Leave Your Mark

Send us Fan Mail Episode #96 of Leave Your Mark features one of Canada's legendary strength and conditioning coaches Rich Hesketh.  Rich served as the lead of S+C for 19 seasons with the Calgary Flames of the national hockey league until 2014.  Before his career as a performance coach, He was a Canadian National Track & Field team member for nine years and ranked in the top 3 Canadian dec...

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode released on Remembrance Day 2020, I speak with Corporal Franck Dupéré.  It was April 2011. Frank was on patrol with an American unit. They were distributing textbooks to Afghan school kids. They were 300-meters from their base. The bomber was two meters away from him when the world shook. “I never saw the guy the bazaar was full of people and the blast thre...

Send us Fan Mail Mark is the owner and founder of Elite Training Systems Performance Centre based out of Toronto and southern Ontario.  He is part of a fraternity of Canadian Strength and Conditioning Coaches who have changed the foundation of physical performance in the National Hockey League.  He served for four seasons as the head of performance with the Anaheim Ducks, and he is a Lead Training...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Ben Dubin who has been a career strength and conditioning coach and is also a Firefighter and paramedic serving in the Tempe, Arizona area.  I recently encountered Ben at the EXOS Continuous Improvement Summit that I was invited to speak at in Phoenix.  Ben has been Certified as an instructor of the Wim Hof Method, and he brought this method of practice to th...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of the Leave Your Mark podcast features a fellow podcaster and serial entrepreneur, Robert Brus.   Robert's career life began in the Australian Military, specifically the Navy. He went on to become a paratrooper and served for a number of years until he felt the need to express his business acumen.   He built a thriving business in digital marketing with his brot...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features former heptathlete, Jessica Zelinka.  Jessica is one of Canada’s most successful heptathletes. Her personal best score in the Heptathlon is 6599.  She was a gold medalist in the 2007 Pan American Games, and she won Silver medals at the 2010 and 2014 Commonwealth Games.  Jessica qualified for her first Olympic games in 2008 where she placed 4th overall. She be...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features an unassuming leader of the human performance industry, Chris Poirier.  Chris has been in the world of human performance for close to 30 years in his role with Perform Better.  The Perform Better Seminars have supported the growth and knowledge base of the human performance industry and launched many of the educational careers of its presenters.   Chris was b...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features a fitness icon, David Snively. He has been a leader in the fitness industry for over 35 years. David is one of the premier fitness experts in the world. He has been speaking and teaching throughout his career and has traveled to numerous countries and provided education at countless fitness conferences and conventions worldwide.   David currently owns and ope...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features former professional hockey player turned entrepreneur, Doug Lynch.  After being drafted 7th overall by the WHL Red Deer Rebels in 1999, Doug left home to pursue his dream of playing in the NHL.  After winning the Memorial Cup in 2001 Doug was drafted by the Edmonton Oilers in the 2nd round of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft. He turned pro and embarked on an 11-year...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Jorge Carvajal.  Jorge is a performance coach and consultant who works with elite athletes in sport and the tactical world.   He has trained thousands of athletes, at the University of Florida, the University of Nebraska, the U.S. Olympic training center.  He has trained over 200 professional athletes who play in the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, World Surf League Big...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Ann Shivas.  Ann is a talented osteopath practicing in Montreal and currently into the practice of epigenetics and functional medicine.  Ann was a competitive athlete and played professional women’s soccer in Australia. As a redshirt athlete with team Canada she broke her tibia and partially tore her ACL.  She consequently suffered a full ACL tear.  Her road...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features the Founder and Director of LA Sports and Spine, Craig Liebenson.   A chiropractor by profession, he first began studying Lewit & Janda’s work in 1983. Invited them to offer their courses in LA back in 1987. After the Berlin Wall fell in 1990 he went to Prague.  Dr. Lewit further introduced Craig and his group to Pavel Kolar in the mid-1990s so they could...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Teena Murray who is the Vice-President of Health & Performance with the NBA’s Sacramento Kings.  Prior to joining the Kings, Teena spent 14 years as Director of Performance at the University of Louisville where she and her team built a premier program in collegiate athletics. During her time at Louisville Teena was also an adjunct lecturer in the College...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Eric Cressey the president and co-founder of Cressey Sports Performance.  Eric has worked with clients from youth sports to the professional and Olympic ranks but is best known for his extensive work with baseball players; more than 100 professional players train with him each off-season.  Eric has authored numerous journal articles, published six books, and...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Kirsten Barnes who has been working as a mental performance consultant for 20+ years.  She has worked with Canadian national teams of Rowing, Swimming, Cycling and Women’s rugby 7s, as well as individual summer and winter athletes.  Kirsten competed for Canada in rowing in the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games. She is a double Olympic Gold Medalist from the 1992 Ga...

Send us Fan Mail Episode #81 of the Leave Your Mark podcast is out tomorrow on iTunes, Stitcher and Google Play and features a performance innovator out of Virginia, Vernon Griffith. He is the co-owner of Virginia High Performance.   He oversees high-performance programming and the multi-faceted holistic approach of the “Continue Mission Program” for active duty and military veterans.  Being an ad...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Tim Gabbett who has over twenty years of experience working as an applied sport scientist in Australia with athletes and coaches from a wide range of sports.   He holds a Ph. D. in  Human Physiology and has completed a second Ph. D. in the  Applied Science of Professional Football , with special reference to physical demands, injury prevention, and skill acqu...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features a Canadian pioneer in sports psychology, Penny Werthner. Penny is one of Canada’s most distinguished consultants in the field of sport psychology. She has worked with many Olympic level athletes, coaches and teams over a span of 13 summers and winter Olympic Games, from the 1988 winter Olympics in Calgary to the more recent 2016 summer Games in Rio and the 20...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features journalist David Epstein who is also the author of two top 10 New York Times bestsellers:  Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World ,  and  The Sports Gene .  He was previously a science and investigative reporter at  ProPublica , and prior to that a senior writer at  Sports Illustrated , where he co-authored the story that revealed Yankee's...

Send us Fan Mail This weeks episode features the founder of @myTPI, Greg is a Doctor of Chiropractic and holds an engineering degree from the University of Maryland.  Greg specializes in assessing and treating athletes, 3-dimensional biomechanics, strength and conditioning, manual therapy, rehabilitation, and therapeutic exercises.  Combining an engineering background with an expertise on the huma...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Greg MacLuckie who was a professional chiropractor.   Until 2012 Greg he had a very active practice and worked with many different people, including some professional athletes.  He played many sports, from rugby to squash, and is now an avid cyclist and skier, racing in both sports.   He taught numerous wellness courses in a variety of settings, was featured...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features spine care legend, Stuart McGill.  Stu is retired but for many years served as a Professor of Spine Biomechanics at the University of Waterloo, and is Chief Scientific Officer of Backfitpro.   As a professor for 30 years he explored low back mechanics and has been the author of hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific journal papers that address the issues of lum...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Vinny Malts who is the founder of Bloodline Hockey and a leader at the forefront of incorporating mindset development and sports performance training.   His coaching is helping some of the most elite players in the world maintain a positive thought process, focused on enhancing their role and learning how to spend their valuable time wisely.  Vince has coache...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features John Berardi a Canadian-American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Precision Nutrition, the world’s largest nutrition coaching, education, and software company.   Professionally he is an Exercise Physiologist and Nutritional Biochemist as well as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist.   He’s also the founder of Change Maker Academy, devo...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Ben Sporer who is an exercise physiologist with over 20 years of experience working in high-performance sport in Canada.  He spent over a decade with the Canadian Sport Institute holding a number of roles including senior physiologist and head of performance and research. He is an accomplished physiologist and leader of multidisciplinary integrated support te...