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Josh Schuler enters his fifth season with the team and first as the Lions' head strength & conditioning coach.

Joining Detroit in 2016, Schuler has also served as the team's strength & power coordinator (2019) and assistant strength & conditioning coach (2016-18). Before coming to Detroit, he worked as a human performance coach at EXOS.

Schuler works closely with Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coaches Morris Henry and Tom Kanavy. Under the direction of Lions Head Coach Matt Patricia, Schuler and the performance staff creates comprehensive, individualized training programs so that players can achieve a high level of success.

From 2012-15, Schuler worked three seasons, along with the spring of 2015, as an assistant strength and conditioning coach for football at the United States Naval Academy. Prior to his stint at Navy, Schuler served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at the University of Colorado for two years (2010-2012) and worked with the football, track and field, women's tennis and men's golf programs.

Schuler was a graduate assistant strength coach for Auburn University during the 2008-09 seasons, along with the Tigers' 2010 spring practices. A Muscatine, Iowa native, he attended Iowa State University and earned a bachelor's degree in health and human performance. As an undergrad, Schuler was a student intern strength and conditioning coach for Olympic sports for three years (2004-07).

Immediately following his graduation from Iowa State, he interned for five months at the University of Colorado and went on to earn a master's degree in adult education from Auburn.

Schuler married his wife, Jackie, on March 18, 2017.