Lengthy-time Pittsburgh Steelers Head Power and Conditioning coach Marcel Pastoor is leaving the workforce, he introduced on his LinkedIn account Tuesday afternoon. He had beforehand spent 23 years with the Steelers’ group.
In a prolonged goodbye, he wrote:
Within the put up, he thanked the Rooney household and the entrance workplace for his or her assist. He additionally talked about longtime S&C coach Garrett Giemont, employed by the workforce in 2007. Pastoor turned the workforce’s head Power and Conditioning coach three years in the past, changing Giemont who was retitled to Senior Power and Conditioning coach. He was a fixture at coaching camp and legitimately had a terrific arm, typically used to simulate “kickoffs” throughout particular groups durations.
He helped Ben Roethlisberger get stronger as a rookie, this 2004 Sports activities Illustrated article noting the 2 labored carefully.
“It’s essential to get your core robust since you achieve this a lot twisting and rotating while you’re throwing,” says Roethlisberger, who has labored to strengthen his midsection since his highschool days in Findlay, Ohio. Steelers assistant power and conditioning coach Marcel Pastoor now trains Roethlisberger as much as 3 times every week, concentrating on the QB’s abdominals, obliques, hip flexors and decrease again.”
Pastoor graduated from Virginia Tech earlier than finishing his Masters at Pitt in 2003. Previous to being rent by the Steelers, he interned with Washington in 1998 whereas serving as a volunteer coach at Radford College from 1999 to 2001.
Pastoor famous he intends to remain native and it doesn’t seem he’s leaping to a different NFL group. He ended the put up saying he “will bleed black and gold ceaselessly.”
Pittsburgh must discover his alternative. Rodain Delus is at the moment the workforce’s Assistant S&C coach however has solely been with the workforce for a handful of years.
Thus far, he’s the second identified coach contained in the Steelers’ group to depart. Offensive Assistant Glenn Thomas left after one 12 months with Pittsburgh, taking a job at Nebraska. It’s the second 12 months the workforce has had a longtime member of their conditioning and medical employees go away. After the 2022 season, Head Athletic Coach John Norwig retired after 32 years with the Steelers. He was changed externally by Gabe Amponsah.
