Power Athlete Radio

Relying on Athleticism It’s officially January in 2019 and that means the masses have finally decided to get their shit together, if only for the next 2 weeks. While you’re slurping down six new supplements from Amazon, adjusting the unforgiving crotch on your compression pants, and making sure your drone gets a 360 of your… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: ht...

WOD harder than me, bro. What do Johnnie WOD [@JohnnieWOD] and Dirk Diggler have in common? Everything. Don’t take your “fitness” self too serious and just WOD hard, bro. This week John talks a little year-in-review recounting the history of the Boogie Nights inspired, tongue in cheek, program. John also reflects on how his perspective… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy &...

Santa Trains Speed Too That’s right. This week Luke and Tex talk deliberate training through many of the programs we utilize to develop bad motherfuckers. Your questions about the evolution of CrossFit Football into Johnnie WOD, why we choose the Power Athlete Metabolic Circuit once a year, and our three biggest battles of bullshit. Is… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy &...

2018 Power Athlete Symposium Coming to you LIVE (but also pre-recorded) this week! John, Luke, Tex, and Cali gather round the old podcast table for our annual airing of grievances. John shares his vision of expanding the farm to include a go-kart obstacle course. Luke talks “negotiations” with an aspiring Power Athlete from the Ukraine.… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy...

Become a High Performer Performance whores come in many forms. Marc Effron is the kind that is obsessed with getting people fire on all cylinders. Much like the PA approach to athleticism, Marc focuses on finding where a person or business is deficient and then attacking the weakness. Through his years developing high performers in… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt...

A Real Cluster-Fuck Accentuated eccentric loading, velocity based training, and clusters….oohh baby. This week’s episode with Dr. John Wagle [@drjohnpwagle] will satisfy your need for speed. Hear how he studied the squat as a vehicle for testing velocity. His method was tested using weight releasers and cluster sets and what he found was that adding 30… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com...

Stimulate, Don’t Annihilate Nothing could me more apropos than having nutrition master, Stan Efferding [@StanEfferding] on the show on Thanksgiving week. While you’ve been shoveling food into your gullet, we’ve been preparing a tasty little episode of Power Athlete Radio. If you consider yourself a nutrition nerd or you’ve been throwing darts aimlessly trying to… Advertising Inquiries: https://red...

Last Action Hero Training on the road with very little equipment, convincing sport coaches that lifting won’t ruin specificity, keeping your relationship on the rails…yeah, these are all topics discussed on this week’s episode. Will Tex get his whole torso waxed in front of a live studio audience? He hasn’t refused outright. Will we be… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy &...

Salt or Sugar “When are coaches going to stop trying to impress each other and start trying to improve one another.” Coach Ryan Horn [@RyanHorn45] is maybe one of the most quote-worthy guests on PA Radio to date. He is passionate about challenging athletes and pushing them carefully to the point of failure. He sees… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://red...

Show Your Value Andrea Hudy [@A_Hudy] oversees the athlete strength complex on the KU campus and works specifically with the men’s and women’s basketball teams. In 2013 she received the NSCA Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year award. In total, Coach Hudy has personally worked with 39 athletes that went on to play… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt...

Strengthen You Remember rolling into the gym and seeing dudes in stringers? Remember Dinosaur Training? Hell yeah. Host of Renegade Podcast and longtime lifter, Jay Ferruggia [@JayFeruggia] joins us this week to reminisce a bit about the old days of bodybuilder style training and the evolution of gym culture. These days Jay is evolving just… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Priv...

Pass On the Passion This episode is as epic as it’s guest. Derek Woodske [@DerekWoodske] is a man and athlete steeped in deep thought. He meditates on the politics surrounding the Middle East while lamenting the ignorance of most critics. Woodske spends much of his time traveling to and living in Saudi Arabi which provides… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: htt...

Exceptional Excitability When your Crew includes sometimes special guest, John Welbourn, you podcast harder than most. What does that mean? Absolutely nothing. What Power Athlete Radio does guarantee is that you will learn something about something about strength and conditioning AND movies. This week we take your IG questions and hammer you with knowledge. The… Advertising Inquiries: https://redc...

Bite Down Performance Do you fear the dentist? What if it meant that you could improve your power output, decrease pain, and align your spine for optimal performance? This is what Dr. Greg Ueckert has been working on for over ten years. He has been assisting athletes with bite and mouth guards which have enabled… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcir...

Fuel The Machine David Fults AKA Chef Flutters [@Flutters77] serves our healthy appetite for knowledge and MEAT. This week, our main man at Stay Classy Meats [@StayClassyMeats] talks locally sourced foods, the farm-to-table phenomenon, and his commitment to your next meat meal. Chef Flutters explains what it’s like to come up in the harsh “back… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands...

The Paradox of Trying Not to Try How do you find the sweet spot between spontaneity and training in performance? This week The Crew discusses the role of effortless movement in athleticism and how it is in essence, a form of spontaneity. Could or should you be coached when you’ve entered this flow state and… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.c...

Bringing A Little Life Into This World Behind that epic smile is a passion for guiding mommas through the journey of pregnancy, birth, and parenthood. A speaker from last year’s Symposium and PA broette, Lindsey Mathews of BirthFit [@BirthFit] joins us to talk about the complexities and challenges of birthing in the modern age. Luckily… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy &...

Business Gainzz Simply put, Chris Cooper of Two-Brain Business makes gyms profitable. He and his team of mentors have proven concepts for overcoming the common downfalls of many businesses. Those issues include how many members are necessary to make a gym profitable, how to retain good staff and rid yourself of the riff raff, and… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-O...

Strong Feet, Strong Butt This week we welcome back our S&C man-crush, Cal Dietz [@CalDietz] to talk all things athletics. His insights on testing training and finding sometimes surprising results leads us down a rabbit hole of knowledge. What exactly can heart rate variability teach us? What is the true value of a VO2 max?… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out:...

The Power of Technology Less injuries means better performance. Using technology has greatly improved our knowledge of individual biomechanics. Now we can take that information to determine where an athlete’s performance is deficient and their body is vulnerable. That is exactly what this week’s guest, Phil Wagner of Sparta Science [@SpartaScience] is doing with force… Advertising Inquiries: https...

Developing athletes into Adults If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Donnie Maib [@DonnieMaib] has been crushing athletics since his own career as a defensive tackle at UGA. Currently, Donnie is Assistant Athletic Director at UT specializing his efforts in women’s volleyball and men’s tennis. Maib is an incredibly well read and informed coach who… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/...

Shhh, Your Coach Knows What You Need The evolution of a young athlete is a complicated one. Taking a recreational youth player to a more regimented and specified high school competitor requires a delicate balance. Furthermore, extending the careers of highly trained pro athletes presents it’s own unique challenges. Mike Robertson of Robertson Training Systems… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcir...

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Eccentrically Speaking Eccentric muscle contractions are weird. And no I’m not talking about eccentric as in “my eccentric Uncle Larry just purchased his second life sized doll”. Get to know this highly advantageous training tool this week with Dr. Lindsey Lepley [@LindseyLepley @UconnSORE]. Studies are currently being conducted under Lepley on eccentrics with both animals… Advertising Inquiries:...

There Are No Straight Lines in Nature What do you get when strength and conditioning collides with the power of productive psychology? Another Premier Podcast in Strength and Conditioning! Peter Sage [@PeterSage007] stops by PAHQ to talk specifics on how to harness your inner badass to elevate your work, passion, relationships, and of course, your… Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/bran...