About QRF
Rich Mulder, MS, CSCS

Executive Director, QRF
US Army
Owner, CEO of Liberty Performance Training, Phoenix, AZ
A former Army officer, Rich graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2009. He served five years in the Infantry, completing Air Assault, Airborne, and Ranger Schools as well as a combat tour to Afghanistan, where he led over 120 dismounted patrols and earned the Bronze Star and the Combat Infantryman Badge.
After his service, Rich obtained his Strength and Conditioning Specialist certification from the NSCA and his Master’s Degree from Arizona State University, where he received the Outstanding Masters Scholar, Teacher and Leader Award.
While he continues to train the tactical community, he has also worked with numerous amateur and professional athletes including record-holding powerlifters, collegiate golfers and baseball players, AVP beach volleyball players, and multiple NFL players.
Since 2018, he has served as the strength coach for South Mountain Community College baseball and golf; nineteen Division 1 scholarships were awarded to his athletes in this timeframe and SMCC Men’s Golf won the National Championship in 2018 and 2022.
Rich has been published in NSCA Coach, Strength Performance Daily, and has spoken at the Rocky Mountain Region NSCA convention (2017) as well as the annual Grounded Athlete Development Program in Tainan and Taichung, Taiwan (2017-2019). During this time, he was also an adjunct professor at Ottawa University. He was the Strongman Corporation co-chair for the state of Arizona from 2018-2020 and served on the NSCA Arizona State Advisory Board from 2017 to 2020.
He is the Founder and Owner of Liberty Performance Training in Phoenix, Arizona as well as the Executive Director of Quality Resilience Fitness, a nation-wide nonprofit organization that promotes mental and physical health for veterans.
When not coaching others, training himself, or improving his business, Rich can be found reading good fiction, writing the ongoing fantasy series Calamity’s Window, bowhunting, or spending time with his wonderful friends and family.
