AMPerformance Podcast

Are you still having fun playing your sport? If not, why? What are some things you can do as a coach / player to make the game more enjoyable? Let's talk about it. --- Follow me on ALL the socials @amucurio

Does strength training actually improve athletic performance? How strong is strong enough and how can we use our weight room strength to carry over to the field? All this and more in today's episode --- Follow @amucurio on ALL the socials!

Today we are talking about stress and how to handle failures / bad days. Just like all drains lead to the ocean, all stress leads to the same bucket. When we can learn to regulate variables and build a better buffer we can handle stress and failure much better. Listen in for all the deets. --- Follow me on ALL the socials @amucurio

Train smarter, not harder. A story about ACL recovery. --- Follow me on the socials @amucurio

Your college strength and conditioning program not living up to the hype? Not what you expected? What are your options? Today we discuss why your strength coach sucks and what you can do about it. Listen in for all the deets. --- Connect with me on social. Instagram Facebook

In this episode we are talking about practice, yes practice. Practice isn't what it used to be and more and more athletes are disengaged, getting injured and unfortunately not getting better. Is there a better way? I think so. --- Connect with me on social. Instagram Facebook

Today we are talking about burnout. Prior to recording this episode I polled the college athletes for ideas to talk about and burnout is a real issue for athletes being "forced' to play year round without any down time to really rest, recover and rejuvenate their passion for the sport they used to love so much. Remember, there are some stressors involved in everything but if the game you...

On today's episode we are talking about ACL injuries and why I think we are at a crossroads with the style of training many athletes are doing vs. what they should be doing. There are more ACL injuries than ever and all I see in terms of many strength and conditioning coaches is a rigid style of training running and plyometrics. A style that isn't conducive to what athletes are actually doing on t...

Is there a different between boys and girls when it comes to training styles? Not really. Listen in for my hot take on the subject. --- Connect with me on social. Instagram Facebook

If you're an athlete why are you spending the majority of your time lifting weights and not doing athletic things? If you want to be more athletic, shouldn't you be doing more athletic stuff? When was the last time you ran as fast as you can? Jumped as high as you can? You see my point? Give it a listen and let me know what you think! --- Connect with me on social. Instagram Facebook

Today we are talking all about the spine. Should we be bending and rotating more or should we be stiff as a board? Listen to hear my thoughts on the topic! --- Connect with me on social. Instagram Facebook

What's the biggest hack you can make to enhance your training and performance? Listen to find out! --- Connect with me on social. Instagram Facebook

My top 3 three exercises for health, performance and resiliency against injury. 1. Rear Foot Elevated Split Squat 2. Single Leg Squat 3. Landmine Single Leg Deadlift Runner up: Nordic Curl variations --- Connect with me on social. Instagram Facebook

Today we are chatting a bit about nutrition. Mainly working towards low hanging fruit. This means we want to have a basic understanding of the three macronutrients (proteins, carbs and fats) and how they work as well as what type of foods fall into these categories.  Each meal should have a mix of each of these macronutrients to ensure a healthy and performance driven nutritional plan. --- Co...

Today we are talking about programming and how I structure an ideal week of training when it comes to speed. Click the link below to gain access to a sample week of programming Sample Week --- Connect with me on social. Instagram Facebook

Episode Three coming at you! Today we are talking briefly about speed development. Is speed a skill or innate ability? Can we develop it? Should we focus on proper technique or let athletes do their thing? What does a typical speed week look like in terms of program design? Definitely going to have to dive deeper into that last question in a future episode! Thanks for listening!! -- Connect with m...

Episode two coming at ya with a little background on my coaching voice and how to develop your own. The catalyst to me changing my persona as a coach came from extensive research, reading and reflection. First stop as "InSideOut Coaching" by Joe Ehrmann. Check it out here! - Connect with me on social. Instagram Facebook

This is a brief history of where it all began and how I ended here, spreading knowledge to you.