Power Athlete Radio

Commanding Excellence Retired USAF Lt Colonel, Dr Jannell MacAulay [@macaulayjc] is no stranger to high stress environments. As a commander, mother, and wife of an often deployed military spouse, she looks back on her time juggling the biggest challenges of her life and asks “how could I have improved my performance?”. This question alone is… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Pri...

Regenerative Agriculture  Animals. They’re sometimes cute, frequently delicious, and as it turns out, imperative to sustaining an ecosystem. So why are the majority of farming practices done with ignorance to the bigger picture? That’s where nonprofit The Savory Institute comes in. Our guest Bobby Gill breaks educates us on the delicate balance of grazing, feeding,… Advertising Inquiries: https://...

Training Discomfort Imagine you get the opportunity to be Kobe Bryant’s performance coach during his hayday. This means it’s your responsibility to improve his mindset, habits, and performance capacity. He asks you to show up to the court at 0400 and you set your alarm for 0300 because you know an early arrival, especially at… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out:...

The Edge of Performance So you think you’ve got a decent idea of how to bring your athletes or even yourself to the very edge of your performance capacity? Maybe you’ve got some of the physical components down but I assure you that after listening to this episode, you’ll be reevaluating how you communicate, how… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcirc...

From Table to Field Keep a cool head and stay in your lane. Sound advice from a woman who has worked her ass off to earn the distinction of first female head athletic trainer in any of the MLB, NHL, NBA, or NFL institutions. She prides herself on being honest with her recovering athletes and… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Developing The Mike Hill Brand How meticulous is your coaching routine? If you’re not keeping track of everything down to the music that was playing, you need to get on Mike Hill’s level. He is notoriously detail oriented and extremely practical in his approach to college level strength and conditioning. What compelled him to hire… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-...

Adapt, Overcome We just can’t get enough Ron McKeefery [@RMcKeefery]. His enthusiasm for coaching is fueled by his sense of obligation to change lives. If you’re looking for motivation to jump start your own passion for training others, you NEED to listen to this episode. He’s made weight room leadership an art by studying the… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out:...

Find your Why Coach Bobby Smith [@coachbobbysmith] battled injury and what he considered less than optimal training as a collegiate javelin thrower and football player. After rehabbing and making his way to California to train with one of the best javelin coaches in the world, Smith threw at the Olympic trials. The training he received… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy &...

Put A Ring On it Are you chronically tired? Do you feel like your sleep sucks ass? Is it affecting your training, your job, your relationships, your attractiveness and your ability to listen to a full episode of Power Athlete Radio? Your problem just became our problem. And we are PROBLEM SOLVERS. Luckily we are… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcir...

Good Coaches Provide Value Being on Power Athlete Radio three times is like getting to third base. The excitement, the sense of achievement, and the undeniable sexual tension. Just ask this week’s three-timer, Brett Bartholomew [@coach_brettb]. What started as a few bros catching up turned into another incredible conversation about the value of connection. Now… Advertising Inquiries: https://redci...

Mind Over Muscle Did you know that the types of cues you use with your athletes can have a SIGNIFICANT effect on how they perform? Of course you did. But I bet you didn’t know that the mind-muscle connection is known as attentional focus. Take something like training the almighty bench press…External focus is when… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redc...

Break The Bad Coach Cycle Vernon Griffith [@vernongriffith4] sees coaching as an opportunity to provide athletes the leadership and direction that he lacked as a youth athlete himself. While this is a departure from most coach’s come-up stories, it provides an interesting filter for someone who wanted to break the cycle of poor and impersonal… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Pr...

The Birthday Episode This week we are retroactively celebrating the birthdays of both John and Tex. In this episode you’ll get tales of birthday’s past and answers to your questions…both training and personal. When was Luke most recently propositioned for an orgy while at sea? And why did John end up spending his 21st birthday… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out:...

intelligent Tactical Training Maybe you’ve noticed the trend of intelligent strength and conditioning infiltrating one of the most guarded niche of athlete, the Military. In an environment where instructors try to find the delicate balance between physical and psychological stress, many miss the mark entirely. The result can be as benign as inhibited performance gainzz… Advertising Inquiries: http...

Be Present, Be balanced Kyle Kingsbury is in the business of Human Optimization. That means he’s dedicated to vetting the basic and fringe methods for living your best life. It also means he gets to use himself as guinnea pig for various training, dietary, meditative, and spiritual practices. As host of Onnit’s Human Optimization Hour… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy &...

Living and coaching with passion “I like to drink beer, does that mean my kids should be drinking beer?” Good question, Gary. As a Coach, Gary Schofield has seen the pitfalls of many in his field. Just because you LIKE a certain training system doesn’t mean it’s the most APPROPRIATE or effective for your athletes.… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redc...

Grow or Slow How do you create the appropriate balance of support and push so that your kids develop GRIT? That is precisely what Angela Duckworth [@angeladuckw], author of the book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, is here to discuss. People, including kids, only develop in ways that they HAVE to. This… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://red...

Fuel The Fire Berrp berrp berrp berrrrrrrrrp! Mark your Galactic Calendars because this week we bring you the 300th Episode of Power Athlete Radio. Looking for cutting edge strength and conditioning content that will Empower Your Performance? Maybe hit up one of our other 299 episodes you picky bastard. This week we stay true… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out:...

Swing for the Fences The stoic philosopher Seneca said “Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those who you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one: men learn as they teach.” This is Logan Gelbrich [@FunctionalCoach], through and through. It’s no coincidence that he’s selflessly lent his knowledge… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & O...

Cooking is a gift Attention all Valentine’s lovers! Being able whip up the perfect dinner is attractive, no doubt about it. But it in the time it would take you to resource all ingredients and painstakingly slave in the kitchen, you could be spending that time canoodling with your current sexual partner. Or maybe… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redci...

Connecting Athletes Through Technology When you look back at your failures, are you tempted to point the finger at all of the things, people, etc outside your control and say “THAT was the reason I wasn’t successful”. This week’s guest gives one of the best come up stories we’ve heard in a while. Friend… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/p...

A Peak At Success Author Anders Ericsson [Twitter: @PeakTheBook] is all about researching why some people perform FAR better than others. His studies range from prolific musicians to extreme athletes and is cited in his popular book, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise. The common thread with these outliers is training. The… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy &...

A Strong Foundation This week’s guest has never shied away from a challenge. Competing in powerlifting, bodybuilding, and collegiate lacrosse was the foundation for her drive as a strength and conditioning coach at UPenn. What do you do when you have 3 coaches for 33 teams? Do work, son. Tracy Zimmer [@Tracy_Zimmer] talks effective testing… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Priva...

The Wolf and the Kraken Robb Wolf has a way of explaining things so that the layman can understand complex ideas. Maybe that’s why his humble little podcast, The Paleo Solution, has gained traction throughout the years among intelligent contemporaries in the field and idiots like us. This week Robb breaks down some of the… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: http...

Fluid Periodization f you’re over the age of 30, you didn’t go to high school and college consumed with the stress associated with social media. You certainly didn’t give a shit about the number of likes you received from people you never talked to. You liked rollerblading with your CD walkman to Dave Matthews Band.… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://re...