The Ted O'Neill Program

Coach Ted discusses the energetic influence you exert on your training group, and how acting in service to your training group will always return dividends.

Coach Ted discusses contractions in training as a wind-up to expansion, and expansion as an opportunity to create a new baseline for your progress.

Ted discusses overcoming your brain and body with your conscious awareness, the purposes of the brain and the body, and how they differ from our desire for accomplishment.

Coach Ted discusses the difference between physical strength and self belief, and why you need the latter to drive the former.

Coach Ted discusses attachments to the past and how they hold us back from optimal training successes.

Coach Ted talks about his strategy with training logs, what to record, and how it works in your favor to track your progress.

Coach Ted talks about how a physical transformation is the embodiment of a personal revolution.

Coach Ted talks about personal accountability and how he approaches a deficit of desire.

Dr. Vitz joins us to wrap up Takeover Week as we get to know Coach Ted even better.

Dr. Vitz talks about the evolution of Coach Ted as he now cultivates what she considers the best Team roster she has ever seen.  Has his evolution influenced the Team or is it the other way around?

Day 3 of Takeover Week has Dr. Vitz describing the process of getting her strength back.

In Day 2 of Takeover Week, Dr. Vitz talks about rejoining the powerlifting team, why it was the right move and the right time.

A special guest joins Jon to talk about the origin story of Coach Ted and the performance laboratory known as Diablo Barbell.

Coach Ted discusses what you display when you miss a lift - or what happens when you engage the access point for transformation.

Coach Ted discusses the dynamics of taking time for vacations and the expression of your identity.

Coach Ted discusses active therapy - how to keep it moving by keeping it moving.

Coach Ted talks about the soundtrack and why it is conducive to training success.

Coach Ted discusses the results of the most recent meet, the lifters who achieved new milestones, the challenges, and some of the takeaways from the weekend.

Coach Ted talks about the design of a nutrition plan and how to embrace the challenge of adherence.

Coach Ted discusses the activities you do outside of the gym and how your meal plan is designed to allow you to do the activities you love and still reach your nutrition goals.

Coach Ted discusses the path to the big lifts and how he knows when a newer athlete is ready to start lifting.

Coach Ted talks about practical methods for increasing strength vs. methods for achieving particular aesthetics.

As we enter the week before a contest, Coach Ted tells us about his approach to preparing competitors for the platform and what kinds of work he has in store for some of the lifters whose goals in the contest vary.

Coach Ted discusses building lean mass and how training and nutrition must work together to create the body's most expensive architecture.

Coach Ted tackles the topic of how your body burns fat and the development of the optimal nutrition plan for eliminating excess fat while you train to build lean mass.