CVASPS The Podcast

“If I’m only looking at a problem one way, there’s only one solution.” “What you do everyday is more important than what you do once in a while.” “When people act authentically and transparently crazy things happen.” “We don’t base your maturity on your age, we base it on your ownership of responsibility.” Today we are joined by Liberty University’s Director of Olympic Sports, Henry Barrera to dis...

Perception is reality, but context is key.” Last weekend was another great time of learning, sharing, and growling, but in every situation people can be better. In this weeks My Thoughts Monday Chris Hays shares with us a story to help us all be better when we communicate about our fellows in this part of the performance world. We are hoping to provide the best possible content for strength coache...

“Peak performance really is an output of a well rested brain and body.” Dr. Meeta Singh joins us to discuss the role and nuances of sleep in athletic performance in this weeks edition of The Podcast. After a brief intro, Dr. Singh breaks down exactly what sleep is by definition, and how we can quantify it to help our athletes with it. This includes the role of naps, how athlete’s can utilize them...

“While you increase their ability to perform you perform, you then will decrease their likelihood of injury because you've put them in situations where they are going to be stressed similarly to not just practice, but competition.” There has been an uptick in the number of people discussing the role of the weight room in athletic development of late. This is awesome because it’s driving some reall...

“Athletes are ending their careers early because of nutrition.” “Sense the beginning of time, in every medical writing, in history, in every system of healing, the number one herb were herbs for stress response, they were adaptogens.” “More people will research their next refrigerator, their next house, their next purchase, their next care, more than they research their health.’ “Mindset drives de...

“This inquisitiveness is very important to me. This is how we’re going to continue to improve. This is how we are going to not just find answer, but actually find better questions because I don’t know if we are every going to really find answers, at least not answers we all agree on.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by GymAware, the leading tool to measure your athlete’s weight room perf...

“The whole idea is recover ability, what’s your availability from day 1 to day 2.” “My goal is to be able to peak every play, to be able to peak through the entire game” “At the end of the day if you can’t define and support what you do, then you’re doing it wrong.” 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...

“If you’re going to sit there and ask them to push through, but you don’t remember where those barriers are and how those barriers feel, you may not really understand what they’re pushing too, or if they are or aren’t.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by GymAware, the leading tool to measure your athlete’s weight room performance. Learn more about “The Rolls Royce” of bar velocity monito...

“Magnesium is the new vitamin D.” 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 503-739-1391....

“If you can’t provide them with what they’re asking for you’re probably in the wrong position.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by GymAware, the leading tool to measure your athlete’s weight room performance. Learn more about “The Rolls Royce” of bar velocity monitoring here: https://kinetic.com.au/gymaware.html This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Vald Performance, the team behi...

“Without objective data you’re just person with an opinion” “You can always change your methods, you can never change your principles.” 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...

“I really think it is ok for us to believe that we absolutely can have as much of an impact on winning as we choose to.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by GymAware, the leading tool to measure your athlete’s weight room performance. Learn more about “The Rolls Royce” of bar velocity monitoring here: https://kinetic.com.au/gymaware.html This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Vald P...

“These principles, no matter who you are, will never ever vary by kind, only by need. Really it’s the application of principles that change, not the principles themselves.” 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 ser...

“If we are improving performance then the byproducts of decreased injuries, increased strength, size, power, aerobic, anaerobic endurance, whatever they may be, are going to take care of themselves.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by GymAware, the leading tool to measure your athlete’s weight room performance. Learn more about “The Rolls Royce” of bar velocity monitoring here: https://k...

“The question you should ask, by lifting 20 kilos more are they now improving their performance on the field?” “The guys who go out on the field and put their body’s on the line, those are the one’s that count, and we need to help them get better.” 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 tec...

“Sport performance is human performance, and everyone involved in sport is a human. They’re going to have their good days and bad days.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by GymAware, the leading tool to measure your athlete’s weight room performance. Learn more about “The Rolls Royce” of bar velocity monitoring here: https://kinetic.com.au/gymaware.html This My Thoughts Monday is brought...

“If I see anything that closely resembles the game in a way that it will improve performance or improve the likelihood of keeping guys healthy then we’re definitely going to try to implement it.” “If 10 out of 10 hated it and I don’t think it’s a huge improvement, and I can do something else, then I’ll do something else if it’s going to give you the same results.” This episode of The Podcast is br...

“We talk about doing all this ground based training but typically we don’t address what’s going on with the ground.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by GymAware, the leading tool to measure your athlete’s weight room performance. Learn more about “The Rolls Royce” of bar velocity monitoring here: https://kinetic.com.au/gymaware.html This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Vald Perfo...

“You’ve got to historically where that sport has come from.” “Once I realized that there’s only four weird groups of people that like to lift for the sake of lifting, that was a big change in the way I coached.” “The athletes actually often know far more about what they need and how to get themselves in shape and how to keep themselves motivated, so, that two way street, listening, is really impor...

“You never really want to be flat footed in sports, so we are working our way to that.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by GymAware, the leading tool to measure your athlete’s weight room performance. Learn more about “The Rolls Royce” of bar velocity monitoring here: https://kinetic.com.au/gymaware.html This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Vald Performance, the team behind the N...

“Look at the big picture and try to address everything we can there.” “Think critically and take measurements as you go and let those measurements guide you.” 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 athlet...

“Don’t sit here and tell people what they should do and what the problem is if you’re not will to be part of the solution.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by GymAware, the leading tool to measure your athlete’s weight room performance. Learn more about “The Rolls Royce” of bar velocity monitoring here: https://kinetic.com.au/gymaware.html This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Val...

“Respect the context because everybody works in a different environment.” 
“I want our advanced level athletes and our pros to know their DNA is on their program, that’s important to me.” “Our programs are temporary hypotheses, and the goal is not to defend them, the goal is to try and find problems with them, and you can’t find problems if you don’t measure things.” This episode of The Podcast is...

“You’re only going to bet out of it what you put into it. So to sit here and complain before you even start probably isn’t going to help many people to want you to be on their team.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by GymAware, the leading tool to measure your athlete’s weight room performance. Learn more about “The Rolls Royce” of bar velocity monitoring here: https://kinetic.com.au/gym...

“Focus means being able to say no to good ideas.” 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 o...