Athletic Strength And Power Podcasts

Jeremy Townsend, Director of Scientific Research at AG1, joins Ed Cicale with an Athletic Strength and Power Special 2026 MLB and PBSCCS Winter Meetings Podcast to discuss AG1’s all‑in‑one supplement, its Next Gen formula, and the new AGZ nighttime product. He explains key ingredients (probiotics, magnesium L‑threonate, vitamin D, omega‑3s), NSF sports certification, clinical research, and how AG1...

Ed Cicale sits down with Frank Velazquez, the Director of Sports Performance for the Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh,  at the MLB Winter Meetings to discuss his journey from athletic trainer to director of sports performance, the growth of strength and conditioning in baseball, and his work with the Allegheny Health Network and PBSCCS, The Professional Baseball Strength and Conditioning Coa...

ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power Podcaster Ed Cicale interviews Senior Director of Player Performance with the Minnesota Twins, Ian Kadish at the MLB Winter Meetings 2025 about his role with the Minnesota Twins, his journey from pro baseball, an Ohio State Strength Training internship, and how the Twins Performance Staff performance staff prepares for spring training. At the Professional Baseball...

Ed Cicale interviews Terrence "TJ" Carter of Ascende Athletics at the 2025 MLB Baseball Winter meetings in Orlando, discussing the brand's focus on men's mental health, apparel lines, and the Ascend Brotherhood community.  TJ explains how Ascend donates 20% of sales to mental health efforts, plans a men's retreat, and offers a Facebook support group for men dealing with loneliness, divorce, PTSD,...

Ed Cicale visits the 2025 MLB Winter Meetings to sit down with orthopedic surgeon Reza Jazayeri, MD and COO Grey Hunt to discuss Accelerated Recovery — a clinically designed, NSF-certified supplement and nutrition program that supports collagen synthesis, preserves muscle, and improves perioperative outcomes. The episode covers how the product is used one week before and two weeks after surgery, i...

Athletic Strength And Power podcaster Ed Cicale interviews Erie Seawolves Strength and Conditioning coach Paul Synenkyj at the 2025 MLB Baseball Winter Meetings in Orlando at the Hilton Signia Bonnet Creek Resort. They discuss the Detroit Tigers’ player development, spring training at Lakeland, facility setup, and the role of strength and rehab in keeping players game-ready. Paul shares practical...

ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power podcaster Ed Cicale interviews Brandon McDaniel, Vice President of Player Performance for the Los Angeles Dodgers and President of the Professional Baseball Strength and Conditioning Coaches Society (PBSCCS), at the MLB Winter Meetings in Orlando. They discuss how the PBSCCS organizes the meetings, celebrates award winners, partners with vendors, provides education...

Ed Cicale interviews Morgan Gregory, the Professional Baseball Strength and Conditioning Society’s Strength Coach of the Year, at the MLB Winter Meetings in Orlando. Gregory discusses his journey from minor league and private-sector roles to leading the Philadelphia Phillies’ sports performance program. The episode covers the evolution of baseball strength and conditioning, how the Phillies keep p...

CINCINNATI ST. XAVIER BOMBERS in TRAINING Podcast  St X Bombers' Head Strength and Sports Performance Coach Terrell Williams is not lightening up the workouts! It's on. And, this Ohio High School football powerhouse program is preparing for another run at a state championship. But, it won't be easy as they'll have to win four playoff contests against top tier programs. They know the requirements. ...

 In this episode, ASAP PODCAST host Ed Cicale talks 'training and Eleiko equipment' with Rodney Corn, Director of Eleiko Education, a world-renowned Swedish company known for its high-quality strength training equipment. Rodney shares the history of Eleiko, from its origins as an electrical installation company to becoming a leader in the weightlifting and powerlifting community. Rodney delves int...

ASAP Classic Podcast with the late Roger Schwab who passed this past March 2024.  ROGER HAD BEEN A PIONEER IN WEIGHT TRAINING FOR DECADES. HE WAS COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S FIRST STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH (PENN STATE 1964-1965) AND THE MAN WHO INTRODUCED THE NAUTILUS TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT SYSTEM TO PHILADELPHIA IN 1976. FROM 1976 TO 2015, HE WAS THE OWNER AND OPERATOR OF MAIN LINE HEALTH & FITN...

One of the main reasons that the ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power Podcast is sought out by top professional, collegiate and high school coaches and athletes is because of our vast connection to many of the most brilliant strength, conditioning and speed coaches in the USA.  Our advisory board consists of many of the top professionals in the field.  In this ASAP 'CLASSIC' Podcast, we lean on the ex...

Wrestling.... Strictly Business! For a Cincinnati high school wrestler, to qualify for the Ohio High School Athletic Association's State Wrestling Tournament is an arduous task at the very least. Attaining and maintaining a given body weight-class, wrestle-offs, intense practices, managing a disciplined approach to nutrition, continuing the in-season strength training and conditioning program goal...

When The University of Cincinnati Bearcats' Director of Football Sports Performance, Niko Palazeti, took on his new role in January 2023, he recognized an immediate need for his program and the Bearcats football squad: he needed a strength and conditioning performance staff. Palazeti had been a member of Coach Mickey Marotti's sports performance staff at Ohio State Football. Yet now, he found hims...

It took awhile to reconnect with Andy Kettler, mostly due to that good old pandemic. Closed doors and stop signs, red lights and masks. However, I was finally able to get a mutual date on the ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power calendar with the veteran strength, conditioning and sports performance coach! I have seen him on several occasions, including at the West Virginia Mountaineers where he worke...

https://www.specathletic.com/ Youngstown, Ohio    For the Youngstown State Penguins, the season can't start soon enough. Excluded from the play-offs in 2022, the football squad is ready to put that in the rear view mirror and move on. This is a program that prides itself on winning tradition, and the atmosphere around Stambaugh Stadium, which houses the athletic offices that include the football c...

In her five seasons as Director of Sports Performance-Women's Basketball at The University of South Carolina, Molly Binetti, has seen the Gamecocks lose but only 19 games. And, she's been on board to witness 152 wins that include NCAA Sweet Sixteen, NCAA Final Four twice and an NCAA National Championship! (The COVID19 fiasco eliminated a run for another championship opportunity when the Final Four...

One of the big highlights of the HAMMER STRENGTH Clinic that was conducted at the Spooky Nook Athletics Complex in Hamilton, Ohio was the presentation on the opening night by Coach Tommy Moffitt. Basically, he laid out the infrastructure of his championship performance program that had the LSU Fighting Tigers fighting for and winning the big games and the big prizes. He's been in the strength & co...

Things were moving quickly at The University of Cincinnati as the school's athletic director scoured the football world for a replacement for Head Coach Luke Fickell who had departed to take on a struggling program in Madison, Wisconsin. A little over a week later, Cincinnati A/D/ John Cunningham was welcoming in his new football coach, Scott Satterfield, to take the reins of a program that has se...

This is a re-issue of my podcast with the late Chris Simmons, who has passed unexpectantly. just this week, January 2023. He was the best! Chris spent over ten years as The University of Kentucky Mens Basketball Head Athletic Trainer with Head Basketball Coach John Calipari. He will be dearly missed as a friend and ASAP associate and podcast guest. He truly loved Kentucky Basketball and he had the...