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Bob Alejo is considered one of the world’s leading experts on strength and conditioning for baseball. As strength and conditioning director at U.C. Santa Barbara since 2005, Bob brings nearly twenty-five years of unmatched experience training athletes. Bob was also the conditioning coach for the Oakland Athletics baseball team from 1993 to 2001, and from 1984 to 1993 trained and supervised men's and women's teams at the University of California, at Los Angeles. He is a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association, American College of Sports Medicine, International Society of Sports Nutrition, and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist as well as a Level-I Weightlifting Federation coach. Chief Executive Officer of the International Society of Sports Nutrition and one of its cofounders. He earned his Ph.D. in the area of skeletal muscle plasticity and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in endocriniology and metabolism.