Leave Your Mark

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...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Brian Rose the Founder & Host of London Real, the new media and transformation company best known for its weekly live video talk shows with the greatest minds on the planet that have been watched over 250 million times.   Originally from California, Brian holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. After a relatively successful career on Wall Stree...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Martin Rooney who is the founder of Training for Warriors.  An internationally recognized trainer, speaker, author and pioneer of strength and conditioning.   Martin was a four-time All-Conference, and four-time MVP performer in Track and Field and a member of the United States Bobsled team. Following his exposure to MMA in the mid-90s, Martin began training...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Chris Doyle who has been the lead strength and conditioning coach for the Iowa Hawkeye’s Football program for the past 20 years. Doyle has helped the Hawkeye program participate in 15 bowl games since 2001, including 10 January bowl games.   He also served as director of strength and conditioning for the University of Utah in 1998. Under Doyle’s direction, th...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Duncan French who is currently the Vice President of Performance at the UFC Performance Institute in Las Vegas where he is responsible for maximizing the impact of performance services on UFC rostered athletes.  Prior to joining the UFC, Duncan was the Director of Performance Sciences for the University of Notre Dame Athletics Department.   UK born and raised...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Mike Gough who is Canadian born and raised, exported to the USA where he built a successful performance coaching practice and facility from the ground up.   He found an early niche in football pre-combine training that he has converted into a complete performance practice that serves NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB athletes as well as many executive athletes.  He&apos...

Send us Fan Mail Episode #66 features Mark Verstegen. Mark has devoted his life to human performance. Working with world-class athletes, the U.S. military, and leading corporations, while reaching countless others through his multimedia EXOS platform, he has shown millions how to upgrade their lives through his integrated system of Mindset, Nutrition, Movement, and Recovery.   Since launching his...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Greg Wells who is a physiologist and has served as an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Toronto and is an exercise medicine researcher at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.   He is the CEO and founder of The Wells Group, a global consulting firm committed to achieving the moonshot of helping teams, schools and businesses become p...

Send us Fan Mail This weeks episode features Ray Zahab who is a Canadian Adventurer, ultra-distance runner,  and Founder of the non-profit impossible2Possible.   A recent recipient of the Meritorious Service Cross of Canada, Ray is an Explorer in Residence of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society, and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In 2015 Canadian Geographic recognized Ray as one of Ca...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Jesse Lumsden who after a standout college football career at McMaster University where he won the Hec Crighton Trophy as the most outstanding CIS football player went on to play four years for the CFL’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats where he was nominated for Rookie of the Year in 2006 and an East All-star team member in 2007.   In 2009 he signed as a free agent with...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Canadian S+C Legend Lorne Goldenberg. Lorne is a strength and conditioning coach and the owner of Strength Tek Fitness & Wellness Consultants in Ottawa. For 18 years he also owned Ottawa’s first athlete training facility The Athletic Conditioning Center.   He has worked for over 30 years for professional and prospective players in the NHL, OHL, NFL CFL, a...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Alex Bilodeau who is currently a CA working for KPMG in Montreal.  Before starting his career in the financial world, Alex was a mogul skier and was Canada’s first Gold Medalist on home soil at the Vancouver Olympic games, and repeated his achievement becoming a double gold medalist at the Sochi games.   He had an exceptionally successful athletic career and...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Damien Moroney who is a physical therapist and certified strength and conditioning specialist with more than two decades of experience working with professional athletes from the NHL, NWSL, NBA, PGA tour, Cirque Du Soleil and the X Games.   Damien is a member of the Senior Leadership Team at Fortius Sport and Health and holds concurrent professional roles wit...