment of injury or disease — stay with the appropriate licensed clinician.
Work with Matt
Lucky Health is the fastest way to get coach-built programming without an ongoing commitment. The intake captures what matters — goals, context, equipment, constraints — and the program is delivered within seven days.
