Go Vertical Raw

with a special guest who spoke about his latest experience on coaching athletes to jump higher and run faster and also on the experience with podcasting. This is the end of this podcast. If you are new to this, feel free to check out the journey that led to this. Feel free to message me on social media. 

with Andrew Sealy, Yogi from Venice Beach, California. In these hard times we tried to share some positivity and spoke about the anciend movement practice of Yoga. These days a lot of professional sportsmen and women are incorporating Yoga into their pratice schedules and we spoke about whether that makes sense or not.

with Jason Hettler, strength and power coach at the elite track and field training group from Phoenix named ALTIS. He is mainly working with the 100 and 200 m sprinters and we spoke about how these top level athletes train during the week and what Jason thinks of the importance of speed strength training and his story on how he got a pro sprint coach.

with Inika McPherson, the US high jumper who has been to consecutive world championship finals as well as the Olympic Games 2016 in Rio De Janiero. She is currently preparing for the next Olympics this year in Tokyo and shares her powerful story as well as some of her training insights with me.

with Eric Redd, on weekly training plans and on what has changed in the past few years. We covert single leg training as well as how the work with other people groups like children or old people have influenced both of us to see movement training with much more of an open mind.

with Eric Redd, athletic performance coach and personal trainer from Los Angeles, California, Working with NBA Players, college athletes, as well as a lot of youngstars for decades he has a lot of experience in fully reaching someones potential in terms of athleticism.

with Dr. Marwyn Bhanderi, the doctor of biologial science and chiropractic from the USA, who is currently based in Ecuador working in a chiropractic clinic. I have him on for the second time on my podcast to talk about how to train the Mind-Body-connection. We went through some interesting training systems including Life Kinetik and Feldenkrais.

with Anell Alexis, professional basketball player from the USA, currently playing in Division 2 in Germany for EN Schwelm Baskets I spoke about what he says is important to be successful in sports. He also explained how his athletic performance development was as a teenager and we discussed what might have changed within that in the past few years.

with no guest this time. There is no normal podcast episode this week. I do not want to use this for promotion it came just straight from the heart. If you are curious check it out, if not just leave it as it is. Next week I will be back in the regular manner.

with Adarian Barr, the track and field coach from Sacramento, California, who is on a constant mission to introduce simple human body movements and argue a lot about what people normally think is correct. We spoke about the importance of isometrics as well as the question what must happen to break a 100m-world-record in the 2020s.

with Joe Asberry, who was a criminal kid growing up in the streets of San Francsico in the early 90's. He had a chance to play Basketball in Japan and that was the beginning of a remarkable story that he shared with me in detail. 

with my guests from Season 3. I had a lot of amazing personal stories in the past few weeks including Tom Krojzl, who dealt with severe depression or Thomas Cosic, the famous german crossfit coach who quit school and came from the absolute bottom. Check out these and more stories summarized in this episode.

with Leon Victor Staege, also known as Moving Monkey for making videos about health and movement in Germany. The YouTube and Instagram sensation created himself a great online community and is about to share how important a deeper look inside your body can help you not only as an athlete but as a human.

with Jacob Hiller, founder of several vertical jumping programms had the deep obsession of jumping higher since he was a kid. He developed into a reknown coach who traveled the world to train athletes all over the world. He was a big inspiration for me personally when I was young and today he is my guest.

with Maximilian Borowy, my assistant coach for track and field. We just completed coaching one of our young sportswomen through our first youth national championships. We spoke about the experiences that came along the way and how our training philosophy developed over the past years.

with Thomas Cosic for part two, where we talk about his own very motivational story on how he became the person that he is now. On his journey he had to completely transform himself.

with Thomas Cosic, one of 12 Level-3-CrossFit-Coaches in Germany and Box owner of CrossFit Munich I spoke about the misconceptions and advantages of CrossFit training. A lot of people don't know this sport in depth and only scratch the surface.

with Theo-Adam Bateson, who grew up in Greece and France, while moving over to London for his studies 4 years ago. He was always into the physical and through a long journey he discovered that parkour is his thing. We spoke about this community and about movement in general.

with Mikael Luman, a man with a special story from being a very talented track runner and basketball player, he fall down into the deepest holes of social life. He came back to going an absolutely new way and achieving other accomplisments. A story of many many up's and down's.

with Thomas Krojzl, a great person who was suffering from depression his entire life. He decided to step up and have the courage to speak about his mental problem in depth to spread an important message and to help other people.

with Karla Marie Humphrey, a young track and field athlete from my team in Germany. At the age of 12 she shows tons of work and dedication. We spoke about her favorite parts in the training and her dreams for the future.

with a summary of season 2, featuring all of my guests including the 2-part-interview with Christopher Harrington and my first olympian guest Dieter Kalt, the ice hockey player from Austria. Find out what you like most and feel free to get lost in the other episodes.

with Steven Xiques I spoke about the importance of having a mentor in your life. He says for any goal in your life and for the process of self-development it is crucial to have someone to guide you through everything.

with Dr. Marwyn Bhanderi, We spoke about how to really focus on your health and get rid of those problems the mindful way. He studied Biological Science and Chiropractic and traveled to a lot of countries to help and to continue learning.

with Dieter Kalt, the three-time olympian ice hockey player from Austria and national title winner in Germany, Sweden and Austria. We spoke about the youth sports development and what is wrong with it nowadays.

with Christopher Harrington we hosted an epic conversation that lasted so long I had to make two parts out of it. In this part he talks about his own approach on how to create value for humanity.

with Christopher Harrington, practitioner of Wim Hof's breathing technique and cold water therapy. After being at the complete bottom of his life in his 20's he was able to cure his depression overnight and considers himself being one of the happiest persons on this planet.

with Konstantinos Stapatoris, the greek youth track and field javelin throw athlete. He moved over to Germany in 2018 and joined one of my training groups. Over the last winter he truly found love and passion in sport and in the training system we have. Our conversation covered how all of that happened and why imagination is one of the most important things if you want to make it to a professional level.

with Dean Allen, a great storyteller, who has made a lot of different things throughout his life. He wants to help people in their mid-ages to make a difference and truly follow their passion. We spoke a lot about personal stories and on how his techniques can be applied to younger athletes.

with Maximilian Borowy, a sports psychologist in the making, my very own assistant coach for track and field, a great friend and much more.

with a summary of the first 10 episodes. I have come a long way and I am very glad that I had so many great guests on my show. To my new listeners who may not have had the time to listen to all of the episodes, I want to give you the chance to get an overview.

with Vishal Hemrajani, the native indian business man from Hong Kong. He spent most of his young life in a high level cricket player and then transitioned into Wing Chun, where he learned from some famous people. Later he switched into the corporate world, where he accomplished some big things as well.

with Sol Eagle Road, english second language teacher in Japan. At the age of 24 years he experienced a lot of different things, living in 5 different states in the USA, in China and in Japan. He does a lot of diverse projects and is a specialist in the field of self-development.

with Arvind Achal, the founder of Live Life XXXL, a human potential development organization based in Europe. After getting degrees in Engineering and Management, he performed various leadership roles for some of the biggest global corporates for nearly 20 years and simultaneously inspired and helped tons of people believe in the possibilities of our times and fulfil their dreams and has taken up this mission full-time now.

with Michael Birkenhagen. The young german basketball player currently playing for the college team of th Arizona Christian University in Phoenix, talks to me about the differences between german and US sports youth development.

with Niels Duinker from the Netherlands, who is also known as the comedy juggler. The multiple world record holder had a conversation with me about mindset, self-development and some of his personal stories on how he became one of the worlds best jugglers.

with Harold Haskin. The renowned strength and conditioning coach was training with a lot of athletes in Los Angeles for 10 years. Only a few months ago he moved over to Costa Rica to start a new chapter. We talk about athletic perfomance and about the insights of his journey, including his time at the US coast guard, and his new life in Latin America.

with Heather Kleinschmidt, a teambuilding expert for businesses. We talk about team sports, dance and growth of every individual being.

with Kellen Milad, a movement coach who had a very unique approach to movement training. All of our life should focus more on our playfulness and the exploration of our own movements. Humans are the most complex movers on this planet. Realizing this can help you to live a healthier and happier life and also reach a new level of sports performance.

with Ishmael Fontaine, the professional Basketball player who was born and raised in London I talk a lot about his experiences playing basketball in 3 absolutely different countries, about the mindset you need to be successful in sports and about what makes basketball a very special thing for him and for me.