CVASPS The Podcast

“You have to work harder, you have to find a solution, and not make an excuse.” 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 In this weeks My Thoughts Monday I share a conversation I recently had about how sport coach...

“The strength and conditioning coach is the culture builder” 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@exxe...

“If it’s important to test it you damn well better get better at it otherwise what are you testing for?” 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 In this weeks My Thoughts Monday I share some thoughts on condition...

“If it’s not making you confident that they’re going to score more goals or get more yards then it’s not as specific as you think” 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...

“The general benefits of having a training partner are they keep you accountable, they make you push harder, they make you go harder, they challenge you to do more than you signed up for and that’s a good thing.” 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 he...

“What are the force producing actions and then what are the joint actions that require the most energy in the body? We talk a lot about energy expenditure but what are the ones that require the most?” 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...

“You would think that when the kids are constantly seeing performance improvements that they’re just going to go along with the program, but that’s not necessarily the case all the time.” 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.a...

“We go into this thinking that we’ve got some of the answers, only to find out maybe there are different answers. Maybe there are different questions. ” We are joined by Dana Santas today discussing her unique voyage to becoming the go to person in the world of professional sports when it comes to mobility work and teaching athletes how to breath better. We start out discussing her background, the...

“What I did wrong was how I communicated that, and it was basically taken as we can never do X and Y, so yeah, that was a screw up, and I did that wrong, and it was part of the downfall for it. I think that if we would have kept it to the monitoring heart rate for caloric expenditure to make sure that these guys didn’t wither away in season I think we’d still be doing it, and it’s something that w...

“That’s the one thing that’s the killer, if you’re athletes get injured it’s not just one step back it’s two-three steps back. A lot of times that can come from overloading athletes or putting to much emphasis on max strength. I think max strength plays a role, it plays a role in every sport, but it’s not that difficult to get, especially over the long term.” Today I have to pleasure of talking tr...

“What we don’t know is if building a bigger base is if building a bigger base is actually going to allow the pyramid to be higher, or if all we’re doing is building a bigger base and making it go from a triangle or a pyramid, to a trapezoid.” 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”...

“When I talk with people, with other strength staffs, athletic training, or nutrition, it’s planting little seeds of discussion to kind of grow upon and then we start to tie a lot of our systems in based on their approach to what the end goal is.” Today we are joined by University of Texas, Associate Director of Applied Sports Science, Matt VanDyke. After an overview of where he’s been, his writin...

“If we were looking at their ability to be trained, their trainability, their actual ability to be able to handle and adapt to stress at that present moment. Then is there the possibility that MAYBE their readiness would be at a better state when you need it to be?” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by GymAware, the leading tool to measure your athlete’s weight room performance. Learn more...

“You have to be fluid and you have to ask a lot of really good questions.”
 Today we are joined by Denver Broncos strength coach and Landow Performance Loren Landow. After a quick run down of how Loren got to the Bronco’s we get into the transition from the private sector and combine prep to working in The National Football League, what new challenges he sees and what parts are similar. Next, Lore...

“I think that having that chip on your shoulder, especially at our level, when you’re not getting McDonalds All-Americans, when you’re not getting the 4 star, 5 star guys that are automatically going to have some sort of pro career that need to work that need to develop that need to have some sort of kick in the butt at times to to get to where they need to go.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought...

“I’m a big believer in intent matters the most. We aren’t judged on our intent, we are judged on our actions, but the intention is what’s going to maintain the relationship for a long period of time. Because even if, for some reason, you’re working with somebody and it doesn’t work out, if your intention was only to help or your intention was always positive then you’ll always be able to fall back...

“We gotta remember is there’s a chance, that that person who’s owning or running or working at that business, that gym or whatever they train people out of, they have to sell that to that kid. So, we need to understand that we need to be more open to talk to those people so we know the language they were speaking with those kids before they came to us.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by...

“From the top down it’s messed up, I mean, what other profession do you need to have a masters degree and 2 years experience to start out at 12,000 a year.”
 Today we are joined by Nate Harvey of EliteFTS.com to talk about training. Nate starts out by sharing with us how he got into training at a young age, and how EliteFTS had an impact on him as an athlete, and how his voyage as a coach has led...

“You do need to stay in your lane because traffic always flows better when people aren’t going in and out of lanes, BUT you have to know what’s going on in those other lanes because if they need help in one of those lanes from you, you need to be able to change lanes and move over there to help them.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by GymAware, the leading tool to measure your athlete’s...

“It’s not like I’m a culture expert, I never set out to develop a cool culture. It just kind of organically happened. Where we have some of the best kids in the world, but we will put them in the same group as kids who are not even close to the same type of athlete as they are, and even in their school they’re not as social intertwined with all the cool stuff going on. I think there’s a unique dyn...

“When you’re trying to change behavior or something that’s habitual, like eating habits. Eating habits won’t change over night. It’s not like all of a sudden you’re going to talk to an 18-22 year old and you’re going to be like, “alright, so, now you have to get 5 to 7 servings of vegetables every day, OR ELSE, and you’re only going to eat lean protein, OR ELSE. Or else what? Those massive alterat...

This Throwback Thursday is a podcast with Danny Raimondi talking with us about his article review on Post-Activation Potentation. Danny discusses why he selected the topic, where he see's it's relevance and how we can incorporate it in the physical preparation of our athlete's. A special thanks to Danny for taking the time to do this. Enjoy. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGT...

“If we don’t read the tweets. We don’t read these 140 character things that people are putting out, and we go to the actual original works. We see there’s actual brilliance in there, and if we go with their terminology things start to make sense.”
 Today we are joined by Dr. Bryan Mann to confusion he sees with coaches today. The first thing he discusses is the idea that periodization is dead. Doc...

“Social media is good and it’s bad. I think that a lot of people look at a lot of things that are put out on social media and then they’ll see a video and they’ll say “oh well that’s all that coach whatever his name or her name is does. He or she just has them do, you know, that one minute video I saw on instagram and that’s everything, or they don’t understand how they got there or they don't und...

This Throwback Thursday is a follow up with Yosef Johnson talking about his article on precision, what it is to him and how important it truly is in the program. He also gives his insite on some of my idea's about it and gives us a sneak peak as to what's to come from Ultimate Athlete Concepts in 2012. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find sensationa...