Mike Contreras

Michael Contreras is a Fire Captain a State of California licensed Paramedic and former Wellness and Fitness Coordinator for the Orange County Fire Authority in Irvine California. Michael has worked for the OCFA for 22 years and held the rank of firefighter, firefighter paramedic, Fire Captain and Fire Captain/Paramedic. Michael has held many different assignments for the OCFA, including a Training Officer, Recruit Academy Instructor, Acadamy Fitness Coordinator, Academy Coordinator, Department Safety Officer, Hazardous Material Technician Hazardous Material safety Officer, Assistant Public Information Officer and is member of the departments USAR team. Michael is a National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist CSCS, an ACE Certified Peer Fitness Trainer, a USAW Performance Coach, Crossfit Certified Olympic lifting Coach, a Russian Kettlebell Certified instructor, a Functional Movement Screen Instructor, a Concept II certified instructor and a Crossfit instructor Michael is a faculty member for ACE American Council on Exercise and is CE provider for a variety of fitness topic. Michael has been a presenter on a variety of Fire Service fitness and wellness topics at Firehouse West, Firehouse World, International Association of Fire Chiefs, Cal Fire Safety Symposium and is a highly sought after speaker on Fitness and Human Performance in the Fire Service. Michael has published several articles on Human Performance in the Fire Service. Michael has incorporated his passion for health and Fitness into the fire service to train hundreds of recruit firefighters as well as hundreds of professorial firefighters Firefighter worldwide.