Rich Sadiv
Known around the world as “The Human Crane”, Rich Sadiv is an International Powerlifting Champion who has held multiple weightlifting records. A highly-regarded strength training coach and athletic trainer, he has coached and prepared over 130 NFL draft picks and pioneered the Sadiv Sets protocol. Sadiv is the Owner of the Parisi Speed School Fair Lawn and Escape Fitness Fair Lawn.
Rich Sadiv
Known around the world as “The Human Crane”, Rich Sadiv is an International Powerlifting Champion who has held multiple weightlifting records. A highly-regarded strength training coach and athletic trainer, he has coached and prepared over 130 NFL draft picks and pioneered the Sadiv Sets protocol. Sadiv is the Owner of the Parisi Speed School Fair Lawn and Escape Fitness Fair Lawn.
Rich Sadiv is a seasoned, highly regarded strength coach and athletic trainer from Glen Rock, New Jersey. Throughout his career, Sadiv has distinguished himself as a foremost expert in high-level athletic training, notably helping over 130 prospective NFL players prepare for the combine and ultimately begin a career in the league. He also specializes in training crossfit athletes, Spartan racers, and young to middle-aged adults interested in various functional fitness endeavors.
Sadiv also serves as the head performance coach for the Parisi Speed School in Fair Lawn, NJ, an institution he has owned since 2015. He serves as the corporate program director for Parisi’s Combine Program, he is the strength advisor for Martin Rooney’s Trainin For Warriors System. As the program director for the TEST/Parisi Combine Program, he is the strength advisor for Martin Rooney’s Training For Warriors system. Additionally, he is the owner of Escape Fitness Fair Lawn, where he dedicates time to both performance coaching and personal training. His NFL involvement has helped produce several prominent, accomplished players, including Josh Norman, Chris Long, Greg Olsen and Demario Davis.
In each of his professional roles, Rich Sadiv strives to get the most out of his athletes, implementing dynamic, isokinetic training based equally on high-power physical output and injury mitigation. He believes that quality coaching hinges on showing an athlete how much you care rather than how much you know — which creates the kind of trust and kinship necessary to achieve new levels of athletic success.
Sadiv prides himself on having built his career and reputation from a grassroots position. A graduate of William Paterson University of New Jersey, he previously held supervising and managerial roles with UPS for over 20 years. There, he gleaned a variety of life fundamentals that would shape his training and coaching philosophy — namely quality control, organization, and personal responsibility.
These values eventually flourished as Sadiv carved a considerable niche in competitive athletics. An active world-class powerlifter of over 30 years, he currently stands as one of the top deadlifters in the Masters category at 181/198 lbs. He has earned induction into two powerlifting halls of fame — as well as the nickname, “The Human Crane.”
Sadiv leverages these experiences in his training approach, conveying a blend of personalized, multifaceted training construction and necessary behavioral adaptation. Specifically, he believes that everything happens for a reason, and therefore, attention to detail is key — whether that pertains to an athlete’s timeliness, physical performance, or overall mentality regarding long term goals. Sadiv also works to instill a healthy, nutrition-oriented lifestyle in tandem with physical training, a topic he often covers in his Crane in the Kitchen Youtube series.
Today, Rich Sadiv continues to push himself to ultimately inspire the athletes he trains. He balances a rigorous personal training routine with his enduring presence in athletic development, while advocating for the same blend of accountability and dedication that built his illustrious career.
Testimonials
I sent a text to one of the most respected men in all of high performance sports training, Rich Sadiv, owner of Parisi’s Speed School in Fair Lawn, NJ…I will give you no better advice but to get at least 8 sessions in with Rich Sadiv…Rich, from the bottom of my heart, I wouldn’t be who I am without you, and that defining accountability moment in my life, at exactly 33.5 years old.
– Jeff VanNote, Host of The Deposit Podcast, Founder of Reverifi.com
Rich Sadiv is not only a friend but also someone who inspires me to be better, be more consistent, and become a greater version of myself. Rich was born to an immigrant family in New Jersey. By the time he was a young man in his twenties, he got a hob at UPS working the nightshift, loading trucks for delivery using the work ethic his family had instilled in him. It was around this time that Rich found a new challenge in powerlifting. This is a strength sport that consists of three attempts to lift as much weight as possible in the squat, the bench press, and the deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athlete attempting to lift the maximum weight of a barbell loaded with plates in a single lift effort. Outside of the Olympics, this is mostly an unknown sport. There is no money to be earned, no fame, and no TV or movie appearances for the star athletes. It’s a very small, very skilled community that has grown in popularity over the decades because of social media.
Rich not only ended up working his way up the corporate ladder at UPS from truck loader to corporate executive over a twenty-year career, but on a parallel track, he also became one of the best deadlifting powerlifters in the entire world. If you saw Rich you wouldn’t think that he was a powerlifter at first sight. He has used that illusion to overwhelm many opponents in competitions. He has an unassuming build-six-foot-two and around one-hundred-and-ninety pounds, tall and lean. He doesn’t look like a huge cartoon character you’d see in strongest man competitions on ESPN. Over his powerlifting career, he has achieved fourteen New Jersey state records, five national records, and one world record in the deadlift. This has never stopped him from improving.
– Ralph DiBugnara, – Excerpt from The Growth Trap, WSJ eBook Bestseller
10 years ago, I walked into Parisi’s with a very young John and and even younger Alex and met Rich Sadiv. He was a trainer who would go into own the facility. We struck gold. I and they owe a debt of gratitude to this man. He has been and continues to be instrumental in their development. Alex has spent the summer with Rich drilling and training speed, agility and (my favorite) lifting. I get asked all the time about where the boys train, how did they get such good form or how did they get and maintain their knowledge of and interest in training. It is Rich, plain and simple. Thank you, my friend.
– Robert High