Send us a text Welcome to the athlete blueprint podcast! For todays episode, I’m joined by Korey Van Wyk (@ KoreyVanWyk ) Korey is an educator and sports performance coach who has spent the last decade of his career bridging the gap between science and practice. As a former professor of kinesiology and collegiate strength coach, he spent every day connecting the classroom and the weight room. Now as an acquisitions editor for Human Kinetics, he helps create world-class educational products for t...
Feb 10, 2022•48 min•Ep. 16
Send us a text Welcome to the Athlete Blueprint Podcast! For today’s episode, I’m joined my Zach Elder! Zach is currently the direction of strength and conditioning, and athletic skill acquisition at Mac strength a private baseball training facility in Edina Minnesota. As a Minnesota native, Zach played everything from basketball, baseball, basketball, football, Tae Kwon Do, and anything else he could get involved in. Zach went on to play Division 2 baseball at Saint Leo University in Tampa, Flo...
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 15
Send us a text For today's episode, I'm joined by Dr. Rob Gray ( @ShakeyWaits )!! Rob is an associate professor of human systems engineering at Arizona state University and is the host of the wild popular podcast The Perception and Action Podcast . His podcast which he has hosted since 2015 and includes over 380 episodes focuses on taking the latest and greatest research in the field of movement sciences and distilling those high level topics down into digestible concepts so that coaches and pra...
Jan 20, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Send us a text For this episode, I am joined by Preston Hale! (p_hale3) Preston is a performance coach and DB coach, who also happens to be my business partner over at Ignite Performance! Preston works w/ high level defensive backs from high school and to the elite pro level. He is one of the absolute best DB coaches in the country...I get to be w/ Preston everyday, so I'm excited to bring his vast knowledge to you guys! Preston does an amazing job of taking game concepts and distilling them int...
Jan 06, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Send us a text For today’s episode, I’m joined by Adam Omiecinski! Adam is a Basketball Coach from Upstate NY who focuses on Player Development. He is currently coaching as an assistant at SUNY Adirondack and for Dags Basketball, where he gets to work with athletes from as young as the age of 7 to the occasional Professional. Prior to these positions, Adam assisted at his High School alma mater of Hudson Falls for 10 years. Adam also has a blog centered on player development called Hardwood Dext...
Dec 30, 2021•46 min•Ep. 12
Send us a text Welcome to the Athlete Blueprint Podcast! For today's episode, we will be taking a deep dive into one of my favorite topics, Jump training! More specifically, we will be debunking some common jump training myths! This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart. I have worked extensively w/ court sport athletes (volleyball, basketball) and I have noticed glut of misinformed or misrepresented information out there. So I wanted to set the record straight on some common training myt...
Dec 15, 2021•21 min•Ep. 11
Send us a text My guest today is Matt Caraccio! For the last 6 years, Matt has been the Co-Owner and Co-Host of the Saturday2Sunday Football Podcast . His podcast is dedicated to year round NFL prospect analysis & discussion. During that time Matt has hosted three Summer Seminar Series on Skill Acquisition in American Football -those include The Nature of the Movement Problems in American Football", "The Player Problem-Solver Paradigm in American Football", and "Movement Marvels in American ...
Dec 09, 2021•41 min•Ep. 10
Send us a text In today’s episode I speak with Kevin Longoria! Kevin is the chief science officer of Biostrap , digital health company that has evolved from being a consumer wearable into a comprehensive health monitoring platform with a mission to improve human health on a global scale. Kevin is very accomplished and his resume is quite long (deservedly so) so I’m going to try my best to give you the cliff notes version As an exercise physiologist, Kevin has a passion for research and education...
Nov 18, 2021•42 min•Ep. 9
Send us a text Welcome to the Athlete Blueprint Podcast! In today’s episode, had the pleasure of speaking w/ Michael Zwiefel! ( @bbaperformance ) Michael is the owner and head of sports performance at Building Better Athletes in Dubuque Iowa. In addition to that, Michael is also on the team at Emergence , some of whom, you’ve heard on this podcast before in Tyler Yearby and Rich White, back in episode 1. As a coach, Michael has coached athletes all the way, from the youth levels all the way to t...
Nov 11, 2021•47 min•Ep. 8
Send us a text For Todays Episode, I’m joined by Dr. Kelly Romero! Dr. Romero ( @drkellyromero ) is a licensed Naturopathic Medical Doctor with clinic locations in Scottsdale and Chandler, Arizona. She is also a Certified Exercise Physiologist from the American College of Sports Medicine. Her practice specializes in sports medicine, regenerative therapies, and hormone management. Dr. Romero offers an integrative approach when combining modern medical science with natural alternative treatments. ...
Nov 04, 2021•42 min•Ep. 7
Send us a text Welcome to the Athlete Blueprint Podcast!...A podcast dedicated to long term athletic development and success! For today's episode, I decided to do a something a little different...A solo episode. Just you and me! Following my interview w/ Steph Allen on all things ACL (if you haven't listened to that one yet , here it is ) I decided I wanted to do dive deep into a topic very personal to me..."My ACL Journey and Exploring Ecological Concepts in Injury Rehab" As someone who has bot...
Oct 28, 2021•27 min•Ep. 6
Send us a text Welcome to the Athlete Blueprint Podcast!...A podcast dedicated to long term athletic development and success! For today's episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Steph Allen! Steph has been a practicing physical therapist since 2014 and has been at Boston Physical Therapy & Wellness for the past 4 years. She specializes in, and absolutely loves ACL rehab in all its shapes and forms and has recently started her own virtual coaching business, ACLResolve . Which is designed ...
Oct 14, 2021•51 min•Ep. 5
Send us a text Welcome to the athlete blueprint podcast podcast dedicated to long-term athletic development and success! For today's conversation, I had the pleasure of interviewing Kasey Crider. Kasey is the associate head coach for the University of Miami Women’s Volleyball team. Kasey has been at Miami since 2015 and has helped lead them to resurgence as a program, including reaching the NCAA title game in 2017. Prior to that, Kasey was an assistant coach at Stanford women’s volleyball, where...
Oct 07, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 4
Send us a text Dr. Steph Mundt is a physical therapist, running coach & strength coach in Phoenix, AZ. Her business Volante PT & Performance specializes in helping female runners return to training & racing without fear. Steph has a special interest in helping to prevent and manage bone stress injuries in runners, particularly those with disordered eating or relative energy deficiency or RED-s as it is commonly known. She hopes to transform the management of pain, injury & traini...
Sep 30, 2021•38 min•Ep. 3
Send us a text Welcome to The Athlete Blueprint!...A podcast dedicated to long term athletic development and success! On today’s episode I had the pleasure of speaking with CJ Appenzeller of ATS strength in West Berlin, New Jersey. CJ is a gym owner, a baseball performance coach, and high performance consultant for various Division one baseball programs…In addition CJ is an adjunct professor at Rowan University. In my opinion guy, CJ is one of the best baseball performance coach is in the countr...
Sep 22, 2021•57 min•Ep. 2
Send us a text Welcome to the athlete blueprint podcast podcast dedicated to long-term athletic development and success! For today’s special episode I’ve got to get with me Tyler Yearby and Rich White from Emergence . Tyler is the co-founder and co-director of education and Rich White is the Innovations Manager Emergence is a movement skill education company that provides educational content and resources for skill acquisition coaches trainers sport coaches therapist and anyone interested in fur...
Sep 16, 2021•59 min•Ep. 1
Send us a text Welcome to The Athlete Blueprint Podcast!!...A podcast dedicated to long-term athletic development and success!! For today's episode, I wanted to to take the time and introduce myself and tell you exactly what the Athlete Blueprint is. We cover: Who I am and my journey as a coach What the ABP is all about What makes the ABP different How we can embark on this journey together If you guys have have any questions or ideas for future episodes, please feel to reach out to me on my soc...
Sep 13, 2021•4 min
