Hyper Wear

Chair, Jim Liston - Our Advisory Board is lead by Jim Liston. Jim is President and Founder, CATZ (Competitive Athlete Training Zone) and one of the country’s leading experts on creating and delivering exercise programs for children as well as inspiring kids to embrace the benefits of physical activity. Jim has been a featured speaker on these topics to organizations such as the American Physical Therapy Association; National Strength and Conditioning Association; the California Parks and Recreation Society; the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance; and the American Youth Soccer Organization.

Jim has also trained numerous professional athletes and celebrities.

Jim has been featured as an expert on training youth athletes in The New York Times, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Newsweek, Business Week, and Men’s Health. He presently serves as an Adjunct Instructor of Clinical Physical Therapy at the University of Southern California.

Jim holds a BS from the University of Massachusetts and a Masters in Health Science from Springfield College. He has been a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) since 1995.

Chair, Diane Vives - MS, CSCS is on the Advisory Council for Hyper Wear and will be contributing her expertise in performance and functional training methodology. She currently lectures internationally in the fields of strength and conditioning, fitness, and professional development for strength coaches and personal trainers. She is driven by the passion, knowledge and technical expertise that have blessed her with 12 years of success in this industry. During that time Diane has served as a strength coach, fitness director, owner of a performance training center educator to industry professionals and active committee member to nationally recognized organizations in the field of strength and conditioning, fitness and sports.

She is the owner of Vives Training Systems, a personal training and consulting company in Austin, Texas where she trains a spectrum of clients and athletes, hosts mentorship programs and teaches practical hands-on workshops.

Author of SMARTsets DVDs and Manuals, a functional integration system that fuses functional training with traditional science aimed at providing a proven plan of action for trainers and coaches.

She is also the author of Training the Female Athlete DVD where she focuses on the specific areas that can take all female athletes to new levels of performance and resist injury.

She co-authored the Speed, Agility, and Quickness book that has been successful at providing guidance and a practical field guide to coaches and trainers.

Diane currently serves on the Board of Directors for the National Strength and Conditioning Association as well as the Advisory Council for the Under Armour TNP Performance Training Program.