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Send us Fan Mail YM EP 408 features Ryan van Asten, a Strength and Conditioning coach and sports scientist who oversees the X-Factory Wellness Centre in Calgary. Before his current role, he was the Director of Sports Performance with the Calgary Flames for nine seasons. Prior to his time with the Flames, he was the strength and Conditioning Coach for the Los Angeles Kings, who won two Stanley Cups...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features legendary physiotherapist Robert Cornforth.  Now in his 90s, Bob started his journey in sport as a goalie in the Montreal Canadiens development system of the 1940s and 50s, playing in his later career from 52-55 with the Wembley Lions of the English Hockey League.   After his hockey career, he became the physiotherapist for the storied Montreal Canadiens of the 50...

Send us Fan Mail Max Hanna. Max has been the head Athletic Therapist and Strength and Conditioning Coach at Vanier College in Montreal since 2006.  He works with athletes from different sports including football, basketball, soccer, rugby, MMA, and hockey. He also worked with the Montreal Alouettes from 2007-2009, where he won a Grey Cup with the team in his final year.  He has also worked with ma...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features a return guest, Dr. Greg Wells.  Greg is a physiologist who 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. In this session, we dig into his newest book contribution, Powerhouse.  It's a handbook for anyone seeking to live a healthier and high...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Tim Fleiszer.  Tim was the first player in Canadian Football League history to win four Grey Cup championships with four different teams. Selected 1st overall in the 1998 CFL Draft, Tim was a team captain on three teams (Montreal, Ottawa, and Edmonton) and a CFL Players Association representative for four years. Throughout his ten-year career, Tim was passionate a...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is an interview with Sun Ah Brock, Founder & owner of LUX décor and a passionate entrepreneur on a mission to build the most influential design community in North America. She founded LUX Decor in 2003 and scaled the business with the help of three things: her ability to bring together talented creative individuals, a strong work ethic, and a constant drive to suc...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features legendary Athletic Trainer Kenny Lowe.  Kenny is semi-retired now, but the former Head Therapist with the Edmonton Oilers of the NHL from 1989-2010 and the Edmonton Eskimos of the CFL from 1982-1989. Kenny started his career as the Head Therapist at Concordia University before taking a job with the Eskimos (now Elks) and was a member of multiple Grey Cup-winning t...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Vinny Malts for a second time. In this second interview, we get into Vinny's journey from mindset education, to mentoring youth development athletes, a realization that academic underpinnings hold value, and the re-iterative process of Mastering his approach to mental preparation. Vinny is a former professional hockey player and coach who brings decades of ex...

Send us Fan Mail On April 3rd, 2018, my journey began with podcasting. The first was simply me telling the listener what LYM would be, the second was my first guest Erik Guay.   I had trained Erik for the last six years of his career, and I thought sitting down with him and understanding his life and career as they were coming close to a conclusion would be a great way to start this show. I had no...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Anthony Findlay. Anthony has owned Level 10 Fitness in North Vancouver since 1997. The company grew from 1 employee to 20, and now it supports 50 practitioners, including physios, osteopaths, counselors, and independent strength and conditioning coaches. Anthony has been working with Canada Snowboard for what is now his 5th Olympic cycle. He has further worked wit...

Send us Fan Mail LYM EP 398 out tomorrow, features fellow podcaster Eric Malzone.  Eric is a Northern California native with a lifelong passion for fitness and athletics. After ten years in corporate America, he started his first fitness business in 2008, CrossFit Pacific Coast followed by Lighthouse Fitness in 2015. In 2017, Eric successfully sold his gyms going nomadic for years, finally landing...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Sean Donellan.  Sean has been in the fitness, performance, and rehabilitation field for over 35 years. He was the NHL’s first Director of Sports Performance, for the New York Islanders. Where using a medical model he assembled and oversaw all aspects of the sports performance department from 2011-2024. This period was his second stint with the team as he served as...

Send us Fan Mail Ewell Gordon is an experienced leader and lifetime steward of the strength and conditioning profession who has maintained a performance focus on proper movement, energy systems, and management. He is my guest in EP 396. A thought leader and professional who uses an individual-centered, holistic approach to performance improvement/enhancement, injury prevention, and overall prepara...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Kyle Bolton. Kyle is currently the Director of Speed and Performance for University of Oregon Football. His primary role within the program is to direct and facilitate all aspects of speed development, conditioning, athletic development, and load management.  Previously Kyle was with the TCU Horned Frogs’ staff as an Associate Director of Football Human Perfo...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Kevin Neeld. Kevin is the Head Performance Coach for the Boston Bruins.  Before working for the Bruins, Kevin spent 2 years as an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach for the San Jose Sharks.  Before his NHL journey began, Kevin was the director of a private sports performance facility in New Jersey working with pro, college, junior, and elite-level yout...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Luke DeCoste. Luke has been involved in buying, building, and selling several ventures throughout his career, he is an alumnus of Techstars and Creative Destruction Lab. He helps students start companies by teaching courses on Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Dalhousie University. He co-founded MindFrameconnect.com to develop the resilience of founders and...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Troy Taylor. Troy is an internationally renowned human performance leader, with extensive experience developing and leading world-class, multi-disciplinary teams and working collaboratively to connect high-level strategic insights to operational execution.   Troy is currently the Senior Director, Performance Innovation at Tonal. Troy leads a department establ...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Julia Casadio a sports physiologist, applied researcher, and performance consultant with 15+ years’ of experience working in elite sports. Originally from Canada, where she grew up cross-country ski racing at a competitive level, she is now based in New Zealand with her husband and two children.  She has worked with High Performance Sport New Zealand for over a de...

Send us Fan Mail This Episode features Kevin Kirsch. Kevin is an educator, sports performance coach, physical therapist, and the co-owner of The Athlete’s Edge Rehab and Performance. An athlete all his life, Kevin played multiple sports growing up and ultimately was able to play collegiate soccer at the Division 1 Level for Saint Joseph’s University. After college, he obtained his Doctorate of Phy...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features a human performance pioneer, Vietta "Sue" Wilson. Sue is a world-renowned performance enhancement specialist considered the “grandmother” of biofeedback for sports performance.    She is a professor emeritus from York University where she dedicated much of her career to studying the connection between stress and its effect on physical health and men...

Send us Fan Mail This week's guest, Michol Dalcourt, is an internationally recognized leader in the health and human performance industry. He is the Founder and CEO of the Institute of Motion, the inventor of ViPR and ViPR PRO, and Co-Founder of PTA Global (acquired by The National Academy of Sports Medicine).  He's served as Adjunct Faculty at the University of San Francisco in the Depa...

Send us Fan Mail In this EP I decided to talk alone about an important subject to me, mentorship. Informal and formal mentorship can shape the experiences of your life.  If it's done well, it challenges you to self-reflect and grow.   A good mentor will not only give you advice but will challenge you to understand why you want to do what you want to do in the first place.  Making decisions is...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Andrew Hauser. Andrew is the owner of Continuum High Performance in Phoenix, AZ, specializing in integrated rehab, as well as strength & conditioning for college and professional athletes of all sports.  Andrew has worked in a variety of roles in his 14 years of experience as an athletic trainer and strength coach in professional baseball, with his most recent...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Brandee Waite.  Brandee is a physician and a Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at UC Davis School of Medicine. She holds additional sub-specialty certifications in both Sports Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine.  She serves as the PM&R section chief for Sports Medicine, medical director for UC Davis Health Sports Medicine Clini...

Send us Fan Mail EP 384 features Patrick Boivin. Pat is a career executive and leader in amateur and professional sports, driven by foundational change opportunities and fostering visions that can disrupt how things are done.   Pat has a soft spot for human performance, health, and wellness startups that will generate societal shifts. He has a strong track record in organizational pivots and evolu...