Alistair got his start training basketball players, baseball players, soccer players, and golfers before he ever specialized in any of them, and that range is exactly why he’s dangerous in a gym now. Most trainers learn one sport’s demands cold and force everyone else into that mold. Alistair learned to see the pattern underneath all of them, rotational power, and that’s the skill he brings to every MotionLab client regardless of what sport they play on the weekend.

Alistair studied Applied Exercise Science at Springfield College in Massachusetts, one of the oldest and most respected programs in the country for producing people who understand how the body actually works under load, not just how it looks. He was a student-athlete himself, which meant he learned the material from both sides, as the person designing the program and the person whose knees and shoulders were on the line executing it.

Out of college, Alistair landed an internship in Stanford University’s Sports Performance Department, working across basketball, baseball, soccer, and golf programs. That kind of cross-sport exposure early in a career is rare, and it’s the reason Alistair never got locked into thinking one sport’s training template applies to everyone. A golfer’s rotational demands and a baseball pitcher’s are cousins, not twins, and Alistair learned to tell the difference before most trainers even know there’s a distinction to make.

From there, Alistair spent four years as a Strength and Conditioning Coach within the Milwaukee Brewers organization, refining his approach with athletes whose careers depended on getting stronger without getting hurt. Professional baseball is an unforgiving lab for rotational power and injury prevention. A hitter or a pitcher who can’t produce force through the hips and trunk doesn’t have a career, and one who gets hurt doing it doesn’t have one either. Alistair spent four years living inside that tension, and it sharpened exactly the skill set MotionLab’s golfers need most: how to build explosive rotational strength without turning the shoulder, elbow, or knee into the next injury on the list.

That injury-prevention lens is where Alistair’s real value shows up for MotionLab members. Golf, pickleball, tennis, anything built around a rotational, repetitive motion, tends to break down the same joints over and over: the lead shoulder, the trail elbow, the lead knee. Alistair’s background gave him a detailed map of exactly how those injuries develop and, more usefully, how to build a training program that heads them off before they show up. He’s not guessing based on where it hurts today. He’s building programs based on where the research and his own experience say the breakdown starts.

Alistair’s philosophy is built on precise testing and assessment before a single rep gets programmed. He doesn’t hand out a generic plan and see how it goes. He wants to know where you’re strong, where you’re compensating, and where you’re one bad rep away from a problem, and only then does he build the plan that gets you stronger without introducing new risk. It’s the same rigor he applied to professional athletes, scaled to fit a fifty-five-year-old executive who wants to keep playing golf for another thirty years without a shoulder surgery interrupting the plan.

What separates Alistair from a typical strength coach is his conviction that age isn’t the limiting factor most people assume it is. He’s built his entire approach around the belief that anyone, at any age, can undergo a real physical transformation given the right individualized program. That’s not a marketing line, it’s the operating principle behind how he builds every plan. A fifty-year-old member who thinks their best physical years are behind them is, in Alistair’s world, just a person who hasn’t yet had a program built specifically for what their body needs right now.

For MotionLab’s members, that translates into training that respects where you are while still pushing you toward real strength and power gains, not just maintenance. Alistair isn’t interested in keeping you the same. He’s interested in proving that the ceiling most people assume they’ve hit at 45 or 55 is a training problem, not a biology problem, and then building the program that raises it.

If you’ve ever wondered how a facility built around golfers ended up with a coach who spent four years in professional baseball, the answer is simple: rotational power doesn’t care what sport you’re watching it in. Alistair brought a professional sports performance background to a gym built for entrepreneurs and executives, and the result is training that would look at home on an MLB back field, dialed in for a member whose biggest competition this week is a Saturday scramble.