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The passion Jason Karp found as a kid for the science of athletic performance started with a race around the track in sixth grade in Marlboro, New Jersey. Little did Jason know how much it would define his career and life. A Brooklyn, New York native, he grew up playing baseball and soccer and running track. It was intoxicating. His passion and curiosity placed him on a path he still follows, oscillating between industry and academia as a USA Track & Field certified coach, sport and exercise scientist, professor, author, speaker, and entrepreneur.
He is Founder and CEO of KASI, a sophisticated smartphone and smartwatch application that leverages biometric data for real-time AI and remote human run coaching. He is also creator of the popular REVO₂LUTION RUNNING coaching certification program, which was obtained by coaches and fitness professionals in 26 countries before being acquired by International Sports Sciences Association in 2022.
At age 24, Dr. Karp became one of the youngest college head coaches in the country, leading the Georgian Court University women’s cross-country team to the regional championship and being named NAIA Northeast Region Coach of the Year. While coaching high school track and field and cross country, he produced state qualifiers and All-Americans. He has been coaching runners remotely since 2001. In 2021, he became the first American distance running coach to move to Kenya to coach a group of Kenyan runners. He also spent a year as visiting professor of exercise science at Georgia Southern University, where he served as assistant cross country and track coach.
Dr. Karp has given hundreds of lectures across the USA and in 15 countries and has been an instructor for USA Track & Field’s Level 3 coaching certification and elite coaching camps at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. In 2024, he was invited to China to give lectures on physiology and training to the Chinese Athletics Association national team coaches. In 2022, Dr. Karp shared his passion and ideas from the TED stage with his talk, How Running Like an Animal Makes Us Human.
A prolific writer, Dr. Karp is the author of 16 books. His most popular titles include Can You Outrun a Donut?, Coaching the Kenyans, The Endurance of Speed, Run Like a Woman, Running Periodization, The Inner Runner, Running a Marathon For Dummies, and 101 Developmental Concepts & Workouts for Cross Country Runners. He is also editor of the sixth edition of Track & Field Omnibook. He has more than 400 articles published in numerous international coaching, running, and fitness trade and consumer magazines. He also served as senior editor for Active Network and currently is editor of Track Coach, the technical coaching journal of USA Track & Field.
Dr. Karp was awarded the 2011 IDEA Personal Trainer of the Year (the fitness industry’s highest award), is a two-time recipient of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, & Nutrition Community Leadership Award (2014, 2019), and was a 2019 finalist for Personal Fitness Professional Trainer of the Year and 2020 finalist for Association of Fitness Studios Influencer of the Year.
Dr. Karp received his PhD in exercise physiology with a physiology minor from Indiana University, his MBA in entrepreneurship from San Diego State University, his master’s degree in kinesiology from the University of Calgary, and his bachelor’s degree in exercise and sport science with an English minor from Penn State University. His research has been published in several scientific journals and he is a journal expert peer reviewer. He has also served on doctoral student dissertation committees.
A runner since age 11, Dr. Karp has run thousands of races and was a member of the silver-medal winning United States Masters Team at the 2013 World Maccabiah Games in Israel.
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