Former Minor League Catcher turned Pitcher of the Braves & Red Sox Organizations. Harvard biology grad working on my MD in baseball. Proud to be a Kramerican!

About Matt

A 4 year member of the Harvard Crimson baseball team as a catcher and first baseman, Matt Kramer graduated with a degree in Biology in June of 2008 and went on to sign a professional contract with the Atlanta Braves organization where he played for 3 summers between the Rookie and A-Levels. He was then signed in February of 2011 by the Boston Red Sox organization as a pitcher where he spent his first season converting from catcher to pitcher in Ft. Myers, FL.

Matt is no stranger to how proper strength training and nutrition can improve and positively impact one’s performance on the field. Strength gains have been a key component of his development and progression through the ranks as a baseball player from a lanky 185 pounds as a senior in high school to 240 pounds as a professional with increased mobility, flexibility and efficiency. It was not until 2009 at Cressey Performance where he saw his best gains, realizing how misguided some of his prior approaches to strength training and nutrition had been.

Since 2009, Matt has spent his off-seasons training at Cressey Performance in Hudson, MA under the coaching of renowned strength coach Eric Cressey as well as Tony Gentilcore, strength coach/nutritionist Brian St. Pierre and Chris Howard. In addition to his training at Cressey Performance, Matt interned as a strength coach in 2010, working with a wide variety of athletes from the middle school to professional levels as well as general adult strength enthusiasts. Matt is a student of the ever-changing strength industry with a desire to combine tried and true strength training models with up-to-date nutrition, strength, and corrective exercise methods for optimal gains in athletic performance. He started showmestrength.com to share these insights.

Matt worked at the newly opened Mass General Orthopaedics Sports Performance Center, leading the development of baseball research as well as a the baseball strength and development program. He has since started medical school at Rush Medial College in Chicago as a member of the Class of 2017.