In our second edition of My Thoughts Monday, CVASP found and Richmond Basketball Strength Coach Jay DeMayo shares his thoughts on the importance of teaching athlete’s the technique in cutting jboth prior to moving to advanced exercises and in return to play protocols. Have something to contribute? We want to know! DropBox us your My Thoughts Monday to cvasps@gmail.com and get your own thoughts on an episode. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find se...
Oct 09, 2017•9 min
In today’s edition of The Podcast Mississippi’s Chas Ossenheimer discusses his monitoring work with volleyball. Chas starts out reviewing how he got into using VERT with his student athlete’s, and what they were looking at initially. He then shares with us how they established baselines for the information they collected and what they looked at that were the actual drivers for the directions the program as a whole was going from the coaches, support staff, and to the players. We finish up discus...
Oct 03, 2017•34 min
In the first episode of My Thoughts Monday, Jay DeMayo from The University of Richmond shares his thoughts on the language we use as Strength Coaches and why it's important that we use the same verbiage. Have something to contribute? We want to know! DropBox us your My Thoughts Monday to cvasps@gmail.com and get your own thoughts on an episode. 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. A...
Oct 02, 2017•9 min
In today’s episode of The Podcast, the guys who I listen too most often join us. These six coaches are all putting out fantastic content that has helped impact me as a coach, and driven me to keep trying to put out better information. Each episode they reference is listed below. If you don’t already, I couldn’t recommend subscribing to their shows enough. They’re all putting out awesome stuff. Just Fly Performance Podcast Listen to 13: Jeff Moyer from Just Fly Performance Podcast in Podcasts. ht...
Sep 26, 2017•1 hr 8 min
In today’s edition of The Podcast, Stanford University’s Sport Performance Coach Cory Schlesinger sits down and shares his training program with us. Cory starts out by giving us some incite into where FRC fits in his training and some of the success he has had utilizing it with his student athletes. We then touch up his use of “unconventional” training devices, where the ideas came from, and how they fit into his overall scheme. Next he discusses where the idea and implementation body weight exe...
Sep 19, 2017•47 min
Today we sit down and discuss building a your staff and weight room culture with George Washington University Director of Strength and Conditioning Matt Johnson. Matt starts out discussing the process of building his staff and developing them, and how they impact him as a coach as well. We then touch upon how that selection and developmental process lead into the culture of your weight rooms and how that culture begins with how you start with new athletes. The coversations finished with Matt dis...
Sep 12, 2017•38 min
In today’s edition of The Podcast, Marco Cardinale sits down and discusses his role at Aspire. He starts out by sharing with us what he’s be up to down in Qatar, and how the program has been built. We then get into his actual role, where it fits, what they’re doing, how they’re progressing, and how they’re identifying athletes. We then discusses how his role fits into how they’ve built the program he is in charge of at Aspire, and finish talking about how they’re progressing and using real world...
Sep 05, 2017•37 min
Today we get the pleasure of talking training and transfer with ALTIS’ Dan Pfaff. Dan starts out discussing what they’re looking at when it comes to developing training programs for their athletes. We then get into KPI’s, what they are, how they’re set up, and how they organize the different “files” they have. He then shares with us how they evaluate their athlete’s and how they establish what’s important, where they need to make corrections, and how there are always specifics to what they’re do...
Aug 29, 2017•36 min
I sit down with Easter Michigan University Assistant Sports Performance Coach Sean Conaty to talk training in this week’s edition of The Podcast. Sean starts out sharing with us the last 12 months of his life that included moving from VA to MI, starting at a new school and immediately going on a foreign trip, to a year straight of training with out even having an off season to establish both who he is and what his programming consists of. He then shares with what he has seen from his athlete’s w...
Aug 22, 2017•34 min
In today’s edition of The Podcast University of Florida’s Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning Matt DeLancey joins us to discuss training and culture join us. Matt starts out by discussing what’s truly important to developing the culture not just within the individual team but with the athlete and the staff as a whole. He then shares how he assesses his athlete’s, and how that leads into program development, what drives his exercise selection, and what he see’s as important when evalu...
Aug 15, 2017•32 min
In today’s edition of The Podcast we are discussing training and human optimization with ONNIT Academy’s Cristian Plascencia and Shane Heins. We start out with discussing the origin and development of the academy and how it can help coaches assist in the development of their athletes. We then get into the ideas of durability and longevity and how that emphasis in what they do drives all the courses and feed into the performance training for everyone from normal clients to professional athletes a...
Aug 08, 2017•52 min
In today’s edition of The Podcast we discuss training for transfer with Chris Korfist. Chris shares with us his methods, what he see’s to have carry over to speed, where the idea’s came from, where you can find more info (http://slowguyspeedschool.com/), and then we finish talking a git about RPR (https://www.reflexiveperformance.com/). We also discuss the clinic he runs in Illinois for highschool coaches. More info can be found here: http://trackfootballconsortium.com/ ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN Y...
Aug 01, 2017•47 min
This was a Facebook live talk from NSCA National in Las Vegas with Buddy Morris, Brett Bartholomew, Cal Dietz, Anthony Piroli, Keenan Robinson, and Dr. Bryan Mann just sharing and talking with each other on all things training. Sit back and enjoy the stories and the great information that comes with them. This is one of my personal favorites. 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 ...
Jul 18, 2017•52 min
In today’s edition of The Podcast, Carl Valle of SimplyFaster.com stops by to discuss measuring performance. He starts out sharing his thoughts on where we can start looking to help figure out ways to start measuring performance, it’s limitations, and where he can see things possibly be better. We then get into how simplyfaster.com can help coaches with measuring performance in their athletes. He then candidly shares with us how each of this years presenters have impacted him and why he’s so exc...
Jul 13, 2017•37 min
Today the lead strength and conditioning coach at the Irish Institute of Sport, Dr. Eamonnn Flanagan joins us to discuss a different way to look at sprinting scores with athletes. We start out where the idea came from and how it can change how you look at how your athlete’s sprint times impact training and even evaluate the tests you use with your athletes. We next discuss how using Z-scores in different exercises could lead to cross examining tests to find where they rank versus the most succes...
Jul 11, 2017•36 min
Today we are discussing force plates and ForceDecks with Daniel Martinez in this episode of The Podcast. Starting out Daniel shares the direction that looking at force plates can help drive decisions for training based on his own and others research. We then discuss his recommendations for where coaches can start to look at force plate data, how it can help guide coaches, and how they have set up their dash boards with coaches to assist coaches at as high of a level as possible. Next he shares t...
Jul 06, 2017•37 min
Today Chris Chase, The Strength and Conditioning Development Coordinator for Memphis Grizzlies, joins us to discuss the physical development process for young players in the NBA. We start out talking about his new position in Memphis, and how the increased schedule is a unique challenge. He then touches upon how the staff they have assembled work together to build these athletes and why each member has a varying amount of importance depending on the player. We then discuss the differences he see...
Jul 03, 2017•43 min
Today we are joined by Anatomy at 1220’s Marc Megna discussing the steps taken from being an less than average athlete, to the NFL, to owning the best gym in Miami. We start out talking about what drove him to training and what he fell in love when it came to training. He then shares with us what drove him to sports and how different people that think they only affected him athletically have driven him to be the person he is today. He then discusses how being an athlete has impacted him as a coa...
Jun 27, 2017•35 min
In today’s edition of the podcast Wisconsin Strength Coach Erik Helland sits down and discusses training and how it has evolved through his career. We start talking about his time in Chicago and how working with Coach Vermeil has shaped him as a coach. We then talk about the role of player prep vs player monitoring and how they may be working against each other instead of in conjunction with each other. He then shares with us the primary differences and similarities seen working in the NBA and N...
Jun 20, 2017•37 min
2017 presenter and CoachMePlus’ Sports Performance Specialist and Founding Coach Doug McKenney sits down with us to discuss the evolution of the profession in this weeks edition of The Podcast. We start out talking about the cultural change that were needed to occur in the NHL early in his career. We then look at how he has seen the evolution of educating players and coaches on the importance of sleep, recovery, and nutrition. We then look at how monitoring has developed from his time in Pittsbu...
Jun 13, 2017•34 min
In this weeks edition of The Podcast Quinnipiac Head strength coach Brijesh Patel joins us to discuss RPR. We start out talking about what RPR is, how he learned about RPR, and where he learned about the techniques. He then shares examples of where RPR has changed his views on training, both in training in general and what he programs for his student athletes, and how it ties into Myers’ Anatomy Trains. Then he shares how he implements it in a team setting, and the how’s and why’s behind the qui...
Jun 06, 2017•41 min
In this edition of The Podcast I get to talk developing basketball players with The Freak Faktory’s Hunter Charneski. We start out talking about how he got into training basketball players, and then dive into broad spectrum of athlete’s he gets to work with. He then shares his idea of “Maximize The Mundane”. Next, he gives some great examples of what he’s doing in his initial training periods, and discusses his mentors, and how he fits their work into one program. Lastly we talk about where ther...
May 30, 2017•34 min
In today’s edition of The Podcast InsideTracker’s Townsend Bernard sits down and discusses the role of blood monitoring in sport and shares with us how he got to Boston and working with InsideTracker. We then start discussing what InsideTracker is actually looking at with their tests and where the recommendations they provide come from and what they’re hoping to do with them. He then touches on how he got interested in this field and how a service like this could have helped him as an athlete. W...
May 23, 2017•32 min
Today’s editions of The Podcast we sit down and discuss Human Optimization with ONNIT’s John Wolf and CJ McFarland. We start out talking about what in ONNIT is as a company and a brand, and where do they see them selves fitting in the performance world. Next we touch upon what exactly Human Optimization is, where the idea came from, and what it means to each of them, and especially in the strength and conditioning program. Then we touch discuss the basis of their education system, where it start...
May 16, 2017•33 min
In today’s edition of the Podcast we discuss Mircrostretching with Dr. Nikos Apostolopouls. We start out the talking learning who is Nikos, what is Microstretching, and where did this idea come from. He then touches upon what separates Microstretching from other methods utilized in flexibility training. Next he shares the research he has done on stretching, what he looked at, and the results that he found in recovery improvement. We then touch upon mechanisms that make Microstretching both uniqu...
May 09, 2017•40 min
Today we are joined by assistant professor of strength and conditioning and the coordinator for athletic performance services at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Dr. Jay Dawes. In the talk we start with a brief run down of his career to date and get into the Masters program and how it’s set up. We then talk about how his work in the “tactical” realm has impacted how he looks at the programming with his student athletes, and how his tenure in Corpus Christi has helped him with his ...
May 02, 2017•51 min
In this episode of The Podcast I discuss the state of the field of strength and conditioning today with Mark Watts. Mark starts out sharing with us with how he’s gotten to where he is and how it’s impacted what he see’s in the coaching field. He then gets into what he see’s as some of the issues and misconceptions in and of the field. He finishes off sharing some things that he had the best success with his athlete’s in the past that carry over to any field, and how keeping the focal point being...
Apr 25, 2017•38 min
In today's edition of The Podcast, DePaul's Nic Higgins shares with us how force plates are fitting into their plan he see’s them as a bridge between all aspects of developing athletes. Nic touches upon how they are able to implement the force plates into the development plan for all of his athletes, both in performance enhancement and return to play from injury. He then breaks down the process of the evaluation for a newer athlete, what they’re look at and for with the evaluation, and how it wi...
Apr 19, 2017•34 min
In today’s episode of The Podcast Boo Schexnayder (http://www.sacspeed.com/wp/) joins us to discuss ACL rehab. We start out discussing how he got started in ACL Rehab, and how the basic principles of speed training fit in the rehab setting. He then discusses high speed of movement and eccentric training, shares with us his progression in rehab, and where he see's things can change. Next, he gives examples of his running progression used in his rehab program, what he looks at/for in his athlete's...
Apr 04, 2017•32 min
Today’s guest on The Podcast is the Performance Director for Michigan Football Fergus Connolly. Fergus starts out discussing his computer science background and how that impacted him and his approach and views of strength and conditioning. He then discusses the pitfalls he sees with coaches diving into the use of technology, and what people should be looking at prior to adding monitoring methods to their teams programming. We then touch upon what coaches SHOULD be looking for across sports to fi...
Mar 14, 2017•33 min
