In today's edition of the podcast Sean Conaty, Carl Valle, Amanda Kuperavege, Chris McCormick, Matt Thome, and Tony Stewart join us to discuss athlete buy in. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find sensational content just like this in The Strength Coach Network. As a member of The Strength Coach Networks, you can access over 200 hours of the highest-level lecture content just like this one for 48 hours for only $1. Follow the link below to sign up ...
Aug 01, 2016•22 min
In today's edition of The Podcast Henk Kraaijenhof, Jeff Moyer, Cornell Key, Devan McConnell, and Randy Ballard sit down and discuss what the real "why" is to what they're doing. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find sensational content just like this in The Strength Coach Network. As a member of The Strength Coach Networks, you can access over 200 hours of the highest-level lecture content just like this one for 48 hours for only $1. Follow the li...
Jul 25, 2016•21 min
In today's edition of The Podcast Auburn's Megan Young shares some methods she's used to help increase athlete buy in to the program. Megan touches up how working to get buy in to the training, the team, the program, and to each other work together and different "methods" that may be required based on individual differences. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find sensational content just like this in The Strength Coach Network. As a member of The St...
Jul 18, 2016•31 min
In this edition of The Podcast we talk weightlifting with Columbus Weightlifting head coach and president Mark Cannella. Mark talks with us about how he got into weightlifting, discusses how different cultures around the world show up in training and lifting, shares some great coaching cues, discusses the art of being a coach, and what your "max" is in training. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find sensational content just like this in The Strengt...
Jul 10, 2016•33 min
In this edition of The Podcast we welcome back University of Missouri's Dr. Bryan Mann. In the 40 minute talk Dr. Mann goes over some different ways that we can use excel to look at our vertical jump scores to make sure that our athlete's are continually progressing with their power outputs. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find sensational content just like this in The Strength Coach Network. As a member of The Strength Coach Networks, you can acc...
Jun 27, 2016•48 min
In today's edition of The Podcast I sit down and talk with University of Pittsburgh's Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach Tim Beltz on keeping training simple for your athletes. Tim discusses what he means by keeping it simple, what is his focus with his athletes, how to keep the goal the goal, his time with Buddy Morris, what he's doing right now and what is driving his programming. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find sensational content j...
Jun 20, 2016•36 min
This edition of the podcast is my presentation from the Juanita College Strength and Conditioning Strength and Conditioning Clinic this past weekend. In it I talk about programming and where I see it going, what I see our role as as coaches, and periodization. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find sensational content just like this in The Strength Coach Network. As a member of The Strength Coach Networks, you can access over 200 hours of the highes...
Jun 13, 2016•48 min
In today's edition of the podcast we sit down and talk with University of Virginia's Basketball Strength and Conditioning Coach and 2016 Presenter Mike Curtis. Mike shares with us how monitoring and intuition fit together in what they are doing, and gives specifics as to how they've worked well together and been in a tug of war with each other. He then discusses how his mentors have guided and molded him though out his career and how this has effected his intuition. We finish off talking about t...
Jun 06, 2016•39 min
In today's edition of The Podcast I sit down with 2016 Presenter and University of Illinois Interim Director of Sports Medicine, Randy Ballard. Randy shares with us the unique set up that they have at Illinois, how they built their monitoring program, and commonalities that we see throughout their program. We then get into what to expect from him at The Seminar, and finishes asking us if we are on the right path with our student athletes. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH...
May 23, 2016•35 min
In today's episode of The Podcast I sit down and talk with Unbreakable Performance Center's Brett Bartholomew. Brett discusses how he manages, builds and prepares fighters. We talk about how different "camps" hold different weight in preparation for a with, and how he monitors athletes. He then discusses his career path and how each spot has impacted him today. Finally we talk about relationships, building them, and some specific examples of situations that where more challenging and how he adju...
May 16, 2016•41 min
In today's edition of The Podcast we sit down with Andrew Althoff, Josh Nelson, and Jacob Miller of Baylor University's Athletic Performance Team and discuss the program at Baylor. The staff discusses what is going on at the present at Baylor leading into the summer, programming efficiently for an entire career, how they group their student athlete's by level, the effect mood has on RPE, and "The Black Hole Theory." ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can...
May 08, 2016•40 min
In today's episode of The Podcast I sit down and talk with 2016 Presenter and Arizona Cardinals Head Strength and Conditioning Coach, Buddy Morris. Coach Morris and I discuss what going to Arizona has done for him professionally, how they set up their workouts for their athletes, what his warm up consists of both physical and as a monitoring tool. We then get into how position, age, and health influences his programming. He finishes by sharing with us what to expect from him at The Seminar. ENJO...
May 02, 2016•57 min
In today's episode of The Podcast I have the pleasure of talking with hamstring injury specialist, University of Wisconsin's Dr. Bryan Heiderscheit. In the conversation Bryan shares his educational background, the actions and loads occurring at the hamstring and how these injuries occur, what they have found to help with gait retraining, the relationships that Academia and Athletics have at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his work with Science of Running Medicine (www.scienceofrunning.n...
Apr 24, 2016•39 min
In this edition of The Podcast I get to sit and talk with The Kansas Jayhawk Research, Coaching and Performance team; Assistant AD Andrea Hudy, and Dr. Andy Fry. In discussion they share with us how their relationship was built at KU, how each person and department has helped make the other better, and some of the work they have collaborated on. Coach Hudy shares some info on how the "science" has helped her motivate her student athletes, and both the pro's and the con's of what they have found ...
Apr 18, 2016•41 min
In this weeks edition of The Podcast I sit down with University of Missouri's Dr. Aaron Gray and discuss ACL injury reduction. Dr. Gray shares with us his device and method for identifying risk factors for ACL injuries, where the idea came from, and where he hopes to see this project going forward. We also touch upon different aspects of return to play, and what other evaluations could be utilized to look for possible risk factors for these injures. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT T...
Apr 11, 2016•40 min
Alejo what sport science is. This discussion is based on a post he made on Facebook that you can find on our page. Coach Alejo and I discuss the role of the strength coach, what exactly a sport scientists are to him, the role of "big data" in sport today, where the art fits in with all this science, and the role of the strength coach in the athlete centered model. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find sensational content just like this in The Stren...
Apr 03, 2016•30 min
In this edition of The Podcast I get to sit down and talk with 2016 Presenter Derek Hansen. In the 45 minute discussion we go over how track and field has influenced his career in physical preparation, how Charlie Francis impacted him professionally, his opinion of monitoring and the direction he sees it going, some misinterpretations of Charlie Francis that coaches have today, and what we are to expect this July at The 2016 Seminar. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COAC...
Mar 27, 2016•50 min
Today I had the distinct pleasure to sit down and talk with East Tennessee State University’s Dr. Brad DeWeese. Dr. DeWeese share’s with us how working in Track and Field has impacted him as both a prof. and a coach, how it’s led to many relationships that have helped him build his philosophy of training, and driven his career in the direction it has gone. He shares who many of those people are, who he’s learned from and have been mentors along his way, and how he how he developed those relation...
Mar 21, 2016•39 min
In today's edition of The Podcast we sit down and talk training with Penn State Strength and Conditioning Coach Cam Davidson. Cam shares with us the source of the success to the Women's Volleyball team at PSU, and where the weight room has fit into that culture. We then change gears and talk Nittany Lion Ice Hockey, and the process of taking on a new program and establishing a culture has evolved. He then shares the commonalities and differences he see's with both of these teams and how that inf...
Mar 14, 2016•41 min
Today I had the absolute pleasure to sit down with former British Olympian and current DNA Fit Director of Sport Science, Craig Pickering. After we discuss Craig’s athletic and educational resume we talk about what exactly DNA Fit is. Craig then offers his candid thoughts of how genetic profiling could affect other athletes, and how it could have effected his career as an athlete. We finish the discussion talking about simple factors that impact sprint performance for team sport athletes and how...
Mar 07, 2016•45 min
In this edition of The Podcast I get to sit down and talk with Rett Larson. Rett’s resume is absolutely mind blowing, and among other things, now is working with the defending World Cup Champion Chinese Women’s Volleyball Team preparing them for Rio. In the 40 minute talk we go over his voyage from Richmond, VA to China, and working with the World Cup Championship Volleyball team. We then get into individual sports, and his time with China’s Diving team. Next he touches upon how early specializa...
Mar 01, 2016•46 min
In this edition of The Podcast I sit down and talk training with sprint coach Hakan Andersson. After a brief bio we discuss where his desire to research training methods began. This leads us to CNS fatigue, and discussing the theories and his thoughts on the premise. Hakan then shares the impact working in athletics has had on his work in other sports (soccer, swimming, and hockey), and where strength and jump training fit in the development of athletes. We close out discussing Olympic Lifts, wh...
Feb 24, 2016•36 min
Today we sit down and talk with 2016 Presenter and University of Oklahoma's Performance Manager Sam Coad. Sam and I discuss his role at Oklahoma starting with the conception of his position, through the summer, and into the season. Sam dives into his role in both the training program and practice monitoring, and how they've made adjustments to the training, and what the goals of these adjustments are. He also gets into how recovery work fits into his position, and where he see's the future of Pe...
Feb 14, 2016•38 min
In this episode of The Podcast we discuss force plates with Wake Forrest's Ryan Horn, Inside Tracker's Carl Valle, and Sparta Sport Science's Mike Hoffmann. In the 75 minute talk we go over jumping and how it impacts programming, return to play and fatigue monitoring and where force plates can help with these, using force plates to build your athlete profile, and how the force plate can help in improving athlete longevity. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! ...
Feb 08, 2016•1 hr 15 min
This week I sit down and talk with University of Texas Basketball Strength Coach Daniel Roose. Coach Roose, in my opinion, is the absolute best out there at building a team and establishing a culture from the weight room out to the realm of competition. In the 35 minute talk Coach Roose shares how they handle being in a new location, what they've learned along the way that has helped improve how they establish their teams identity, the role of their core values in the process, and how monitoring...
Feb 01, 2016•37 min
In this edition of The Podcast, I sit down with USA Field Hockey's Director of Performance Science, David Hamilton. We discuss David's approach and how it differs between the men's and women's side. We then discuss what he's looking for when prescribing training and how he defines work capacity. Next he goes into how he build robustness in these high level athletes, how their evaluations (both preseason and daily) play into it, and competitions role in developing it as well. ENJOY THE CONTENT? T...
Jan 24, 2016•35 min
In this edition of The Podcast I sit down and talk athlete profiling with Dutch sprint coach Henk Kraaijenhof. Henk discusses what he feels are the three most important things to look at when profiling athletes, the importance of identifying fiber type, why understanding the learning style of the athlete is so important, and the role of genetic testing in profiling athletes. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find sensational content just like this i...
Jan 18, 2016•40 min
Today we sit down and talk monitoring with Omegawave's Customer Experience Manager, Tim Rusbasan. Tim and I discuss the importance of having a plan when implementing a monitoring program, how vital communication is, making alterations to programming, normalizing the data, and the cost of adaptation. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find sensational content just like this in The Strength Coach Network. As a member of The Strength Coach Networks, you...
Jan 11, 2016•45 min
In this episode of The Podcast we sit down with University of Missouri's Dr. Bryan Mann. Dr. Mann discusses individualization of training and reminds us to start with the middle 70% and make changes from there. We then discuss how it's ok to refer out for help when we are out of our wheel house. We then get into discussing how you can get people in your community involved to help you develop your athletes. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find sens...
Jan 04, 2016•58 min
In this episode of The Podcast we sit down with University of Texas Sport Scientist Dr. Chris Morris joins us to discuss fluid periodization. Dr. Morris reviews his dissertation from where the idea came from, to the methods, and results. He then dives into communication and it's role in the entire monitoring process, and we finish with a great back and fourth on how we have utilized this method of periodization and what we have done day to day to alter the programming for our student athletes at...
Dec 21, 2015•36 min
