Leave Your Mark

Send us Fan Mail This episode features world-renown researcher Stuart Phillips. Stuart is currently a full Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and School of Medicine at McMaster University. He is Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Skeletal Muscle Health. He is also the Director of the McMaster Centre for Nutrition, Exercise, and Health Research and the Physical Activity Centre of Excellence. S...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Leave Your Mark features a true ambassador of athletic therapy in Canada, Glen Bergeron.  Glen is currently a faculty member of the Gupta Faculty of Kinesiology and Applied Health at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba.   He’s been a leader in the profession of Athletic Therapy throughout his career which started when he first certified back in 1975.  Since that...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Anne Hartley who is a prominent Canadian Athletic Therapist, osteopathic manual practitioner, a retired teacher, and author.  She served for 32 years in the Bachelor of Athletic Therapy Program at Sheridan College and has lectured extensively in both Canada and the United States.  She is a female pioneer in the industry having been the first female Head thera...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of the Leave Your Mark podcast is another in our new series of Legendary Performance Conversations with some of hockey's great thought leaders; Mike Boyle, Stephen Norris, Lorne Goldenberg, Matt Nichol, Mike Potenza, Mark Fitzgerald, Matt Price, and the host, Scott Livingston talk all about performance issues in the sport of hockey. If you liked this EP, please t...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features a leader in human performance in Canada, Darren Steeves.  Darren has come to realize that his life’s purpose is to help people.  His purpose is expressed in many forms from supporting world champions, to building resilience in university students, and corporate employees finding innovative IT solutions.  He loves the evidence process and attempts to keep a gr...

Send us Fan Mail Dexter is a legendary athletic therapist.  For many years Dexter served in various roles at Mount Royal College including instructing and acting as Chair of various academic committees and departments.  He was a co-founder of the Canadian Pro-Rodeo sports medicine team on which he served for 25 years.  He was the founding president of the Alberta Athletic Therapists Association as...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features some of the best human performance practitioners on the planet (Dan Pfaff, Stu McMillan, Matt Jordan, Matt Price, Jeremy Sheppard, Duncan French, and the host, Scott Livingston) in an open conversation about mentorship, vertical vs horizontal development, performance culture, performance environments, and a myriad of topics.  An interactive and empowered conv...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features one of Canada's great Alpine Skiers Manny Osborne-Paradis. He made his Olympic debut in Turin in 2006 and since then has competed at the Olympics in Vancouver, Sochi, and Pyeongchang.  During the 2008-09 season and 2009-10 season, he won six WC medals including three gold, the most of any downhiller during that time.  An ACL Injury and broken fibula in a...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Matt Price who is currently the Lead Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Los Angeles Kings.  Before taking on this role, he had been the lead strength and conditioning coach for Alpine Canada's Men's Speed Team, as well as previously holding the same position for the women's national team.  He's been a game-changer in the world of perf...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features a legend in self-defense and fear management Tony Blauer.  Tony has been in the martial art, self-defense, defensive tactics, and combative industry for over four decades.  He founded Blauer Tactical Systems (BTS) in 1985 and it has grown into one of the world's leading consulting companies specializing in the research and development of performance psyc...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Jon Torine. As a coach and founder of Lean In Coaching, Jon believes we can transform the sports experience so that we may grow and develop virtuous leaders who are a force for good.  His coaching career in the National Football League started when the Buffalo Bills named him assistant strength and conditioning coach.  Three years later, the Indianapolis Colt...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Derek Evely, Derek consults globally for various federations on all aspects of coach and athlete development, specializing in high-performance training systems and youth development programming.  He is the owner & founder of EveltrakSport.com, a training information resource for coaches, trainers, teachers & parents.   Derek has been involved in the s...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Craig Ballantyne who is known by his clients as the "World’s Most Disciplined Man".  But he was born lazy and introverted, and also suffered crippling anxiety attacks. He then spent years inventing systems that make success automatic for anyone.  He built his Turbulence Training fitness business to over 151,000 customers and 15 million YouTube views...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Leave Your Mark features a pioneer in manual therapy Greg Roskopf. As the author of the Roskopf Principle and the founder of Muscle Activation Techniques he not only developed the MAT program but also created a curriculum for this technique that has been taught to students all across the globe.  Greg has devoted his career to the study of the “cause and effect” of...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Andreas Behm who is currently the lead sprints and hurdles coach & VP of Performance at ALTIS.  Andreas has been with ALTIS since 2013. He coached Aries Merritt to Olympic Gold and 110m World record in 2012. Last season Chinese Hurdler Xie WenJun finished 5th at the Doha IAAF World Championships.  He’s had athletes compete at 3 Olympic Games and 8 World C...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Jarod Cogswell, Jarod is the Director of Sport and Education for DEKAFIT by Spartan and the founder of WORK like an Athlete fitness business consulting services.  He is also a Todd Durkin mastermind platinum level coach, gym owner, and Alpha Warrior U.S. Army BOSS Strong Coach.  For 25 plus years he has been a fitness industry leader and a high energy perform...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features a fitness power couple, Shawn Mozen and Sara-Clare Lajeunesse.  They've traveled the world over the course of their relationship educating fitness and movement professionals about how to move better using every method possible.  Their physical literacy is unparalleled and what they get into in every course they do is simply empowering. From Kettle Bell t...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features a protagonist of evidence-based practice, Greg Lehman who is a practicing physiotherapist, researcher and educator in Toronto with more than 20 years of experience in the rehabilitation field.  Greg’s background includes a masters in Spine Biomechanics, a masters in Physiotherapy and a Chiropractic degree.  He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed publicat...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we visit with Brijesh Patel who has been the Head of Strength and Conditioning at Quinnipiac University since 2008.  His primary focus is the men’s and women’s basketball and hockey programs, but he also oversees the programming of all 21 varsity sports.   Brijesh previously held the title of Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at the College of the Holy Cro...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features an innovative human performance practitioner, Mathieu Boule. Mat's work around motor patterns with his business Institut IP is changing the way practitioners approach movement dysfunction.  An osteopath and posturoligist by profession, h e has a flourishing private practice in Montreal and in the last few years has begun sharing his knowledge here and ac...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Mike Potenza, who is currently in his 14th year as the Director of Strength and Conditioning for the San Jose Sharks hockey team.   Mike is a Managing Partner and Director of Human Performance for Tactical Fitness and Performance.  TFP is an innovative small business with a specialized focus on Human Performance for the Tactical Operator.  Prior to his NHL ca...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Meeta Singh a sleep doctor whose work and research focus on “Coaching the sleep muscle”.  She works with individual athletes and sports teams to maximize their performance through better sleep.  She also helps sports teams and athletes with their travel management with a focus on addressing sleep deprivation and jet lag, and she transcends this work with C su...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Steve Lidstone who is the Associate Director of Sports Performance at Brock University where he manages the Sports Medicine and Sports Performance Departments.  Steve is the former Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at York and McMaster Universities. He has been a Strength & Conditioning Consultant with Hockey Canada’s national women’s team since 2005...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features John O'Sullivan who is an internationally known TEDx speaker and the founder of the Changing the Game Project, which he started in 2012.  A former collegiate and professional soccer player, he has coached for close to 30 years at the youth, high school and, college level.  He has consulted with the US Olympic Committee, US Soccer, USA Football, US Lacros...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features the host of the Strength Coach Podcast, Anthony Renna.  He's been a personal trainer for the past fifteen years. He began his career working with Equinox, then on his own at different facilities before opening his own gym, Five Iron Fitness, in 2008.  He sold Five Iron in 2016 so he could focus on his true passion of providing educational resources for f...