About Merritt Made Human Performance

I’m Trevor Merritt, an Athletic Trainer and Strength & Conditioning Specialist.

I design individualized, precision-based training systems that rebuild, rewire, and elevate human performance.

Foundational Ethos

Performance isn’t built by forcing individuals into a rigid mold - it’s cultivated through a flexible, modular framework that adapts to the unique goals, needs, and makeup of each individual.

My goal is to connect proven training methods with individual needs, guiding every person from building capacity to expressing it through intelligent, adaptive loading strategies.

Training for peak performance and lifelong health are one and the same - when you build a strong foundation and progress intelligently, you unlock your body’s full potential and stay capable for longer, allowing you to show up as your best, whether competing on the field or moving through life.

Whether you’re rebuilding from injury or chasing elite output, the process meets you where you are, and evolves with you as you adapt and grow.

The Performance Spectrum

From Rehab to Resilience

Every athlete falls somewhere on a spectrum - from building foundational movement quality to expressing strength, speed, and power at the highest level. Our approach meets you where you are - and systematically progresses you along that spectrum.

Expansive Movement:

The foundation of resilience begins here.

This phase focuses on movement capacity and variability.

Output-Driven Performance:

Built on a strong foundation, this phase targets the athletic qualities most relevant to your sport or lifestyle - including strength, speed, and explosiveness.

We train across this spectrum - not by jumping between random methods, but through a structured progressive system that’s individualized and auto-regulated.

The 5-Block Modular System

Each session is built from five modular building blocks I’ve refined over a decade of working with athletes across every level. Your individual needs determine how we blend, emphasize, and progress through each one.

1. Movement Capacity

Expands joint workspace and builds sensory readiness.

2. Tissue Health & Quality

Builds coordinated strength through a full spectrum of body positions while enhancing connective tissue integrity and elasticity.

3. Velocity

Exposes the body to true high-speed demands for improved speed and control.

4. Force Production

Builds maximal strength and power to express and absorb force across the force–velocity spectrum.

5. Variable Capacity

Develop comprehensive physical resilience by exposing the body to diverse loading patterns, multi-directional stress, volume challenges, and energy system demands.

From Injury to Peak Output

Rehabilitation and performance training aren’t two different processes - they exist on the same continuum. The inputs used to restore joint health, build strength, and develop high-level performance are fundamentally the same. The difference lies in intensity, dosage, and emphasis.

I use the same modular system to guide athletes from joint instability and pain all the way to high-velocity output. Rehab isn’t about doing something entirely different - it’s about adjusting the load, speed, and complexity of those inputs to match the body’s current capacity and readiness.

Each block in the system includes built-in regressions and progressions, allowing us to scale the training to the individual. Injury status, tissue healing timelines, and ongoing feedback determine which blocks are prioritized, which inputs are introduced, and how aggressively we progress them.

Not every block is trained in every session - the framework is dynamic and individualized, evolving as the athlete does.

Grounded in Proven Principles, Evolving With the Science

My work is built on the foundation of decades of knowledge in strength and conditioning, neurophysiology, and rehabilitation - and it continues to evolve as the field does. I pull from generations of pioneers whose principles have stood the test of time, while staying actively engaged with the latest research to refine and adapt my methods.

This approach blends the timeless with the cutting-edge - from Verkhoshansky’s dynamic correspondence and shock methods, to Bondarchuk’s transfer of training, and the tendon-specific strategies of practitioners like Jake Tuura. It also draws from Ido Portal’s emphasis on foundational movement, brachiation, and body control to expand coordination, adaptability, and physical intelligence, as well as from Marv Marinovich and David Grey’s work in sensory-grounded foot and ankle training - reconnecting lower-limb function to the kinetic chain and restoring efficient force transfer from the ground up.

Together, these influences shape a system that integrates movement variability and joint health, strength and power development, plyometric progression, and tendon and connective tissue resilience - all grounded in physiological principles proven to enhance real-world performance and long-term durability.

The result is a training system that’s rooted in what’s proven, responsive to what’s emerging, and designed to evolve - ensuring that every program reflects the best of what we know now and what’s coming next.

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