Move the Needle: The Human Performance Podcast

Derek Hansen - World Renowned Speed Coach - joins us for the 36th episode of MTN. Derek's history of coaching speed development is well documented. Today on the episode, we talk through a handful of topics regarding speed within team sports. Including the use of drills, warmups, self organization v sprint modeling, and we deep dive into some 10x10 talk. Find and follow Derek on social media @derek...

Elijah Molden - Defensive Back for the Tennessee Titans - joins us for the 35th episode of MTN. Elijah is the second pro athlete to join us on the podcast. On this episode, we dive into his career at the University of Washington, training under Coach Socha, transitioning to the NFL, we recap his previous off-seasons, and talk about some of his plans for this one. Follow Elijah on Instagram @elijah...

Alex Effer - Founder of Resilient Training and Rehabilitation - joins us for the 34th episode of MTN. We go deep in this episode (our longest to date) on all things movement. Alex helps us to reshape how traditional training and performance views training exercises and categorization. There is no way to do justice to the information that Alex communicates through this podcast but he truly touches...

Jim Kiritsy - Head Football S&C Coach at the United States Naval Academy - joins us for the 33rd episode of MTN. Jim has a wealth of experience that he shares with us today on the podcast. His transparency and obvious desire to continue to grow make for an incredible conversation today. We talk about the tenants of his program, the unique challenges and opportunities that arise at a service academ...

Kyle Sammons - Arizona Cardinals - joins us for the 32nd episode of MTN. Kyle is the first repeat guest we've had on the show - originally our guest on episode 7 - and we loved having back to talk about his first year with the Cardinals, big takeaways from the year, we make a pretty in-depth dive into deceleration, and much more. Kyle has an incredible grasp on training and it is evident throughou...

Kelly Cosgrove - Strength and Conditioning Coach at West Virginia University - joins us for the 31st episode of MTN. Today on the podcast, we go full baseball mode. Kelly takes us through her initial assessment process when intaking the team, how she breaks down by body structure, what she views as most important, and we talk about where the performance realm of baseball seems to be heading in the...

Collin Crane - Director of Basketball Performance at the University of Georgia - joins us for the 30th episode of MTN. On this episode, we dive into a handful of topics. Collin talks about the process of designing his own weight room for the basketball program at Georgia, some of the differences he has noticed within training a team that has many athletes who expect to play after college, and we j...

Devan McConnell - High Performance Director for the Arizona Coyotes - joins us for the 29th episode of MTN. On this episode of the show, Devan takes us down a number of different topics. Including, how he built the sports science department within the Coyotes from the ground up, how him and his staff have decided on what matters most from a monitoring standpoint, and we get into some of the traini...

Chima Moneke - Power Forward for Saska Baskonia of the Euroleauge - joins us for the 28th episode of MTN. As a podcast, we have pursued interviews with people (mostly coaches) who are seeking to root out the truths of high performance. However, in that pursuit, we want to also hear from those who are high performers (in this case, Chima) to understand performance from multiple angles. On today's e...

Tanner Care - Head S&C at Simon Fraser & Director of Performance for the Vancouver Bandits - joins us for the 27th episode of MTN & our first episode of 2024. On this episode of the podcast, Tanner breaks down his unique role within performance - coaching at both the collegiate and professional levels at the same time. Afterwards, we go all over the map from athlete monitoring, to integrating prac...

Drake Berberet - VP of Performance for Hawkins Dynamics - joins us for the 26th episode of MTN. This episode is a little different from ones we have done in the past. After going into some conversation around RSI v. CMJ rebound, gameday jumps for basketball, etc. We take a look at some force plate graphs and have Drake break them down for us. Head over to our social media on twitter or instagram @...

Tim Kelly - joins us for the 25th episode of MTN. Tim has coached in a variety of private sector positions including, Virginia High Performance, AIGA Sports Performance, and currently trains out of the Williamsburg Sports Complex in Williamsburg, VA. In this episode of the podcast we spend a little time talking about his experience working with combat veterans and military operatives at VHP, how h...

Jonas Dodoo - Head Coach of Speedworks Training - joins us for the 24th episode of MTN. One of the episodes that we were most excited to record, we sit down with Jonas to cover the spectrum of speed development. We go from using sprint profiling as a movement assessment, using AI to aid in sprint analysis, understanding pillars of deceleration, and much more. Find Jonas on social media @eatsleeptr...

Scott Kuehn - Manager of Applied Sports Science for LSU Football - joins us for the 23rd episode of MTN. On this episode, we dive into a handful of avenues within LSU Sports Science. Scott talks us through some of the evolution of the practices at LSU within sports science and how they consistently are evaluating and upgrading their team. Follow Scott on social media @scottkuehn88 Find MTN on soci...

Connor Schoepp - Director of Applied Performance at Liberty University - joins us for the 22nd episode of MTN. On this episode of the podcast, we talk through injury in all aspects - assessment & asymmetry, progressing phases, establishing clear lines of communication, the neurological side of injury, and how to best break down an athlete's time & energy to put them in the best situation possible....

Today on the 21st episode of MTN, we sit down - just the two of us - and talk through a handful of ideas we have been throwing around privately the last few weeks. If you have seen anything that Hunter has been posting on social media recently, you've seen some of the thoughts that he has been talking through about his "Force System". Today, he expands more on that system and we also talk about Mi...

Jeremiah Welch - Head Performance Coach for the Las Vegas Aces - joins us for the 20th episode of MTN. Coming off their WNBA championship, we talk to Jeremiah about the evolution of performance in the league, how he's created individualized programs for his team, and how the increased access to technology - through the support of ownership - has pushed the way he thinks and programs. Find Jeremiah...

Tommy Christian - Owner/Founder of TCBOOST Sports Performance - joins us for the 19th episode of MTN. In this episode, we dive down the last two decades of training speed with Tommy. Few people have spent more time doing what he has and our conversation is wide-ranging around his time training athletes for the NFL Combine, navigating speed development for team sport athletes, turning speed into a...

Dr. Dan Taylor - Director of Applied Sports Science for the Charlotte Hornets - joins us the for the 18th episode of MTN. In our conversation, Dr. Taylor talks to us about his five "big rocks" within performance monitoring & explains how he uses this foundation to understand the present and predict the future. In a conversation that was wide-ranging and full of in-depth tangents, Dr. Taylor eloque...

Joel Smith - Founder of Just Fly Sports - joins us for the 17th episode of MTN. In 2011, Joel began Just Fly Sports as a platform to promote information for athletes and coaches to reach their highest potential. In 2016, the first episode of his podcast "Just Fly Performance Podcast" was released. For the last seven years, Joel has been delivering the highest level of education in the performance...

Justin Ochoa - Owner of PACE Fitness - joins us for the 16th episode of MTN. In this episode of the podcast, we spend a lot of time going down the rabbit hole of marrying sports skill work with performance training. Justin's unique background in basketball and training lends itself to such a conversation. We chat about the pros and cons of being able to do it all or use a more "specialist" model....

Matt King - Director of Football S&C at UCONN - joins us for the 15th episode of MTN. In this episode, we dive into a conversation about Matt's transition from an Assistant position at the University of Washington to the Director at UCONN. We chat about having to build a staff + his own system at a school on the other side of the country, and we discuss some action steps that anyone can ta...

Shawn Sherman - Founder of the Square1System - joins us for the 14th episode of MTN. Shawn's career exploration in understanding the role of neurology and human function/performance has opened the doors for many people to upgrade their lifestyles. In this episode, we cover a lot... ranging from the process of "interviewing" the nervous system, understanding how individuals perceive t...

Blake Bender - Lumin Sports - joins us for the 13th episode of MTN. In this episode, we start with a brief conversation about his time at UC Berkeley and before, his approach to training basketball players, and a quick rabbit hole into nutrition. Blake's outlook on the field is unique and we wanted to make sure it was highlighted. We dive into the advice he would give coaches moving into diffe...

Matt Tometz - Assistant Director of Olympic Sports at Northwestern University - joins us for the 12th episode of MTN. In this episode, we jump into the the things that people tend to get wrong about speed development, understanding the ratio of mechanics and output as it relates to speed training for team sport athletes, and we go down a rabbit hole related to deceleration that probably could have...