The Art Of Coaching

In this episode, it is my honor to be joined by Sydney (Australia) University's senior strength and conditioning coach, Nicolai Morris .This episode is incredibly important for our community. Wether you like it or not, social media is not going away. As a coach, Nicolai has mastered the ability of using social media to help her athletes develop and to even sharpen her own coaching practice. She ha...

In this episode, it is my honor to be joined by former Olympian, and current Director of Marketing for Momentous Sara Hendershot. This episode is especially unique since we get the perspective of what constitutes truly effective coaching from a world-class athlete who has competed at the absolute highest levels in sport. Sara also dives into the strategies she deployed to help keep her at the top...

This episode dives into a resource that has been two years in the making, features feedback from more than 3,000 coaches, and has more than 150 research articles supporting it. It was made by coaches, for coaches, in an effort to help strength and conditioning evolve and take the next step into becoming a more viable profession. Strength coaches all across the world are dealing with major issues t...

As the head strength and conditioning coach at the University of Mary, Michael Silbernagel places a detailed emphasis on communication, accountability, attitude, discipline, maintaining a high standard of care for the student-athlete. Coach Silbernagel understands that building buy-in is a complex process, in which the athletes themselves must also be involved, so he found unique ways to use socia...

What is happening to strength and conditioning? As it stands today, the field has not yet earned the appellation of a true profession, and this mainly has to do with behavioral issues that still run rampant from within which has corroded the breadth of positive contributions coaches are able to make in the lives of others. Enough is enough! The manner in which we continue to glorify the "grind," a...

If you examined the common characteristics of all of the CEO's, high level athletes, MD's and Special Operators in the world it's highly likely you'd find they all have one quality in common that drives their success: discontent. For some reason, most successful people can never stop and appreciate what they have done as soon as they achieve they are onto the next thing. On the flip side this qual...

On Episode 15 of the Art of Coaching podcast I am joined by industry-leading strength coach Tim Caron. Tim is the former Head Football Strength and Conditioning Coach at Army West Point where he helped Army beat Navy for the first time in 15 years. Notice I say former head coach. That is because after reaching what most coaches consider the "Zenith" of their career, Tim decided to eschew the "coac...

On episode 14 of the Art of Coaching podcast I interview Gym Jones Certified S&C Coach Noël Brand about strain, sacrifice, self-awareness and why he uses instagram to show off unloaded squats. Noel is a former Netherlands Royal Marine turned Strength & Conditioning coach. He currently co-owns a gym, Breda Strength & Conditioning, with his wife and is one of the very few fully certified Gym Jones c...

Patience is an underrated and under-appreciated virtue in our microwave expert society. It is the attribute that will beget all good things in your career and life. When I think of young coaches who have exhibited some tremendous patience, there is one person that comes to mind immediately, Coach Jamie Lafler. Jamie has had a long, winding and interesting coaching journey that started as an athlet...

On Episode 12 of the Art Of Coaching podcast I catch up with my old friend, former trainee and current Army Ranger Mike Meegan. I wanted to get Mike on the podcast because as a Ranger he is not only a true subject matter expert in leadership and what many refer to as "mental toughness" but also what it takes to survive and adapt in high-stakes situations Many of the topics discussed are may seem s...

Whether you are a coach, CEO or mom all of us are in leadership positions where we feel like we can't show vulnerability without losing credibility. On this podcast I talk about how to talk use your personal experiences to develop a trust relationship without losing your professional boundaries. Here are the specific topics I get into on this episode- Compassion the middle ground between empathy a...

On Episode 10 I am joined by Louisiana Tech Head Strength and Conditioning Coach Kurt Hester. If you aren't familiar with Kurt, before taking the LA Tech job he was formerly the Head Coach of the Manning Passing Academy, as well as the owner of D1 in Nashville, TN. He is renowned for his no-nonsense approach to training and his contributions regarding the future of the S&C profession, but his bigg...

On Episode 9 of the Art of Coaching Podcast, I sit down with a guy who has one of the best jobs in all of strength & conditioning. Matt Bertsch is the Performance Director for Lincoln Public Schools in Lincoln Nebraska where he overseas the strength and conditioning for 6 area high schools and more than 3,500 athletes. Too often, coaches chase big name jobs whole overlooking other opportunities fo...

On Episode 8 of the Art Of Coaching podcast I am joined by my long time friend Molly Binetti to talk about being a Pro strength and conditioning coach. If you aren't familiar with Molly she is the head strength and conditioning coach for the South Carolina Women's basketball program. Before accepting this position she also worked at University of Louisville and Purdue University. Molly is straight...

On Episode 7 of this podcast I sit down with one of coaching and sciences most brilliant minds, Dr. Matt Jordan. If you aren't familiar with Matt is a sought after presenter on return to sport after injury, training program design for elite athletes, and creating interdisciplinary high performance practitioner teams and the information we cover on the episode is mind blowing. I wanted to get him o...

Authenticity is word that gets tossed around often in the world of social media, but few actually live it. On Episode 6 of the Art of Coaching Podcast I am joined by someone who is sincerely authentic in everything she does, Coach Brianna Battles. Brianna is former D1 strength and conditioning coach and corporate wellness vet who left both of those worlds to start her own company called Everyday B...

"Please God don't let me be pigeon hold in a normal job." This was a prayer of mine immediately after graduating under grad and being denied a internship by the United States Olympic Committee. I am fairly certain that many of you out there pray the same thing in regards to looking for your first break in the coaching field out of school, or maybe even looking for a promotion. On this episode of t...

On Episode 4 of the Art of Coaching podcast I am joined by Coach Davis Conley from Northern State University to talk about what it's like to be a young coach coming up in the profession as the climate in the coaching profession is constantly changing around us. Specific Topics We Get Into Are Development of interns What are the important things to learn Taking risks and the value of that in improv...

On this episode of the podcast I am joined by Brock Bittle, who is a former student athlete of mine to about one of the tough parts of our profession: what happens when you can get a job. Brock played football at Southern Illinois and after his collegiate career came to a close and he moved into the coaching side. After a few years of interning and grad assisting he found himself burnt out and ask...

Today I am talking about one of the most bastardized terms in the human lexicon: culture. It's often used to describe what's going right or wrong with teams or organizations, but we really don't have a good working definition of what culture is, which means it's pretty hard to make changes to it if we don't know what it is. So on this episode I will share a definition I really like and then explai...

Over the years I have been vehemently against doing a podcast, but after talking to many of you about leadership, coaching, management..etc my passion for educating on the little things that go unnoticed was reinvigorated and I decided that It was really important to make what I know available in every medium possible. So I'm doing a podcast. On this first episode I sit down to talk about what you...