CVASPS The Podcast

“I’ve learned a ton from them, again, about really even more specific thought processes around training a hockey player than I’ve ever thought of, and I’ve played the game for 30 years at this point.” This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your bu...

“When we start to get frustrated can we start to bring ideas that can help eliminate our frustration, that can eliminate other peoples, let's call it, lack of vision as to how they can be more flexible and more adaptive.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Vald Performance, the team behind the NordBord, ForceDecks, the GroinBar and HumanTrak. With all their products providing evidence-ba...

“Humor is the best medicine in the world.” What’s up everybody and welcome the 48th episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit more about who they actually are and how they got to where they are at today. To...

“Parts of everything are somewhat truthful.” This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget and needs to better serve your athletes. North American customers looking for more info should contact Andreas at andreas.ahlstrom@exxentric.com or 503...

“If you don’t believe in it yourself, why would anyone else believe in what you’re doing?” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Vald Performance, the team behind the NordBord, ForceDecks, the GroinBar and HumanTrak. With all their products providing evidence-based solutions to performance professionals so they can get the right information, for the right decision, at the right time. Make s...

“Don’t show your hand on the first day.” What’s up everybody and welcome the 47th episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit more about who they actually are and how they got to where they are at today. Toda...

“There are a lot of things that we can change that don’t require money or anything like that, it’s just a willingness to change your ideas to do that.” “It’s not necessarily the information we have, it’s how we project it to people.” “Just because it’s the best thing doesn’t mean it’s the right thing.” This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley....

“We know intent is king, right, so if you are springing fast and jumping high, as explosively or far or whatever as possible, and you just cut the volume and work your way up with that, you’re going to get a heck of a lot more out of that you are if you’re moving 100 pounds, which is 50% of what you should be lifting.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Vald Performance, the team behind...

“There is always a part of us that thinks that we know more than we actually know. You don’t know what you don’t know.” What’s up everybody and welcome the 46th episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit mor...

“Everyday these guys come to the weight room is an assessment to me.” “Once you get these guys to understand self awareness, it’s big. Understanding the decisions they make outside of the weight room, outside the baseball field are going to have a huge impact on what they try to do, especially when it comes to performance. I think you’ll get a lot more guys to start to question, “maybe I’m not doi...

“We need to make sure that we are doing best by them in this time in every way shape and form, and that may be finding ways to educate them on things that, we know based on our past experiences, the college experience may lack for them.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Vald Performance, the team behind the NordBord, ForceDecks, the GroinBar and HumanTrak. With all their products provi...

“I used to pride myself on being right and having answers and having all this knowledge and being able to communicate that. I think more than anything right now now I pride myself on asking better questions and not be so concerned about having the answers, but realizing that I don’t have answers.” What’s up everybody and welcome the 45th episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Perfor...

“Some people don’t know how to have the conversations because they can’t fathom what we go through.” “It starts with conversation. You can’t have common ground if you don’t have conversations.” This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget an...

“If we have to make alterations to the plan, if we don’t have a plan, there is nothing to make alterations too.” “Weather your principles are X, Y, or Z itchy need to be able lead directly into the plan that you have, and if your principles lead into the plan, then how you are monitoring, or how you are evaluating, or what you are monitoring, should fall right into place.” This My Thoughts Monday...

“I used to be great at guarding empty weight rooms.” What’s up everybody and welcome the 44th episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit more about who they actually are and how they got to where they are at...

“What typically is thought of as periodization, to me, doesn’t apply to team sport anymore, if it ever did.” “KPI’s, for me, have to have transfer.” This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget and needs to better serve your athletes. North...

“Our job is to increase performance, and one of the things we have to do to increase performance is increase the athletes resilience to stress. You can not increase the athlete’s resilience to stress if you don’t stress the athlete.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Vald Performance, the team behind the NordBord, ForceDecks, the GroinBar and HumanTrak. With all their products providing...

“Every single day I challenge the frame work that I view things” What’s up everybody and welcome the 43rd episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit more about who they actually are and how they got to where...

“We don’t want to have this abstract mosaic of what the athlete looks like, we want to paint the clearest picture of them as possible.” This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget and needs to better serve your athletes. North American cust...

“We need to be able to have measurements that are going to indicate that we are improving the athlete in some way that will impact their performance.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Vald Performance, the team behind the NordBord, ForceDecks, the GroinBar and HumanTrak. With all their products providing evidence-based solutions to performance professionals so they can get the right in...

In the wake of the death of George Floyd I asked three of the student athletes that I get to work with every day to share their thoughts on the situation. University of Richmond Men’s Basketball players Nathan Cayo, Nick Sherod, and Jacob Gilyard join me to discuss Black Lives Matter, where they see some common misconceptions and mistakes by people, and how we can all be better, together.

“There is nothing that will ever beat hard work and consistency” What’s up everybody and welcome the 42nd episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit more about who they actually are and how they got to where...

“Can we get savagely good at the things we can do that are simple to build upon?” “Let’s take a big step back where we are right now and do what we say we are worried about, and the is, address the fact that they haven’t been training and completely rebuild them foundation-ally and technically and make them savage lifters again.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Vald Performance, the t...

“At the end of the day we are trying to put the ball in the net.” What’s up everybody and welcome the 41st episode of Outside The Rack brought to you by Kinetic Performance the makers of Gymaware. In this show we are going to try to dive a little deeper into the minds of the top practitioners in the world of sport performance to learn a bit more about who they actually are and how they got to wher...

“Everyone talks about all the different silos but at the end of the day I really try to think about us, nutrition, sport psych as performance coaches, and you shouldn’t be pointing fingers at each other.” This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit you...