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Episode #15 - Shawn Myszka: Movement Mastery

1/22/2017

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Shawn is the owner and founder of Movement Mastery: The Art of Optimizing Movement.  He's a movement coach for a dozen NFL athletes and continually looks to push the envelop on what makes great athletes - great!  To him, and I agree, this means movement - not necessarily strength, or weight room numbers, or power, or motor performance - rather great movement qualities, attuned perception and action coupling, free and creative thinkers/movers, and refined motor learning processes. 
In this episode we discuss everything from…
  • What a movement first approach means
  • How coaches can tweak agility training for better outcomes
  • What reactive agility really is
  • How warm-ups could be better structured for the subsequent tasks of sport
  • Mistakes coaches make during practices in terms of removing messiness, mistakes, and creativity
  • Where he found his roots in dynamic systems theory, a constraints led approach, and ecological psychology
  • We talk about the greatest mover of all-time - Barry Sanders
  • Much More

Favorite Quotes:
  • "My only goal with athletes is getting them better when and where it counts, which is in the arena of sport"
  • "Sport is a problem solving activity"
  • "If the perception is inaccurate or wrong - the action won't be appropriate"
  • "I don't refer to it as a warm-up, but a movement preparation scheme.  Warming-up is general; I'm trying to prepare behaviors"
  • "A major mistake I see is the training environment is not truly representative that of which happens in the sporting environment"
  • "An offensive player and a defensive player have much different requirements in sport - so should their warm-up, training, and patterns"
  • "I try and learn from different fields - I've gone to watch dance instructors, martial arts instructors, teachers - it should come as no surpass that we can learn from various disciplines" 
  • "Often we gets athletes so restricted on reproducing what we deem an ideal movement pattern, that we don't even know if it's ideal or optimal for that respective athlete.  Instead we should help guide and be a facilitator rather than an instructor"
Books:
  • The Coordination and Regulation of Movements - Nikolai Bernstein
  • Non-Linear Pedagogy in Skill Acquisition - Keith David 
  • Perception - Cognition - Decision: Training the Quiet Eye - Joan Vickers

Social Media:
  • Twitter - @MovementMiyagi
  • https://footballbeyondthestats.wordpress.com/
  • http://www.optimizemovement.com/sq/35323-movement-mastery-intro
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Episode #14 - Coaching In The Public vs Private Sector

1/18/2017

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In this episode, we have a special roundtable discussion with fellow coaches to discuss the various aspects of S&C coaching in the public and private sectors.  In this great podcast we have the following coaches
  • Steve Brown - UW-Oshkosh
    • Twitter - @CoachBrown19
  • Zach Cahill - Northern Illinois University
    • Twitter - @CoachZCahill
  • Matt Gifford - NXLevel Performance
    • Twitter - @GiffUsStrength
  • Korey Van Wyk - Northwestern College
    • Twitter - @KoreyVanWyk

Topics Covered
  • Caliber of Athlete
  • Freedom Allowed - Freedom of programming, freedom from sport coaches, freedom of the facility, freedom of equipment, freedom of space, freedom of time/hours
  • Job Stability/Security
  • Typical Schedule/Hours
  • Salary/'Compensation

Favorite Quotes
  • "Much of my day is running around like a chicken with my head cut off, working with athletes of every make and model"
  • "As a strength coach, I'm support staff, but I've found that the better my relationship with the sport coach - the more freedom and trust they give me in the weight room"
  • "Much of my job was educating the parents - they often just wanted to see Jimmy and Johnny sweating, but if we're doing pure speed work, the athletes might not be sweating"
  • "I have many friends, who I know are good, quality coaches who are out of jobs because their team didn't have the wins.  The higher the level, the less job security"
  • "Being a good Strength coach isn't enough anymore - you have to branch out and find 1-2 other areas of speciality like speed & agility, technology, nutrition, rehab, etc"
  • "Definitely a benefit of most public sector positions is the benefits like health insurance, retirement, life insurance, etc.  When I worked in the private sector, my salary was basically the same as it is now, but the benefits I now receive make my current job more worth while"
  • "A hidden part of being at my University longer and longer is I always seem to be roped into more and more committees - whether it be a hiring committee or leadership committee or coaching committee - these add to additional meetings/hidden hours"
  • "When I was in college, I didn't know until my senior year, that our Strength coach did summer training for free.  His contract didn't include the summer and wasn't paid to be there - I'm now in that situation with maybe a small stipend"
  • "Do an internship in the college setting, do an internship in the private setting - every situation is different and you won't know what you'll like unless you spend valuable time in each setting"
  • "You better love it, you better have a why to what you're doing"
  • "We do such a good job in our own weight rooms of building people up, but we could do a better job building up people in our S&C community"
  • "How many athletes are totally healthy?  In my experience, not very many, so spending time to figure how to work with injured people because it's a huge part of the job"
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Episode #13: Dr. Tim Suchomel - The Olympic Lifts and It's Derivatives

1/1/2017

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Today our guest is Dr. Tim Suchomel, an assistant professor in the Exercise Science Department at Carroll University in Waukesha, WI.   Tim underwent his PhD at East Tennessee State under legends in the field like Dr. Mike Stone, Dr. Bill Sands, and Dr. Brad DeWeese.  He has spent much of his research looking at many aspects of the Olympic Lifts and it's derivatives.  In this episode we talk about what an Olympic Lift derivative is and how they compare to a full Oly Lift in terms of power production, RFD, impulse, 

Favorite Quotes:
  • "Olympic lift derivatives omot part of the full lift - this could be the catching and /or pulling portions of an Olympic lift"
  •  "In my research, we found the pulls - Jump Shrug and High Pull - had higher force, velocity, power, RFD, impulse compared to the Hang Power Clean"
  • "You may be able to receive many, if not all, of the benefits in pulling derivatives compared to catching an Olympic lift"
  • "There isn't an optimal load to enhance power, RFD, impulse, force, velocity, etc - Rather an optimal range that these physical qualities can be enhanced.  It all varies on the movement and the individual athlete"
  • "I see a trend in the future to transition to implementing more pulling derivatives and ligher loads - we don't need to always go heavy and we don't always have to catch the weight"
​Books:
  • Principles and Practice of Resistance Training - Dr. Mike Stone & Dr. Meg Stone
  • Strength and Power In Sport - Paavo Komi

Social Media:
  • Twitter - @DrTSuchomel
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