“I think were we need to continue to challenge ourselves is, just because we are good at that, we may be good at the human side of it. We still need to be able to explain why we do what we do and teach up and teach down what we are doing.” Ron McKeefrey Today…
“That was something I learned early on in my career. When I tried to walk into a program and lay the hammer down and pretend like I was the one in charge, and that it was my way or the highway. That usually doesn’t go over that well, at least from what I found out.”…
“When I was young I wanted an algorithm. I wanted to be told exactly “they do this”, I was always trying to search for that. Most of the time, good training fixes that though…most of the time.” If you ever had a question as to what it’s like to be a strength coach at an…
“What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere.” – A. Kleon This book has been on my shelves since it was published in 2012 and I read it annually. Creativity is something every strength coach uses on a day-to-day basis and Steal Like An Artist is a great tool to remind you…
“Obviously you can train harder when your younger but the philosophy is the same, which is, where are you weak and how do we fix these area’s so you’re less prone to injury, so we can train harder?”-Matt Wenning Matt Wenning joins us to discuss programming and the direction the world of training needs to…
“STRESS is only ONE of the adaptive reactions to the excessive exposure, in its classical sense, and it doesn’t play a significant role in the mechanisms of adaptation to the training load. So, I will show you what this research was and you will create your personal opinion about this issue.”-Dr. Natalia Verkhoshansky Dr. Verkhoshansky…
Today’s Thursday Throwback podcast is with Cal Dietz. In the conversation Coach Dietz and Coach DeMayo discuss the Sport Back Squat, how to implement it, some progressions to using it and different forms of exercises that Coach Dietz implements. I’d like to give a huge thank you to Cal for taking the time to have…
“I don’t believe we can completely ditch the intuitiveness of the coaches. You want to use that data to help you, maybe to give you more question than give you concrete answers. It’s a combination of intuitive thinking and data driven facts.”-Mladen Jovanović Mladen Jovanović sits down with us to talk about his experiences traveling…
