CVASPS Podcast, Strength and Conditioning Info From The Worlds Top Sport Performance and Physical Preparation Practitioners

The Podcast is BACK! In episode 1 of season 4 I had the fortune of being able to sit down and chop it up with North Broward Prep's Director of Athletic Development and Head Track and Field Coach, John Garrish. Throughout the 45-minute discussion, John and I get into: 1)    Even though his path has changed through his career, how his love in training has still been a driving force behind his decisions.2)    How the idea of “Shiny Object Syndrome” impact coaches3)    The role of identifying value in toys, tools, or tech, and where the research can impact progress either way.4)    Wickets, their value, where they can be helpful, and what you could do if you don't have access to them, or a group too large to implement them.5)    Building progressions while keeping what's “best available for the group” in mind6)    Utilizing constraints to correct technical issues in sprinting, and what he's looking at to identify what need to be improved.7)    Where the weight room connects with speed training, including where its priority sits throughout the year and how that changes.8)    His entire weekly plan in “the perfect world” I'm truly grateful for John being so open to sharing all of this with us today. Understanding how some of the best practitioners provide feedback and put athlete's in situations to improve technique is so valuable, so I can't thank him enough for sharing so many aspects of, not just his progressions, but what he's identifying and correcting. His Instagram full of awesome content, including great “stories” giving great examples of his athletes in action, so give him a follow at: @coach_garrish. Lastly, if you find value in the show please feel free to share this episode with a collogue that you feel would enjoy it, and please don't forget to subscribe and give us a 5-star review on your favorite podcast player. I truly do appreciate it. Who is John Garrish? Coach John Garrish has served the North Broward Prep community for nine years as the school's Strength & Conditioning Coordinator, five as its Head Track and Field Coach and three as a Middle School Faculty member.  A native of South Florida, John attended Wagner College (B.S., Psychology '12) and the University of North Texas (M.S., Kinesiology '14) before serving as a Strength and Conditioning Coach at Rutgers University and finally joining the North Broward Prep family in 2014.   Most recently, John served temporarily on the FAU Football Strength Staff during the summer of 2020.  John is certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and has served on the Board of Directors for the National High School Strength Coaches' Association as the Southeast Regional Director (2016-2020) and the National Strength and Conditioning Association's High School Special Interest Group Executive Council (2015-2016).

I'm elated to introduce Brittney Bearden to The CVASPS family in this week's episode of The Podcast. Britt has done some fantastic work with our guys over the past three years helping them to transform their nutrition routines. In the 33-minute discussion Brittney and I get into: 1)     What drove her to go into sports nutrition and how the education steps to get licensed impacted how she practices today. 2)     What is truly involved in how we select food, and how important it is to individualize nutrition programs based on the specific athlete. 3)     The value in understanding where the athlete is in their nutrition voyage, and working with them to build from there. 4)     Where the “line” is for where strength coaches may step out of their scope of practice, and what issues could arise if we over step our boundaries. A huge thank you to Brittney Bearden for joining us today. She has been a huge addition to our group and has done great work helping our guys better understand how they fuel themselves, and also puts out awesome stuff so make sure you give her a follow @sportrdbritt on Instagram. I'm sure you'll find a have a ton of value in the content she's putting out. I can't thank you enough for listening to The Podcast, and I hope you enjoyed the show. If so and could help us out by sharing the show with a colleague that would be greatly appreciated, and please don't forget to subscribe on your favorite podcast player, and please leave us a review while you're there.

This week's episode of The Podcast is a season review and audit with Andrea Comini. Dre and I have known each other for almost 10 years, and we had the opportunity to sponsor his visa to bring him back to The States to work with us in The Q this year and he was a huge addition. Dre's a great coach who brought a unique view point to our daily routine, our programming, and our standard. In the 30-minute discussion Dre and I get into: 1)     Where his love of basketball and coaching stems from.2)     How bringing in a new set of eyes helped point out some areas I became a bit comfortable3)     The value of having a standard in our vocation and how it can be helpful teaching leadership and accountability within a team4)     Being who you are at all times, how each individual has to be true to themselves, and how we can learn from each other's true self5)     The training plan and facility they're building in Italy, and what is the driving factor behind building the program.  Massive thank you to Andrea Comini for joining us today. This was a unique show for me, taking a step back and reviewing where we had to make some improvements, the results of them, and sharing with you. I can't thank Dre enough for his help this year, both with the team and with driving me to be a better coach. Make sure you check out what they're doing at the Pro Camp, they're doing an awesome job sharing what doing down at the lake. Give them a follow at: @procamp__ on Instagram. I'm sure you'll find a what they're putting out to have a ton of value. Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed the show. If so and could help us out by sharing the show with a colleague that would be greatly appreciated, and please don't forget to subscribe on your favorite podcast player, and please leave us a review while you're there.  

This week I had the pleasure of getting to catch up with Dominick Walker on this week's episode of The Podcast. Dom is doing some awesome work down at Mississippi State preparing his Men's Basketball team, and also providing a ton of great content on the work they're doing and the results he's seeing. In the 35-minute chat Dom and I get into: 1)     Some adjustments that we see that are needed in this new era of the portal and NIL2)     Picking what battle to fight knowing that you're not going to win them all3)     What the role of having standards are in developing relationships with the athlete4)     The role of the strength and conditioning coach in the world of sport Huge thanks to Dominick Walker for joining us today. This show, like many this season, has been a long time coming. He's doing an awesome job sharing the work he's doing down at MSU so make sure you give him a follow at: @raikage.com on twitter and Instagram. I'm sure you'll find a what he's putting out to have a ton of value. If you enjoyed the show and could help us out by sharing the show with a colleague that would be greatly appreciated, and please don't forget to subscribe on your favorite podcast player, and please leave us a review while you're there. 

I am so excited to welcome Dr. Kessa Kuyper to The Podcast. “K” was a great addition to our staff for the 2021/22 season, helping one of the oldest teams ever in college basketball “survive” the season with her unique perspective on training after going through PT School. In the 30-minute conversation we discuss: 1)     Why going to PT school may be a good decision for young coaches coming out of college2)     How having a role within the high-performance team is important, not just to the staff but the athlete even more.3)     The value in the athlete's input to programming K is doing awesome work out in Memphis. Make sure you give her a follow @kessakuyper and follow the staff at Memphis @mephisathleticperformance You'll find a ton of awesome content on both pages. Also, if you find value in the shows please feel free to send it to a colleague that would enjoy it and don't forget to subscribe and give us a 5-star review! I truly do appreciate it.

In this week's episode of The Podcast Will Ratelle and I discuss the vernacular of strength and conditioning, and why terms matter. Throughout the 35-minute chat Will and I get into:1)     How all too often we come up with terms that may or may not have an actual definition, and why this is really slowing down our progress as a vocation. 2)     His view on the term rotational power, and why there may be some misconceptions around that term3)     The impact of range of motion on power athletes4)     What factors are important to Will in the training process, and how it drives his programming.5)     How can we communicate to coaches that they may not understand what they don't understand6)     How the most important thing may be how your relationships with your coworkers are. Will is doing great work, not just with his student athlete's but with his two “Hoss” projects. Make sure you check them out here: and give him a follow on Instagram @will.ratelle. He puts out a ton of awesome content. If you enjoyed the show please subscribe on your favorite podcast player, and if you could leave us a 5 star review I'd greatly appreciate it!

In this week's episode I'm so happy to welcome Josh Storms to The Podcast. Throughout the 30-minute conversation Josh and I get into:1)     The pros of longevity in one place.2)     The transition period between head coaches, what he observed with the players, and how being the “go between” with the new staff and the players helped with the transition. 3)     What his evaluation process during Spring Ball consists of, and the impact of “the portal”4)     The importance of evolving your programming, and its effect both physically and mentally on the athlete5)     Leadership, why athletes have a hard time with it, and how we can encourage athletes to develop that skill. Coach Storms is doing awesome work down at FSU, and is such a generous wealth of knowledge. Make sure to give Josh a follow @coachstorms on both Instagram and Twitter to check out the work he's doing and the awesome training music that's got going on in their sessions. I hope you enjoyed the discussion, and if you did please feel free share it with a colleague. Also, if you find value in the shows please don't forget to subscribe and give us a 5-star review! I truly do appreciate it. 

This week's podcast guest is another coach whose name has been dropped on many “My Thoughts Monday's. I'm so fired up to get to chop it up with my good friend and former co-worker Mike Thomson this week. In the 30-minute chat Mike and I get into: 1)     Evaluating players (in this case pitchers), and how looking at their mechanics can improve specificity and drive better training prescription.2)     How they establish variables to look at and use to help drive, not just their training model, but prescription of training means to impact the sporting exercise.3)     The impact of understanding the language used in the sport, and the what the actual4)     Keeping training to help make those who are exceptional at certain things even more exceptional at those things based on evaluations5)     Working through the “continual in season” that we are now seeing in many sports6)     Where looking at the individual vs regressing to a mean can help identify not just what is working for each specific athlete but also what is NOT working.7)     Thought processes that drive his continuous growth and has helped him build this model Mike has had a huge impact the development of our staff and programming for our athlete'.  Make sure you give him a follow-on Twitter @Thomson19Mike and Instagram @mikethomson19 to see what he's building in the training of all the teams he gets to work with. If you enjoyed the talk please feel free share it with a colleague and don't forget to subscribe and give us a 5-star review! It's greatly appreciated. 

This episode has been a long time coming. I've mentioned him quite often in the old “My Thoughts Monday” shows as being a vital part of our “Q Team”, and it's about time I brought him onto the show. Throughout the X minute discussion Beacher and I get into: 1)     What is the first “marker” that we look at when we start to develop out programs, and, even though we find success in similar programs, there is a huge need for there to be some major differences2)     Ways that he evaluates the team that have impacted how programming is progressed and helped display what their level of “preparedness” is. 3)     Where he feels the largest challenge in “practical periodization”, including what has helped him drive those decisions.4)     If there is confusion on the thoughts of periodization and training progressions where it could have stemmed from.5)     How the subjective and objective progression of programming is a give and take process that has allowed better individualization to training and greater buy in by the athletes towards their development. 6)     Using the warm up as your evaluation, injury reduction work, and preparation for the exercises that they're going to perform. Beacher has been vital to our development as a staff and his input into the programming of our athlete's has been a huge help in how we have progressed.  Make sure you give him a follow-on Instagram @alphacoach1 to see what he's building in the training of all the teams he gets to work with. If you enjoyed the talk please feel free to subscribe and give us a 5-star review! It's greatly appreciated.  

I'm so happy to welcome Steve Georgio to The Podcast this week. Steve has been doing awesome work up at Fordham going through a very unique and trying three years, surviving three different head coaching changes in that time period, leading up to a fantastic season this year. Throughout the 30 plus minute discussion Steve and I talk about 1)     The importance of loyalty in a world and vocation that really lacks it at times2)     In a time where specializing in one sport is the norm, how working with multiple sports has helped him be ready for a vast array of situations, changes, curve balls3)     Key thoughts and themes of the conversations that he has had to better understand the direction a team is going to go with new coaches during times of transition4)     Understanding our role within the team, and how that changes, not just throughout the year, but season to season as teams change5)     How expanding your coaching skill set, through many different forms of education, is great, but doing so directed by the needs of the athletes and coaches is even better6)     Providing ever green content and “meeting the athletes where they're at” through different mediums to help provide more education for the athletes  Make sure to give Steve a follow-on IG and twitter @georg1o and follow his performance team @rams_strength, they're doing great stuff and putting out great content. If you enjoyed the talk please feel free to subscribe and give us a 5-star review! It's greatly appreciated            

Today I am elated to welcome Eric Guthrie to The Podcast. Many of our listeners who have attended The Seminar have had the pleasure of meeting “Big E” at one of the events and know he's one of the best people in our vocation. In the 35-minute discussion Eric and I get into:1)     What “improving the department” actually means to each of us, and how following/working under great directors allows you to keep the ball rolling.2)     The importance of a common vision and how communicating that throughout the department is vital to improving our position and their opinion of what we do.3)     Ways that we can impact things outside the weight room, including how sometimes less is more when building out these plans.4)     The idea of preparing the athlete's better to prepare better for the game, how to build that out and monitor progress. Make sure to give Eric a follow-on IG and twitter @Ericguthrie07 and follow his performance team @GWSportsperformance, they're doing great stuff and putting out great content. If you enjoyed the talk please feel free to subscribe and give us a 5-star review! It's greatly appreciated. 

This week's episode of The Podcast is some Thoughts from Old Graybeard where I reflect on this time of the year. All too often coaches suffer from extreme FOMO, and this time of year is one of the greatest culprits for experiencing it. For those whose seasons have come to an end we are, at times, in a rush to get back to training and really crank it up, but that isn't always what's best. What may be best for all of us is to do one simple thing that really isn't that easy to do, and that is, slow down.  

In this week's episode of The Podcast I have the pleasure of sitting down and chopping it up with Andrew Stuart. In the 30-minute talk Andrew and I get into: 1)     How taking the thought process back to a 5th grade science experiment could save practitioners a lot of headaches.2)     Where he sees an issue with being data driven, and how changing the thought process to data informed could help us be even better for the coaches and athletes we get to work with.3)     What the “applied” in applied sport science needs to mean, and why just doing testing to do testing leads us to road blocks in the process.4)     How the art of coaching and the basic pillars of what we do need to continue to be the back bone of our programming and the tech needs to support it.  Andrew is doing some awesome work at Nebraska, make sure to keep up with everything they're doing by following him on Instagram at: @ coachastuart

I'm elated to welcome Ben Kenyon to The Podcast and introduce him as one of our presenters for The 2023 Seminar. I have had the fortune to know BK and call him a collogue for the past 18 years so this conversation has been a long time coming. Throughout the 45-minute discussion we get into: 1)     How career burn out impacted to him professionally, and how it led to a personal pivot that has allowed him to impact people all over the world. 2)     The importance of having your set of core values to drive your vision and career progression.3)     Finding the value in pausing and pacing yourself in your personal life and professionally.4)     Understanding that maximizing now and being patient and building the best of your situation is what opens doors later5)     What it truly means to be a master of your craft and why that is vital for our continued growth as a vocation Make sure you check out Great Day Squad (https://www.greatdaysquad.com) and per order Climb (https://www.greatdaytoclimb.com) today! I'm so excited to have BK on the docket and hope you are as well. I hope you and your staff are able to join us The Seminar, July 21 and 22 at PLAE HQ for this summer's edition of The Seminar! For more info and to book your seats use the link here: https://cvasps.com/2023-seminar/

This week we welcome Dr. Craig Turner to The Podcast. Throughout this fantastic 42-minute discussion Dr. Turner goes into: 1)    The tactical similarities across team sports and how those similarities have helped both of us progress our careers from soccer to basketball, and create a better understanding of the games. 2)    The role of technology in coaching and how important having actionable data and actually acting on it is. 3)    Understanding what you are trying to measure when selecting what technology to add 4)    Touch points and communication points are both vital to keep track of and to a minimum so that you actually collect and communicate the most essential information.5)    Lessons learned from his time in the NBA, and how those lessons have impacted how he collects and communicates data today6)    What meeting where them where they're at not only is in reference to the players but also is in relation to the communication methods utilized to get the info to the coaches that they need. 

This week we are joined by 2023 Seminar presenter, Kansas University's Director of Sports Performance for football, Matt Gildersleeve. Our last discussion with Sleeve was OTR #79, and we catch up right where we left off. Sleeve dives into: What the first off season was like, and how it set up their program moving forward. The impact of the COVID summer and in what ways that continues to impact his program. A simple thing that has helped him not stay “stuck in his ways” and keep pushing to find better ways, means, and methods for all aspects of life. How the law of 100/100 has impacted him both professionally and personally What “really matters” and how “winning the off season” sometimes isn't what leads to the best on field results. How becoming a father changed his thought process and how he sees the word “sacrifice” We hope you're as excited as we are to welcome Coach Sleeve to The Seminar, July 21 and 22 at PLAE HQ! For more info and to book your seats use the link here: https://cvasps.com/2023-seminar/

It's always great to catch up with Dr. Bryan Mann, and this week's episode of The Podcast is no different. In the 36-minute discussion Doc and I go into:  1)     His new position and role at “The U”2)     Force Velocity Profiling, some of the issues and FAQ's with it, and practical ways to implement it (oh and this is what his presentation is on at The 2023 Seminar)3)     How looking at averages at times is appropriate, but can also hinder development4)     How important math and physics are to what we do5)     The importance of asking why, along with how important who answers the question impacts our view of the answer. 6)     How our biases impact our perspective, and how that can impact our continued development as coaches7)     The importance of “letting it go”, and how that had a huge impact on him both at work and home. Can't wait to have Dr. Mann back on the docket at The Seminar and hope you can join us at PLAE HQ this July 21st and 22nd! For more info and to book your seats use the link here: https://cvasps.com/2023-seminar/

I couldn't be more excited to have had the opportunity to sit down and catch up with 2023 presenter Coach Boo Schexnayder on this week's episode of The Podcast. After a quick catch-up with Coach Boo we get into: 1)     The role of science and practical common sense thinking in coaching, and how what is “scientific” vs common sense has come full circle.2)     What the role of research is in his coaching, and how he sees some limitations to research 3)     Why he's very reserved when it comes to the flavor of the week fads and leans towards time tested methods and means4)     The role of coming up as a coach before the “technology movement” has helped him have a better understanding of what is and isn't useful in sports tech.5)     Trusting your instincts when it comes to making decisions on programming and during training session.6)     How important mistakes are in a coach's development ONLY if they are able to be critical of themselves.7)     The importance of having outside interests from coaching to help us stay grounded and avoid burnout.  I hope you're as excited as I are to bring to Coach Boo back to The Seminar and can join us at PLAE HQ this July 21st and 22nd! For more info and to book your seats use the link here: COMING SOON! 

I am so fired up to welcome Molly Binetti back to The Podcast and introduce her as our 2nd presenter at The 2023 edition of The Seminar. In the 35-minute discussion we talk about: 1)     The challenges of the season after winning a championship and how that's impacted our approaches to not just training, but how we handle our athletes2)      The importance of making sure you're progressing the younger players on a successful team and not letting them be comfortable riding the coat tails of those who built the success in front of them. 3)     The challenges to finding out what truly maters when it comes to impacting wins and losses4)     What matters when it comes to “doing your job well”?5)     How taking care of #1 made her better in every aspect of coaching and life. I hope you're as excited as I are to bring to Molly back to The Seminar and can join us at PLAE HQ this July 21st and 22nd! For more info and to book your seats use the link here: COMING SOON!

The Podcast returns with a sensational conversation with PLAE's Chase Campbell. Chase and I discuss:1)     The decision to move The Seminar to PLAE HQ2)     What Greybeard's presentation will be on at CVASPS and different lenses to look at reverse engineering through3)     The role of simplicity in programming and how our view on it has changed as we have gotten older4)     The most valuable aspects of CVASPS to both of us5)     What is one thing outside of work could help all coaches be better at what they do that, for the most part, we are all horrible with.6)     How teaching and buy in go hand in hand when it comes to training7)     Using different one-off opportunities to allow more autonomy and see how much the athletes have learned from you about trainingWe hope you're as excited as we are to bring to The Seminar to PLAE HQ this July 21st and 22nd! For more info and to book your seats use the link here: COMING SOON!

“We all live in the same physical world and environment, it's just the demands of your sport may have some degrees of variant within that.” One of the things I try to do is bring the people doing the research to The Seminar, and after writing the book on biomechanics of basketball, Dr. Petway is the go to in that discipline. During the 42-minute talk we cover: 1)     His voyage into sports performance, and what drove him towards researching biomechanics2)     How being asked the right questions by his mentor changed his whole perspective on training progressions3)     A few books that were game changing to him both educationally and in his coaching4)     The big limitation to using “clock sports” as our guide in training. 5)     What are the two “big rocks” when it comes to performance outcomes6)     The importance and value of working with high school athlete's 7)     The role of systems and how they need to constantly evolveI'm elated to have Dr. Petway at The Seminar and elated to welcome him to the CVASPS family and have him as part of The Pittsburgh Seminar! I hope you're able to join us July 15 and 16 at The Marriott Short Pump! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-richmond-seminar/

“There are some general principles about how we train and how we could train based on humans first based on how we respond to training.” This episode of The Podcast is a super discussion with Jonas Dodoo. During the 41-minute talk we cover: 1)     Principles and systems, the power behind them and why their vital for coaches2)     Different ways that the general impacts the specific in training3)     The rule of thirds, and how it can help us understand programming4)     Confidence as an objective of many aspects of training5)     The role and power of trust and what it leads to6)     Pro's and con's to “buckets” with athletes7)     A different way to look at time and distance to improve speed I'm so fired up to have Jonas on the docket as part of The Richmond Seminar, and hope you're able to join us July 15 and 16 at The Marriott Short Pump! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-richmond-seminar/

“Being able to have something that you stand for, and being able to consistently deliver that message in a way that's authentic and gets to the core root of the issue and to your audience, that IS coaching.” Always awesome to catch up with Ali Kershner, and this week's episode of The Podcast is no different! Throughout the 40-minute chat we talk about: 1)     Ali's new role and what inspired her to take the leap to step away from coaching athletes2)     Some aspects of growth strength coaches excel at, and some we may need to improve upon3)     A simple way to help improve communication between people, not just coaches. 4)     The importance of finding who you are as a coach5)     Ways that the “system” that we progress coaches through could be better6)     Sales, marketing, and personal brands and what their role is in coaching. We couldn't be more excited to have Ali on the docket as part of The Richmond Seminar, and hope you're able to join us July 15 and 16 at The Marriott Short Pump! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-richmond-seminar/

“It's much more challenging to find solutions to problems then it is to complain.” Always great to catch up with Coach Brijesh Patel, and this episode of The Podcast is no different. Throughout the 35-minute chat we talk about: 1)     How a deep dive into fascia has had a massive impact on his programming2)     Eldoa, what it is and why it's important3)     How isokinetic training can improve performance, and help with injuries4)     How coaches can build each other up to drive the profession forward5)     The issues with complaining vs providing answers6)     The impact of your “inner circle” and critical thinking, and how the two may not be symbiotic I'm elated to welcome B to the CVASPS family and have him as part of The Pittsburgh Seminar! I hope you're able to join us April 29th and 30th at Union Fitness in Pittsburgh, PA! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-pittsburgh-seminar/

“You do what they can do, build in what they can do, circumvent the weaknesses and try to get them to that.” “There's nothing really new, science has helped us understand the effects of things better, great coaches have made us understand it from their experiences. We've all learned from our fairs, unfortunately I've made the same mistakes a couple times, which makes me upset.” “The great ones, relative to your level, do things you can't coach. Don't uncoach them.” In this week's episode of The Podcast, I have the absolute pleasers of sitting down and talking with Vermeil. Throughout the 100-minute chat we talk about: 1)     Two things “Young Coaches” should never stop doing.2)     A simple evaluation that coaches can use and ways to improve upon it3)     Why he feels coaches should start out coaching in high school, and the lessons it taught him. 4)     The importance of going to the source, and the originator of ideas5)     What factors he has seen to impact transfer of training to sport6)     The impacts of size and limb length on work capacity on athletes7)     The importance of working on technique when building sport skills8)     How your philosophy is the backbone of what you do as a coach and how coaches can make alterations based off that. We couldn't be more excited to have Al on the docket as part of The Richmond Seminar, and hope you're able to join us July 15 and 16 at The Marriott Short Pump! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-richmond-seminar/

“I tell young coaches and young trainers all the time, just because you have the title of strength coach at this school or the title of trainer at this school that really doesn't mean anything, it means absolutely nothing other than the paycheck.”  “Ultimately, if the kids come to you and the athletes come to you and you help them and you come up with answers for them they're going to keep coming to you.” I got the opportunity to chop it up with Boo Schexnayder in this week's episode of The Podcast. Throughout the 35-minute chat we talk about: 1)     What coaching is, and where he sees the role of “problems” in coaching.2)     What the coach's role in injuries actually is.3)     The importance of drawing knowledge from multiple fields4)     Some of the unique challenges to the educational progressions of coaches5)     What he truly loves about sports6)     What really drives buy-in and brings athlete's back to a coach. 7)     How cultural norms hold us back from being elite8)     The effects of commercially driven trends and fads9)     Why some means and methods have stood the test of time We are so excited to have Coach Boo on the docket as part of The Pittsburgh Seminar, and hope you're able to join us April 29th and 30th at Union Fitness in Pittsburgh, PA! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-pittsburgh-seminar/

“If you have the outputs you can have compensations and breakdowns in your technique. If you don't have the output and you don't have the ability to be a freak athlete then you better move really, really well and create impulse at the right time.”  In this week's episode of The Podcast I got to catch up with Zach Dechant. Throughout the 35-minute chat we talk about: 1)     Zach's new role at TCU and where he sees that progressing forward.2)     Some new things that he's implementing with his baseball players revolving around resisted sprinting.3)     Metrics that he uses to evaluate his players, and what the data is showing him. 4)     The roles and symbiotic nature of general and specific strengths. 5)     The underappreciated value of training rotation, and where it impacts performance in areas we may overlook.  A huge thanks to Exxentric for supporting the show. Exxentric is the leader in fly wheel technology. Their kBox and kPulley have had a huge impact in the preparation and RTP programs. Make sure you hop over to www.exxentric.comand check out all their sensational products today! We couldn't be more excited to have Zach on the docket as part of The Richmond Seminar, and hope you're able to join us July 15 and 16 at The Marriott Short Pump! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-richmond-seminar/ 

“What am I going to do for this kid? Because he doesn't even know what makes him good. Genuinely, we can say we do, we have no idea what makes these people good.”  In today's episode of The Podcast I sit down and chat with Freak Strength's Mike Guadango. During the 32-minute chat we talk about: 1)     The crazy world of being a “sport specialist” and the ebbs and flows of it that he's lived through.2)     The role asymmetries in sport, and why coaches may not want to “correct” some.3)     A unique method to build “work capacity” in rehab that has helped his athletes improve at a greater rate. 4)     The role of psychology in high level sport and the mental gaps between the good and the elite. 5)     The misconceived connection between aesthetics and performance.6)     Understanding that the outliers do things differently because they're outliers, and maybe “correcting” those “mistakes” is not what's best for their performance.  A huge thanks to Exxentric for supporting the show. Exxentric is the leader in fly wheel technology. Their kBox and kPulley have had a huge impact in the preparation and RTP programs. Make sure you hop over to www.exxentric.comand check out all their sensational products today! We couldn't be more excited to have Henk on the docket as part of The Richmond Seminar, and hope you're able to join us July 15 and 16 at The Marriott Short Pump! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-richmond-seminar/

“You always figure things out when it's too late. This is the problem of human nature. You figure out you're on the wrong track when your athletes are not performing well, but that mistake has been made three months before when you didn't see it, when you though “hey this is going great, I'm such a good coach.” Then they fail miserably, and then that mistake has been made before so always try to plan ahead.”  Always great to get to catch up with my good friend Henk Kraaijehnof in this episode of The Podcast. Throughout the 38-minute chat we talk about: 1)     Henk's new roles in the world of coaching, and how some things have come full circle.2)     How a new location has allowed Henk to “do Henk things” with exploring and researching.3)     How hindsight is always 20/20, so identifying “mistakes” in training may be more difficult then we tend to believe. 4)     Trends that could be holding coaches back, and how we can all filter who we are learning from and what we are looking at5)     The importance of being your biggest critic 6)     Humility, and understanding that what may be great today may not lead to success tomorrow. A huge thanks to Exxentric for supporting the show. Exxentric is the leader in fly wheel technology. Their kBox and kPulley have had a huge impact in the preparation and RTP programs. Make sure you hop over to www.exxentric.comand check out all their sensational products today! We couldn't be more excited to have Henk back on the docket as part of The Pittsburgh Seminar, and hope you're able to join us April 29th and 30th at Union Fitness in Pittsburgh, PA! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-pittsburgh-seminar/

“As cool as our job is and as much as we all love training, and making them better and watching them do their thing.  At the end of it, what are we actually leaving them with and what are we helping them do?”We are joined this week by South Carolina Women's Basketball Sport Performance Coach and my Free-VASPS co-host, Molly Benetti for this episode of The Podcast. Throughout the 40-minute discussion we dive into:  How COVID has continued to impact the preseason preparation strategies The pros and cons of having a veteran led team The role and importance of feedback from the athlete's and staff The importance of educating ourselves outside of the world of S and C, and the irony of talking about that during an S and C Podcast. A huge thanks to Exxentric for supporting the show. Exxentric is the leader in fly wheel technology. Their kBox and kPulley have had a huge impact in the preparation and RTP programs. Make sure you hop over to www.exxentric.comand check out all their sensational products today!We are elated to have Molly on the docket as part of The Pittsburgh Seminar, and hope you're able to join us April 29th and 30th at Union Fitness in Pittsburgh, PA! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-pittsburgh-seminar/

“None of this strength and conditioning shit matters if we can't get our athletes to understand what we're asking them to do, or if they don't understand how it applies. If they don't get it, it doesn't matter.” Welcome back to The Podcast. If I was going to bring this thing back it had to be Jeff Moyer batting leadoff. In this 40-minute talk, Jeff and I talk about: 1)     The new and unique rabbit holes that the pandemic has allowed Jeff to dive down2)     What were the driving factors behind him digging deep into neurology, and what this research has impacted in his evaluations and programming?3)     How his personal experiences growing up have been a guiding light in pushing him to find better answers.4)     How “comfort zones” don't' just limit athlete's, but coaches as well. 5)     The importance of a mentor, and why young coaches need to reach out to people as early as possible to learn from them6)     The importance of his presentation being applicable the Monday after The Pittsburgh Seminar and what to expect from his presentation.  A huge thanks to Exxentric for supporting the show. Exxentric is the leader in fly wheel technology. Their kBox and kPulley have had a huge impact in the preparation and RTP programs. Make sure you hop over to www.exxentric.com and check out all their sensational products today! We are so excited to have Jeff back on the docket as part of The Pittsburgh Seminar, and hope you're able to join us April 29th and 30th at Union Fitness in Pittsburgh, PA! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-pittsburgh-seminar/

“You have to talk them through the way you want to do things, and why you want to do it, and how it’s applicable to the sport they’re actually playing.” What’s up everybody and welcome the 95th episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit more about who they actually are and how they got to where they are at today. Today we are joined by the Assistant Director of Athletics/Sports Performance at Saint Louis University, Robb Hornett. Robb, thanks for being with us today. Before we start, who is Robb Hornett? I’m a pretty boring guy who goes home and walks his dog with his wife. 1) Describe a learning situation that brought about an epiphany in your career? Learning how to filter information, and learning to sell myself and the program 2) If you could ask one question and you know you would get the answer what would that be and why? What am I missing to help drive performance? 3) What’s your escape? Cycling has become a new hobby that’s been great. Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

“It’s a time now that we’ve gotten into the off season how important movement quality is, tissue quality is, and how we can try and regain that with not having this full off season.” This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget and needs to better serve your athletes. North American customers looking for more info should contact Andreas at andreas.ahlstrom@exxentric.com or 503-739-1391. All others, or to learn more about the kBox, kPulley and flywheel training, please go to their website at: https://exxentric.com/. In this weeks episode I get to catch up with Cameron Ringstead to discuss how we have upgraded our off season program because of some of the shortcomings we saw during the pandemic. After a real quick run down of how he got down to Elon we get into how each of his stops along the way have left an impression on him and how he’s molded them together to work with his athletes. He then dives into how the past 18 months have impacted his decisions leading into our first true offseason in a two years. This includes some self audits on what they had the athlete’s do during their time home, and some issues that arose because they may have moved too fast too soon. He then talks us through some of the direction he see’s his program going into this offseason and the season with his basketball players. Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

“There’s certain things worth not chasing because more time can be spent establishing culture or other things, like improving confidence in other ways, that make a bigger impact in the team setting.” What’s up everybody and welcome the 94th episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit more about who they actually are and how they got to where they are at today. Today we are joined by the Director of Sports Performance at the University of Denver, Matt Shaw. Matt, thanks for being with us today. Before we start, who is Matt Shaw? A Midwest kid who moved to Boston during high school who’s a product of his experiences and family 1) Describe a learning situation that brought about an epiphany in your career? Having and intern reach out when they hit a professional set back showed the importance as interpersonal relationships 2) If you could ask one question and you know you would get the answer what would that be and why? How can we better individualize the stress on the athlete? 3) What’s your escape? I’m blessed to be in a state that’s fun to get outside in. Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

“The thing that prepares you best is probably that thing itself or a version of it.” This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget and needs to better serve your athletes. North American customers looking for more info should contact Andreas at andreas.ahlstrom@exxentric.com or 503-739-1391. All others, or to learn more about the kBox, kPulley and flywheel training, please go to their website at: https://exxentric.com/. In this weeks episode of The Podcast I sit down and talk with Eddy Idrizovic about the physical preparation of team handball players. After a run down of how he got into the sport we dive into what the demands of the game are, both bio dynamically and bio energetically. We then discuss the uniqueness of his situation with the club, and how being a semi-pro team impacts training decisions. He gives us a great break down of how he builds his program out around the limitations that they have and how the evaluations they utilize impact training prescriptions. Eddy finishes off by giving us a great break down of how he sets up his daily warm ups, and what he tries to do with the time period allotted each day to best utilize his time and continue to drive performance improvements. Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

“Us as performance professionals, strength and conditioning coaches, we need to take our ego out of it and be an ally and resource for our athletes and allow them to be the driver a bit.” What’s up everybody and welcome the 93rd episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit more about who they actually are and how they got to where they are at today. Today we are joined by the Associate Director for Sports Performance at Old Dominion University, Eric Potter. Eric, thanks for being with us today. Before we start, who is Eric Potter? A person who got into training to improve as a baseball player. With that I’m a father and a husband who’s trying to make a positive impact on people’s health. 1) Describe a learning situation that brought about an epiphany in your career? Seeing Bartolo Colon in spring training and seeing how skill trumps all taught me to be more of an ally and a resource. 2) If you could ask one question and you know you would get the answer what would that be and why? If you viewed yourself as a business, would other people invest in it? 3) What’s your escape? Spending time with my wife and daughter, cooking/training, and learning about new things outside of just training. Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

“How do we take this mundane stuff and do it better, and then once we’ve done it better how do we do it better again?” This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget and needs to better serve your athletes. North American customers looking for more info should contact Andreas at andreas.ahlstrom@exxentric.com or 503-739-1391. All others, or to learn more about the kBox, kPulley and flywheel training, please go to their website at: https://exxentric.com/. This week I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking about building a re-education phase in your training plan with Aj Kerr. After a run down of how he got down to Wofford we start to talk about how this past 15 months have impacted what we have been looking to do with our athletes. This leads AJ into how he has reevaluated his program, what has changed, and these changes have had a positive impact on the student athletes. We then talk about how the change in focus of having the answers to looking to ask the questions has made a huge impact on what he does with the men and women there. We finish off talking about some lessons from the pandemic and some positive influences it has had. Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

“It’s not going to be what changes how you do things, what it is it’s going to change your perceptive and start to get you to look at things a little differently and want to dive down different rabbit holes.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Vald Performance. Vald’s constant drive to help coaches find better information to drive more educated directions is second to none. Check out this weeks Metric Minute and make sure to go check out all their great products at: www.valdperformance.com Following up on last weeks My Thoughts Monday’s discussion on podcasts that I listen to in reference to personal finance, this week I share three books that have helped me dig into the subject. These three books have all driven me to ask different questions to help with the directions I’ve gone when it comes to ways to help the compensation packages we receive do better for us over time. The topic of personal finance has gone from something I”ve been afraid to talk about to now one of my favorite topics of discussion, and a lot of that is because of these three books. Would love to hear from you if you have any other references you recommend to others that have helped drive you into different ways to help your money do better for you. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

“You build character when you go through things.” What’s up everybody and welcome the 92nd episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit more about who they actually are and how they got to where they are at today. Today we are joined by the Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at the Georgia State University, Vinnie Calautti. Vinnie, thanks for being with us today. Before we start, who is Vinnie Calautti? A blue-collar worker guy who loves to help people. 1) Describe a learning situation that brought about an epiphany in your career? Listening to Todd Wright talk about the foot 2) If you could ask one question and you know you would get the answer what would that be and why? “What is the upmost optimal way to train an athlete?” “What is the absolute key to happiness?” 3) What’s your escape? I love to hoop Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

“Everybody is going to have a different model, but I think there are certain rules that all of us are going to follow, and break.” This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget and needs to better serve your athletes. North American customers looking for more info should contact Andreas at andreas.ahlstrom@exxentric.com or 503-739-1391. All others, or to learn more about the kBox, kPulley and flywheel training, please go to their website at: https://exxentric.com/. In this weeks episode of The Podcast I get to sit down and talk with John Garrish about making athlete’s faster. After a quick intro John gets into how their track and field program has had a positive impact across the whole department and had great influence in their strength and conditioning program. This leads to a great discussion on how his yearly plan flows and progresses from track/linear speed into multi directional/team sport like activities. Make sure you give him a follow @caoch_garrish on Instagram, he puts out awesome stuff! Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

“These are some shows that I really enjoy that have helped me dig better, ask better questions, and look into things I haven’t looked into before.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Vald Performance. Vald’s constant drive to help coaches find better information to drive more educated directions is second to none. Check out this weeks Metric Minute and make sure to go check out all their great products at: www.valdperformance.com This pandemic has impacted many conversations that we have had with our fellow coaches. One change in conversation topic has been about how we can do better for ourselves. That could be through investing, side gigs, and so many other ideas. In this weeks My Thoughts Monday I want to share with y’all three shows that have been really helpful for me when it comes to asking better questions about what I’m doing with my finances. On top of that, they’re fun shows to listen to, in my opinion, but each have helped me ask dig deeper into what I’m doing. I’d love to hear if there’s any shows you all have found useful as well! ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

“You can’t let other people dictate your own value.” What’s up everybody and welcome the 91st episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit more about who they actually are and how they got to where they are at today. Today we are joined by the Doctoral Student Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, Patrick Peterson. Patrick, thanks for being with us today. Before we start, who is Patrick Peterson? Currently working on a PhD at Pitt while working with the football team on their data streams. 1) Describe a learning situation that brought about an epiphany in your career? Having stepped away from a position that wasn’t working out truly taught me that other’s can’t dictate our value. 2) If you could ask one question and you know you would get the answer what would that be and why? What’s my legacy right now if I died today? 3) What’s your escape? Hiking, mountaineering, camping Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

“You can’t have the same approach with every single athlete.” This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget and needs to better serve your athletes. North American customers looking for more info should contact Andreas at andreas.ahlstrom@exxentric.com or 503-739-1391. All others, or to learn more about the kBox, kPulley and flywheel training, please go to their website at: https://exxentric.com/. This week I got the pleasure of catching up with Daniel Marshall to discuss the on boarding process with new athletes. After a brief run down of how he got to ASU he dives right into his initial onboarding evaluations, including the what’s and why’s behind the evaluations, moments he observes, and metrics he looks at. He then shares with us how these impact their training and how understanding the psychological aspect of who the athlete is can help drive training decisions and improve buy in. Marsh then dives into the role of strengths and weaknesses in athletes, and where those can drive training for athletes. We finish off talking about a different topic, cooking, and how that was almost a different career path for Daniel. Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

“In reality I think we need to start to look at bigger rocks and find what communities there are between groups” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Vald Performance. Vald’s constant drive to help coaches find better information to drive more educated directions is second to none. Check out this weeks Metric Minute and make sure to go check out all their great products at: www.valdperformance.com Success leaves clues is a phrase we use a lot in sport. It’s one though, in my opinion, that we may look for a bit to much for. In sport you see a lot of people looking for answers to success instated of clues, or commonalities, with teams that are successful. In this weeks My Thoughts Monday I share where I feel we could do a bit better with this. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

“You can phrase it however you want too. Does it suck to wake up early? If you think it sucks yea it does suck, but if you don’t phrase it like that and you think about It in the positive then it doesn’t suck.” What’s up everybody and welcome the 90th episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit more about who they actually are and how they got to where they are at today. Today we are joined by the Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at the University of Oregon, Courtney Walden. Courtney, thanks for being with us today. Before we start, who is Courtney Walden? I’m a spiritual being, who’s out here doing the best they can. 1) Describe a learning situation that brought about an epiphany in your career? Having a gratitude journal in grad school brought me to see things to be grateful for 2) If you could ask one question and you know you would get the answer what would that be and why? What is unique about me that I can bring value? 3) What’s your escape? Hiking Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

“If I can make them feel better on a routine basis, that’s the key.” This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget and needs to better serve your athletes. North American customers looking for more info should contact Andreas at andreas.ahlstrom@exxentric.com or 503-739-1391. All others, or to learn more about the kBox, kPulley and flywheel training, please go to their website at: https://exxentric.com/. Recently I had the opportunity to talk eastern medicine with Mike Guadango. After a intro how Mike got into training, we dive right into where the idea of acupuncture came from. This leads us down the rabbit hole of what acupuncture has taught him about what we, as coaches, can do better. Many of these issues revolve around our need to prove our worth, driving us to push athletes further then may be required for elite performance. These lessons stem from his time working with elite and pro athlete’s and seeing how doing work with them to feel better was more impactful for performance then any key performance indicators we tie to training. We finish off discussing the role of teaching skills in training, and where we may or may not truly make an impact. Make sure you check out the Mike and Brooker show: Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkSwnxd983PJSe7ILru76xA Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mike-and-brooker-show/id1510678873 Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

“If we’re going to spend time working on this situation, or working on this specific adaptation, shouldn’t we be doing what we can to elicit that adaptation by making sure we are providing an adequate stimuli to elicit the adaptation?” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Vald Performance. Vald’s constant drive to help coaches find better information to drive more educated directions is second to none. Check out this weeks Metric Minute and make sure to go check out all their great products at: www.valdperformance.com Progressions and regressions in training are something we love to talk about, but we may not always do that in our energy system development. In this week My Thoughts Monday I discuss some ways we are may be limiting some athletes development in this aspect of their development and how we are attempting to find “stop points” to help us ensure we are “pushing” the athletes to continue to develop. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

“How can we really wake up and look at the athlete, the kid, or whoever so be it, and ask them do similar things if we’re not doing them ourselves?” What’s up everybody and welcome the 89th episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit more about who they actually are and how they got to where they are at today. Today we are joined by the Assistant Football Strength and Conditioning Coach at the University of Mississippi, Zach Higginbotham. Zach, thanks for being with us today. Before we start, who is Zach Higginbotham? A strength coach who got his start early because he got injured. 1) Describe a learning situation that brought about an epiphany in your career? It’s always our fault, it’s never the players fault. 2) If you could ask one question and you know you would get the answer what would that be and why? What truly matters and how do we get there? 3) What’s your escape? Going home to WVA. Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

“What we do is not about the now, it’s definitely about the longevity and later in life.” This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget and needs to better serve your athletes. North American customers looking for more info should contact Andreas at andreas.ahlstrom@exxentric.com or 503-739-1391. All others, or to learn more about the kBox, kPulley and flywheel training, please go to their website at: https://exxentric.com/. Building relationships is vital in today sporting world. In this weeks episode of The Podcast Rob Harris joined us to discuss ways that we can be better for our athletes. After a quick run down of how he got to Lexington we get into the unique situation that he gets to be part of. This leads us into different ways that he has found success building relationships with the top 1% of the 1% in the world of basketball. This includes a great story from start to finish on how he has helped players going from hating the weight room to loving being in there. We then finish off talking about the importance of building routines, and how impactful that can be on an athlete’s health and longevity. Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometric

“You can afford anything, but you can’t afford everything.” Paula Pant This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Vald Performance. Vald’s constant drive to help coaches find better information to drive more educated directions is second to none. Check out this weeks Metric Minute and make sure to go check out all their great products at: www.valdperformance.com Time is our most valuable resources, but it’s also one of the biggest flexes we use at strength coaches. We pride ourselves on the hours we work, and our commitment to long days. In this weeks My Thoughts Monday, I share how I look at how at time, as an investment. Reassessing how you spend your time and starting to look at it like an investment has changes how I.handle my down time, find time to recharge, and have built side projects. Hopefully these idea’s help people take a look at how they’re scheduling their days and can help us all be more productive together. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

“What is the true issue? People often times don’t really want to touch it, they kind of want to gleam over it. Like it’s there and we just want to leave it on the side as the elephant in the room as we try to deal with these other things, but that’s the thing that’s always going to be there. So why not start there and build out?” What’s up everybody and welcome the 88th episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit more about who they actually are and how they got to where they are at today. Today we are joined by the Director of Basketball Performance at The University of Rhode Island Vincent Williams. Vincent, thanks for being with us today. Before we start, who is Vincent Williams? A husband, a dad, a lot of things other than a strength coach. 1) Describe a learning situation that brought about an epiphany in your career? Learning that a desk job isn’t for me interning for the IRS. 2) If you could ask one question and you know you would get the answer what would that be and why? Where have I let you down? 3) What’s your escape? Watching planes take off and being around a body of water. Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network! We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/ #StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics