On this week’s episode I got to sit down and discuss the preparation process with basketball players with a coach that has been on my “wish list” for guests to have on The Podcast, David Deets. David has had a really awesome voyage that to his position now at Tulsa, and this has helped him formulate a unique philosophy and mindset when it comes to all aspects of preparation. Throughout the 30-minute discussion Coach Deets and I get into: 1) Where the origin of his passion for the warm up aspect ...
Apr 01, 2024•31 min•Season 4Ep. 30
Today we have a really awesome discussion about connecting the physical aspects within our vocation and how it can be related back to the technical tactical side of the games we work in with Federico Pizzuto. Throughout this sensational 30-plus minute chat, Federico and I get into: 1) The model that he utilizes when connecting the technical tactical side with the physical preparation of the athletes. 2) What he’s looking at to build out his progressions, and the ways it impacts buy in with the p...
Mar 25, 2024•31 min•Season 4Ep. 29
This week I’m fired up to sit down and talk conditioning with Tim Kettenring. Tim has been doing some awesome work helping coaches have a better understanding of how they can build bigger engines with the Conditioning Cohort. Throughout the great 30-plus minute chat, Tim and I get into The areas of physiology that he feels are overlooked by coaches and where coaches can look to have a better understanding of what the “cohort” is trying to teach. What are some of the driving questions behind his ...
Mar 18, 2024•33 min•Season 4Ep. 28
Today I have the pleasure of sitting down and discussing the development of the physical preparation programming for H2F with Carson Randall. Carson is leading the way with the development of the H2F programming, and all of its branches, helping to better prepare the best of the best, the American Soldier. Throughout the greater then 30-minute discussion Carson and I get into: 1) Where a military background both helps and hinders in the tactical training world 2) Things that coaches need to unde...
Mar 11, 2024•34 min•Season 4Ep. 27
I am elated to welcome Aaron Abraham to The Podcast this week. Aaron is doing some really awesome work up at Eastern Michigan. His voyage to EMU is one that many have looked at and turned their nose up at, but as a guy who started at a Division III school I have a ton of respect for coaches who start at DII and DIII because of the unique perspectives that you can gain at those levels. 1) Pros of working at a Division II school for a starting point in your professional evolution 2) What the impac...
Mar 04, 2024•31 min•Season 4Ep. 26
Today I am so excited to welcome Justin Landry to The Podcast. Justin is doing some absolutely great work with the development of basketball players. He’s had a really great path to get him to Atlanta that has molded a unique philosophy with his training. Throughout this aweseome 30-minute conversation Justin and I get into: 1) Driving factors behind the directions of the programming he utilizes for his athletes 2) Simple evaluations of common sequences that help him drive programming decisions ...
Feb 26, 2024•32 min•Season 4Ep. 25
On this week’s episode of The Podcast I have the pleasure of sitting down and discussing training, nutrition, and the life on the NASCAR Circuit with Ashley Muschiatti. Ashley has a unique background and qualification of being both a Registered Dietitian and Strength and Conditioning Coach, thus qualifying her to both prescribe training and the nutritional requirements for both success in training and performance. The uniqueness of the athlete that she gets to work with, both as a sport but also...
Feb 19, 2024•34 min•Season 4Ep. 24
He’s baaaaccckkkkkk! I am so excited to welcome my good friend Charlie Weingroff back to The Podcast and to introduce him as a presenter at The Seminar. Charlie has been, and always will be, one of the greatest sound boards to me in the world of performance. It doesn’t matter if we are speaking training or rehab (see what I did there), whenever I have a question or an idea about a direction we are thinking, he’s always been a person that provided some of the most constructive insight and thought...
Feb 12, 2024•56 min•Season 4Ep. 23
I could not be more fired up to welcome Heather Mason to The Podcast and introduce her as our 5th presenter for this summer edition of The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar. Heather is one of the true trailblazers in the field and one of the best people I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with in the world of performance. Her unique experience has help her develop a great system, not just in developing athletes, but also developing the next generations of coaches. Throughout the 30-min...
Feb 05, 2024•32 min•Season 4Ep. 22
Today I am so happy to welcome Dr. Aaron Heishman back to The Podcast and introduce him as our 4th presenter for The 2024 edition of The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar. “Heish” is doing some fantastic work in Vegas with the Golden Knights and is researching with the best of the best in the world at their sport. Throughout the 30-minute discussion Dr. Heishman and I get into: 1) Some of the “challenges” that have reared themselves after the short off season. 2) What is means to be “a ...
Jan 29, 2024•32 min•Season 4Ep. 21
I could not be more excited to introduce our 3rd presenter for The 2024 edition of The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, Dr. Mike Davis. Mike has one of the most unique thought processes when it comes to performance and rehabilitation that I’ve ever come across. Mike is one of those people who I’ve never had a conversation through any medium that I haven’t walked away and reevaluated something that I’m doing, and that could be professionally or personally. Throughout the fantastic hour...
Jan 22, 2024•59 min•Season 4Ep. 20
I am so excited to welcome Dr. Ernie Rimer to, not just The Podcast, but to The 2024 Seminar. Dr. Rimer is doing fantastic work for The University of Louisville and his forward-thinking, inquisitive approach, brings a unique perspective on how we can all do better for our athletes with the data that we collect to The Seminar. Throughout the 35-minute discussion Dr. Rimer and I get into: 1) The importance of systems, especially in difficult times of the year, to help streamline processes to help ...
Jan 15, 2024•38 min•Season 4Ep. 19
Today we introduce our first presenter for The 2024 edition of The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, Auburn’s Cam Josse. Cam is one of the best practitioners in the world when it comes to bridging the physical preparation process to the sporting activity, and I couldn’t be more excited to not only have him on the show, but to have him as part of The Seminar as well. Throughout the 44-minute discussion Cam and I discuss 1) What drove him to dig to find better ways to deliver transfer fr...
Jan 08, 2024•43 min•Season 4Ep. 18
Today I’m super excited to sit down and discuss the preparation programming for wrestlers with Josh Jirgal. Combat sports have become more and more of a “sexy” topic in strength and conditioning with different opportunities becoming available, and Josh is doing a lot of great work with the wrestlers he gets to work with every day. After a quick run-down of how he got to Duke Josh and I get into: 1) A wrestler’s mindset and how it impacts his programming decisions. 2) What he’s looking at to moni...
Jan 05, 2024•32 min•Season 4Ep. 17
I am fired up to welcome Clare Kaufman Quebedeaux to The Podcast to talk about leadership and developing basketball players. Clare has had a really cool voyage that has brought her to Columbus to work alongside her first boss and mentor. Throughout the 30 plus minute discussion Clare and I get into: 1) Being intentional in developing your staff in leadership 2) A wake-up call that brought her to understand her role as a leader developing coaches 3) Some unique aspects to their staffing system to...
Dec 26, 2023•32 min•Season 4Ep. 15
Today I’m really excited to welcome “Mr. Rugby Strength Coach” Keir Wenham-Flatt back to The Podcast, and discuss a different topic with Keir, and that is ways coaches can do better for themselves with secondary forms of income. This is something that, if you’ve ever heard me get on my soap box about, I’m very passionate about, and really feel that we all, me included, need to take a much deeper look at. Throughout the 30-minute discussion “The Rugby Guy” and I get into: 1) The factors that drov...
Dec 19, 2023•33 min•Season 4Ep. 16
This week I’m so fired up to welcome Jonathan Dahuya to The Podcast for a unique conversation about how coaching has led him into other great professional endeavors. Jonathan was a Division I strength and conditioning coach who has made a professional pivot into real estate and provides some great insight into how the coaching world has transferred to the “real world”. Throughout the 30 minutes plus conversation, Jonathan and I get into: 1) A voyage that led him to choose another vocation 2) Ski...
Dec 11, 2023•32 min•Season 4Ep. 13
Today I have the privilege of welcoming Connor Schoepp to The Podcast and discuss return to play. Connor is doing some great work at Liberty within the realm of applied sport science, and he shares a lot of what he does and how he looks at that part of the world of sports. Throughout the 30-minute discussion Connor and I get into: 1) What is applied sport science to him. 2) The roles of systems and principles in his programming 3) Ways being a strength coach impacts how he interrupts metrics 4) ...
Dec 04, 2023•28 min•Season 4Ep. 14
This week’s episode of The Podcast brought me back to some of CVASPS’s roots, talking training with one of the worlds the top and most forward-thinking track and field coaches, PJ Vazel. I’m a huge fan of PJ’s love for history and how it has impacted him as a researcher and a coach. Throughout this fantastic 35-minute plus conversation, PJ and I get into: 1) The role of fine arts studies leading him to dive into the history of sport science 2) Improvisations role in coaching, and why understandi...
Nov 27, 2023•38 min•Season 4Ep. 12
In a season of “long time coming” guests, I am so excited to get to welcome Wannabefast’s Dan Fichter. Dan is doing absolutely fantastic work in the 585, and is one of (in my opinion) the most forward-thinking practitioners in the world. Though out the nearly 40-minute conversation, Dan and I get into: 1) “What Matters” in strength and conditioning in Dan’s eyes 2) Voluntary movement vs, reflexive, vs anticipatory 3) Where technique fits in movement work 4) If there is one thing that all athlete...
Nov 20, 2023•39 min•Season 4Ep. 11
This week we welcome back the OG of The Podcast, Dr. Christian Carter who was on the first “interview show” I did back in the day on YouTube was with Willie Danzer (check it out here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwBjea_f5e0&t=217s ). This was a long overdue catch up, and a fantastic 30 plus minute discussion including: 1) Driving factors to why his mindset on our positions has changed over his career. 2) What could be leading to this shift in focus from just programming to improving the r...
Nov 13, 2023•33 min•Season 4Ep. 10
I am really excited to discuss building a program the new world of college athletics with Asa Britt. The evolution to the “new normal” of college sports has led to so many of us needing to evolve how we, not only program, but go throughout our day to day schedule with the athletes. Inside this packed 35-minute discussion Asa and I dive into: 1) The importance and power of routine in an athlete’s life 2) How the landscape of college athletics with the portal has impacted how we need to teach rout...
Nov 06, 2023•36 min•Season 4Ep. 9
This week I have the pleasure of sitting down and discussing the management of coaches and administration with the performance director of first special forces command, Ryan Carroll. Throughout the 30-minute discussion Ryan and I get into: 1) The unique challenge of his position and how some challenges cross into both tactical and collegiate strength and conditioning. 2) How implementing things at scale creates great challenges and increases the need for collaboration between coaches 3) Ways tha...
Oct 30, 2023•31 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Today we have an awesome discussion on building a performance program and department with Carl “Shep” Sheppard. Shep has been given the unique challenge of building the new preparation program for Space Force, which is (obviously) an extremely unique branch of the military. Throughout the 37-minute discussion Shep and I dive into: 1) The role a soldier and an educator has driven his professional development 2) How the “average make up” of the operators he works with makes developing a preparatio...
Oct 23, 2023•38 min•Season 4Ep. 7
In this week’s episode of The Podcast I got to sit down and building out a unique staff structure and the development of a yearlong training program with Kennesaw State’s Emmet Van Der Snick. Throughout the 30 plus minute discussion Emmet and I get into: 1) The role of PT school in his development, and how it continues to impact him professionally 2) How having different directors within a department is helping their department progress 3) Where his philosophy of training formulated, and how it ...
Oct 16, 2023•32 min•Season 4Ep. 6
In this week’s episode I get to have a really awesome conversation about finding secondary ways to make money as a coach with Rodrigo Alvira Isla. If you’ve ever had the “privilege” of getting stuck with me during one of my rants about this topic you already know how passionate I am about this topic and how important I think this is, not just for coaches, but for everyone in today’s financial climate. Throughout the nearly 40-minute discussion Rodrigo and I get into: 1) Being an international, t...
Oct 09, 2023•39 min•Season 4Ep. 5
This week I’m so excited to welcome Amit Vohra to The Podcast. Similar to the past few guests we have had on the show I’ve been fortunate to watch Amit’s professional growth from a distance after getting his feet wet in the vocation under my former director Chris Stewart. During the 30+ minute discussion Amit and I get into: 1) How he has formulated his thought process around programming. 2) The role and power of belief in training, programming, coaching, and life. 3) What the goal of the progra...
Oct 02, 2023•32 min•Season 4Ep. 4
I am elated to get to sit down and discuss the role and impact of data in the return to play process with The Las Vegas Golden Knights Director of Sport Science and Reconditioning, Dr. Aaron Heishman. Throughout the 35-minute discussion Heish and I get into: 1) The impact of starting with the right mentor, and how his has left a mark on him professionally and continues to drive him forward. 2) Where he sees the role of “sport science” in their organization 3) The balance between skill and power,...
Sep 25, 2023•34 min•Season 4Ep. 3
In this week we welcome LSU’s Scott Kuehn to The Podcast. I’ve been very fortunate to know Scott for what is going on 10 years, and it’s been fantastic to watch him grow professional and into his role with LSU football. Within the 42-minute discussion Scott and I get into: 1) How attending The Seminar impacted his growth and professional trajectory 2) What “the high-performance model” means to him? 3) Where do practitioners need to start when it comes to building their version of this model? 4) ...
Sep 18, 2023•43 min•Season 4Ep. 2
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 coaches 3) The role of identifying value in toys...
Sep 11, 2023•49 min•Season 4Ep. 1
