Send us a text This episode features Mike Potenza, who is currently in his 14th year as the Director of Strength and Conditioning for the San Jose Sharks hockey team. Mike is a Managing Partner and Director of Human Performance for Tactical Fitness and Performance. TFP is an innovative small business with a specialized focus on Human Performance for the Tactical Operator. Prior to his NHL career and while at Boston University doing his master’s he held a graduate assistant position within the St...
Dec 24, 2019•53 min
Send us a text This episode features Meeta Singh a sleep doctor whose work and research focus on “Coaching the sleep muscle”. She works with individual athletes and sports teams to maximize their performance through better sleep. She also helps sports teams and athletes with their travel management with a focus on addressing sleep deprivation and jet lag, and she transcends this work with C suite executives helping them enhance their sleep and improve productivity. Meeta is the Service chief of ...
Dec 17, 2019•1 hr 7 min
Send us a text This episode features Steve Lidstone who is the Associate Director of Sports Performance at Brock University where he manages the Sports Medicine and Sports Performance Departments. Steve is the former Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at York and McMaster Universities. He has been a Strength & Conditioning Consultant with Hockey Canada’s national women’s team since 2005 and also consults with a number of other Canadian National Teams. Steve has been an instructor at seve...
Dec 10, 2019•54 min
Send us a text This episode features John O'Sullivan who is an internationally known TEDx speaker and the founder of the Changing the Game Project, which he started in 2012. A former collegiate and professional soccer player, he has coached for close to 30 years at the youth, high school and, college level. He has consulted with the US Olympic Committee, US Soccer, USA Football, US Lacrosse, USA Swimming, Ireland Rugby, Aussie Rules Football and many more. He is also on the National Advisory Boa...
Dec 03, 2019•1 hr
Send us a text This episode features the host of the Strength Coach Podcast, Anthony Renna. He's been a personal trainer for the past fifteen years. He began his career working with Equinox, then on his own at different facilities before opening his own gym, Five Iron Fitness, in 2008. He sold Five Iron in 2016 so he could focus on his true passion of providing educational resources for fitness professionals to excel in the profession. His mission is to help them find success and make an impact ...
Nov 26, 2019•1 hr 15 min
Send us a text Episode #96 of Leave Your Mark features one of Canada's legendary strength and conditioning coaches Rich Hesketh. Rich served as the lead of S+C for 19 seasons with the Calgary Flames of the national hockey league until 2014. Before his career as a performance coach, He was a Canadian National Track & Field team member for nine years and ranked in the top 3 Canadian decathletes from 1988-97. Rich had the privilege to represent Canada on 11 different national teams. He was the ...
Nov 19, 2019•1 hr 24 min
Send us a text In this special episode released on Remembrance Day 2020, I speak with Corporal Franck Dupéré. It was April 2011. Frank was on patrol with an American unit. They were distributing textbooks to Afghan school kids. They were 300-meters from their base. The bomber was two meters away from him when the world shook. “I never saw the guy the bazaar was full of people and the blast threw me back and pushed the air from my lungs. I fell on my back, and I was a little bit lucky because I m...
Nov 10, 2019•49 min
Send us a text Mark is the owner and founder of Elite Training Systems Performance Centre based out of Toronto and southern Ontario. He is part of a fraternity of Canadian Strength and Conditioning Coaches who have changed the foundation of physical performance in the National Hockey League. He served for four seasons as the head of performance with the Anaheim Ducks, and he is a Lead Training Advisor for Under Armour Canada and a member of Under Armour's international training team. He comes fr...
Nov 05, 2019•1 hr 2 min
Send us a text This episode features Ben Dubin who has been a career strength and conditioning coach and is also a Firefighter and paramedic serving in the Tempe, Arizona area. I recently encountered Ben at the EXOS Continuous Improvement Summit that I was invited to speak at in Phoenix. Ben has been Certified as an instructor of the Wim Hof Method, and he brought this method of practice to the entire EXOS performance team as a workshop and applied presentation over the course of the weekend. I ...
Oct 30, 2019•57 min
Send us a text This episode of the Leave Your Mark podcast features a fellow podcaster and serial entrepreneur, Robert Brus. Robert's career life began in the Australian Military, specifically the Navy. He went on to become a paratrooper and served for a number of years until he felt the need to express his business acumen. He built a thriving business in digital marketing with his brother which was very successful, but he still had an itch to broadcast, and about a year ago, in the same program...
Oct 22, 2019•57 min
Send us a text This episode features former heptathlete, Jessica Zelinka. Jessica is one of Canada’s most successful heptathletes. Her personal best score in the Heptathlon is 6599. She was a gold medalist in the 2007 Pan American Games, and she won Silver medals at the 2010 and 2014 Commonwealth Games. Jessica qualified for her first Olympic games in 2008 where she placed 4th overall. She became a mother in 2009 giving birth to her daughter Anika and then returned to training with a renewed sen...
Oct 15, 2019•55 min
Send us a text This episode features an unassuming leader of the human performance industry, Chris Poirier. Chris has been in the world of human performance for close to 30 years in his role with Perform Better. The Perform Better Seminars have supported the growth and knowledge base of the human performance industry and launched many of the educational careers of its presenters. Chris was born and raised in Narragansett, RI and attended Narragansett HS where he was a three-year varsity starter ...
Oct 08, 2019•56 min
Send us a text This episode features a fitness icon, David Snively. He has been a leader in the fitness industry for over 35 years. David is one of the premier fitness experts in the world. He has been speaking and teaching throughout his career and has traveled to numerous countries and provided education at countless fitness conferences and conventions worldwide. David currently owns and operates DBS Fitness Concepts Personal Training Studio in Montreal which offers a wide variety of human per...
Oct 01, 2019•1 hr 4 min
Send us a text This episode features former professional hockey player turned entrepreneur, Doug Lynch. After being drafted 7th overall by the WHL Red Deer Rebels in 1999, Doug left home to pursue his dream of playing in the NHL. After winning the Memorial Cup in 2001 Doug was drafted by the Edmonton Oilers in the 2nd round of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft. He turned pro and embarked on an 11-year professional career where he played in the NHL, AHL, ECHL, Swedish Elite League and Austrian Elite Leagu...
Sep 24, 2019•1 hr 4 min
Send us a text This episode features Jorge Carvajal. Jorge is a performance coach and consultant who works with elite athletes in sport and the tactical world. He has trained thousands of athletes, at the University of Florida, the University of Nebraska, the U.S. Olympic training center. He has trained over 200 professional athletes who play in the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, World Surf League Big Wave Tour surfers, and Tactical Athletes in the Fire Service, SWAT/SRT, and Military Special Operations Co...
Sep 17, 2019•57 min
Send us a text This episode features Ann Shivas. Ann is a talented osteopath practicing in Montreal and currently into the practice of epigenetics and functional medicine. Ann was a competitive athlete and played professional women’s soccer in Australia. As a redshirt athlete with team Canada she broke her tibia and partially tore her ACL. She consequently suffered a full ACL tear. Her road back was long and challenging, and lead to her eventually playing rugby at an amateur level which gave her...
Sep 10, 2019•1 hr 2 min
Send us a text This episode features the Founder and Director of LA Sports and Spine, Craig Liebenson. A chiropractor by profession, he first began studying Lewit & Janda’s work in 1983. Invited them to offer their courses in LA back in 1987. After the Berlin Wall fell in 1990 he went to Prague. Dr. Lewit further introduced Craig and his group to Pavel Kolar in the mid-1990s so they could learn Kolar’s interpretation of Vojta’s work. Throughout the 90’s Craig hosted his courses and introduce...
Sep 03, 2019•59 min
Send us a text This episode features Teena Murray who is the Vice-President of Health & Performance with the NBA’s Sacramento Kings. Prior to joining the Kings, Teena spent 14 years as Director of Performance at the University of Louisville where she and her team built a premier program in collegiate athletics. During her time at Louisville Teena was also an adjunct lecturer in the College of Health and Sport Science and held an associate appointment in the Department of Bioengineering. Her ...
Aug 27, 2019•53 min
Send us a text This episode features Eric Cressey the president and co-founder of Cressey Sports Performance. Eric has worked with clients from youth sports to the professional and Olympic ranks but is best known for his extensive work with baseball players; more than 100 professional players train with him each off-season. Eric has authored numerous journal articles, published six books, and co-created seven video resources that have been sold around the world. He is a prolific presenter and si...
Aug 20, 2019•51 min
Send us a text This episode features Kirsten Barnes who has been working as a mental performance consultant for 20+ years. She has worked with Canadian national teams of Rowing, Swimming, Cycling and Women’s rugby 7s, as well as individual summer and winter athletes. Kirsten competed for Canada in rowing in the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games. She is a double Olympic Gold Medalist from the 1992 Games and World Champion in 1991 at the Rowing World Championships in both the 4- and 8+. Born in England ...
Aug 13, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Send us a text Episode #81 of the Leave Your Mark podcast is out tomorrow on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play and features a performance innovator out of Virginia, Vernon Griffith. He is the co-owner of Virginia High Performance. He oversees high-performance programming and the multi-faceted holistic approach of the “Continue Mission Program” for active duty and military veterans. Being an advocate for high-performance training for youth athletics in Hampton Roads, Vernon has worked with hundred...
Aug 06, 2019•48 min
Send us a text This episode features Tim Gabbett who has over twenty years of experience working as an applied sport scientist in Australia with athletes and coaches from a wide range of sports. He holds a Ph.D. in Human Physiology and has completed a second Ph.D. in the Applied Science of Professional Football , with special reference to physical demands, injury prevention, and skill acquisition. Tim has worked with elite international athletes over several Commonwealth and Olympic Games cycles...
Jul 30, 2019•1 hr
Send us a text This episode features a Canadian pioneer in sports psychology, Penny Werthner. Penny is one of Canada’s most distinguished consultants in the field of sport psychology. She has worked with many Olympic level athletes, coaches and teams over a span of 13 summers and winter Olympic Games, from the 1988 winter Olympics in Calgary to the more recent 2016 summer Games in Rio and the 2018 Games in PyeongChang. Penny represented Canada in the 1500m in Montreal at the 1976 Summer Olympics...
Jul 23, 2019•51 min
Send us a text This episode features journalist David Epstein who is also the author of two top 10 New York Times bestsellers: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World , and The Sports Gene . He was previously a science and investigative reporter at ProPublica , and prior to that a senior writer at Sports Illustrated , where he co-authored the story that revealed Yankee's third baseman Alex Rodriguez had used steroids. His writing has been honored by an array of organizations, from ...
Jul 16, 2019•1 hr 7 min
Send us a text This weeks episode features the founder of @myTPI, Greg is a Doctor of Chiropractic and holds an engineering degree from the University of Maryland. Greg specializes in assessing and treating athletes, 3-dimensional biomechanics, strength and conditioning, manual therapy, rehabilitation, and therapeutic exercises. Combining an engineering background with an expertise on the human body, Greg helped pioneer the field of analyzing 3-dimensional motion capture models of the golf swing...
Jul 09, 2019•53 min
Send us a text This episode features Greg MacLuckie who was a professional chiropractor. Until 2012 Greg he had a very active practice and worked with many different people, including some professional athletes. He played many sports, from rugby to squash, and is now an avid cyclist and skier, racing in both sports. He taught numerous wellness courses in a variety of settings, was featured on TV and has participated on a panel of industry experts focusing on fitness-related injuries. In November...
Jul 02, 2019•43 min
Send us a text This episode features spine care legend, Stuart McGill. Stu is retired but for many years served as a Professor of Spine Biomechanics at the University of Waterloo, and is Chief Scientific Officer of Backfitpro. As a professor for 30 years he explored low back mechanics and has been the author of hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific journal papers that address the issues of lumbar function, low back injury mechanisms, tissue loading during rehabilitation, and the formulation of wo...
Jun 25, 2019•1 hr 8 min
Send us a text This episode features Vinny Malts who is the founder of Bloodline Hockey and a leader at the forefront of incorporating mindset development and sports performance training. His coaching is helping some of the most elite players in the world maintain a positive thought process, focused on enhancing their role and learning how to spend their valuable time wisely. Vince has coached at the professional and amateur level for over 20 years. His professional playing journey of 10 years, ...
Jun 18, 2019•1 hr 5 min
Send us a text This episode features John Berardi a Canadian-American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Precision Nutrition, the world’s largest nutrition coaching, education, and software company. Professionally he is an Exercise Physiologist and Nutritional Biochemist as well as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. He’s also the founder of Change Maker Academy, devoted to helping would-be change-makers turn their passion for health and fitness into a powerful purpose an...
Jun 11, 2019•1 hr 27 min
Send us a text This episode features Ben Sporer who is an exercise physiologist with over 20 years of experience working in high-performance sport in Canada. He spent over a decade with the Canadian Sport Institute holding a number of roles including senior physiologist and head of performance and research. He is an accomplished physiologist and leader of multidisciplinary integrated support teams at summer and winter Olympic games and World Cup and World Championship events. Currently, Ben runs...
Jun 04, 2019•1 hr 4 min
