Tom Myslinski

Strength and Conditioning Coach

Year with Browns: 3rd
Year in NFL: 3rd

Tom Myslinski is entering his fourth season as a member of the Browns’ coaching staff and his third as strength and conditioning coach. This marks his second stint with the team, having served as the club’s assistant strength and conditioning coach in 2004, while also working on a part-time basis in both 2002 and 2003.

Myslinski had a nine-year NFL playing career as an offensive lineman, which started as a fourth-round draft choice of Dallas in 1992. He played in 60 games with 25 starts during that time, including stints with Chicago (1993-94), Jacksonville (1995), Pittsburgh (1996-97, 2000), Indianapolis (1998) and Dallas (1999).

While playing in the NFL, Myslinski served as a volunteer assistant strength and conditioning coach at the University of Pittsburgh from 1998-2001, where he worked primarily with offensive and defensive linemen. Prior to his stint at Pittsburgh, Myslinski spent 1996 as the volunteer head strength and conditioning coach at the University of North Florida, where he managed all aspects of physical and mental development with the school’s student athletes. He has also served as a martial arts consultant to numerous collegiate athletic programs.

Myslinski developed and patented the “Tunch Punch Ladder” hand agility pad and has trained extensively under offensive line guru, Tunch Ilkin, who is the developer of the Tunch Punch system, which is used extensively by offensive line coaches throughout the NFL. This past offseason, Myslinski published peer reviewed research in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research on the development of strength and power using heavy chains and bands in addition to weights.

Myslinski earned eight varsity letters at the University of Tennessee in football and track & field, and earned first team All-Southeastern Conference and honorable mention All-America honors in football in 1991. He started at guard for two consecutive SEC Championship teams (1989, 1990). He was also a member of the Volunteers’ 1991 NCAA Champion track & field team.

Myslinski, who grew up in Rome, N.Y., earned a B.S. in kinesiology from Tennessee in 1992 and later earned a M.S. from the University of Pittsburgh in exercise physiology. Myslinski and his wife, Amy, have three children, Thomas, Emily and Michael.

Coaching Background:
1996	University of North Florida, volunteer head strength and conditioning coach
1998-2001	University of Pittsburgh, volunteer assistant strength and conditioning coach
2002-03	Cleveland Browns, part-time assistant strength and conditioning coach
2004	Cleveland Browns, assistant strength and conditioning coach
2005-06	Robert Morris University, head strength and conditioning coach
2007	University of Pittsburgh, assistant strength and conditioning coach

1996 - University of North Florida, volunteer head strength and conditioning coach 1998-01 - University of Pittsburgh, volunteer assistant strength and conditioning coach 2002-03 - Cleveland Browns, part-time assistant strength and conditioning coach 2004 - Cleveland Browns, assistant strength and conditioning coach 2005-06 - Robert Morris University, head strength and conditioning coach 2007 - University of Pittsburgh, assistant strength and conditioning coach Myslinski joined the Browns most recently from the University of Pittsburgh, where he served as assistant strength and conditioning coach for the early portion of 2007. He had served the previous two seasons (2005-06) at Robert Morris University in a newly created position of head strength and conditioning coach where he was responsible for developing and initiating the conditioning program for all 17 intercollegiate male and female varsity sports.