On Wednesday, the Chicago Bears announced that Reshard Langford and Mark Philippi were hired as assistant strength and conditioning coaches.
Langford had been working as a strength and conditioning coach for the United States Tennis Association since 2018, but he also spent two years coaching with the Minnesota Vikings, and he played for the Philadelphia Eagles, Kansas City Chiefs, and Detroit Lions.
This will be Philippi’s first stint in the NFL, but he has plenty of experience as a strength and conditioning coach. He has owned and operated the Philippi Sports Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada, since 2007, where they train Olympic, professional, and youth athletes, and he also spent 15 years as the director of strength and conditioning for UNLV.
Philippi also took first place at the 1996 World Drug-Free Powerlifting Championship and won the title of America’s Strongest Man in 1997.
Langford and Philippi join Allison Haley and Noble Landry as assistants for head strength and conditioning coach Pierre Ngo, who was promoted this year. Ngo, who had spent eight years in all with the Bears, worked for Philippi from 2009 to 2011 at his Sports Institute.