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Specialties: Strength and Conditioning Expert – Sport Specific, Post Rehabilitation General Fitness for All Ages
Contact: chailfit@yahoo.com or visit the bottom of the Contact Page to leave Mark a message.
Mark brings 40 years of experience as a world-class strength athlete and exercise professional to his private fitness training studio. His personal experience as a competitive lifter helped him develop a sense for the finer nuances of lifting weights and training for athletic performance. He developed techniques that most coaches and professionals never had a chance to learn because they aren’t written in books.
Mark is a seasoned veteran in the health club industry having owned Chaillet’s Gym, one of the top sport specific strength training facilities in the country from 1983 – 1998. In 2001, Mark repackaged his beloved Chaillet’s Gym with a more personal, one-on-one flair in York, PA as Chaillet’s Private Fitness. Mark’s goal is to provide private training for people of every fitness level ranging from those who want to get in shape for the first time through sport specific training for the athlete who wants to improve performance for competition.
Mark’s career as a health club owner began in 1983 opening Chaillet’s Gym that grew into one of the East Coast’s most powerful strength and conditioning gyms. Through those doors walked many World and National Powerlifting Champions, Olympic hopefuls, Olympic medalists, pro and college football players, wrestlers, the list goes on. Many names may be familiar, some, like Mark, are York Barbell Hall of Fame Inductees.
Through Chaillet’s Gym and today Chaillet’s Private Fitness, Mark continues to touch the lives of so many, whether World Champions or beginners. His years of coaching, counseling, and genuine consideration for all who walked through his doors affected the lives of many by involving them in a lifestyle that paid off wealthily in terms of self esteem, good health, achievement, sense of belonging, camaraderie . . . the list goes on.
His competitive lifting career spanned 25 years beginning in 1971 toying with the sport of Olympic-style weightlifting, and soon moving on to powerlifting where he achieved his highest accolades. In conjunction with his weightlifting and powerlifting competition, he achieved the status as Maryland’s High School Football All-American, All-State winner, and ultimately played football for the University of Maryland as their offensive center. In 1974, Mark won the Teenage National Powerlifting Championships in the 198 lb. weight class and the Collegiate National Championships as an 18-year-old.
As a college student, Mark won the Collegiate Nationals in the 220 lb. weight class, earning the Collegiate National Record with a 717 lb. dead lift. He was a Junior Olympic Champion and his combined Olympic and Powerlifting totals rank him in the top five of all time.
In 1983, he and John Gamble (1999 Hall of Fame Inductee) performed a two-man 1,600 lb. World record dead lift raising over $10,000 for The Jerry Lewis Telethon. Mark earned 10 World and American records with the USPF, APF, WPC, APA, and the IPA. He was the 1986 APF World Champion, 1991 and 1992 APA WPC World Champion, and 1993 and 1994 IPA World Champion.
Mark is ranked as one of the Top 20 lifters in the All-Time Century List in multiple weight classes spanning two decades. He is one of only four lifters in the history of the sport to dead lift 800 lbs. or more in four different weight classes. In 1996, dead lifting 830 lbs., he became the first man in the history of powerlifting to dead lift 800 lbs. in the Master division (40 years and older).
Mark’s enduring strength, fortitude, and accomplishments are acknowledged by popular strength sports writer, Marty Gallagher, in his book The Purposeful Primative. Marty was a long-time member of Chaillet’s Gym and witnessed some of the sport’s most incredible and memorable moments. Marty includes Mark as one of the pioneers of powerlifting, nicknaming him “the minimalist”.
Mark continues to strive to achieve excellence personally and for powerlifting acting as the President of the International Powerlifting Association. “Mark doesn’t wear his achievements, he lives them,” wrote Rick Spill, former Chaillet’s Gym member.
Phone : (717) 495-0024
Email : mark.chaillet@chailletsprivatefitness.com
Visit the bottom of the Contact Page to leave Mark a message.