I’m elated to introduce Brittney Bearden to The CVASPS family in this week’s episode of The Podcast. Britt has done some fantastic work with our guys over the past three years helping them to transform their nutrition routines. In the 33-minute discussion Brittney and I get into: 1) What drove her to go into sports nutrition and how the education steps to get licensed impacted how she practices today. 2) What is truly involved in how we select food, and how important it is to individualize nutri...
May 30, 2023•34 min•Season 3Ep. 19
This week’s episode of The Podcast is a season review and audit with Andrea Comini. Dre and I have known each other for almost 10 years, and we had the opportunity to sponsor his visa to bring him back to The States to work with us in The Q this year and he was a huge addition. Dre’s a great coach who brought a unique view point to our daily routine, our programming, and our standard. In the 30-minute discussion Dre and I get into: 1) Where his love of basketball and coaching stems from. 2) How ...
May 23, 2023•33 min•Season 3Ep. 18
This week I had the pleasure of getting to catch up with Dominick Walker on this week’s episode of The Podcast. Dom is doing some awesome work down at Mississippi State preparing his Men’s Basketball team, and also providing a ton of great content on the work they’re doing and the results he’s seeing. In the 35-minute chat Dom and I get into: 1) Some adjustments that we see that are needed in this new era of the portal and NIL 2) Picking what battle to fight knowing that you’re not going to win ...
May 17, 2023•33 min•Season 3Ep. 17
I am so excited to welcome Dr. Kessa Kuyper to The Podcast. “K” was a great addition to our staff for the 2021/22 season, helping one of the oldest teams ever in college basketball “survive” the season with her unique perspective on training after going through PT School. In the 30-minute conversation we discuss: 1) Why going to PT school may be a good decision for young coaches coming out of college 2) How having a role within the high-performance team is important, not just to the staff but th...
May 02, 2023•33 min•Season 3Ep. 16
In this week’s episode of The Podcast Will Ratelle and I discuss the vernacular of strength and conditioning, and why terms matter. Throughout the 35-minute chat Will and I get into: 1) How all too often we come up with terms that may or may not have an actual definition, and why this is really slowing down our progress as a vocation. 2) His view on the term rotational power, and why there may be some misconceptions around that term 3) The impact of range of motion on power athletes 4) What fact...
Apr 25, 2023•36 min•Season 3Ep. 15
In this week’s episode I’m so happy to welcome Josh Storms to The Podcast. Throughout the 30-minute conversation Josh and I get into: 1) The pros of longevity in one place. 2) The transition period between head coaches, what he observed with the players, and how being the “go between” with the new staff and the players helped with the transition. 3) What his evaluation process during Spring Ball consists of, and the impact of “the portal” 4) The importance of evolving your programming, and its e...
Apr 18, 2023•33 min•Season 3Ep. 14
This week’s podcast guest is another coach whose name has been dropped on many “My Thoughts Monday’s. I’m so fired up to get to chop it up with my good friend and former co-worker Mike Thomson this week. In the 30-minute chat Mike and I get into: 1) Evaluating players (in this case pitchers), and how looking at their mechanics can improve specificity and drive better training prescription. 2) How they establish variables to look at and use to help drive, not just their training model, but prescr...
Apr 11, 2023•36 min•Season 3Ep. 13
I’m so happy to welcome Steve Georgio to The Podcast this week. Steve has been doing awesome work up at Fordham going through a very unique and trying three years, surviving three different head coaching changes in that time period, leading up to a fantastic season this year. Throughout the 30 plus minute discussion Steve and I talk about 1) The importance of loyalty in a world and vocation that really lacks it at times 2) In a time where specializing in one sport is the norm, how working with m...
Mar 28, 2023•34 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Today I am elated to welcome Eric Guthrie to The Podcast. Many of our listeners who have attended The Seminar have had the pleasure of meeting “Big E” at one of the events and know he’s one of the best people in our vocation. In the 35-minute discussion Eric and I get into: 1) What “improving the department” actually means to each of us, and how following/working under great directors allows you to keep the ball rolling. 2) The importance of a common vision and how communicating that throughout ...
Mar 21, 2023•34 min•Season 3Ep. 10
This week’s episode of The Podcast is some Thoughts from Old Graybeard where I reflect on this time of the year. All too often coaches suffer from extreme FOMO, and this time of year is one of the greatest culprits for experiencing it. For those whose seasons have come to an end we are, at times, in a rush to get back to training and really crank it up, but that isn’t always what’s best. What may be best for all of us is to do one simple thing that really isn’t that easy to do, and that is, slow...
Mar 15, 2023•16 min•Season 3Ep. 9
In this week’s episode of The Podcast I have the pleasure of sitting down and chopping it up with Andrew Stuart. In the 30-minute talk Andrew and I get into: 1) How taking the thought process back to a 5th grade science experiment could save practitioners a lot of headaches. 2) Where he sees an issue with being data driven, and how changing the thought process to data informed could help us be even better for the coaches and athletes we get to work with. 3) What the “applied” in applied sport sc...
Mar 07, 2023•32 min•Season 3Ep. 8
I’m elated to welcome Ben Kenyon to The Podcast and introduce him as one of our presenters for The 2023 Seminar. I have had the fortune to know BK and call him a collogue for the past 18 years so this conversation has been a long time coming. Throughout the 45-minute discussion we get into: 1) How career burn out impacted to him professionally, and how it led to a personal pivot that has allowed him to impact people all over the world. 2) The importance of having your set of core values to drive...
Mar 01, 2023•45 min•Season 3Ep. 7
This week we welcome Dr. Craig Turner to The Podcast. Throughout this fantastic 42-minute discussion Dr. Turner goes into: 1) The tactical similarities across team sports and how those similarities have helped both of us progress our careers from soccer to basketball, and create a better understanding of the games. 2) The role of technology in coaching and how important having actionable data and actually acting on it is. 3) Understanding what you are trying to measure when selecting what techno...
Feb 21, 2023•43 min•Season 3Ep. 6
This week we are joined by 2023 Seminar presenter, Kansas University’s Director of Sports Performance for football, Matt Gildersleeve. Our last discussion with Sleeve was OTR #79, and we catch up right where we left off. Sleeve dives into: What the first off season was like, and how it set up their program moving forward. The impact of the COVID summer and in what ways that continues to impact his program. A simple thing that has helped him not stay “stuck in his ways” and keep pushing to find b...
Feb 14, 2023•40 min•Season 3Ep. 5
It’s always great to catch up with Dr. Bryan Mann, and this week’s episode of The Podcast is no different. In the 36-minute discussion Doc and I go into: 1) His new position and role at “The U” 2) Force Velocity Profiling, some of the issues and FAQ’s with it, and practical ways to implement it (oh and this is what his presentation is on at The 2023 Seminar) 3) How looking at averages at times is appropriate, but can also hinder development 4) How important math and physics are to what we do 5) ...
Feb 07, 2023•37 min•Season 3Ep. 4
I couldn’t be more excited to have had the opportunity to sit down and catch up with 2023 presenter Coach Boo Schexnayder on this week’s episode of The Podcast. After a quick catch-up with Coach Boo we get into: 1) The role of science and practical common sense thinking in coaching, and how what is “scientific” vs common sense has come full circle. 2) What the role of research is in his coaching, and how he sees some limitations to research 3) Why he’s very reserved when it comes to the flavor o...
Jan 31, 2023•33 min•Season 3Ep. 3
I am so fired up to welcome Molly Binetti back to The Podcast and introduce her as our 2nd presenter at The 2023 edition of The Seminar. In the 35-minute discussion we talk about: 1) The challenges of the season after winning a championship and how that’s impacted our approaches to not just training, but how we handle our athletes 2) The importance of making sure you’re progressing the younger players on a successful team and not letting them be comfortable riding the coat tails of those who bui...
Jan 24, 2023•34 min•Season 3Ep. 2
The Podcast returns with a sensational conversation with PLAE’s Chase Campbell. Chase and I discuss: 1) The decision to move The Seminar to PLAE HQ 2) What Greybeard’s presentation will be on at CVASPS and different lenses to look at reverse engineering through 3) The role of simplicity in programming and how our view on it has changed as we have gotten older 4) The most valuable aspects of CVASPS to both of us 5) What is one thing outside of work could help all coaches be better at what they do...
Jan 17, 2023•52 min•Season 3Ep. 1
“We all live in the same physical world and environment, it’s just the demands of your sport may have some degrees of variant within that.” One of the things I try to do is bring the people doing the research to The Seminar, and after writing the book on biomechanics of basketball, Dr. Petway is the go to in that discipline. During the 42-minute talk we cover: 1) His voyage into sports performance, and what drove him towards researching biomechanics 2) How being asked the right questions by his ...
Apr 14, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 11
“There are some general principles about how we train and how we could train based on humans first based on how we respond to training.” This episode of The Podcast is a super discussion with Jonas Dodoo. During the 41-minute talk we cover: 1) Principles and systems, the power behind them and why their vital for coaches 2) Different ways that the general impacts the specific in training 3) The rule of thirds, and how it can help us understand programming 4) Confidence as an objective of many asp...
Apr 11, 2022•42 min•Season 2Ep. 10
“Being able to have something that you stand for, and being able to consistently deliver that message in a way that’s authentic and gets to the core root of the issue and to your audience, that IS coaching.” Always awesome to catch up with Ali Kershner, and this week’s episode of The Podcast is no different! Throughout the 40-minute chat we talk about: 1) Ali’s new role and what inspired her to take the leap to step away from coaching athletes 2) Some aspects of growth strength coaches excel at,...
Apr 08, 2022•41 min•Season 2Ep. 9
“It’s much more challenging to find solutions to problems then it is to complain.” Always great to catch up with Coach Brijesh Patel, and this episode of The Podcast is no different. Throughout the 35-minute chat we talk about: 1) How a deep dive into fascia has had a massive impact on his programming 2) Eldoa, what it is and why it’s important 3) How isokinetic training can improve performance, and help with injuries 4) How coaches can build each other up to drive the profession forward 5) The ...
Apr 05, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 8
“You do what they can do, build in what they can do, circumvent the weaknesses and try to get them to that.” “There’s nothing really new, science has helped us understand the effects of things better, great coaches have made us understand it from their experiences. We’ve all learned from our fairs, unfortunately I’ve made the same mistakes a couple times, which makes me upset.” “The great ones, relative to your level, do things you can’t coach. Don’t uncoach them.” In this week’s episode of The ...
Apr 01, 2022•1 hr 42 min•Season 2Ep. 7
“I tell young coaches and young trainers all the time, just because you have the title of strength coach at this school or the title of trainer at this school that really doesn’t mean anything, it means absolutely nothing other than the paycheck.” “Ultimately, if the kids come to you and the athletes come to you and you help them and you come up with answers for them they’re going to keep coming to you.” I got the opportunity to chop it up with Boo Schexnayder in this week’s episode of The Podca...
Mar 30, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 6
“If you have the outputs you can have compensations and breakdowns in your technique. If you don’t have the output and you don’t have the ability to be a freak athlete then you better move really, really well and create impulse at the right time.” In this week’s episode of The Podcast I got to catch up with Zach Dechant. Throughout the 35-minute chat we talk about: 1) Zach’s new role at TCU and where he sees that progressing forward. 2) Some new things that he’s implementing with his baseball pl...
Mar 28, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 5
“What am I going to do for this kid? Because he doesn’t even know what makes him good. Genuinely, we can say we do, we have no idea what makes these people good.” In today’s episode of The Podcast I sit down and chat with Freak Strength’s Mike Guadango. During the 32-minute chat we talk about: 1) The crazy world of being a “sport specialist” and the ebbs and flows of it that he’s lived through. 2) The role asymmetries in sport, and why coaches may not want to “correct” some. 3) A unique method t...
Mar 22, 2022•34 min•Season 2Ep. 4
“You always figure things out when it’s too late. This is the problem of human nature. You figure out you’re on the wrong track when your athletes are not performing well, but that mistake has been made three months before when you didn’t see it, when you though “hey this is going great, I’m such a good coach.” Then they fail miserably, and then that mistake has been made before so always try to plan ahead.” Always great to get to catch up with my good friend Henk Kraaijehnof in this episode of ...
Mar 11, 2022•37 min•Season 2Ep. 3
“As cool as our job is and as much as we all love training, and making them better and watching them do their thing. At the end of it, what are we actually leaving them with and what are we helping them do?” We are joined this week by South Carolina Women’s Basketball Sport Performance Coach and my Free-VASPS co-host, Molly Benetti for this episode of The Podcast. Throughout the 40-minute discussion we dive into: How COVID has continued to impact the preseason preparation strategies The pros and...
Mar 08, 2022•39 min•Season 2Ep. 2
“None of this strength and conditioning shit matters if we can’t get our athletes to understand what we’re asking them to do, or if they don’t understand how it applies. If they don’t get it, it doesn’t matter.” Welcome back to The Podcast. If I was going to bring this thing back it had to be Jeff Moyer batting leadoff. In this 40-minute talk, Jeff and I talk about: 1) The new and unique rabbit holes that the pandemic has allowed Jeff to dive down 2) What were the driving factors behind him digg...
Mar 01, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 1
“You have to talk them through the way you want to do things, and why you want to do it, and how it’s applicable to the sport they’re actually playing.” What’s up everybody and welcome the 95th episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit more about who they actually are and how they got to where they are at...
Jun 17, 2021•12 min•Ep. 557
