Core Stix started with one brilliant idea from professional Strength Coach, Mike Kadar. His vision was to create a simple and easy to use functional training device that could be used for every muscle group in the body, and which would train the body in an upright position to work the core into every exercise. Mike shared his vision with Core Stix’s other co-founder, Kregg Koch, while Mike was training the Los Angeles Kings as their Strength and Conditioning Coach. Kregg, being a patent attorney and former mechanical engineer building rocket engines for NASA’s Space Shuttle program, brought skills to the team that perfectly complemented Mike’s fitness expertise.
Many years later, Mike now living in Pittsburgh and Coaching the Pittsburgh Penguins, and Kregg still living in Manhattan Beach, CA, Core Stix is in full swing, designing and manufacturing (in the United States) some of the most effective, innovative, easiest to use, and safest equipment available anywhere in the world.

Founder and Strength and Conditioning Coach
- Degree in Physical Education
- 20 year career in the Physical Fitness Industry
- Currently the Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Pittsburgh Penguins National Hockey League 2009 Stanley Cup Champions
- Strength and Conditioning Coach for the LA Kings from 2004 – 2008
- Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Gold Medal Slovenian National Team in 2007
- Continued Nutritional Background
- Customizes Conditioning Programs and Fitness Strategies for Professional Athletes

Founder, Engineer & Patent Attorney
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering (Univ. of Colorado)
- M.S. Structural Engineering (UCLA)
- J.D. (UCLA School of Law)
- Registered Patent Attorney
- Former Component Design Engineer on NASA’s Space Shuttle rocket engine program
- Fitness and sports enthusiast
