Greg Everett's background spans an unusual array of professional and personal experiences, from working on an ambulance, to authoring a dozen books, to coaching the sport of weightlifting at the world championship level. He's competed in sports ranging from weightlifting to bicycle trials to tactical shooting, trained and participated in many more from Brazilian jiu jitsu to boxing to rock climbing, and has been backpacking through the Sierra Nevada and Cascades for almost thirty years.
His book, Olympic Weightlifting, is the world's best selling on the subject, his instructional content across multiple media is used by athletes and coaches around the world, and he wrote, shot, directed, produced, and edited the first documentary film on the sport of weightlifting in the US, American Weightlifting.