CVASPS The Podcast

Today we sit down and discuss building a your staff and weight room culture with George Washington University Director of Strength and Conditioning Matt Johnson. Matt starts out discussing the process of building his staff and developing them, and how they impact him as a coach as well. We then touch upon how that selection and developmental process lead into the culture of your weight rooms and h...

In today’s edition of The Podcast, Marco Cardinale sits down and discusses his role at Aspire. He starts out by sharing with us what he’s be up to down in Qatar, and how the program has been built. We then get into his actual role, where it fits, what they’re doing, how they’re progressing, and how they’re identifying athletes. We then discusses how his role fits into how they’ve built the program...

Today we get the pleasure of talking training and transfer with ALTIS’ Dan Pfaff. Dan starts out discussing what they’re looking at when it comes to developing training programs for their athletes. We then get into KPI’s, what they are, how they’re set up, and how they organize the different “files” they have. He then shares with us how they evaluate their athlete’s and how they establish what’s i...

I sit down with Easter Michigan University Assistant Sports Performance Coach Sean Conaty to talk training in this week’s edition of The Podcast. Sean starts out sharing with us the last 12 months of his life that included moving from VA to MI, starting at a new school and immediately going on a foreign trip, to a year straight of training with out even having an off season to establish both who h...

In today’s edition of The Podcast University of Florida’s Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning Matt DeLancey joins us to discuss training and culture join us. Matt starts out by discussing what’s truly important to developing the culture not just within the individual team but with the athlete and the staff as a whole. He then shares how he assesses his athlete’s, and how that leads int...

In today’s edition of The Podcast we are discussing training and human optimization with ONNIT Academy’s Cristian Plascencia and Shane Heins. We start out with discussing the origin and development of the academy and how it can help coaches assist in the development of their athletes. We then get into the ideas of durability and longevity and how that emphasis in what they do drives all the course...

In today’s edition of The Podcast we discuss training for transfer with Chris Korfist. Chris shares with us his methods, what he see’s to have carry over to speed, where the idea’s came from, where you can find more info (http://slowguyspeedschool.com/), and then we finish talking a git about RPR (https://www.reflexiveperformance.com/). We also discuss the clinic he runs in Illinois for highschool...

This was a Facebook live talk from NSCA National in Las Vegas with Buddy Morris, Brett Bartholomew, Cal Dietz, Anthony Piroli, Keenan Robinson, and Dr. Bryan Mann just sharing and talking with each other on all things training. Sit back and enjoy the stories and the great information that comes with them. This is one of my personal favorites. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENG...

In today’s edition of The Podcast, Carl Valle of SimplyFaster.com stops by to discuss measuring performance. He starts out sharing his thoughts on where we can start looking to help figure out ways to start measuring performance, it’s limitations, and where he can see things possibly be better. We then get into how simplyfaster.com can help coaches with measuring performance in their athletes. He...

Today the lead strength and conditioning coach at the Irish Institute of Sport, Dr. Eamonnn Flanagan joins us to discuss a different way to look at sprinting scores with athletes. We start out where the idea came from and how it can change how you look at how your athlete’s sprint times impact training and even evaluate the tests you use with your athletes. We next discuss how using Z-scores in di...

Today we are discussing force plates and ForceDecks with Daniel Martinez in this episode of The Podcast. Starting out Daniel shares the direction that looking at force plates can help drive decisions for training based on his own and others research. We then discuss his recommendations for where coaches can start to look at force plate data, how it can help guide coaches, and how they have set up...

Today Chris Chase, The Strength and Conditioning Development Coordinator for Memphis Grizzlies, joins us to discuss the physical development process for young players in the NBA. We start out talking about his new position in Memphis, and how the increased schedule is a unique challenge. He then touches upon how the staff they have assembled work together to build these athletes and why each membe...

Today we are joined by Anatomy at 1220’s Marc Megna discussing the steps taken from being an less than average athlete, to the NFL, to owning the best gym in Miami. We start out talking about what drove him to training and what he fell in love when it came to training. He then shares with us what drove him to sports and how different people that think they only affected him athletically have drive...

In today’s edition of the podcast Wisconsin Strength Coach Erik Helland sits down and discusses training and how it has evolved through his career. We start talking about his time in Chicago and how working with Coach Vermeil has shaped him as a coach. We then talk about the role of player prep vs player monitoring and how they may be working against each other instead of in conjunction with each...

2017 presenter and CoachMePlus’ Sports Performance Specialist and Founding Coach Doug McKenney sits down with us to discuss the evolution of the profession in this weeks edition of The Podcast. We start out talking about the cultural change that were needed to occur in the NHL early in his career. We then look at how he has seen the evolution of educating players and coaches on the importance of s...

In this weeks edition of The Podcast Quinnipiac Head strength coach Brijesh Patel joins us to discuss RPR. We start out talking about what RPR is, how he learned about RPR, and where he learned about the techniques. He then shares examples of where RPR has changed his views on training, both in training in general and what he programs for his student athletes, and how it ties into Myers’ Anatomy T...

In this edition of The Podcast I get to talk developing basketball players with The Freak Faktory’s Hunter Charneski. We start out talking about how he got into training basketball players, and then dive into broad spectrum of athlete’s he gets to work with. He then shares his idea of “Maximize The Mundane”. Next, he gives some great examples of what he’s doing in his initial training periods, and...

In today’s edition of The Podcast InsideTracker’s Townsend Bernard sits down and discusses the role of blood monitoring in sport and shares with us how he got to Boston and working with InsideTracker. We then start discussing what InsideTracker is actually looking at with their tests and where the recommendations they provide come from and what they’re hoping to do with them. He then touches on ho...

Today’s editions of The Podcast we sit down and discuss Human Optimization with ONNIT’s John Wolf and CJ McFarland. We start out talking about what in ONNIT is as a company and a brand, and where do they see them selves fitting in the performance world. Next we touch upon what exactly Human Optimization is, where the idea came from, and what it means to each of them, and especially in the strength...

In today’s edition of the Podcast we discuss Mircrostretching with Dr. Nikos Apostolopouls. We start out the talking learning who is Nikos, what is Microstretching, and where did this idea come from. He then touches upon what separates Microstretching from other methods utilized in flexibility training. Next he shares the research he has done on stretching, what he looked at, and the results that...

Today we are joined by assistant professor of strength and conditioning and the coordinator for athletic performance services at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Dr. Jay Dawes. In the talk we start with a brief run down of his career to date and get into the Masters program and how it’s set up. We then talk about how his work in the “tactical” realm has impacted how he looks at the...

In this episode of The Podcast I discuss the state of the field of strength and conditioning today with Mark Watts. Mark starts out sharing with us with how he’s gotten to where he is and how it’s impacted what he see’s in the coaching field. He then gets into what he see’s as some of the issues and misconceptions in and of the field. He finishes off sharing some things that he had the best succes...

In today's edition of The Podcast, DePaul's Nic Higgins shares with us how force plates are fitting into their plan he see’s them as a bridge between all aspects of developing athletes. Nic touches upon how they are able to implement the force plates into the development plan for all of his athletes, both in performance enhancement and return to play from injury. He then breaks down the process of...

In today’s episode of The Podcast Boo Schexnayder (http://www.sacspeed.com/wp/) joins us to discuss ACL rehab. We start out discussing how he got started in ACL Rehab, and how the basic principles of speed training fit in the rehab setting. He then discusses high speed of movement and eccentric training, shares with us his progression in rehab, and where he see's things can change. Next, he gives...

Today’s guest on The Podcast is the Performance Director for Michigan Football Fergus Connolly. Fergus starts out discussing his computer science background and how that impacted him and his approach and views of strength and conditioning. He then discusses the pitfalls he sees with coaches diving into the use of technology, and what people should be looking at prior to adding monitoring methods t...