Istvan Javorek

István Javorek (born January 6, 1943, in eastern Europe) is a United States sports conditioning coach.

Coach Javorek is the retired head strength and conditioning coach at Johnson County Community College, Kansas, United States.

He supervised the strength and conditioning program for JCCC’s 18 sports and serves as a professor emeritus of fitness in the physical education department.

Pedagogical Institute Of Physical Education And Sport, Cluj, Romania 1960 - 1964

Course of Study: Physical Education and Sport, Massage, and Basic Physical Therapy.

Degree: Diploma in Physical Education, certified as teacher and coach.

Fully qualified to teach the following: gymnastics, soccer, team handball, volleyball, basketball, track and field, weightlifting, Alpine and Nordic skiing and swimming.

Specialized in massage therapy, physical therapy, and in sport psychology, especially experience in the Schultz Autogenic Training Method (self-hypnosis) and in sport nutrition, emphasizing the use of natural herbs to aid the body in recovery and promotion of strength.

Part-Time continuing education and professional development.

Specialized in weightlifting, strength & conditioning and track and field.

In 1964, Javorek graduated from college and by 1968 was a coach at the Clujana Athletic Club in Cluj, Romania.

He has been married to Julia Javorek since 1968, and they have one child, Dr. Henriette A. Javorek.

He now lives in Overland Park, Kansas.

He is the new strength and conditioning coach at Overland Park racquet club.

Graduated in 1968 as a Third Class weightlifting and conditioning coach.

Graduated in 1971 as a Second Class weightlifting and conditioning coach.

Graduated in 1974 as a First Class weightlifting and conditioning coach, the highest coaching qualification in Romania

In 1982, Javorek defected to the United States and in 1984 became an all-sports strength and conditioning assistant coach at Texas A&M University.

He was the Weightlifting coach of Texas A&M Weightlifting Club, but his duties were soon extended to coaching the field events and conditioning for men's and women's Track, Tennis, Basketball, Swimming, volleyball, and assistant for football.

Invited by South Korean Olympic Committee to train the national weightlifting team and instruct coaches Seoul, Korea October, 1983 - December 1983

United States Olympic Committee, International Exchange Program, Lima, Peru.

Two of his more famous athletes were Dragomir Cioroslan (bronze medalist in Weightlifting at the 1984 Olympics) and Istvan Tasnadi (silver medalist in weightlifting at the 1984 Olympics).

It was also during this time that Javorek passed the first class coaching board examination (the highest coaching level in Romania).

He presented to the coaching board his revolutionary creation, the Javorek

Complex #1 and Javorek Complex #2 (performed with dumbbells or barbells).

Javorek felt that the main purpose of these exercises was to figure out an easier way to do an exercise complex, which could then change the monotony of a workout, and he hoped at the same time have a greater influence on the neuro-muscular and osteo-muscular system.

June, 1984.

He instructed national team and 24 coaches in state-of-the-art techniques for Olympic-style weightlifting and conditioning

At A&M, Javorek designed the whole conditioning program for the 1986 world fastest 200m sprinter, Floyd Heard; former 10,000m world record holder, Arturo Barrios; javelin thrower Juan de la Garza; Canadian long jump record holder, Ian James; Mexican record triple jumper, Francisco Olivares and several other top athletes.

USA Olympic Festival, Houston, TX July, 1986, Weightlifting coach for the South Team

In 1987, Javorek became head strength and conditioning coach at Johnson County Community College.

USA Olympic Festival, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, July, 1987 Head Coach for the West Team.

In particular, Randy Barnes, the silver medalist in the shot put at the 1988 Olympics and gold medalist in the shot put at the 1996 Olympics.

World Junior Weightlifting Championship, Assistant coach, Fort Lauderdale, FL May 1989

In December 1992, Romania awarded him with its highest coaching honor, the Emeritus Coaching Award.

Many of the athletes he worked with have moved on to play professional sports, including Kit Pellow (baseball) and Kareem Rush and Wayne Simien (basketball).

Sumya Anani, world champion female boxer, has been coached by Javorek for years.

In Javorek’s 20-year career at JCCC, he has been a part of five national championships, 78 Region VI titles, 119 East Jayhawk Conference championships and 63 teams have finished in the top five in national championship play.

On March 23, 2002, Javorek was inducted into the Missouri Valley Weightlifting Hall of Fame, and on June 2, 2003, he earned induction into the USA Strength and Conditioning Hall of Fame

He retired in 2011 and is now Professor Emeritus at Johnson County Community College.