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Short films from inside real programs.
Video · 11 min
FreeEpisode 1: Iron Builds Iron
The people behind the programs. First in a short documentary series on strength coaches: the early mornings, the comeback stories, and building confidence and discipline alongside the physical work.
Video · 7 min
FreeEpisode 2: The Heart Behind the Whistle
Built Different visits a King's College netball side in Australia and the strength coach who joined them from Olympic, athletics and AFL work. Front squats, ACL and landing work, and why she coaches at all: to be the coach she never had as an athlete.
Video · 7 min
FreeEpisode 3: Power in The Process
Jared Thompson, assistant strength coach at Belmont University, on running baseball, softball and men's soccer off a daily check-in. Three team rules, grouping pitchers by throwing schedule, video demos for transfers who use different terms, and the 2020 move off spreadsheets.
Video · 14 min
FreeEpisode 4: Roots in Resilience
A program built and rebuilt through hard years. Part of the series on the coaches who hold athletic departments together without much recognition.
Video · 9 min
FreeEpisode 5: Strength in Motion
Daniel Pearl runs Level Up Mobile Gym out of a trailer in Miami. How a teacher with a Subaru full of boot camp gear grew from 12 to 80 clients in about six months, and works around rain, heat and flat tires.
Video · 13 min
FreeEpisode 6: The House They Built
What a coach leaves behind. A look at a program's culture years on, and the staff who created something that outlasted them.
Video · 9 min
FreeEpisode 7: Delivering Pizzas, Dropping Gems
Justin Ochoa, a basketball development coach in Indianapolis, on keeping going when COVID closed his facility: overnight Amazon shifts, pizza deliveries and the daily voice memos that became his podcast. Plus the general-to-specific way he trains young players now.