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Training Discomfort Imagine you get the opportunity to be Kobe Bryant’s performance coach during his hayday. This means it’s your responsibility to improve his mindset, habits, and performance capacity. He asks you to show up to the court at 0400 and you set your alarm for 0300 because you know an early arrival, especially at…
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The Edge of Performance So you think you’ve got a decent idea of how to bring your athletes or even yourself to the very edge of your performance capacity? Maybe you’ve got some of the physical components down but I assure you that after listening to this episode, you’ll be reevaluating how you communicate, how…
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Coaching is more than just a job – it’s a vocation. As such, you must be willing to make sacrifices with your time, your training, your money, and your emotions. But, here’s a news flash: making sacrifices alone won’t make you a great coach – they’re just baseline requirements that will put you in a…
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In Speed 101: Arm Swing I addressed the importance of the arm action in sprinting and how we can use isolated drills as a magnifying glass to expose and identify problems that will arise when you start having your athletes sprint. This is only part of the equation. We can’t talk about maximizing speed and…
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From Table to Field Keep a cool head and stay in your lane. Sound advice from a woman who has worked her ass off to earn the distinction of first female head athletic trainer in any of the MLB, NHL, NBA, or NFL institutions. She prides herself on being honest with her recovering athletes and…
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Adapt, Overcome We just can’t get enough Ron McKeefery [@RMcKeefery]. His enthusiasm for coaching is fueled by his sense of obligation to change lives. If you’re looking for motivation to jump start your own passion for training others, you NEED to listen to this episode. He’s made weight room leadership an art by studying the…
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One of the first topics I cover with a nutrition client in our initial consultation really doesn’t have anything to do with nutrition; not directly, at least. You see, when talking nutrition, we’re actually talking stress management. And when talking stress management, we’re actually talking behavior change. Your daily nutrition is more a habit than…
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Find your Why Coach Bobby Smith [@coachbobbysmith] battled injury and what he considered less than optimal training as a collegiate javelin thrower and football player. After rehabbing and making his way to California to train with one of the best javelin coaches in the world, Smith threw at the Olympic trials. The training he received…
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Power Athlete is built on principles, not philosophies, to drive our training and programming. If you’re like me and work with the GenPop, applying the same program looks very different from class to class and person to person. If you tried to apply the same standard to everyone, you’d be in for a rude awakening.…
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Elite weightlifters are some of the most dynamic and impressive sagittal strength athletes in the world. They display impressive speed, power, mobility, and stability with a barbell. But given all of these traits, we are left with one question: are they athletic? Before we can answer, let’s first go back to the definition of athleticism.…
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