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Referral link: https://www.neweracap.com/aotc This episode of Ahead of the Curve is brought to you by New Era. New Era is the official headwear provider of the MLB, NFL, and NBA. If you love to rock New Era Caps as much as I do, then you won't want to miss out on the opportunity to wear what the players wear AND get 15% off when you go to NEW ERA CAP DOT COM/AOTC and use code aotc at checkout. That's 15% off your order using promo code aotc. Bio Rob is the head baseball coach and co-athletic director of Clinton High School (TN). Before Clinton Played college baseball 2 years at Brevard College, 2 years at the University of Pikeville and coached 2 years at the University of Pikeville. He then got into personal training Director of Personal training at Lifestyles Fitness Center And Part owner and founder of CrossFit East 10 for 9 year before getting back into coaching as an assistant coach Assistant Baseball at David Crockett High School on the show we discuss his journey to being the head coach at Clinton, and Rob shares his plan for building better baseball player but more importantly better men. Time stamps 02:00- Journey to head coach 11:00- fall development 27:00- standard and rules 35:00- player meetings and winter break 48:00- pre season to season 55:00- quick hitters Contact Follow Rob on Twitter
The quest for 100 gold medals is underway! Monster Michael Todd updates us on his weekend competing in Bowling Green, Ohio. He was going for 8 gold medals. How close did he get? Plus, Rebecca Todd gets to workout at CrossFit East Nashville and goes full fangirl on one of the biggest names in the sport.
TJ Cooper has been a lead trainer in tactical topics since 1987 and recently retired in 2016 after 34 years of continuous service. He still serves as a Lead Trainer for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, and now works for the University of North Florida Police Department as a Police Officer leading the Training division. TJ teaches civilian, law enforcement and military agencies on demand. As a lead tactical trainer, he continually trains, attends and teaches high liability topics in criminal justice academies, colleges and training forums. TJ opened the second ever affiliate, CrossFit East, and was really the first to bring CrossFit to the tactical community with amazing results. In this episode we learn about how TJ got into CrossFit, how he has grown the community spirit CrossFit by creating the CrossFit East Family, and how CrossFit is a necessary skill set that can be applied in life and death situations. For more info on TJ, check out his website here, or follow him on Instagram and Facebook. Books, People, and Organizations mentioned in the episode.3:41 Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office 3:50 TJ’s CrossFit origin story4:00 Police Corp4:50 Lew Hicks5:25 Coach Glassman7:19 TJ’s fitness background9:05 How CrossFit started doing certifications9:52 Boz12:24 University of North Florida12:38 Deskbound, by Kelly Starrett17:44 Precision Nutrition and John Berardi20:32 How TJ became affiliate #220:46 Dave Werner, Nick Nibler, Robb Wolf, Mike Burgener, Mark Rippetoe23:03 CrossFit Southside, Justin Bergh23:19 CrossFit Jax, Chris Russell25:08 What would TJ go back and do differently?25:55 Mike Hiday, Chris Russell, Mike Solis29:17 TJ explains CrossFit East Family30:45 Fight Gone Bad31:10 Alan Cook, Hypoxia Gym32:27 TJ talks about active shooter situations + CrossFit35:49 Joe De Sena, Spartan Race36:13 Presidential Physical Fitness Test42:50 TJ’s socials
TJ Cooper has been a lead trainer in tactical topics since 1987 and recently retired in 2016 after 34 years of continuous service. He still serves as a Lead Trainer for the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, and now works for the University of North Florida Police Department as a Police Officer leading the Training division. TJ teaches civilian, law enforcement and military agencies on demand. As a lead tactical trainer, he continually trains, attends and teaches high liability topics in criminal justice academies, colleges and training forums. TJ opened the second ever affiliate, CrossFit East, and was really the first to bring CrossFit to the tactical community with amazing results. In this episode we learn about how TJ got into CrossFit, how he has grown the community spirit CrossFit by creating the CrossFit East Family, and how CrossFit is a necessary skill set that can be applied in life and death situations. For more info on TJ, check out his website here, or follow him on Instagram and Facebook.
TJ Cooper is a retired Jacksonville SWAT officer and the founder of Crossfit East; the second official Crossfit affiliate. We discuss training the tactical athlete, the evolution of Crossfit, combatives, the importance of annual fitness evaluations and much more.
Coach Rob Stacy talks about the Programming at Crossfit East 10
Head Coach Rob Stacy from CrossFit East 10 talks about how his members did in The Open this year.
Head Coach Rob Stacy from CrossFit East 10 talks about when to scale a workout and why.