Josh Schuler enters his 11th season with the team and seventh as the Lions' head strength & conditioning coach. Schuler was promoted to the role in 2020.

Josh Schuler enters his 11th season with the team and seventh as the Lions' head strength & conditioning coach. Schuler was promoted to the role in 2020.

Schuler works closely with the Director of Sports Science, Jill Costanza, and the Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coaches, Thadeus Jackson, Cameron Joss, Grant Steen and Fred Murphy. Under the direction of Lions Head Coach Dan Campbell, Schuler and the performance staff create comprehensive, individualized training programs so that players can achieve a high level of success.

Since coming to 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 the Lions, he worked as a human performance coach at EXOS.

Schuler has been an integral part of Campbell's coaching staff since Campbell's first season at the helm. His contributions helped the club achieve its fourth-consecutive winning season in 2025. In 2024, Schuler helped the team to a single-season franchise record of 15-2 and a second-straight NFC North Division title. The 2023 coaching staff was the club's third coaching staff in team history to win multiple playoff games, and the first coaching staff to do so since 1957. Schuler's work in the player performance department helped Detroit clinch its first Division Championship since 1993 and advance to its first NFC Championship since 1991.

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 is married to his wife, Jackie, and together they have three children, Walker, Adeline and Boone.