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Episode #19 - Brett Bartolomew: Conscious Coaching

3/27/2017

Brett Bartholomew is a strength and conditioning coach, author, consultant, and founder of the performance coaching and consulting company, Bartholomew Strength. His experience includes working with collegiate teams, professional teams, businesses, and individual clients. Taken together, Brett has coached a diverse range of athletes from across 23 sports at levels ranging from youths to Olympians. He’s supported Super Bowl and World Series Champions, along with several professional fighters, including those competing in the UFC. He has also worked with members of the United States Special Forces community. His coaching and speaking has spanned the globe, from China to Brazil and numerous other stops in between.

Brett also recently released a new coach Conscious Coaching. It has been a huge hit within the S&C community and a must read for coaches.

Favorite Quotes:

"You are an expert at the invitation of the athlete"
"Authenticity outweighs empathy"
"I failed a lot earlier than most coaches"
"Information is a poor motivator"
"Give ground to get ground"
"You get 7-seconds to make a 1st impression"
"You're not teaching until the athlete learns"
"If we have an athlete that doesn't want to listen or is confrontational - we usually blame it on the athlete and say it's something wrong with them instead of thinking something is wrong with your approach"
Context is king"

Books:

Dinner:

Ben Franklin
Napolean
Dr. Dre

Social Media:

Twitter - @coach_brettb
Instagram - @coach_brettb

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Episode #18 - James Wild: Assessing, Evaluating & Improving Speed

3/19/2017

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James is a strength and conditioning coach, researcher, professor, and consultant - mainly for all things speed, agility, and power development. In this episode we talk about his work with team sport athletes and how he goes about assessing, evaluating, and then improving speed. He also talks about how mechanics and technical aspects of sprinting differ between team sport athletes and actual track athletes.
Overall, this is a great episode and James is very knowledgable in the the mechanics and literature for speed development.

Favorite Quotes

"Strength training is only a part of the much bigger picture when it comes to speed"
"Drills are there to reinforce technical positions"
"Speed = Magnitude of force, direction of force, RFD"
"Most speed training over-emphasizes the magnitude of force and neglects the direction and rate of those forces"
"I evaluate F-V profiles, hip extension torque for horizontal vs vertical profiles, and reactive strength/ankle stiffness in my athletes. This way I know specifically what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to attack them"
"Sprint drills should create context and feeling. Attach a feeling, use film, and bridge the drills to later sprints"
"Team sport athletes typically lack hip flexion angles, body angles, RFD compared to track athletes, but we also have to understand that sometimes these are a product of the sport and obtaining ideal sprinting technique isn't conducive to team sports"
"I'd bring Arny (Arnold schwarzenegger), Steven Seagal, and Jean Claude Van Damme to dinner - some kick ass dudes"

Social Media

Twitter - @widly_jj

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Episode #17 - Elite Performance Clinic Preview

3/10/2017

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On Saturday, April 1st - we are hosting our 3rd Annual Elite Performance Clinic. We have a great line-up of coaches, practitioners, and scientists to share a wide variety of Strength and Conditioning, fitness, nutrition, and rehab topics.

In this episode, our speakers give us a short introduction and preview of the topic they'll discuss on April 1st.

Here's a reminder of our line-up

Line-Up

8:15-8:55am - Registration and Check-In
9:00-9:50am - Concussions: The Injury, The Research, The Future – Dr. Matthew Rogatzki
10:00-10:50am – Limiting Factors Towards Speed Development - Matt Gifford
10:00-11:50am - Hands-On Sessions
- Catering Your Warm-Up To Your Training Session – Korey Van Wyk
- Med Ball Progressions To Develop Rotational Power – Stephen Vassalotti
11:50-12:30pm – Lunch (Provided)
12:30-1:20pm – Grading The 10 Most Popular Supplements: What Is Useful and Useless? – Sean Casey
1:30-2:20pm - The Science of the Squat: Implications For All Areas of Sport Performance – Michael Zweifel
2:30-3:20pm – Hands-On Sessions
- Correcting The Hip Hinge – Mike Mandot
- Training The Neck To Reduce Concussions – Jacob Ricketts
3:30-4:20pm – Hands-On Session
- The Athletic Stance: A-Z - Matt Gifford
- How To Correctly Use Bands To Enhance Mobility - Brad Gerein
4:30-5:00 – Q & A with Speakers
5:00pm - Social

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Episode #16 - Kendrique Coats: Youth Athletes and Athletes With Special Needs

3/5/2017

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Kendrique is a Strength and Conditioning Coach and Track Coach in Pontiac, IL. He does great work with many with youth athletes in his community and has a really refreshing look at how he approaches training young athletes.
A really special program Kendrique runs is his work with youngsters with special needs. Kendrique started this program 2-years ago, and it's had a huge impact on him as a coach and person. I think it's just a wonderful program he runs and very cool to see the impact Kendrique has on these young kids and the impact this fitness program has on these youngsters.

Favorite Quotes

"Sometimes we get so wrapped up in our own lives, that we forget how we can impact our athletes lives"
"Parents get bent out of shape trying to pursue an athletic scholarship, when they'd be better off trying to pursue an academic scholarship."
"Do you know if your athlete has sibling? What their favorite music is? When there birthday is? What their favorite sport team is? These things all play into athletic performance but often forgotten because X's and O's are more popular."
"Coach I bench pressed X-Amount of weight! Well how does that improve your sport and overall movement quality?"
"Coaches need to be better interviewers."
"Our services include educating athletes and parents - Educating is the #1 thing I do with parents and athletes"
"How does getting little Johnny or little Suzy puking and beat tired making them a better athlete?"

Social Media

Twitter - @KendriqueCoats
Instagram - @CoatsPerformance
Facebook - Coats Performance
Website - https://coatsperformance.wordpress.com/

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Elite performance podcast

Episode #19 - Brett Bartolomew: Conscious Coaching

Episode #18 - James Wild: Assessing, Evaluating & Improving Speed

Episode #17 - Elite Performance Clinic Preview

Episode #16 - Kendrique Coats: Youth Athletes and Athletes With Special Needs

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