CVASPS The Podcast

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Episode 3: Season 3 Episode 3- Boo Schexnayder "The mistakes you make are the greatest vitamin pill you take as a coach" Jan 31, 2023

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I couldn’t be more excited to have had the opportunity to sit down and catch up with 2023 presenter Coach Boo Schexnayder on this week’s episode of The Podcast. After a quick catch-up with Coach Boo we get into:

1) The role of science and practical common sense thinking in coaching, and how what is “scientific” vs common sense has come full circle.

2) What the role of research is in his coaching, and how he sees some limitations to research

3) Why he’s very reserved when it comes to the flavor of the week fads and leans towards time tested methods and means

4) The role of coming up as a coach before the “technology movement” has helped him have a better understanding of what is and isn’t useful in sports tech.

5) Trusting your instincts when it comes to making decisions on programming and during training session.

6) How important mistakes are in a coach’s development ONLY if they are able to be critical of themselves.

7) The importance of having outside interests from coaching to help us stay grounded and avoid burnout.

I hope you’re as excited as I are to bring to Coach Boo back to The Seminar and can join us at PLAE HQ this July 21st and 22nd! For more info and to book your seats use the link here: https://cvasps.com/2023-seminar/

Episode 2: Season 3 Episode 2- Molly Binetti "Continuing to raise the bar, and meet the bar, that we’ve set for ourselves" Jan 24, 2023

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I am so fired up to welcome Molly Binetti back to The Podcast and introduce her as our 2nd presenter at The 2023 edition of The Seminar. In the 35-minute discussion we talk about:

1) The challenges of the season after winning a championship and how that’s impacted our approaches to not just training, but how we handle our athletes

2) The importance of making sure you’re progressing the younger players on a successful team and not letting them be comfortable riding the coat tails of those who built the success in front of them.

3) The challenges to finding out what truly maters when it comes to impacting wins and losses

4) What matters when it comes to “doing your job well”?

5) How taking care of #1 made her better in every aspect of coaching and life.

I hope you’re as excited as I are to bring to Molly back to The Seminar and can join us at PLAE HQ this July 21st and 22nd! For more info and to book your seats use the link here: https://cvasps.com/2023-seminar/

Episode 1: Season 3 Episode 1- Jay DeMayo and Chase Campbell "It's peanut butter and jelly for a reason, people tried other things with it" Jan 17, 2023

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The Podcast returns with a sensational conversation with PLAE’s Chase Campbell. Chase and I discuss:

1) The decision to move The Seminar to PLAE HQ

2) What Greybeard’s presentation will be on at CVASPS and different lenses to look at reverse engineering through

3) The role of simplicity in programming and how our view on it has changed as we have gotten older

4) The most valuable aspects of CVASPS to both of us

5) What is one thing outside of work could help all coaches be better at what they do that, for the most part, we are all horrible with.

6) How teaching and buy in go hand in hand when it comes to training

7) Using different one-off opportunities to allow more autonomy and see how much the athletes have learned from you about training
We hope you’re as excited as we are to bring to The Seminar to PLAE HQ this July 21st and 22nd! For more info and to book your seats use the link here: https://cvasps.com/2023-seminar/

Episode 11: Season 2- The 2022 Seminar Series- Episode 11- Dr. Adam Petway- “I’ve made enough mistakes in my past to know what not to do in the future.” Apr 14, 2022

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“We all live in the same physical world and environment, it’s just the demands of your sport may have some degrees of variant within that.”

One of the things I try to do is bring the people doing the research to The Seminar, and after writing the book on biomechanics of basketball, Dr. Petway is the go to in that discipline. During the 42-minute talk we cover:

1) His voyage into sports performance, and what drove him towards researching biomechanics

2) How being asked the right questions by his mentor changed his whole perspective on training progressions

3) A few books that were game changing to him both educationally and in his coaching

4) The big limitation to using “clock sports” as our guide in training.

5) What are the two “big rocks” when it comes to performance outcomes

6) The importance and value of working with high school athlete’s

7) The role of systems and how they need to constantly evolve

I’m elated to have Dr. Petway at The Seminar and elated to welcome him to the CVASPS family and have him as part of The Pittsburgh Seminar! I 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 10: Season 2- The 2022 Seminar Series- Episode 10- Jonas Dodoo- “What is the right proportion of qualities that allows your speed to be best?” Apr 11, 2022

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“There are some general principles about how we train and how we could train based on humans first based on how we respond to training.”

This episode of The Podcast is a super discussion with Jonas Dodoo. During the 41-minute talk we cover:

1) Principles and systems, the power behind them and why their vital for coaches

2) Different ways that the general impacts the specific in training

3) The rule of thirds, and how it can help us understand programming

4) Confidence as an objective of many aspects of training

5) The role and power of trust and what it leads to

6) Pro’s and con’s to “buckets” with athletes

7) A different way to look at time and distance to improve speed

I’m so fired up to have Jonas 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 9: Season 2- The 2022 Seminar Series- Episode 9- Ali Kershner- “What do you have to lose by being a better communicator?” Apr 08, 2022

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“Being able to have something that you stand for, and being able to consistently deliver that message in a way that’s authentic and gets to the core root of the issue and to your audience, that IS coaching.”

Always awesome to catch up with Ali Kershner, and this week’s episode of The Podcast is no different! Throughout the 40-minute chat we talk about:

1) Ali’s new role and what inspired her to take the leap to step away from coaching athletes

2) Some aspects of growth strength coaches excel at, and some we may need to improve upon

3) A simple way to help improve communication between people, not just coaches.

4) The importance of finding who you are as a coach

5) Ways that the “system” that we progress coaches through could be better

6) Sales, marketing, and personal brands and what their role is in coaching.

We couldn’t be more excited to have Ali 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 8: Season 2- The 2022 Seminar Series- Episode 8- Brijesh Patel- “A Lot of What We Do Comes Down to The Artistry” Apr 05, 2022

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“It’s much more challenging to find solutions to problems then it is to complain.”

Always great to catch up with Coach Brijesh Patel, and this episode of The Podcast is no different. Throughout the 35-minute chat we talk about:

1) How a deep dive into fascia has had a massive impact on his programming

2) Eldoa, what it is and why it’s important

3) How isokinetic training can improve performance, and help with injuries

4) How coaches can build each other up to drive the profession forward

5) The issues with complaining vs providing answers

6) The impact of your “inner circle” and critical thinking, and how the two may not be symbiotic

I’m elated to welcome B to the CVASPS family and have him as part of The Pittsburgh Seminar! I 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 7: Season 2- The 2022 Seminar Series- Episode 7- Al Vermeil- “You’re never so good you can’t get better” Apr 01, 2022

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“You do what they can do, build in what they can do, circumvent the weaknesses and try to get them to that.”

“There’s nothing really new, science has helped us understand the effects of things better, great coaches have made us understand it from their experiences. We’ve all learned from our fairs, unfortunately I’ve made the same mistakes a couple times, which makes me upset.”

“The great ones, relative to your level, do things you can’t coach. Don’t uncoach them.”

In this week’s episode of The Podcast, I have the absolute pleasers of sitting down and talking with Vermeil. Throughout the 100-minute chat we talk about:

1) Two things “Young Coaches” should never stop doing.

2) A simple evaluation that coaches can use and ways to improve upon it

3) Why he feels coaches should start out coaching in high school, and the lessons it taught him.

4) The importance of going to the source, and the originator of ideas

5) What factors he has seen to impact transfer of training to sport

6) The impacts of size and limb length on work capacity on athletes

7) The importance of working on technique when building sport skills

8) How your philosophy is the backbone of what you do as a coach and how coaches can make alterations based off that.

We couldn’t be more excited to have Al 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 6: Season 2- The 2022 Seminar Series- Episode 6- Boo Schexnayder- Every Problem is a Biomechanical Jigsaw Problem Mar 30, 2022

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“I tell young coaches and young trainers all the time, just because you have the title of strength coach at this school or the title of trainer at this school that really doesn’t mean anything, it means absolutely nothing other than the paycheck.”

“Ultimately, if the kids come to you and the athletes come to you and you help them and you come up with answers for them they’re going to keep coming to you.”

I got the opportunity to chop it up with Boo Schexnayder in this week’s episode of The Podcast. Throughout the 35-minute chat we talk about:

1) What coaching is, and where he sees the role of “problems” in coaching.

2) What the coach’s role in injuries actually is.

3) The importance of drawing knowledge from multiple fields

4) Some of the unique challenges to the educational progressions of coaches

5) What he truly loves about sports

6) What really drives buy-in and brings athlete’s back to a coach.

7) How cultural norms hold us back from being elite

8) The effects of commercially driven trends and fads

9) Why some means and methods have stood the test of time

We are so excited to have Coach Boo 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 5: Season 2- The 2022 Seminar Series- Episode 5- Zach Dechant- The Best Athletes in The World Are the Best Compensators Mar 28, 2022

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“If you have the outputs you can have compensations and breakdowns in your technique. If you don’t have the output and you don’t have the ability to be a freak athlete then you better move really, really well and create impulse at the right time.”

In this week’s episode of The Podcast I got to catch up with Zach Dechant. Throughout the 35-minute chat we talk about:

1) Zach’s new role at TCU and where he sees that progressing forward.

2) Some new things that he’s implementing with his baseball players revolving around resisted sprinting.

3) Metrics that he uses to evaluate his players, and what the data is showing him.

4) The roles and symbiotic nature of general and specific strengths.

5) The underappreciated value of training rotation, and where it impacts performance in areas we may overlook.

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We couldn’t be more excited to have Zach 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/

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