Bruno Pauletto (born 21 January 1954) is a physiologist, an author, a business manager, a former coach, and a former Canadian track and field athlete. He graduated from CMU and UT, and he published several books and articles on exercise physiology.
During his athletic career, he specialized in the shot put events, active 1974 to 1983. An Italian-born athlete, he represented Canada internationally. He set the national Italian record and later became Canadian national record holder in the outdoor shot put. The former title remained unbeaten for six years and the latter for eighteen years. To date he still holds the provincial record of Quebec. A three-time Canadian national champion, he had a lifetime best of 20.61 m (67 ft 7+1⁄4 in).
Having already practiced as coach for strength training and conditioning since 1981, Pauletto devoted his life to coaching as from the 1984 season. He created his own company in 1986, published several articles, videos and three textbooks on strength training, and ultimately was nominated president of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) where he also was a member of several committees.
he was a MAC outdoor individual champion in shot put in 1976
he won the title in shot put again in 1977 (with 63-3 ¾)
the same year won the conference title in discus as well, with 160-5
and in 1978 he took his fourth title and set a conference record in shot put with 19.89 m (65 ft 3 in).[7] The latter record was still unmatched in 2009.[8]
In the year 1978 he furthermore:
established the MAC record (outdoor) posting 65-3, which was still unmatched in 2009[9]
earned his own university's indoor record by throwing 64-1 and outdoor record with his aforementioned 65-3 throw, both still unmatched in 2012.[11][12]
Altogether Bruno Pauletto was a three-time All-America shot putter: indoor in 1978 and outdoor in 1977 and 1978.[13][14]
Internationally, Pauletto competed for Canada after taking Canadian citizenship. At his first major competition for his adoptive country he placed fifth with 18.30 m (60 ft 1⁄4 in) at the first IAAF World Cup, in Düsseldorf on September 2, 1977,[16][17] and in the same year was runner-up at the 1977 Pacific Conference Games, behind American Colin Anderson.[18]
Later Pauletto set the best Italian shot put mark in 1979 with a 20.13 m (66 ft 1⁄2 in) throw during an outdoor event in Milan, Italy, on June 23.[19][20] Pauletto, who was then competing with the club Telettra-Atletica Rieti, contributed with this throw to place his team sixth at the 1979 National Club Championship.[21] This performance remained the national Italian record until Marco Montelatici beat it in May 1985 with 20.90 m.
Pauletto's first Canadian Championship participation was in Edmundston on March 2–3, 1974.[22] In 1980 he broke the Canadian record in Sherbrooke with a 20.33 m (66 ft 8+1⁄4 in) throw.[23] On 22 May 1983 he established his personal best in shot put with a 20.61 m (67 ft 7+1⁄4 in) throw, achieved at an outdoor event in Knoxville, Tennessee and reaching a new Canadian national senior record. Between 1976 and 1983, only he and Bishop Dolegiewicz won the honour, with the pair dominating the national scene.[24] Pauletto's 1983 record was to stay for 18 years, until Brad Snyder broke it by 2 cm at the 2001 World Championships, with a heave of 20.63 m (67 ft 8 in).[25] Thanks to that performance Bruno Pauletto ranks fourth in the list of the top 10 Canadian all-time outdoor ranking (as of 23 July 2012),[26] and he still holds (as of 2013) the outdoor provincial record of Quebec.[27]
His first medal at a major game came in 1978 at the Commonwealth Games held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. On home turf, he took the silver medal behind England's Geoff Capes with a throw of 19.33 m (63 ft 5 in), and national rival Dolegiewicz completed the podium in third. He gave a better performance at the Pan American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico in July 1979, clearing 19.61 m (64 ft 4 in), but on that occasion his placing with Dolegiewicz was reversed, as Pauletto claimed the bronze while American Dave Laut won with a throw beyond twenty metres.[28][29] Pauletto captured the gold medal at the XII Commonwealth Games in Brisbane in 1982 with a mark of 19.55 m (64 ft 1+1⁄2 in) ahead of the English champion Mike Winch.[30] This made him the third Canadian to win the shot put at the Commonwealth Games after Dave Steen in 1970 and women's champion Jane Haist in 1974;[31] Canada had to wait for 28 years until another shot putter, Dylan Armstrong, brought back a Commonwealth gold medal again.[32][33]
Pauletto also took part at the First IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki in 1983 as a member of the Canadian team, where he participated in the shot put event ranking 17th in qualifying.[34]
Bruno Pauletto was selected twice for the Olympic Games, in 1980 and in 1984.[35] He could not participate to the 1980 Olympics due to the Olympic boycott of the Moscow Games, which was a part of a package of actions led by the United States to protest against the Soviet–Afghan War. By 1984 he had already started a new career as coach and exercise physiologist and eventually did not compete in any actual Olympic events.
Coaching career, author and business manager
After graduation at UT Bruno Pauletto was hired as full-time conditioning coach in 1980 and soon became the university's head strength and conditioning coach of the Athletic Department, with a staff of three graduate assistants. He also was the strength coach of the 1985 Tennessee Volunteers football team to represent UT in the NCAA Division I–A football season.[36] While he was UT's coach he also became NSCA Director for the State of Tennessee and, in 1985, he published his first articles on strength training including on Power Clean.
He left that position to manage his and his wife's own company headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, founded in 1986 and registered under the name Power Systems.[37] The company is specialized in supplying fitness and sports performance training equipment and solutions for clients ranging from sports teams and health clubs to schools, fitness specialists and other professionals of the exercise industry.[38][39] In 2012 Power Systems signed a cooperation agreement with Life Fitness, a division of Brunswick Corporation.[40][41] «Power Systems is a Christian-based business and we follow those guidelines in all aspects of the company; All of our business transactions reflect a firm commitment to our core value… Integrity», Bruno Pauletto says.[42]
From June 1991 to June 1994 Bruno Pauletto was elected President of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). In view of the financial imbalance of the Association in 1991 Pauletto introduced a tighter cost control, and the efficiency gains achieved under his management allowed to consolidate a sound financial situation.[43][44][45] He also was a member of several NSCA committees.
During that period of time Bruno Pauletto published three books on strength training: for coaches, for football and for basketball. In 2007 he invented and patented a new type of exercise hurdle.[46]
He was also a member of the editorial board of the magazine Training & Conditioning (T&C).
Awards
Personal
1986: "College Strength and Conditioning Professional of the Year Award", presented by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) in July 1986[47][48]
Pauletto, Bruno (1985). "Football: Maximum off-season results through weight training and aerobic dance". National Strength & Conditioning Association Journal. NSCA. 7 (2 / April): 56–57. doi:10.1519/0744-0049(1985)007<0056:MOSRTW>2.3.CO;2.
Pauletto, Bruno; Evans, Jeff (1985). "Football supervision: The max factor". National Strength & Conditioning Association Journal. NSCA. 7 (3 / June): 48–51. doi:10.1519/0744-0049(1985)007<0048:TMF>2.3.CO;2.
Pauletto, Bruno (1985). "Winter Conditioning for Football: The Tennessee Way". National Strength & Conditioning Association Journal. NSCA. 7 (5 / October): 28–31. doi:10.1519/0744-0049(1985)007<0028:TTW>2.3.CO;2.
Pauletto, Bruno (1985). "The Power Clean: Part 1". BFS Magazine. Bigger, Faster, Stronger (November). Archived from the original on 13 August 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
Pauletto, Bruno (1986). "The Power Clean: Part 2". BFS Magazine. Bigger, Faster, Stronger (January).
Pauletto, Bruno (1986). "The Power Clean: Part 3". BFS Magazine. Bigger, Faster, Stronger (March–April).
Pauletto, Bruno (1986). "The Power Clean: Part 4". BFS Magazine. Bigger, Faster, Stronger (May–June). Archived from the original on 13 August 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
Pauletto, Bruno (1987). "In-season strength training for sports". National Strength & Conditioning Association Journal. NSCA. 9 (2 / April): 30–33. doi:10.1519/0744-0049(1987)009<0031:ISSTFS>2.3.CO;2.
Pauletto, Bruno (1987). "Strength training for the multi-sport athlete". National Strength & Conditioning Association Journal. NSCA. 9 (3 / June): 70–72. doi:10.1519/0744-0049(1987)009<0070:STFTMS>2.3.CO;2.
Pauletto, Bruno (1987). "Strength training versus weight lifting". National Strength & Conditioning Association Journal. NSCA. 9 (4 / August): 65–68. doi:10.1519/0744-0049(1984)009<0065:STVWL>2.3.CO;2.
Pauletto, Bruno (1987). "Understanding the Power Clean: Guidelines". Scholastic Coach. 57 (4): 56–57.
Pauletto, Bruno (1987). "Understanding the Power Clean: Execution". Scholastic Coach. 57 (5): 82–85.
Semenick, Doug; Connors, Jeff; Carter, Mike; Harman, Everett; Baechle, Thomas Ed.; Emery, Phil; McBride, John D.; Lachance, Peter F.; Richard Trimmer, J.; Rogers, Robb; Kraemer, William J.; Halling, Daye; Kontor, Ken; Pauletto, Bruno (1992). "Rationale, Protocols, Testing/Reporting Forms and Instructions for Wrestling". National Strength & Conditioning Association Journal. NSCA. 14 (3 / June): 54–59. doi:10.1519/0744-0049(1992)014<0054:TAM>2.3.CO;2.
Pauletto, Bruno (1991). "President's Message: Members make an association". National Strength & Conditioning Association Journal. NSCA. 13 (4 / August): 78–79. doi:10.1519/0744-0049(1991)013<0078:MMAA>2.3.CO;2.
Pauletto, Bruno (1992). "President's Message: The "new" NSCA". National Strength & Conditioning Association Journal. NSCA. 14 (1 / February): 83. doi:10.1519/0744-0049(1992)014<0083:TNN>2.3.CO;2.
Pauletto, Bruno (1992). "President's Message: What a meeting!". National Strength & Conditioning Association Journal. NSCA. 14 (2 / April): 74–75. doi:10.1519/0744-0049(1992)014<0074:WAM>2.3.CO;2.
^"Chippewas Athletics". CMU Chippewas. 2007. See "Chippewas Pride", page 2: "two individuals won national Division I Championships in the Maroon and Gold – shot putter Bruno Pauletto in the 1978 indoor championships and ...".
^"2012 Track & Field Record Book"(pdf). Central Michigan Chippewas. 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2017. See "National Champions" on page 10.
^"L'italo-canadese campione di peso"(jpeg). Illustratofiat (in Italian). Vol. XXVII, no. 7 / July–August. 1979. p. 26. Retrieved 11 August 2017. (Open the JPEG link to document) Transcription of the article "L'italo-canadese campione di peso"(txt) (in Italian). BESS digital Archive: Biblioteca elettronica di scienze sociali ed economiche del Piemonte. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
^"Snyder sets Canadian shot put record". CBCSports – CBC/Radio-Canada. 19 April 2001. Retrieved 11 August 2017. Snyder broke the previous Canadian record of 20.61 set in 1983 at Knoxville by Bruno Pauletto
^"Canada track & Field, London Olympic Games 2012 Media Guide" (in French). Athletics Canada – Canada Athlétisme. 25 July 2012. See page 71.
^Power System. "Awards and Certifications"(PDF). Retrieved 11 August 2017. The "Perfect Record Award" honors companies, locations or divisions that have continued for at least 12 consecutive months without incurring an occupational injury, illness or fatality involving days away from work
