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Episode #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.

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Episode #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.

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Episode #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.

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Episode #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.

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Episode #19: From D1 to the Military, Talking Tactical Strength & Conditioning with Shelton Stevens

Shelton Stevens left Liberty University for a performance role with US Special Operations Command. What changes when your athletes are operators in their thirties, working alongside PTs and dietitians with shared files, and building his online tactical program, 13 Bar Performance.

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Episode 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.

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Episode #20: Let's Talk About Athlete Recovery with Joel Jamieson

Joel Jamieson of 8WeeksOut on what heart rate variability actually tells you and why you read it as a trend over weeks, not a daily score. Also why a consistent sleep schedule beats chasing hours, setting conditioning by heart rate, and why fighters gas out.

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Episode #22: Embracing Weight Room Tech with Tom Newman

Tom Newman of Hawkin Dynamics on weight room technology worth buying: which data actually changes a session, and which hardware ends up in a cupboard.

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Episode #24: Producing a Powerful P.E. Program and Coaching High School Strength with Military Veteran Amanda Berg

Amanda Berg, a Minnesota PE department head, strength coach and Iraq veteran, on a PE program with triathlon, officiating and self-defense classes, a weight room that belongs to every student and not just the varsity, and why she likes the Army Combat Fitness Test for students.

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Episode #25: Navigating the Role of a Young Strength Coach for USA Beach Volleyball with Christian Hartford

Christian Hartford, performance coach for USA Beach Volleyball, back from the Tokyo Olympics at 31 with athletes up to 46. Coaching veterans by conversation rather than instruction, how shadowing other coaches on his own dime got him the job, and being a dad in a travelling role.

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Episode #27: The Changing Landscape of the Tactical Sector with Guests Jason Clark and Nate Palin

Jason Clark and Nate Palin with TeamBuildr's Teofe Ziemnicki on military performance jobs: why so many have opened up, why short contracts and flat pay make them hard to stay in, and earning a unit's trust before changing anything.

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Episode #28: Keys to Impactful Coaching with Former NBA Strength Coach Chase Campbell

Chase Campbell, a former NBA and Xavier strength coach now with PLAE, on why principles matter more than programming philosophy, keeping programs simple enough to coach well, and the middle school coach who changed his direction after he lost his father.

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Episode #29: Lockeroom's Growth Strategy

Raph Freeman and Lachlan Rowston on building Lockeroom, a private facility in Sydney for business executives, and its growth over its first year. How they designed everything around that one client, and the technology they use on the gym floor, including what has not worked.

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Episode 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.

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Episode #30: Navigating Energy System Development with Daniel Howells

Dan Howells, who has coached in rugby sevens and MLB, on working out what conditioning a sport really needs. Watch the sport rather than the averages, separate performance from recovery, and the baseball case of eight minutes every ten days.

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Episode #31: Building a Successful Strength & Conditioning Internship Program at the D1 Level

Stu Roche, who runs the internship program at Marquette, on what interns should learn first: coaching before programming. Why trying to teach everything in a semester backfires, and exercises he uses to build thinking, like writing a needs analysis for a sport nobody on staff knows.

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Episode 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.

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Episode 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.