Marvin Jack Marinovich was an American college and professional football player who became a strength and conditioning coach.
20 Facts About Marv Marinovich
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Marv Marinovich played college football as a two-way lineman for the USC Trojans and was captain of their national championship team in 1962.
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Marv Marinovich played professionally as an offensive guard for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League.
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Marv Marinovich was later the founder of Marinovich Training Systems.
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Marv Marinovich grew up with his extended family on a three-thousand-acre ranch in Watsonville, in northern California.
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Marv Marinovich entered professional football during the era of NFL and AFL competitive drafts, and was drafted in the 12th round of the 1962 NFL draft by the Los Angeles Rams and in the 1962 AFL Draft by the Oakland Raiders.
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Marv Marinovich studied Eastern Bloc training methods and was hired by Oakland Raiders owner, Al Davis, as one of the NFL's first strength-and-conditioning coaches.
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Marv Marinovich learned to focus more on training for speed and flexibility, and much of his work became the basis for modern core- and swimming-pool-based conditioning programs.
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Marv Marinovich later worked for the MLB's St Louis Cardinals, and then the Hawaiians of the World Football League.
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Marv Marinovich eventually moved his young family in with his in-laws on the Balboa Peninsula of Newport Beach, California.
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Marv Marinovich later opened his own athletic research center, and began applying the techniques to his children, Traci and Todd Marinovich, introducing sport training before they could leave the crib and continuing it throughout childhood and adolescence.
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Todd Marv Marinovich became a high school football legend, dominating all records in Orange County and coming to national attention when Sports Illustrated published an article, titled "Bred To Be A Superstar", that discussed his unique upbringing under his father who wanted to turn his son into the "perfect quarterback".
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Marv Marinovich had assembled a team of advisers to tutor him on every facet of the game.
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Marv Marinovich has never eaten a Big Mac or an Oreo or a Ding Dong.
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Marv Marinovich did consume beef but not the kind injected with hormones.
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When Todd was one month old, Marv Marinovich was already working on his son's physical conditioning.
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Marv Marinovich invented a game in which Todd would try to lift a medicine ball onto a kitchen counter.
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Marv Marinovich's brother-in-law was Craig Fertig, who was a former USC football player.
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In 2018 the Marinovich family revealed that Marv Marinovich had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and was living at a care facility in Mission Viejo, California.
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Marv Marinovich died on December 3,2020, in Mission Viejo, California.