Meet your coach

For over a decade, Ian Childress has been at the forefront of elite-level performance training, helping athletes push past their limits to achieve greater speed, strength, and overall athletic performance. Ian’s journey into sports performance began with a unique mentorship. He is the son-in-law of world-renowned sports performance coach, Chip Smith. Under Chip’s guidance, Ian honed his skills, learning from one the industry’s most respected pioneers. Ian has trained over 500 athletes for the NFL Combine. He has trained athletes from every major professional sport, various international athletes and teams both professional and amateur. Ian has an extensive background in sports both playing and coaching. His vast experience gives him an athletes perspective when training and connecting with his clients. He aims to help them reach their genetic potential and experience coaching at the highest level.

Ian has his B.S. in Sports Management from Liberty University and his C.S.P.S (Certified Sports Performance Specialist) certification from the M.O.R.R Certification. Ian was a scholarship athlete and a four-year letterman in football. He spent two years coaching football, strength & conditioning and basketball at Liberty High School in Bedford, Virginia. On a personal note, Ian is married to his wife Summer and they have four beautiful children, Tucker, Austin, Baker, and Paxton.

The Iron difference

  • Iron Sports uses a proprietary training system called the MORR. Developed by Chip Smith after doing his graduate studies at the Soviet Sports Institute in the eighty’s, and perfected over twenty plus years of developing the medical science behind resistance, overspeed, and reaction techniques, and utilizing the properties of muscle fiber recruitment. The MORR system employs specially designed equipment to improve performance by focusing on sport-specific, position-specific movements. The MORR system is widely-recognized as a worldwide leader in elite-level sports performance training as evidenced in thier clients improved speed, strength, and agility and in turn their success.

  • Our training system has produced results that are unsurpassed anywhere in the world. We don’t just improve athleticism, we develop more skilled and well-rounded players. Iron Sports tailors training to the specific movements required for each position, helping athletes improve their ability to execute these actions with greater speed and strength. We also incorporate mental training techniques that increase reaction time within each movement. There is no other system that mimics this methodology and is the reason our professional athletes have trusted Iron Sports to enhance and expand their performance curve.

Our facility

We train out of the first class IVSA training facility in Flowery Branch, Georgia.