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Audio · 48 min
FreeEpisode 01: The Importance of Professionalism in Strength and Conditioning with Cory Walts
Cory Walts, director of strength and conditioning at Penn after twelve years at Haverford, on what professionalism looks like day to day: how you dress, how you talk to athletes, coaches and parents, and the weekly walks he takes with athletes he does not know well yet.
Audio · 74 min
FreeEpisode 02: Lax, Power Blocks, and Online Remote Coaching with Tex McQuilkin
Tex McQuilkin of Power Athlete HQ on power blocks, coaching lacrosse athletes, and what changes when your athletes are training somewhere you cannot see them.
Audio · 60 min
FreeEpisode 03: The Future of College Sports, Birthday Challenges, & Athletes For Life
Where college athletics is heading, and what it means for the people running weight rooms inside it. Plus building athletes who keep training long after eligibility ends.
Audio · 64 min
FreeEpisode 04: The New Age of High School Physical Education with John Beerbower
John Beerbower on modernising high school PE: making a required class something students choose to engage with, and running it with the resources you actually have.
Audio · 64 min
FreeEpisode 05: Building a 100% Online Strength & Conditioning Business with Jerred Moon
Jerred Moon of End of Three Fitness and Garage Gym Athlete on running a training business entirely online. Why his $25 membership only works because of ten years of blogging, why most coaches should charge more, and how he blends strength with aerobic work across his programming tracks.
Audio · 62 min
FreeEpisode 06: Feeding The Cats & Technology in the Weight Room with Deerick Smith
Deerick Smith, head strength coach at Southside High School in Arkansas, on Tony Holler's Feed the Cats approach to speed, a conditioning test built on real snap-to-snap rest, and timing gates that run 60 kids in 15 minutes.
Audio · 72 min
FreeEpisode 07: Youth Training, Meditation & Hitting Rock Bottom as a Strength Coach with Erica Suter
Erica Suter, who coaches youth and female athletes, on early specialization, talking to girls about training for more rather than less, and the 2018 burnout that put her in the ER and changed how she runs her days. She also explains why her athletes now meditate.
Audio · 73 min
FreeEpisode 08: Training Smarter, Not Harder: Action Sports, Ice Baths & Rugby with Ryan Gallop
Ryan Gallop, director of performance at NACOA in San Diego, on training surfers, skaters and BMX riders who never have an off-season, conditioning for rugby by sprint repeatability rather than mileage, and what he brought back from Laird Hamilton's XPT breathing and ice bath work.
Audio · 66 min
FreeEpisode 09: "I'm Not Done Yet." Life Beyond Being a Strength Coach with Rachel Balkovec
Rachel Balkovec, a strength coach with the Cardinals and Astros before the Yankees hired her as a hitting coach, on being turned away because she was a woman, sending out her resume as "Ray", leaving pro baseball for a master's in the Netherlands, and coming back.
Audio · 53 min
FreeEpisode #10: Creating a Successful and Versatile Coaching Career with Ron McKeefery
Ron McKeefery, author of CEO Strength Coach, on building income outside your coaching job and finding a niche you can own. Plus his return to Fresno State football in 2020, with four weeks and individual GPS data to get a team ready.
Audio · 78 min
FreeEpisode #11: Sitting at The Big Boys Table with Sean Pastuch
Dr. Sean Pastuch of Active Life on working with pain without stepping outside a coach's scope. His four terms for pain, four questions for deciding whether to train through it, and how to talk to a client or a team doctor so they trust you.
Audio · 48 min
FreeEpisode #12: The Power of Adding Value, Building Relationships, and Sharing Knowledge with Vanessa Severiano
Vanessa Severiano, a fitness business consultant for about twenty years, on adding value before raising prices, building referral partnerships with bigger brands, finding the person who can actually say yes, and why good salespeople are mostly good listeners. For gym owners and trainers.
Audio · 61 min
FreeEpisode #13: Activism, the NFL and Online Training with Media Maestro Craig Hoffman
Craig Hoffman, a former Washington NFL beat reporter who coaches on the side, on co-founding Humans Not Hashtags in 2020 and the bands-only online program he sold during lockdown. Also how training facilities brand themselves, plus a good amount of NFL talk.
Audio · 70 min
FreeEpisode #14: Reflecting on 2020 with TeamBuildr Co-Founders Hewitt & James
TeamBuildr's co-founders, Hewitt Tomlin and James Peters, look back on 2020: going fully remote, how they plan and build software, and the early years running the company on nights and weekends with no investors. For anyone curious about the people behind the platform.
Audio · 51 min
FreeEpisode #15: Inclusivity in CrossFit and Lessons from Gym Ownership with Alyssa Royse
Alyssa Royse of Rocket Community Fitness in Seattle on leaving CrossFit affiliation in 2020, running an onboarding that never talks about weight loss, paying staff through lockdown, and sharing classes with partner gyms. For gym owners thinking about who feels welcome in their space.
Audio · 72 min
FreeEpisode #16: Reflexive Performance Reset (RPR) and Sustainable Training with J.L. Holdsworth
World champion powerlifter J.L. Holdsworth of The Spot Athletics on Reflexive Performance Reset, coming back from a herniated disc without surgery, and putting breathing, sleep and mindset ahead of strength work. Also how he sets APRE and velocity loads for different kinds of athlete.
Audio · 37 min
FreeEpisode #17: Transitioning from Athlete to Coach, Starting Brute Strength and Coaching High Schoolers with Matt Bruce
Matt Bruce, national weightlifting champion and co-founder of Brute Strength, on seventeen years training under Gayle Hatch, the day Hatch told him to go and coach on his own, and now running a high school weight room in Baton Rouge with no machines in it.
Audio · 62 min
FreeEpisode #18: Perspectives from a Career in Strength with Liane Blyn
Liane Blyn of Arizona State has coached in college, owned a private facility and run a high school program. What each taught her, what she took from Charles Poliquin, and the pay gap between strength coaches and sport coaches.