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Episode 4: Season 2- The 2022 Seminar Series- Episode 4- Mike Guadango- Sport Mastery and Physical Health Don’t Go Hand in Hand.” Mar 22, 2022

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“What am I going to do for this kid? Because he doesn’t even know what makes him good. Genuinely, we can say we do, we have no idea what makes these people good.”

In today’s episode of The Podcast I sit down and chat with Freak Strength’s Mike Guadango. During the 32-minute chat we talk about:

1) The crazy world of being a “sport specialist” and the ebbs and flows of it that he’s lived through.

2) The role asymmetries in sport, and why coaches may not want to “correct” some.

3) A unique method to build “work capacity” in rehab that has helped his athletes improve at a greater rate.

4) The role of psychology in high level sport and the mental gaps between the good and the elite.

5) The misconceived connection between aesthetics and performance.

6) Understanding that the outliers do things differently because they’re outliers, and maybe “correcting” those “mistakes” is not what’s best for their performance.

A huge thanks to Exxentric for supporting the show. Exxentric is the leader in fly wheel technology. Their kBox and kPulley have had a huge impact in the preparation and RTP programs. Make sure you hop over to www.exxentric.comand check out all their sensational products today!

We couldn’t be more excited to have Mike on the docket as part of The Richmond Seminar, and hope you’re able to join us July 15 and 16 at The Marriott Short Pump! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-richmond-seminar/

Episode 3: Season 2- The 2022 Seminar Series- Episode 3- Henk Kraaijehnof- Plans can only be perfect in retrospect Mar 11, 2022

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“You always figure things out when it’s too late. This is the problem of human nature. You figure out you’re on the wrong track when your athletes are not performing well, but that mistake has been made three months before when you didn’t see it, when you though “hey this is going great, I’m such a good coach.” Then they fail miserably, and then that mistake has been made before so always try to plan ahead.”

Always great to get to catch up with my good friend Henk Kraaijehnof in this episode of The Podcast. Throughout the 38-minute chat we talk about:

1) Henk’s new roles in the world of coaching, and how some things have come full circle.

2) How a new location has allowed Henk to “do Henk things” with exploring and researching.

3) How hindsight is always 20/20, so identifying “mistakes” in training may be more difficult then we tend to believe.

4) Trends that could be holding coaches back, and how we can all filter who we are learning from and what we are looking at

5) The importance of being your biggest critic

6) Humility, and understanding that what may be great today may not lead to success tomorrow.

We couldn’t be more excited to have Henk back on the docket as part of The Pittsburgh Seminar, and hope you’re able to join us April 29th and 30th at Union Fitness in Pittsburgh, PA! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-pittsburgh-seminar/

Episode 2: Season 2- The 2022 Seminar Series- Episode 2- Molly Binetti- Our Issues and Barriers Come from Things We Didn’t Learn How to Navigate Mar 08, 2022

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“As cool as our job is and as much as we all love training, and making them better and watching them do their thing. At the end of it, what are we actually leaving them with and what are we helping them do?”

We are joined this week by South Carolina Women’s Basketball Sport Performance Coach and my Free-VASPS co-host, Molly Benetti for this episode of The Podcast. Throughout the 40-minute discussion we dive into:

How COVID has continued to impact the preseason preparation strategies
The pros and cons of having a veteran led team
The role and importance of feedback from the athlete’s and staff
The importance of educating ourselves outside of the world of S and C, and the irony of talking about that during an S and C Podcast.

We are elated to have Molly on the docket as part of The Pittsburgh Seminar, and hope you’re able to join us April 29th and 30th at Union Fitness in Pittsburgh, PA! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-pittsburgh-seminar/

Episode 1: Season 2- The 2022 Seminar Series- Episode 1- Jeff Moyer- It’s the difficult cases that make me want to dig deeper Mar 01, 2022

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“None of this strength and conditioning shit matters if we can’t get our athletes to understand what we’re asking them to do, or if they don’t understand how it applies. If they don’t get it, it doesn’t matter.”

Welcome back to The Podcast. If I was going to bring this thing back it had to be Jeff Moyer batting leadoff. In this 40-minute talk, Jeff and I talk about:

1) The new and unique rabbit holes that the pandemic has allowed Jeff to dive down

2) What were the driving factors behind him digging deep into neurology, and what this research has impacted in his evaluations and programming?

3) How his personal experiences growing up have been a guiding light in pushing him to find better answers.

4) How “comfort zones” don’t’ just limit athlete’s, but coaches as well.

5) The importance of a mentor, and why young coaches need to reach out to people as early as possible to learn from them

6) The importance of his presentation being applicable the Monday after The Pittsburgh Seminar and what to expect from his presentation.

A huge thanks to Exxentric for supporting the show. Exxentric is the leader in fly wheel technology. Their kBox and kPulley have had a huge impact in the preparation and RTP programs. Make sure you hop over to www.exxentric.com and check out all their sensational products today!

We are so excited to have Jeff back on the docket as part of The Pittsburgh Seminar, and hope you’re able to join us April 29th and 30th at Union Fitness in Pittsburgh, PA! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-pittsburgh-seminar/

Episode 557: Outside The Rack #95- Robb Hornett Jun 17, 2021

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“You have to talk them through the way you want to do things, and why you want to do it, and how it’s applicable to the sport they’re actually playing.”
What’s up everybody and welcome the 95th episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit more about who they actually are and how they got to where they are at today. Today we are joined by the Assistant Director of Athletics/Sports Performance at Saint Louis University, Robb Hornett. Robb, thanks for being with us today.
Before we start, who is Robb Hornett?
I’m a pretty boring guy who goes home and walks his dog with his wife.
1) Describe a learning situation that brought about an epiphany in your career?
Learning how to filter information, and learning to sell myself and the program
2) If you could ask one question and you know you would get the answer what would that be and why?
What am I missing to help drive performance?
3) What’s your escape?
Cycling has become a new hobby that’s been great.
Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network!
We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/
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Episode 556: Episode 293- Cam Ringstead- Starting Over With Our First Off Season Jun 15, 2021

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“It’s a time now that we’ve gotten into the off season how important movement quality is, tissue quality is, and how we can try and regain that with not having this full off season.”
This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget and needs to better serve your athletes. North American customers looking for more info should contact Andreas at andreas.ahlstrom@exxentric.com or 503-739-1391. All others, or to learn more about the kBox, kPulley and flywheel training, please go to their website at: https://exxentric.com/.
In this weeks episode I get to catch up with Cameron Ringstead to discuss how we have upgraded our off season program because of some of the shortcomings we saw during the pandemic. After a real quick run down of how he got down to Elon we get into how each of his stops along the way have left an impression on him and how he’s molded them together to work with his athletes. He then dives into how the past 18 months have impacted his decisions leading into our first true offseason in a two years. This includes some self audits on what they had the athlete’s do during their time home, and some issues that arose because they may have moved too fast too soon. He then talks us through some of the direction he see’s his program going into this offseason and the season with his basketball players.
Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network!
We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/
#StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

Episode 555: Outside The Rack #94- Matt Shaw Jun 10, 2021

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“There’s certain things worth not chasing because more time can be spent establishing culture or other things, like improving confidence in other ways, that make a bigger impact in the team setting.”
What’s up everybody and welcome the 94th episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit more about who they actually are and how they got to where they are at today. Today we are joined by the Director of Sports Performance at the University of Denver, Matt Shaw. Matt, thanks for being with us today.
Before we start, who is Matt Shaw?
A Midwest kid who moved to Boston during high school who’s a product of his experiences and family
1) Describe a learning situation that brought about an epiphany in your career?
Having and intern reach out when they hit a professional set back showed the importance as interpersonal relationships
2) If you could ask one question and you know you would get the answer what would that be and why?
How can we better individualize the stress on the athlete?
3) What’s your escape?
I’m blessed to be in a state that’s fun to get outside in.
Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network!
We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/
#StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

Episode 554: Episode 292- Eddy Idrizovic- Prioritizing Your Priorities To Drive Performance Jun 08, 2021

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“The thing that prepares you best is probably that thing itself or a version of it.”
This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget and needs to better serve your athletes. North American customers looking for more info should contact Andreas at andreas.ahlstrom@exxentric.com or 503-739-1391. All others, or to learn more about the kBox, kPulley and flywheel training, please go to their website at: https://exxentric.com/.
In this weeks episode of The Podcast I sit down and talk with Eddy Idrizovic about the physical preparation of team handball players. After a run down of how he got into the sport we dive into what the demands of the game are, both bio dynamically and bio energetically. We then discuss the uniqueness of his situation with the club, and how being a semi-pro team impacts training decisions. He gives us a great break down of how he builds his program out around the limitations that they have and how the evaluations they utilize impact training prescriptions. Eddy finishes off by giving us a great break down of how he sets up his daily warm ups, and what he tries to do with the time period allotted each day to best utilize his time and continue to drive performance improvements.
Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network!
We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/
#StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

Episode 553: Outside The Rack #93- Eric Potter Jun 03, 2021

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“Us as performance professionals, strength and conditioning coaches, we need to take our ego out of it and be an ally and resource for our athletes and allow them to be the driver a bit.”
What’s up everybody and welcome the 93rd episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit more about who they actually are and how they got to where they are at today. Today we are joined by the Associate Director for Sports Performance at Old Dominion University, Eric Potter. Eric, thanks for being with us today.
Before we start, who is Eric Potter?
A person who got into training to improve as a baseball player. With that I’m a father and a husband who’s trying to make a positive impact on people’s health.
1) Describe a learning situation that brought about an epiphany in your career?
Seeing Bartolo Colon in spring training and seeing how skill trumps all taught me to be more of an ally and a resource.
2) If you could ask one question and you know you would get the answer what would that be and why?
If you viewed yourself as a business, would other people invest in it?
3) What’s your escape?
Spending time with my wife and daughter, cooking/training, and learning about new things outside of just training.
Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network!
We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/
#StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

Episode 553: Episode 291- AJ Kerr- Ask a Lot More Tell a Lot Less Jun 01, 2021

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“How do we take this mundane stuff and do it better, and then once we’ve done it better how do we do it better again?”
This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget and needs to better serve your athletes. North American customers looking for more info should contact Andreas at andreas.ahlstrom@exxentric.com or 503-739-1391. All others, or to learn more about the kBox, kPulley and flywheel training, please go to their website at: https://exxentric.com/.
This week I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking about building a re-education phase in your training plan with Aj Kerr. After a run down of how he got down to Wofford we start to talk about how this past 15 months have impacted what we have been looking to do with our athletes. This leads AJ into how he has reevaluated his program, what has changed, and these changes have had a positive impact on the student athletes. We then talk about how the change in focus of having the answers to looking to ask the questions has made a huge impact on what he does with the men and women there. We finish off talking about some lessons from the pandemic and some positive influences it has had.
Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network!
We built The Strength Coach Network to provide you three ways become the best practitioner possible. First, each month we add a new lecture from one of the best practitioners in the world to help keep you and your staff up to date with what the best of the best are doing with their athletes RIGHT NOW! Secondly, the forum provides you a new avenue to connect with practitioners around the world to find a unique point of view from coaches all over the world when it comes to career advice, training ideas, or any aspect of our lives in coaching. Finally, you get exclusive discounts on all products CVASPS related, INCLUDING your seat at The Seminar! When you add those three in with our library of over 100 sensational lectures, including all of those from The Central Virginia Sport Performance Seminar, you have found your one stop shop for continuing education for you and your staff. Make sure you hop over today and get your first 48 hours for only $1 by using the link here: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/cvasps/
#StrengthCoach, #StrengthAndConditioningCoach, #Podcast, #LearningAtLunch, #TheSeminar, #SportsTraining, #PhysicalPreparation, #TheManual, #SportTraining, #SportPerformance, #HumanPerformance, #StrengthTraining, #SpeedTraining, #Training, #Coach, #Performance, #Sport, #HighPerformance, #VBT, #VelocityBasedTraining, #TriphasicTraining, #Plyometrics

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