“Where is the biceps femoris?” the voice on the other end of the phone asked.

“Oh, that one attaches to your shoulder and your elbow!” I confidently replied to such an easy question.

“Uhhh, no, it’s actually in your leg,” the voice replied.

This was the first question they asked me as I interviewed to be a Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball.

It was the first of many…MANY anatomy and training questions that they would ask me during the interview process.

I said, “I don’t know” so many times, I must have sounded like a broken record.

In 2010 I graduated from college with a degree in Print Journalism.

My first job out of college was a news reporter for the New Haven Register in New Haven, Connecticut. In fact, if you google “Sean Light New Haven Register,” some of my old articles still pop up.

After that, I tried being a substitute history teacher for a year…which was also a spectacular failure.

The truth was, I thought I was going to be an NBA player so I never put much thought into school. I chose Journalism so I wouldn’t have to take tests.

So, after graduation, when I came nowhere near getting drafted, I had to scramble to figure my life out.

On the recommendation of a friend, I decided to become a Strength and Conditioning Coach because I thought it would be cool to wear sweatpants to work every day.

I had no background in exercise science.

I didn’t read books.

And I passed the certification exam with the minimum passing score.

When I say I knew nothing, I mean, I knew NOTHING!!!

By the grace of God, the Diamondbacks took a shot me and hired me. They said they appreciated that I admitted to not knowing the answers instead of making stuff up and I convinced them that I would work super hard to make up for my lack of knowledge.

My boss would ALWAYS call on me knowing damn well that I had no clue what the answer was..

It would make me so irritated and uncomfortable. It was mortifying to be exposed like that in front of everyone each and every day.

Eventually, I got fed up with it and decided I was going to do everything I could to become the smartest coach in the room. 

I immediately enrolled in about $1,500 worth of home study education courses and bought every book I could find on my co-workers book shelves.

I became a learning MACHINE!

I was only making $23,500/year and I spent every penny of it on books, seminars or mentorships.

I knew that as long I was in this industry, every time I would interview for a better job, they would always question my journalism degree.

I knew if I was going to overcome that, I would have to get WAY BETTER than everyone else so they would stop asking me about my journalism degree.

I had to get BIGGER results and I had to do it FASTER than everyone else.

This gave me a completely different perspective on human performance and how the body worked. I couldn’t sit back and do the normal exercises that they taught in school, I had to do what worked…and I had to do it NOW!

I began to notice that many of the traditional exercises weren’t making our players any stronger, faster or more flexible and I began to search for the reasons why.

I began to realize that the brain held some sort of “master key” over the entire body. If the brain wasn’t in the mood, it would literally withhold your strength, speed and power.

As professional athletes, that was unacceptable.

“How do I get the brain in the mood?” I asked myself.

And I began to develop this incredible system, rooted in neuroscience that started blowing the doors off the Strength and Conditioning Industry.

People around the world began to take notice of the results I was getting and soon, the National Strength and Conditioning Association invited me to be a keynote speaker at their National Convention in Louisville, Kentucky.

After that, I was officially known as “The Neuro Guy” throughout the human performance industry.

I was soon invited to share my secrets at universities and other national conventions over the next few years.

Four years after starting (from scratch!) in Minor League Baseball, I got a call from the Los Angeles Lakers offering me the role of Strength and Conditioning Coach for their historic franchise.

It didn’t take long for me to think about that offer!

I spent years working with the best athletes on the planet.

Our organizations invested millions of dollars to find the deepest, darkest and most expensive human performance secrets that might give our team the slightest edge on gameday.

I’ve tested out hyperbaric pods, altitude chambers, cryogenic freezing therapy and just about every other piece of sports science technology on the planet.

I know what works and I created Weight Room Wealth to bring those secrets to you!

The idea behind Weight Room Wealth is simple. Our promise is to deliver the technology and training strategies used by the best athletes in the world to you.

I hope you’ll join the Weight Room Wealth movement and become and OFFICIAL Professional Athlete.