GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida will have a new strength and conditioning coordinator for the third time in five years, and the offseason strength and conditioning program began on Monday.

New director of strength and conditioning Mike Kent will put the Gators through the paces in "The Swamp Life" program over the next few months, looking to make some major gains before spring practice.

Kent in charge of strength and conditioning at Colorado State under head coach Jim McElwain, and he's got plenty of familiarity with a couple other assistants too.

"He's going to build those guys not only stronger, faster, bigger, he's going to develop the whole attitude, the mentality that we're going to look for, that's going to help us develop the team that we're thinking we can one day become," said Greg Nord, Florida's new tight ends coach and special teams coordinator, who worked with Kent and McElwain at Louisville from 2000-02.

At least a handful of players had begun to chime in on Kent's first workouts on social media by early Monday evening, including running back Brandon Powell and quarterback Treon Harris.

[blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"][p]First day with the new strength coaches and I'm already deadâ—ï¸