Mic Fuller has been on staff at Fresno Christian for 11 years. He is the HS physical education teacher, Sports Facilities Director, and HS track coach.

P.E. and track coach, Mick Fuller, encourages students to live a healthier lifestyle by teaching the high school track team lifting techniques in Barbell Club and training in strength and conditioning class, Oct. 12.

As part of spreading the movement of being a functional human, P.E. teacher, Mick Fuller, organizes a coed lifting group for students: The Barbell Club, Sept. 24.

FC varsity boys football has a lunch at Casa Corona to thank Coach Mick Fuller for all he has done for the football team, March 4.

Ben Vaipan has attended Fresno Christian since freshman year. Vaipan is involved in the barbell club started by Coach Mick Fuller. He enjoys the Christian community and the opportunity to talk about his faith with those around him. 

FC students and faculty gather around the fire at the Poplin’s house for the 3rd annual Bonfire Rally, Oct. 3. Students eat s’mores and play games including spikeball, horseshoes, and volleyball. Cheer coach Hope Villines and football coach Mick Fuller introduce both teams. 

After a record breaking season, track and a field aims to return in the spring stronger than before. The first track and field informational meeting for the 2019 season is planned for lunchtime in room 608, Jan. 17. Head coach Mick Fuller will continue his six year coaching streak and looks to build to his team. Interested students should attend the lunch meeting to learn more about the sport and receive practice and meet schedules.

This is a blog for students and adults who want to ponder the benefits of exercise, fitness and strength training and their implications for life beyond the momentary endorphin rush or the pursuit of some physical aesthetic ideal. The views and opinions expressed in this blog are founded on several years of personal experience, observation, trial and error (lots of the latter) and study. This is the fifth of a biweekly series of blogs written by Mick Fuller. No one can make you train if you don’t want to. That is both the best and the worst thing about the process of getting stronger. I say “best” because I don’t have to depend on anyone else to decide that I am  going to train. It is also “worst” because I MUST rely on myself and my own self discipline and determination to stay motivated when training is hard. It is possible to have other people, such as friends, coaches or personal trainers help me with some of the motivation, but only I can force myself to do it.

Do you exercise or do you train? That question addresses crucial differences in value and purpose for the way we approach our workouts. To answer the question it will be helpful to understand the distinguishing features of training and exercise and examine how these concepts are related.  This post will mostly be about defining terms, in order to be very clear in in framing our answer to the question at hand. Strength coach Mick Fuller instructs students in his strength class on the proper way to bench press. Training involves performance of repeatable patterns of movement that produce sufficient muscular and neurological stress to initiate the body’s recovery and adaptation systems. Each training session is calibrated to be more stressful than the previous session, to account for the body’s recovered and adapted state.