CVASPS The Podcast

In today's edition of The Podcast we sit down and discuss training surfers, evaluating the training needs of your athletes, and declaration work with Carvajal Performance's Jorge Carvajal. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find sensational content just like this in The Strength Coach Network. As a member of The Strength Coach Networks, you can access...

In today's edition of The Podcast I sit down with Los Angeles Dodgers Head Athletic Trainer Neil Rampe. Neil shares with us some of the similarities and differences in working in college and pro ball. He then discusses monitoring, player relationships, and the power of the players union in pro sports. We finish the conversation talking about self evaluation, both of you personally and your staff,...

In today's edition of The Podcast I sit down and talk with Robbie Bourke. Robbie posted his 100th episode of his podcast All Things Health and Wellness Sunday. We discuss some of our favorite episodes, what running a podcast has done for him professional and personally, and a special project that you can check out at the link right below. Each of the episodes of Robbie's podcast mentioned are also...

In this episode of The Podcast we catch with all the latest and greatest from Minnesota's Cal Dietz. Cal discusses the how's and why's "ankle rocking" has helped improve his athlete's performance. He then shares with us the work he's been doing with muscle activation, what that's done for his athletes, and how it's helped both him as a coach and his athletes. The links Cal references are below: Tr...

Today we ask the attendees from The 2016 Seminar what was the main take away from this years event. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find sensational content just like this in The Strength Coach Network. As a member of The Strength Coach Networks, you can access over 200 hours of the highest-level lecture content just like this one for 48 hours for o...

In today's edition of the podcast Sean Conaty, Carl Valle, Amanda Kuperavege, Chris McCormick, Matt Thome, and Tony Stewart join us to discuss athlete buy in. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find sensational content just like this in The Strength Coach Network. As a member of The Strength Coach Networks, you can access over 200 hours of the highest-...

In today's edition of The Podcast Henk Kraaijenhof, Jeff Moyer, Cornell Key, Devan McConnell, and Randy Ballard sit down and discuss what the real "why" is to what they're doing. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find sensational content just like this in The Strength Coach Network. As a member of The Strength Coach Networks, you can access over 200 h...

In today's edition of The Podcast Auburn's Megan Young shares some methods she's used to help increase athlete buy in to the program. Megan touches up how working to get buy in to the training, the team, the program, and to each other work together and different "methods" that may be required based on individual differences. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK!...

In this edition of The Podcast we talk weightlifting with Columbus Weightlifting head coach and president Mark Cannella. Mark talks with us about how he got into weightlifting, discusses how different cultures around the world show up in training and lifting, shares some great coaching cues, discusses the art of being a coach, and what your "max" is in training. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD...

In this edition of The Podcast we welcome back University of Missouri's Dr. Bryan Mann. In the 40 minute talk Dr. Mann goes over some different ways that we can use excel to look at our vertical jump scores to make sure that our athlete's are continually progressing with their power outputs. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find sensational content j...

In today's edition of The Podcast I sit down and talk with University of Pittsburgh's Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach Tim Beltz on keeping training simple for your athletes. Tim discusses what he means by keeping it simple, what is his focus with his athletes, how to keep the goal the goal, his time with Buddy Morris, what he's doing right now and what is driving his programming. ENJOY T...

This edition of the podcast is my presentation from the Juanita College Strength and Conditioning Strength and Conditioning Clinic this past weekend. In it I talk about programming and where I see it going, what I see our role as as coaches, and periodization. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT THE STRENGTH COACH NETWORK! You can find sensational content just like this in The Strength Co...

In today's edition of the podcast we sit down and talk with University of Virginia's Basketball Strength and Conditioning Coach and 2016 Presenter Mike Curtis. Mike shares with us how monitoring and intuition fit together in what they are doing, and gives specifics as to how they've worked well together and been in a tug of war with each other. He then discusses how his mentors have guided and mol...

In today's edition of The Podcast I sit down with 2016 Presenter and University of Illinois Interim Director of Sports Medicine, Randy Ballard. Randy shares with us the unique set up that they have at Illinois, how they built their monitoring program, and commonalities that we see throughout their program. We then get into what to expect from him at The Seminar, and finishes asking us if we are on...

In today's episode of The Podcast I sit down and talk with Unbreakable Performance Center's Brett Bartholomew. Brett discusses how he manages, builds and prepares fighters. We talk about how different "camps" hold different weight in preparation for a with, and how he monitors athletes. He then discusses his career path and how each spot has impacted him today. Finally we talk about relationships,...

In today's edition of The Podcast we sit down with Andrew Althoff, Josh Nelson, and Jacob Miller of Baylor University's Athletic Performance Team and discuss the program at Baylor. The staff discusses what is going on at the present at Baylor leading into the summer, programming efficiently for an entire career, how they group their student athlete's by level, the effect mood has on RPE, and "The...

In today's episode of The Podcast I sit down and talk with 2016 Presenter and Arizona Cardinals Head Strength and Conditioning Coach, Buddy Morris. Coach Morris and I discuss what going to Arizona has done for him professionally, how they set up their workouts for their athletes, what his warm up consists of both physical and as a monitoring tool. We then get into how position, age, and health inf...

In today's episode of The Podcast I have the pleasure of talking with hamstring injury specialist, University of Wisconsin's Dr. Bryan Heiderscheit. In the conversation Bryan shares his educational background, the actions and loads occurring at the hamstring and how these injuries occur, what they have found to help with gait retraining, the relationships that Academia and Athletics have at The Un...

In this edition of The Podcast I get to sit and talk with The Kansas Jayhawk Research, Coaching and Performance team; Assistant AD Andrea Hudy, and Dr. Andy Fry. In discussion they share with us how their relationship was built at KU, how each person and department has helped make the other better, and some of the work they have collaborated on. Coach Hudy shares some info on how the "science" has...

In this weeks edition of The Podcast I sit down with University of Missouri's Dr. Aaron Gray and discuss ACL injury reduction. Dr. Gray shares with us his device and method for identifying risk factors for ACL injuries, where the idea came from, and where he hopes to see this project going forward. We also touch upon different aspects of return to play, and what other evaluations could be utilized...

Alejo what sport science is. This discussion is based on a post he made on Facebook that you can find on our page. Coach Alejo and I discuss the role of the strength coach, what exactly a sport scientists are to him, the role of "big data" in sport today, where the art fits in with all this science, and the role of the strength coach in the athlete centered model. ENJOY THE CONTENT? THEN YOU SHOUL...

In this edition of The Podcast I get to sit down and talk with 2016 Presenter Derek Hansen. In the 45 minute discussion we go over how track and field has influenced his career in physical preparation, how Charlie Francis impacted him professionally, his opinion of monitoring and the direction he sees it going, some misinterpretations of Charlie Francis that coaches have today, and what we are to...

Today I had the distinct pleasure to sit down and talk with East Tennessee State University’s Dr. Brad DeWeese. Dr. DeWeese share’s with us how working in Track and Field has impacted him as both a prof. and a coach, how it’s led to many relationships that have helped him build his philosophy of training, and driven his career in the direction it has gone. He shares who many of those people are, w...

In today's edition of The Podcast we sit down and talk training with Penn State Strength and Conditioning Coach Cam Davidson. Cam shares with us the source of the success to the Women's Volleyball team at PSU, and where the weight room has fit into that culture. We then change gears and talk Nittany Lion Ice Hockey, and the process of taking on a new program and establishing a culture has evolved....

Today I had the absolute pleasure to sit down with former British Olympian and current DNA Fit Director of Sport Science, Craig Pickering. After we discuss Craig’s athletic and educational resume we talk about what exactly DNA Fit is. Craig then offers his candid thoughts of how genetic profiling could affect other athletes, and how it could have effected his career as an athlete. We finish the di...