CVASPS The Podcast

I couldn’t be more excited to have had the opportunity to sit down and catch up with 2023 presenter Coach Boo Schexnayder on this week’s episode of The Podcast. After a quick catch-up with Coach Boo we get into:   1)     The role of science and practical common sense thinking in coaching, and how what is “scientific” vs common sense has come full circle. 2)     What the role of research is in his...

I am so fired up to welcome Molly Binetti back to The Podcast and introduce her as our 2nd presenter at The 2023 edition of The Seminar. In the 35-minute discussion we talk about:   1)     The challenges of the season after winning a championship and how that’s impacted our approaches to not just training, but how we handle our athletes 2)      The importance of making sure you’re progressing the...

The Podcast returns with a sensational conversation with PLAE’s Chase Campbell. Chase and I discuss: 1)     The decision to move The Seminar to PLAE HQ 2)     What Greybeard’s presentation will be on at CVASPS and different lenses to look at reverse engineering through 3)     The role of simplicity in programming and how our view on it has changed as we have gotten older 4)     The most valuable a...

“We all live in the same physical world and environment, it’s just the demands of your sport may have some degrees of variant within that.”   One of the things I try to do is bring the people doing the research to The Seminar, and after writing the book on biomechanics of basketball, Dr. Petway is the go to in that discipline. During the 42-minute talk we cover:   1)     His voyage into sports per...

“There are some general principles about how we train and how we could train based on humans first based on how we respond to training.”   This episode of The Podcast is a super discussion with Jonas Dodoo. During the 41-minute talk we cover:   1)     Principles and systems, the power behind them and why their vital for coaches 2)     Different ways that the general impacts the specific in trainin...

“Being able to have something that you stand for, and being able to consistently deliver that message in a way that’s authentic and gets to the core root of the issue and to your audience, that IS coaching.”   Always awesome to catch up with Ali Kershner, and this week’s episode of The Podcast is no different! Throughout the 40-minute chat we talk about:   1)     Ali’s new role and what inspired h...

“It’s much more challenging to find solutions to problems then it is to complain.”   Always great to catch up with Coach Brijesh Patel, and this episode of The Podcast is no different. Throughout the 35-minute chat we talk about:   1)     How a deep dive into fascia has had a massive impact on his programming 2)     Eldoa, what it is and why it’s important 3)     How isokinetic training can improv...

“You do what they can do, build in what they can do, circumvent the weaknesses and try to get them to that.”   “There’s nothing really new, science has helped us understand the effects of things better, great coaches have made us understand it from their experiences. We’ve all learned from our fairs, unfortunately I’ve made the same mistakes a couple times, which makes me upset.”   “The great ones...

“I tell young coaches and young trainers all the time, just because you have the title of strength coach at this school or the title of trainer at this school that really doesn’t mean anything, it means absolutely nothing other than the paycheck.”    “Ultimately, if the kids come to you and the athletes come to you and you help them and you come up with answers for them they’re going to keep comin...

“If you have the outputs you can have compensations and breakdowns in your technique. If you don’t have the output and you don’t have the ability to be a freak athlete then you better move really, really well and create impulse at the right time.”    In this week’s episode of The Podcast I got to catch up with Zach Dechant. Throughout the 35-minute chat we talk about:   1)     Zach’s new role at T...

“What am I going to do for this kid? Because he doesn’t even know what makes him good. Genuinely, we can say we do, we have no idea what makes these people good.”    In today’s episode of The Podcast I sit down and chat with Freak Strength’s Mike Guadango. During the 32-minute chat we talk about:   1)     The crazy world of being a “sport specialist” and the ebbs and flows of it that he’s lived th...

“You always figure things out when it’s too late. This is the problem of human nature. You figure out you’re on the wrong track when your athletes are not performing well, but that mistake has been made three months before when you didn’t see it, when you though “hey this is going great, I’m such a good coach.” Then they fail miserably, and then that mistake has been made before so always try to p...

“As cool as our job is and as much as we all love training, and making them better and watching them do their thing.  At the end of it, what are we actually leaving them with and what are we helping them do?” We are joined this week by South Carolina Women’s Basketball Sport Performance Coach and my Free-VASPS co-host, Molly Benetti for this episode of The Podcast. Throughout the 40-minute discuss...

“None of this strength and conditioning shit matters if we can’t get our athletes to understand what we’re asking them to do, or if they don’t understand how it applies. If they don’t get it, it doesn’t matter.”   Welcome back to The Podcast. If I was going to bring this thing back it had to be Jeff Moyer batting leadoff. In this 40-minute talk, Jeff and I talk about:   1)     The new and unique r...

“You have to talk them through the way you want to do things, and why you want to do it, and how it’s applicable to the sport they’re actually playing.” What’s up everybody and welcome the 95th 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 spo...

“It’s a time now that we’ve gotten into the off season how important movement quality is, tissue quality is, and how we can try and regain that with not having this full off season.” 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...

“There’s certain things worth not chasing because more time can be spent establishing culture or other things, like improving confidence in other ways, that make a bigger impact in the team setting.” What’s up everybody and welcome the 94th 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 min...

“The thing that prepares you best is probably that thing itself or a version of it.” 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...

“Us as performance professionals, strength and conditioning coaches, we need to take our ego out of it and be an ally and resource for our athletes and allow them to be the driver a bit.” What’s up everybody and welcome the 93rd 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 to...

“How do we take this mundane stuff and do it better, and then once we’ve done it better how do we do it better again?” 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...

“It’s not going to be what changes how you do things, what it is it’s going to change your perceptive and start to get you to look at things a little differently and want to dive down different rabbit holes.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Vald Performance. Vald’s constant drive to help coaches find better information to drive more educated directions is second to none. Check out thi...

“You build character when you go through things.” What’s up everybody and welcome the 92nd 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 to...

“Everybody is going to have a different model, but I think there are certain rules that all of us are going to follow, and break.” 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...

“These are some shows that I really enjoy that have helped me dig better, ask better questions, and look into things I haven’t looked into before.” This My Thoughts Monday is brought to you by Vald Performance. Vald’s constant drive to help coaches find better information to drive more educated directions is second to none. Check out this weeks Metric Minute and make sure to go check out all their...

“You can’t let other people dictate your own value.” What’s up everybody and welcome the 91st 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...