Send us a text Taylor is a Neuro Athletic Trainer through Z-Health, he has a deep passion for helping his clients develop quality training habits that put their health first and allow them to do the things they love pain-free. His passion for martial arts has shaped how he approaches health and fitness. He runs a STRENGTH & MOBILITY DOJO to create a training experience that encourages growth no matter where his clients begin. More importantly, he is married to his partner Alisha, and he is t...
May 07, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 7Ep. 370
Send us a text This EP features Luka Hocevar. Luka was born and raised in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and gives credit to basketball, fitness, and coaches for taking him from going down the wrong path in crime, to becoming a professional basketball player in the elite European Leagues as well as the NBA Summer Pro League. After his professional career, Luka went into his passion of training to affect others like the coaches that changed his life. He has been a coach for 14 years building skillsets in e...
Apr 30, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 7Ep. 369
Send us a text Andreo Spina. Andreo is a Sports Specialist chiropractor practicing in Toronto. He is the creator and lead instructor of the Functional Range Systems® used by thousands of practitioners worldwide including dozens of professional sports organizations in just about every league you can imagine. Andreo is a published author, and international speaker on joint health, movement and mobility development, sports performance, and injury management. More importantly, he is a husband and fa...
Apr 23, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 7Ep. 368
Send us a text EP 367 features Joel Gandara. Joel is a personal life coach who brings a compelling personal narrative that resonates with a wide audience. His journey from a poor immigrant to a successful entrepreneur is a testament to resilience and determination. Joel is a Cuban immigrant to the US who grew up in a family with little means. He found a way to transcend poverty and explore entrepreneurship, building numerous highly successful businesses. His story of achieving the American Dream...
Apr 16, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 7Ep. 367
Send us a text This EP features Andrew Eaton. Andrew is a teacher, who integrates traditional strength training, mindset coaching, and brain-based physical training. He found his way to weight training as a response to being bullied in middle school. The lessons learned there laid the foundation for an entire career. After college, he was certain that a radio career was the next step in his journey, but he found himself instead writing and editing a periodical for back-care professionals. Then, ...
Apr 09, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 7Ep. 366
Send us a text This EP features Adam House a serial entrepreneur with a diverse background as a senior executive, professional basketball player, and team Co-Owner. Although he has achieved a lot in his 25-year career, he remains humbled by the opportunities he has to make a difference in people's lives. As the founder of multiple companies, Adam has a wealth of real-world business experience and a track record of success in various industries, starting, growing, operating, and selling companies...
Apr 02, 2024•57 min•Season 7Ep. 365
Send us a text This EP features performance coach and exercise physiologist, Scott Wilgress. Over the course of his career, he has worked with hundreds of provincial, national, and professional athletes. He was a member of Team Nova Scotia as the Physiologist / Strength Coach for the 2011, 2013, and 2015 Canada Games. He’s helped prepare athletes for 5 Olympic Games in sports such as Gymnastics, Sprint Canoe/Kayak, Hockey, Sailing, Boxing, and as a part of Softball Canada’s Integrated Support Te...
Mar 26, 2024•58 min•Season 6Ep. 364
Send us a text This EP features Annick-Isabelle Marcoux founder of the LangLeven Group in 2015, Canada’s first and only private equity group exclusively focused on growth opportunities in the North American Sports Industry. Before that, she was president and CEO of a group of high-end fitness clubs: Mansfield Athletic Clubs, Atwater Club, and HardCandy Fitness Toronto. In charge of aligning operations, turning around profitability, focusing on growth, and positioning for exit, she had given hers...
Mar 19, 2024•59 min•Season 6Ep. 663
Send us a text This EP features Strength and Conditioning Coach, and High-Performance Manager with the Canadian Armed Forces, Elliott Richardson. His background includes experience as an athlete, coach, mentor, educator, presenter, and integrator of disciplines to optimize human performance. Before he transitioned to working with the military population, he spent almost a decade as a Strength and Conditioning Coach and Sports Performance Manager with Acadia University. There he oversaw a team of...
Mar 12, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 6Ep. 362
Send us a text This EP features Nick Jonsson a business leader, author, speaker, podcast host, networking expert, and entrepreneur. His primary mission is empowering individuals to live beyond their wildest dreams through vulnerability and holistic happiness. He is the co-founder and Managing Director of Executives' Global Network (EGN). Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia, and Southeast Asia’s largest confidential peer group network providing more than 900 senior executives and business owners ...
Mar 05, 2024•59 min•Season 6Ep. 361
Send us a text This EP features Sam Spinelli a Physical Therapist and strength & conditioning coach with experience coaching individuals from the sick and frail to high-performing Olympic athletes. Sam co-founded Thrive Kelowna in 2021 to help provide the town of Kelowna, BC with high-quality coaching. He’s built multiple businesses in the rehab and fitness space, and he’s currently working on a book to be published towards the end of this year. Sam is the father of 2 young daughters, and he...
Feb 27, 2024•56 min•Season 6Ep. 360
Send us a text In this episode, I chat with nutrition expert Jennifer Broxterman. Jennifer is a Registered Dietitian and founder of PROSPER Nutrition Coaching , a world-class nutrition certification for gym owners and coaches. She's an award-winning Foods & Nutrition University professor, writer for Precision Nutrition , and owns her private practice NutritionRx . Jen has worked with clients from NHL hockey players and Olympic athletes to everyday folks looking to eat and feel better. On top...
Feb 20, 2024•58 min
Send us a text In this episode, Alex Dziri and I discuss the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to transform various industries, including coaching. AI is here to stay and we must recognize what it can do for us, and how we can employ it to support our work, not eliminate it. We emphasized the need for humans to adapt to the changing landscape and collaborate with AI systems while acknowledging the limitations of AI and the potential for it to impact jobs. Alex introduced a metaphor to he...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 6Ep. 358
Send us a text This EP features Miles Krol who has been in the wellness industry for over 20 years, first starting as a personal trainer at a young age, and then going on to pursue numerous certifications & internships with many of the industry’s top professionals. Miles once weighed close to 300 pounds. Losing over 120 pounds, his physique transformation motivated him to help other people create their metamorphosis of body, mind, and spirit. At 23 years of age with no business background or...
Feb 06, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 6Ep. 357
Send us a text This EP is a conversation with an old friend and colleague, Chad Benson. Chad is the CEO of the Personal Trainer Academy. He’s been a strength and conditioning coach for almost thirty years now. His influence in the world of fitness and human performance is wide and valued. He's been an innovator in human performance throughout his career and has always desired to share his knowledge and experiences with others. He is a published author, public speaker, and an accomplished trainer...
Jan 30, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 6Ep. 356
Send us a text This EP features Paul Laursen, a prominent figure in endurance sports, a versatile athlete, coach, scientist, and entrepreneur, encompassing more than three decades of experience. His academic career includes over 150 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts and the mentorship of more than 20 PhD/Masters students. Paul is also the co-author with this colleague Martin Buckheit, of the bestseller "The Science and Application of High-Intensity Interval Training.”, and its education provi...
Jan 23, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 6Ep. 355
Send us a text This EP features Enda King, the Head of Elite Performance and Development in Aspetar in Doha, Qatar. Enda integrates his roles as a sports physiotherapist, strength and conditioning coach, researcher, and educator in his work with individual athletes and elite teams across various sports and disciplines. He travels internationally to work with athletes and professional clubs. In his current role, Enda combines his clinical practice and research work through the use of 3D biomechan...
Jan 16, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 6Ep. 354
Send us a text This EP features Randy Goodman a sports physiotherapist in practice for 30+ years and currently the Director of Athlete Health and Performance for Sport PEI. He built a thriving clinical physiotherapy business with multiple facilities in Kelowna, BC rehabbing and training elite athletes (NHL, NFL, NBA, NCAA, CIS, national teams, etc.). He also ran Therapy Services in the Athlete Village for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic games. Randy sold his clinics and consulted for a while but...
Jan 09, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 6Ep. 353
Send us a text This week's EP and the first of this year 2024 is all about why we started Reconditioninghq.com. Neuro-reconditioning is all about helping therapists and performance professionals unlock the ability to seamlessly blend rehabilitation and movement enhancement with confidence. We started it 20 years ago now, teaching our first official course in 2004, and then 10 years later we began running courses regularly. We wanted to elevate the practice of human performance, help therapists a...
Jan 02, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 6Ep. 352
Send us a text This Episode features Camille DePutter a storytelling specialist who helps leaders in the health & fitness industry communicate their big ideas so that they can grow their reputation, recognition, and impact. Acting as a trusted advisor and creative collaborator, Camille helps her clients express their knowledge, thoughts, and ideas in an effective and authentic way. Her services include strategic thought leadership campaigns, communications partnerships, and co-writing game-c...
Dec 26, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 6Ep. 351
Send us a text This episode is an interview with Dan Wirth and Jonathan Thompson about the use and practical application of Blood Flow Restriction technology, and specifically the value of the B-Strong system. Dan is currently the Director of Olympic sports performance at the University of Tennessee. He has been in the world of human performance for 35+ years as both a team and organization strength and conditioning coach, and also as an entrepreneur. Dan left the University of Arizona in 2000 w...
Dec 19, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 6Ep. 350
Send us a text This EP features Darren McConaghy. Darren has an extensive interdisciplinary background in Athletic Therapy, Kinesiology, Osteopathy, and Strength & Conditioning along with a deep passion for blending the worlds of manual therapy, fitness, and performance. A graduate of York University, Darren honed his practice while working for the Montreal Canadiens AHL affiliate, the Hamilton Bulldogs, as the team's first full-time Strength and Conditioning Coach and Assistant Athletic The...
Dec 12, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 6Ep. 349
Send us a text This is a great session adapted from our Reconditioning Mastermind program. We interviewed Osteopath and Performance coach Pat Magee. Pat is currently serving as a manual therapist and performance coach for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Before that, he was serving in a similar role with the Golden State Warriors. After a master's Degree at McGill University, Pat practiced as an Osteo and Performance coach, first in a performance facility in Montreal, then for the Hamilton Bulldogs of t...
Dec 05, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 6Ep. 348
Send us a text This EP features Jeremy Koenig. Jeremy is an Entrepreneur Coach @IRISOS and a Business Development Consultant @Sequencing. He is the former founder and CEO of Athletigen, a Halifax-based company that revolutionized the way athletes train by exploring the dynamics of human potential and genetic influence. A former Dalhousie track and field team captain and Academic All-Canadian, Jeremy has a vision to unlock human potential through genomic insights. His mission is to provide DNA as...
Nov 28, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Season 6Ep. 347
Send us a text This is the third-time return of one of the great thinkers and educators in human performance today, Nick Winkleman. Nick currently serves as the head of athletic performance & science for the Irish Rugby Football Union. I recently bumped into him at a Perform Better Summit in Orlando, Florida where he and I were speaking. He was presenting a topic seemingly out of context for the environment entitled "Zen and the Art of Coaching." I was intrigued and spent 75 minutes listenin...
Nov 21, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 6Ep. 346
Send us a text In this EP my wife and business partner Jaime Livingston and I spend time with James Gardiner and our Reconditioning Mastermind community discussing topics around Reconditioning and athlete development. This is James' second session on LYM. James is an Athletic Therapist, and Strength & Conditioning Specialist, and holds a Master’s degree in Kinesiology and Health Science. James has been the Lead AT with the Vancouver Whitecaps, Head Athletic Trainer in the Blue Jays system, a...
Nov 14, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 6Ep. 345
Send us a text This EP features Karuna Ramanathan, a Transformation Consultant and Coach with more than two decades of experience in supporting leaders and organizations through change and transformation. He was previously Deputy Head of the Singapore Armed Forces’ Centre for Leadership Development, pioneering transformative leadership, learning, and coaching practices that remain in use in Singapore’s military today. Prior to this, he captained navy ships, a Mine Hunter, and later, the new Land...
Nov 07, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 6Ep. 344
Send us a text This EP features Professor Rebecca Lloyd, also the Director of Graduate Studies and researcher at the University of Ottawa. She developed the Function2Flow conceptual model and the methodology of Motion-Sensing Phenomenology, both pathways to research and teach toward the kinesthetic cultivation of flow that has been applied to a variety of contexts such as physical education, teacher education, dance, climbing, and hooping. Her current InterActive for Life Project explores experi...
Oct 31, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 6Ep. 343
Send us a text This EP is a return visit from Olympic physiologist and performance consultant Ben Sporer. His new book Output launching on the day this podcast drops, combines his scientific expertise with decades of experience in sport and business to simplify the strategies of high-performing athletes and how they can apply to anyone, in any field. By explaining the mechanics of the Core 4 performance factors and reframing the link between preparation, action, and purpose, Sporer reveals a per...
Oct 24, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 6Ep. 342
Send us a text EP 341 is a return engagement with author Brad Stulberg. Brad's work explores the principles of mastery and well-being that transcend all capabilities and domains. His new book, Master of Change is about navigating change and finding a language that allows one to manifest change rather than be a victim. He’s learned that whether someone is trying to qualify for the Olympics, start a company, craft a creative masterpiece, break ground in mathematical theory, or raise a family, many...
Oct 17, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 6Ep. 341
