Send us a text On this episode, Brooks Braga from BRX Performance comes on to talk about not only his story but also how he's coached other coaches, and creating systems within BRX to make "Baseball Billy" have all the tools he needs to succeed. We also touch on parent - coach dynamics and expectations of their involvement in the process of their athlete training with them (The Communication Triangle) Want to find out more about BRX? Give them the follow on the socials: @brxperformance and check...
Sep 20, 2022•53 min
Send us a text On this episode, I recently share my experience with 75 Hard and how I sustained the first phase of the program made by Andy Frisella (check out his episodes on RealAF Podcast) Even though it's not IN THE ZONE of baseball or coaching, I think it was important to share some of my takeaways and how it helped me personally. If you or you know someone interested in starting up, I'm more than happy to help support them through the process. Check out my 75Support Program below: https://...
Sep 18, 2022•18 min
Send us a text On this Rant talk, I go in on the demonization of bench press and how there are some factors to consider when doing this exercise. The main points being limb length, training age, injury history and laxity of joints. Want another topic for me to rant about? - Email inthezonepodcast123@gmail.com Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connect with Us: For more episodes, insights, and updates, follow us on social media at @royalper4mance on ...
Sep 15, 2022•9 min
Send us a text On this episode, Ryan Buccafurni, owner of Peak performance Sports Physical Therapy comes on to talk some shop! We touch on a variety of topics from return to throwing, infrasternal angles, compensations of movement patterns and much more! Give him a follow on the socials: peak_performance_sportspt Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connect with Us: For more episodes, insights, and updates, follow us on social media at @royalper4mance...
Sep 13, 2022•46 min
Send us a text In this episode, I go on a tangent talking about how the distance of your throws matter and how plyo ball warm up sequence, in my opinion, is done in the wrong way to elicit the best adaptation. Want to hear a rant on another topic? Email in your suggestions to inthezonepodcast123@gmail.com Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connect with Us: For more episodes, insights, and updates, follow us on social media at @royalper4mance on all ...
Sep 08, 2022•6 min
Send us a text On this episode, I go in on Infrasternal Angles. What it is, what conclusions are being drawn from it, and my honest thoughts on the subject. Feel free to share this and as always, open to discussion on this topic. If you have information to share on this, shoot me and email: inthezonepodcast123@gmail.com Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connect with Us: For more episodes, insights, and updates, follow us on social media at @royalpe...
Sep 06, 2022•12 min
Send us a text Tune in for me speaking my mind and letting off some steam on having and honest evaluation of yourself and the work you're putting in. There's no true failure unless you let it mentally defeat you. It's only feedback from the quality/ quantity of work you have put in. Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connect with Us: For more episodes, insights, and updates, follow us on social media at @royalper4mance on all platforms and subscribe...
Sep 01, 2022•5 min
Send us a text Save this one to your bookmarks, because this one is a good one to return to after points of failure. This will help you clean the slate and begin again to stay IN THE ZONE! Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connect with Us: For more episodes, insights, and updates, follow us on social media at @royalper4mance on all platforms and subscribe to the YouTube channel . Stay In the Zone...
Aug 30, 2022•11 min
Send us a text On this episode, I had the pleasure of having one of my former athletes now turned coach come on the podcast and talk about his experience and new venture! We talk about his journey as a player and how he is stewarding the information that he used from his career to building the Rockingham Eagles program for this coming season! Give him and the Rockingham CC socials a follow on Twitter: @tysonellis_13 @RCCEagsBaseball Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply...
Aug 23, 2022•50 min
Send us a text On this episode, Marshall Denton comes on to share his experiences playing and coaching at the University of Arkansas, and now what he's continuing to learn and share with all the players he comes in contact with. My favorite section on this was how he took pieces from each coach that he played under and coached along side. Names like Wes Johnson, Matt Hobbs and DJ Baxendale. Give this a listen for some awesome stories and perspectives! Follow Marshall on his socials: @marshall_de...
Aug 16, 2022•56 min
Send us a text On this episode. I review over the importance of mental imagery. If you want to learn more about it, this episode is for you! When you visualize yourself playing, what do you see? Do you add in other senses to your mental imagery? What about changing up 1st or 3rd person? I cover all of that in this episode! Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connect with Us: For more episodes, insights, and updates, follow us on social media at @roya...
Aug 02, 2022•12 min
Send us a text On this full length episode, Jacob Rand comes on to talk about his career, coaching styles he's played for and also how his coaching style has evolved overtime. Really enjoyed talking with him about his experience out at Wingate and how the 2021 team brought it all together! We touched on how there are common trends that all winning teams do to achieve great things! This is a must listen if you're a coach or player gearing up to lay down the foundation for your upcoming season. It...
Jul 26, 2022•58 min
Send us a text On this full length episode, we have Kyle joining on to talk about his experience as a player and sport scientist. He shares some of the recent findings and challenges with technology and baseball and also what the future holds for the game! Check him out on Twitter: And also the Driveline R&D Podcast on all the Social Media Platforms! - - - Liked what you heard? Learn something new? Did it give you a different perspective? Share it with your friends, family and teammates! Sup...
Jul 19, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Send us a text This is the first episode of the new segment of the podcast focusing on the mental game. Sharing my experiences with learning how to find an identity outside of baseball to help you get IN THE ZONE in life and perform better in all aspects of life. Liked what you heard? Learn something new? Share it with your friends, family and teammates! Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connect with Us: For more episodes, insights, and updates, fo...
Jul 12, 2022•11 min
Send us a text Alec joins us on In the Zone for this weeks episode to reminisce on how we got started in the coaching world as well as talking about how or philosophies have evolved since then. We talk on topics such as return to throwing programs, what it means to be "connected" in throwing and how the biggest metric to measure is performance itself! Give them a follow on his socials: @cxnperformance Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connect with ...
Jun 21, 2022•39 min
Send us a text On this episode, Landon Hutchison comes on and talks about practice design, what he expects out of his student athletes and we even touch on the transfer portal. If you're looking to play college ball or take on a transfer to another school, this is a must listen! Feel free to give him a follow on the socials! Twitter: @HutchStorm18 IG: @Coach_hutch_18 Lake Erie College: @lecbaseball Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connect with Us:...
Jun 14, 2022•38 min
Send us a text In this episode, Nate hops on to talk about undulating periodization and some of his insights from his college and recent pro bal experience with the Arizona Diamondbacks. We go down the rabbit holes of aqua bags to even how video games can affect performance! Give him a follow: @kolbnate Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connect with Us: For more episodes, insights, and updates, follow us on social media at @royalper4mance on all pl...
Jun 07, 2022•39 min
Send us a text In this episode, Dr. Tori comes on to share her knowledge on Thoracic Outlet Sydrome, her experience with TOS, the different types of TOS, and how to assess and keep those in check for throwers. Give it a listen, as I myself even learned a few things from this discussion, so I'm sure you will as well! Give her a follow on IG: @drtoridpt Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connect with Us: For more episodes, insights, and updates, follo...
May 31, 2022•38 min
Send us a text In this episode, Ian comes on to the podcast talking about his experience in baseball thus far, stemming with analytics with the Reds and Astros organizations, and now spreading his knowledge on the BachTalk Podcast. He also is the Director of Analytics at Archbishop Moeller High School Give him a follow on his socials: @Bachtalk_ @Bigmoanalytics @ian_bach Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connect with Us: For more episodes, insights...
May 24, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Send us a text On this episode, Michael from EAP out in my hometown of Benton Arkansas come on to discuss topics from workload management of multi sport athletes, how to pick the right school for you or how to transfer to the correct school, long toss and much more! Give him a follow on his Youtube Channel, IG and Twitter Accounts: @EAPerformanceLLC Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connect with Us: For more episodes, insights, and updates, follow ...
May 17, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Send us a text This episode, we had an awesome guest - Nick Serio from VeloU. He laid out how VeloU started in the midst of the pandemic, how over coaching can be detrimental to athletes overall development and how autonomy is sometimes misunderstood for athletes and also employees. We even discuss how sometimes as coaches we focus too much on what the athlete is poor at and not exploiting and increasing what they are already proficient in. Definitely tune in for a very in-depth interview Give h...
May 10, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Send us a text In this episode, Anthony touches on his 3 pillars for his pitchers at PRP, his processes on how he takes guys through their plans while training with them and helping them become the best versions of themselves. We also get on a few rabbit holes from drill prescription, how coaching should be more collaborative in nature and helping guys become better competitors in the training. Check him out IG: @Muchachogomez and Twitter: @MuchachoGomez57 Support the show Unlock Your Excellence...
May 03, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Send us a text On this episode, Dustin and I go into a variety of topics such as how location/ command the most overlooked attribute/ skill in todays game, how decontextualized training actually hinder the athletes and social media being a mechanical abyss of misinformation. Give him a follow on Twitter: @lokationnation Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connect with Us: For more episodes, insights, and updates, follow us on social media at @royalpe...
Apr 26, 2022•53 min
Send us a text On this episode, Adam Vasil talks about his journey from playing to coaching. We reflect on our playing careers and ask ourself what would we have told ourselves earlier in our careers. Adam also touches on the subject of being too coachable can be a bad thing and how he wished he could have stuck to his guns a little bit while playing. From playing as a catcher to now coaching, Adam has a lot of golden nuggets to share. Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Ap...
Apr 19, 2022•49 min
Send us a text On this episode, Tracy and I take a deep dive into the opposition theory from proximal to distal. Identifying the different types of muscle contractions and how analogies help coaches get their points across more effectively. Check her out on her socials: @mobilitychick Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connect with Us: For more episodes, insights, and updates, follow us on social media at @royalper4mance on all platforms and subscri...
Apr 12, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 15
Send us a text In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing one of my former coaches, Travis Lallemand who has been the Head Coach at Crowder for the past 17 years and has lead his teams to the Juco World Series in 2010 2017 and 2021. We touched on a variety of topics from what makes a good team or player great, how Juco competition has escalated over the past few years and how he hold his team to a certain standard not only in practice, but in the classroom and off the field as well. Fol...
Apr 07, 2022•48 min
Send us a text In this episode, we had an awesome guest on, Cody Hughes, has and continues to work with multiple sports. We touch on things from doing the basics savagely well, having a growth mindset as a coach. But more importantly, we touch on some lessons that we've learned from our careers and how that steers our coaching approach and philosophy to this day. Check him out on Twitter and IG: @clh_strength Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Conne...
Apr 05, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Send us a text On this episode, Alex talks about his recent experience in PT school and how he as learned how to connect the dots. Thinking from a more macro or holistic point of view versus a reductionist approach and lacking context. We also touch on how writing your own programs and analyzing your own mechanics isn't necessarily the best way to train and compete. Follow him on Twitter and IG: @alexvedofsp Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connec...
Mar 29, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Send us a text On this episode, Dr Gallo and I go down the rabbit hole of how reductionist approach can do more harm than good. Where it served us in the past to understand the micro but now taking more of a birds eye view in performance and allowing the body to flow in the movements. You can follow him on his socials Twitter: @flowsdoc Instagram: @baseballflows Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connect with Us: For more episodes, insights, and upd...
Mar 22, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Send us a text On this episode, Rob Rants on misconceptions of intent in throwing. how does intent highjack fluid movement patterns and causes guys to muscle up. Also, differentiation of intentions vs having intent. Follow him on his socials: @coachblanc Support the show Unlock Your Excellence: Need Guidance? – Apply for Training HERE Connect with Us: For more episodes, insights, and updates, follow us on social media at @royalper4mance on all platforms and subscribe to the YouTube channel . Sta...
Mar 17, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 10
