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Send us Fan Mail This week's EP features Sam Robertson.  Sam is a sports performance researcher, innovator, and consultant. He leads the sports research program at Victoria University in Melbourne Australia, working on decision-making, analytics, technology standards, and applications of complex systems.  He has published over 140 scientific papers and worked with a range of sporting organiza...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Scott Howitt. Scott is a Chiropractor with a big bend in sports science, sports medicine, and performance. Scott was a member of the core medical team for the 2015 Canadian Pan Am games and works with various amateur and professional athletes including the Men’s National Soccer team.  Scott is an active sports chiropractic and exercise researcher and is a lecturer...

Send us Fan Mail This week's EP features Sean Muldoon. Sean is currently the VP of Performance for the Seattle Sounders of the MLS. Sean joined the Seattle Sounders performance staff during the 2016 season as an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach/Sports Scientist, then spent three and a half years as the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach before being promoted to his current role...

Send us Fan Mail This EP is a performance conversation with three of Canada's leading performance nutrition practitioners.  Dana Lis is located in Lake Tahoe now and does a great deal of work with the Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors and elite tour cycling in Europe. Jen Sygo is in Toronto and has consulted with the Toronto Maple Leafs and was a part of the championship season with...

Send us Fan Mail Nick is currently the Programs Director for ALTIS.  ALTIS is an elite training environment for athletes and a global leader in the provision of education for sports performance.  Nick is in charge of building education and training resources that share ALTIS experiences and extend their processes to the performance community at large. The complexity of managing both the Performanc...

Send us Fan Mail In this EP I speak with Hannah Roediger-Day a business owner/entrepreneur in the health & neuro space. Hannah takes foundational health & high-performance protocols and combines them with applied neurology, positive psychology, emotion code, yoga, human design, and behavioral science to create personal freedom for her clients - physically, emotionally, and mentally. Her ow...

Send us Fan Mail In this EP I talk with Ivi Casagrande. Ivi is a high-performance consultant currently serving as a Technical Expert Consultant for FIFA and UEFA. Ivi is also part of the Human Performance Council for Under Armour.  Ivi started her coaching career as a Performance Coach for the Women’s Soccer program at Bowling Green State University, before joining Redline Athletics as their Direc...

Send us Fan Mail This week's EP features an NHL Veteran Therapist, Curtis Bell. Curtis is currently the Director of Sports Performance for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League. He began his career in hockey with the Flint Generals of the Colonial Hockey League and then went on to work for the Lightning, Devils, and Panthers until 2008.  He took a sabbatical of sorts from the...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features an innovative performance practitioner, Chris Gaviglio. Chris has been involved with Elite sport for over 20 years working across multiple Winter and Summer Olympic sports and professional football codes in both the northern hemisphere with Bath Rugby, and the southern hemisphere with Queensland "Maroons" Rugby League team, the Wallabies of the Australia...

Send us Fan Mail EP 261 is the fourth anniversary EP of LYM. We are proud of what we have accomplished at the podcast, and we've learned a lot from our guests over these past four years.  In this episode, I share with you six of the key learnings I've acquired through all the listening I've done these past four years. It's been an amazing ride, and I can't wait for four mo...

Send us Fan Mail Rhonda is a physiotherapist and athletic therapist currently working in private practice with Craven Sports Services in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She has been the therapist of the Canadian Women’s National Basketball team and the Head Therapist for the University of Saskatchewan Huskies for 21 years.  She has been in high-level Canadian sports for much of her career and has been a...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Phil Poirier who is a bit of a living legend in my neck of the woods. He was a part of bringing the freestyle life to skiing. Growing up watching the snowboard revolution, he and a group of other locals began to play in the snowpark against all odds, adopted twin tip skis, and created a new genre of skiing.  His story is rich and full and I wanted more than just l...

Send us Fan Mail EP 258 out tomorrow is a comebacker with one of my good friends and peers, Doctor Matt Jordan!  The good doctor and I talk about life, growth, navigating change, how to balance science with practice, and a whole bunch of other stuff.  These are the conversations I put on repeat because there are always new nuggets to glean from each time I listen.  It's what I love about podc...

Send us Fan Mail In this EP Mike Potenza, the President of the Strength and Conditioning Coaches of Professional Hockey (SCAPH) and Lead of Performance for the San Jose Sharks and I chat about all things professional development.  Our experiences, formal, informal, conferences, mentorship, and life.  It's a great conversation to preface the work we are doing this year to bring the community o...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Justin Roethlingshoefer.  Justin has worked with many professional athletes and leaders in the world of business. He is an Amazon best-selling author for his books: Intent, Blueprint, and the Own It Manual. They focused on peak performance, human optimization, and applying data and testing to create personalized blueprints. After completing his MS in Sports Perfor...

Send us Fan Mail EP 255 of the LYM podcast is a combo session with my friend and colleague Mark Fitzgerald.  Mark is one of Canada's leaders in the field of athletic performance.  He has a special affinity to hockey, having trained many developmental and elite players, and having served as the Lead of Performance for the Anaheim Ducks. This conversation sets the table for his workshop at this...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features a FIFA World Cup football referee, and the Director & Lead Facilitator of Holistic Leadership and Development Consultancy, Matt Conger. Pre-pandemic, Matt refereed full-time between the Chinese Super League, Saudi MBS Pro League, ISPS Handa Premiership (NZ), and OFC and FIFA competitions. Alongside active refereeing, he is passionate about developing the holis...

Send us Fan Mail This EP is my meanderings around the idea of the Olympics. What it should mean for us, instead of what it seems it has become. We should celebrate the effort and opportunity to be on that stage, exposed and open to the possibilities. Instead, we focus too often on winning and losing, and on the judgment we so often prescribe.  Enjoy! If you liked this EP, please take the time to r...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Duff Gibson. In 1989, having completed his undergrad at Western, Duff Gibson moved to Calgary to earn his master’s degree in kinesiology at the University of Calgary and begin a twenty-five-year journey in high-performance sport.  As an athlete, Duff was a provincial champion speed skater, a national champion and national team member in bobsleigh, and then a world...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Dayna Del Val who works with people through weekend retreats, one on one coaching, and her writing and speaking to inspire and motivate people to shake up their day-to-day to find what’s beyond their current reality, to get comfortable being uncomfortable and to articulate, and create a tangible plan of action and pursue their next dream. Dayna and her husband Dr....

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Les Gramntik, an internationally recognized leader in coaching speed and power. He has over 50 years of experience in coaching in the countries of Romania, Israel, and most significantly in Canada. He’s been an athletic and development consultant for hockey, football, synchronized swimming, bobsleigh, and professional golf. He has also served as an Education progr...

Send us Fan Mail Stu has been the vision behind the organization Youth Leadership Camps Canada (YLCC) since it began in 1992. For the last thirty years, Stu has put his heart and soul into building a world-class summer camp and leadership development program that is now YLCC.  Since 1991, he has traveled through North America and Europe speaking to thousands of schools of every level, many organiz...

Send us Fan Mail EP 248 features the Senior Director of Applied Neuroscience at EXOS, Chris Bertram.  Chris is also an Associate Professor at the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV).  Chris specializes in creating environments that are designed to maximize learning, build resilience, and optimize performance under pressure. His academic and professional focus is in the area of skill acquisition...

Send us Fan Mail James is an Athletic Therapist, and Strength & Conditioning Specialist, and holds a Master’s degree in Kinesiology and Health Science, and is a Hatha Yoga practitioner.  He held positions as a Head Athletic Trainer in the Blue Jays system, as well as a Rehab Coordinator role at York University and various therapy, conditioning, and sports injury rehab roles, including working...

Send us Fan Mail EP 246 is a wonderful conversation with two amazing humans, David Arsenault and Jon Geller.  David's career spans close to thirty years, first being a world-class Taekwondo athlete, then an elite Taekwondo and performance coach, and now a leader in the world of physical literacy for children. His foundation, Champions for Life, is making a difference in the lives of so many y...