ABOUT US

Let the most experienced coaches in the region help you reach your athletic performance or health and fitness goals!

STEVE CONCA, MS, CSCS, YCSL2

Steve Conca is the founder and president of Conca Sport and Fitness. For 15 years Coach Conca has been serving a vast array of clients' needs from preparing high school and middle school athletes for competitive play, working with NFL hopefuls as they prepare for the draft, helping ambitious adults regain their health and fitness, and keeping professional athletes healthy and on the field for another season. Coach Conca has also helped adults regain a level of fitness they never thought possible. Business professionals, stay-at-home moms and brides-to-be have all experienced the benefits of a complete fitness and fat loss program that literally changed their lives.  

A Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, Coach Conca also is recognized by the National Academy of Sports Medicine as a Certified Performance Enhancement Specialist.  Steve earned his degree in Exercise and Sports Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1994. 

Soon after, he began his career in athletic performance at Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy (Danville, VA), focusing mainly on the rehabilitative process after sports injuries and surgical interventions. Coach Conca had the privilege of working with nationally recognized Physical Therapist and Strength Coach Gray Cook and became part of Gray’s team as he developed the Functional Movement Screen (FMS).  Coach Conca was fortunate to be part of Gray’s team as the FMS was delivered to the WNBA, NHL, and NFL in 2000.  Today the FMS is used in almost every facet of collegiate and professional sports as an innovative system used to evaluate movement pattern quality in athletes.

In 2000 Coach Conca co-founded and operated East Coast Athletics and worked in close connection with The North Carolina Baseball Academy to provide sport specific training for middle & high school, amature, and professional athletes. 

During this time, Coach Conca also served as the performance consultant for the prestigious Carolina Golf Practice and Learning Center.  Coach Conca actively participated in promoting continuing education by offering seminars for PGA instructors throughout the Southeast and has provided strength and conditioning services to several PGA and Nike Tour level golfers.  

In 2004 Coach Conca joined Velocity Sports Performance, Inc (Greensboro, NC) and served as the Director of Operations.  In 2005, Velocity corporate invited coach Conca to sit on the S.P.E.E.D (Sports Performance Exercise Education and Development) committee and represent all Velocity centers in the Southeast region.  The S.P.E.E.D committee was responsible for program development and facility management with regards to performance training for the entire Velocity Franchise System.  Also, in 2005 Stephen completed his Masters of Science in Athletic Performance and Injury Prevention from California University of Pennsylvania.  

Presently, Coach Conca is privileged to hold a seat on the Applied Exercise and Sports Science Board at Springfield College and is a board member for the Massachusetts Senior Games.    

The culmination of 15 years of experience in athletic development and adult fitness has lead Coach Conca to develop a holistic approach that will enhance the lifestyle and ability of any client. Conca Sport and Fitness is truly “The Evolution of Human Performance.” 

Steve Conca lives in West Springfield with his wife Tina (a West-Side native) and 3 children.

JULIA GIRMAN, MS, CSCS

A four-year varsity letter winner and co-captain for the Gettysburg Women’s Soccer team in 2002, Coach Girman also earned All Centennial Conference, All Region, All District, and Academic All American team honors in soccer in addition to receiving the prestigious NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship for her athletic and academic performances while at Gettysburg. Coach Girman also was a two-year varsity letter winner in swimming, NCAA All Academic team honorable mention, and a Centennial Conference individual gold-medalist.

Coach Girman began her career in 2003 as an ACE Certified Fitness Specialist and Personal Trainer for the William G. Rohrer Center for Health Fitness. She worked one-on-one with clients (youth and senior adults) on implementing highly individualized and progressive exercise programs with a focus on strength, injury prevention, and weight loss.

In 2006, Coach Girman began her specialization in Strength and Conditioning for Sports Performance while working as the Assistant Women’s Soccer Coach at Gettysburg College. During this time, Coach Girman worked as an assistant strength and conditioning coach, independently designing and implementing the strength programs for women’s soccer and women’s golf and assisting with football and women’s volleyball.

As her passion for strength and conditioning grew, Coach Girman decided to focus only on her development as a sports performance coach. From 2006 – 2007, she worked at Velocity Sports Performance in Cherry Hill, New Jersey as an assistant sports performance coach and assistant adult group fitness coach.

In April 2007, Coach Girman was accepted into the Masters Program in Strength and Conditioning at Springfield College, Massachusetts. Since attending Springfield College, Coach Girman has worked as a Graduate Assistant Skills Instructor and as the Graduate Associate Strength and Conditioning Coach for Women’s Basketball, Softball, Men’s Soccer, and Men’s Gymnastics and has assisted with Football, Baseball, and the Men’s Sprinters and Jumpers. Coach Girman also has served as an Intern Strength and Conditioning Coach at Holy Cross University and with the Rutgers University Football Team.

Currently, Coach Girman has commenced her professional career as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and Head Strength Coach at Conca Sport and Fitness.   She completed her Master’s degree at Springfield College in Strength and Conditioning in May of 2011.  To top it off  Julia was awarded the  "Student Research Award,” at the National Strength & Conditioning Annual Awards Banquet in Las Vegas.  She was awarded the best Masters level research project in the country! 

As Coach Girman continues to develop as a specialist in the field of strength and conditioning, certain characteristics in her coaching style remain consistent. She strives to not only improve performance but also gross movement efficiency, and she has a way of making every workout effective yet enjoyable. The athletes, teams, coaches, and clients she has worked with would all agree that the energy she brings to every session is awesome, and her compassion for each individual is very noticeable.

Coach Girman continues to develop as a specialist in the field of strength and conditioning, certain characteristics in her coaching style remain consistent. She strives to not only improve performance but also gross movement efficiency, and she has a way of making every workout effective yet enjoyable. The athletes, teams, coaches, and clients she has worked with would all agree that the energy she brings to every session is awesome, and her compassion for each individual is very noticeable.