Move the Needle: The Human Performance Podcast

Katie St Clair - Owner/Founder of Empowered Performance Course and Academy - joins us for the 86th episode of MTN. Katie has a long history of coaching, reducing pain, and re-programming movement patterns for the clients and athletes she works with. On today's show, we dig into the simplified process Katie has been able to refine into assessment, we talk about how structure can create compensation...

Ed Thompson - Director of Speed & Athletic Performance at the University of Washington (FB) - joins us for the 85th episode of MTN. On today's episode of the podcast, Ed breaks down the speed training at Washington, aligning the weight room with the field, and the many degrees of implementation utilizing their seven 1080s Make sure to follow Ed on IG @edthompsonjr and on X @CoachEdT2 Find and...

Ola Eriksrud - Head of Sports Science for 1080 Motion - joins us for the 84th episode of MTN. Ola has an incredible background in performance. As a professor, PT, and consultant for over two decades, Ola brings a wealth of knowledge to every environment. Today, we specifically dive into deceleration and - specifically - how directionality changes inputs and outputs. Make sure to look Ola up on Res...

Joe Murray - Strength and Conditioning Coach at the University of Washington - joins us for the 83rd episode of MTN. On this episode of the podcast, we dive into a number of different avenues behind rotational training, rationalizing the importance of training within skill-dependent sports, and we get into conversation around understanding 'workload' within a unique sport like baseball. Follow Joe...

Terrence Kennell - Director of Applied Science and Speed Development for USF Football - joins us for the 82nd episode of MTN. This episode was a wide ranging conversation around the integration of sport science and practice planning, speed development within college football, the implications of the cognitive component of athletics, and much much more. Find and follow Terrence on IG @tkennellphysp...

Chris Martin - Head Baseball S&C at LSU - joins us for the 81st episode of MTN. On this episode, Chris takes us through a handful of KPIs for both pitchers and position players then we dive into a deep conversation around Tommy John Surgery and Rehabilitation. This was a super interesting conversation centered around a topic that was truly an inch wide and a mile deep. Make sure to follow Chri...

Cameron Ringstead - Head Sports Performance Coach at Elon University - joins us for the 80th episode of MTN. On today's show we dive into Cameron's journey through the ranks of Elon all the way to Head Performance Coach, the different in-season training options for a basketball team, and he educates us on the last few years of research he has been doing to get his doctorate done. Find Cameron on I...

Matt Watson - Founder/CEO of Plus Plyos - joins us for the 79th episode of MTN. On this episode, Matt breaks down his Tier System of Plyometric Training & Categorization, digs into the power of hopping, helps us to understand differences in limbs within plyo training, and much more. Matt is one of the world leaders in plyo performance and it was phenomenal to get him on to pick his brain. Make...

Jesse Green - Director, Performance & Sport Science for the Pittsburgh Penguins - joins us for the 78th episode of MTN. On today's episode of the podcast we dive into a conversation centered around the countermovement jump and force plate usage. This was a niche conversation where we got to go an inch wide and a mile deep. Probably the most enjoyable version of any conversation we are able to...

Andre Carrera - Director of Basketball Performance at USC - joins us for the 77th episode of MTN. Andre joins USC in his first season with the Trojans after three seasons in the Golden State Warriors Organization. On this episode, we compare and contrast college hoops performance to the NBA, a few of the lessons learned that Andre is applying to USC, and we dive into some of the ways that Andre vi...

Stu McMillan - CEO of Altis - joins us for the 76th episode of MTN. As both a coach to athletes and other coaches, Stu has made a career combining his wealth of experiences and an incredible ability to communicate to rise with the ebbs and flows of performance. On today's episode, we dive into Altis as an educational platform and Stu's thoughts behind communication to the community, speed developm...

Rony Sieperda - Head S&C Coach for the Sioux Falls Skyforce (Miami Heat) - joins us for the 75th episode of MTN. On this episode, we recap Rony's first season in the G and the things he's bringing with him to season two, the need for efficiency when working with major constraints, and a conversation around the battle of developing prospects and winning games today. Find Rony on IG @ ronyjoseph...

Today, Hunter and Mike sit down for the 74th episode of MTN. Every once in a while, Hunter and Mike like to sit down without a guest and talk about things that are going on with them and ideas that they've had floating around. On today's episode, they really spend some time diving into the challenge of dosing stress appropriately during season, mitigating travel, and surfing the "Tactical/Fatigue...

Paul Robbins - Sport Performance Specialist at Biocore - joins us for the 73rd episode MTN. Paul has spent the last 15 seasons overseeing in-game data for the NBA while bringing similar expertise to the NFL, NHL, German Sports Leagues, and USTA. Previously, Paul was the Executive VP of Sport Performance at Kinexon, the Director of of Performance for STATS , and spent 11 years with EXOS as their me...

Lauren Green - Hawkin Dynamics - joins us for the 72nd episode of MTN. Lauren has extensive experience of sport science and coaching with time with the LA Dodgers, Brooklyn Nets, UC San Diego, and LSU Men's Basketball. This episode was a great blend of research, data, and practical coaching within the team and individual setting. Find Lauren on social media @greenhouse_ps Follow MTN on social medi...

Ben Hollander - Sports Performance Coach at the University of Arizona - joins us for the 71st episode of MTN. On today's podcast we discuss a handful of topics that Ben has been diving into of late. We talk weight room training for track and field athletes, neurology implementation within team training, coiling core, and much more. This was an interesting conversation into some ideas that we have...

Scott Leech - Associate Director of S&C at the University of Rhode Island - joins us for the 70th episode of MTN. On today's episode, we dive into two main categories: Contact Prep and Small-Sided Games. Within this conversation, Scott covers both topics in detail and provides actionable takeaways & examples for any coach. Make sure you check out Scott's Contact Prep Course available at th...

Matt Tometz - joins us for the 69th episode of MTN. On today's show we dive into conversation around creating individualized programs within speed work, when it would be necessary to do so, and we look into the in-season microdose model that Matt has utilized in the past. We finish with a little reflection on social media within the field and Matt gives us his two cents as someone who has found su...

Dr Adam Petway - Adjunct Professor at Mississippi St University - joins us for the the 68th episode of MTN. Adam has an incredible background in high-performance sport and we were incredibly lucky to get him on today to chat about deceleration and change of direction. He's recently been diving deep into basketball deceleration (traveling all around the country visiting different programs) and we g...

Trevor Abshire - Sport Science Analyst for the Cleveland Guardians - joins us for the 67th episode of MTN. On today's episode of the podcast, we break down some of the data coming out of the world of baseball performance and try to tease out what is actually worthwhile. Trevor also breaks down some of the ways that any coach can create actionable change within their situation regardless of bandwid...

Tim Kettenring - High Performance Director of NOLA Gold Rugby - joins us for the 66th episode of MTN. Today on the show, we dive into speed and conditioning. Two topics that are typically looked at on the very opposite ends of the spectrum. Today's episode was a phenomenal conversation around developing speed within the game of rugby and adding answers to conditioning within team sports. Make sure...

For the 64th episode of MTN - Mike and Hunter sit down without a guest (as we occasionally do) to have a chat around training. On this episode, we dive into long term speed development, plateaus, challenging coordination, elastic vs muscular sides of the body, and we also get into a listener Q&A - thank you to those that submitted questions Find us on social media @mtn_perform and check back e...

Adam Virgile - Director of Applied Sports Science and Performance Research - joins us for the 65th episode of MTN. On today's episode we dive into everything from navigating the differences between high and low quality data, subjective evaluations, how bandwidth can affect implementation & effectiveness, what skills are becoming more and less useful in sports science, and a couple of Adam&...

Bri Brown - WBB Strength & Conditioning Coach at the University of Miami - joins us for the 63rd episode of MTN. On today's episode, we dive into Bri's usage of FRC, tips on implementing it in the team sport setting, how she seeks to build autonomy & individualization within her program, and she gives us her overview of the landscape of WBB S&C across the country at the collegi...

Dr. Paul Comfort - Professor at the University of Salford (UK) - joins us for the 62nd episode, and our first international podcast, of MTN. If you've taken a dive into force research within the field, you've come across Dr Comfort's work. Today's podcast is a masterclass on understanding data, figuring out what's important/and what's not, how different variables can paint...