IVAN ARENAS

Founded Arenas Sports Performance LLC to provide personalized, sport-specific strength and conditioning programs tailored to youth, collegiate, and professional athletes.

The business encompasses off-season and in-season training, focusing on developing strength, power, speed, agility, and recovery strategies through customized programming. Responsibilities include brand development, marketing, scheduling, transactions, and client relations.

This position involves working with Paris Saint-Germain Academy's Pro Academy Residency Program training large groups (15+) of soccer players focused on speed/agility development. injury prevention, soccer specific movements, and recovery methods.

The Pro Academy Residency Program involves training kids from all over the world including Japan, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and Argentina. Being fluent in Spanish and English helped me translate for players, coaches, and parents when needed.

This position included wearing many hats such as running performance training sessions, technical soccer sessions, creating social media content, and customer service with parents and players.

I have worked at this job since 2020 and have grown as a coach having ran on average about 10-12 sessions weekly. Gaining experience on how to effectively communicate with athletes to maximize their development over the span of each training session.

This internship involved assisting high-level trainers DeAnthony Williams (University of Miami M.S.Ed - CSCS) and Casey Schwarz (CSCS) with training NBA/NFL/Collegiate level athletes.

During this internship I also assisted with social media content creation aimed towards marketing the business. This included creating photography, videography, flyers, pamphlets, business cards.

This internship led to a part-time position running HS and general population strength training sessions.

• Improved player behavior through modeling and disciplinary interventions.
• Adopted soccer strategies and tactics to maximize team potential.
• Built positive, productive training environments fostering team unity and camaraderie.
• Promoted love of game by assisting players with understanding positioning, play techniques, and teamwork strategies.

This internship consisted of working with HS/Collegiate/NFL athletes to understand the necessary components of athletic development.

Learned from current House of Athlete NFL Combine Training Specialist Troy Jones, and Navy Strength and Conditioning Coach Ali Schrang.