The Adaptable Athlete Podcast

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Nick Smallridge!  Nick is a teacher and soccer coach in Bentonville, Arkansas, USA. He is he coach at Sporting AR  2007G Coach and the assistant varsity coach at Bentonville High School for the girls team. Nick has over 18 years of coaching experience  including Socorro High School Boys Asst, Grassroots in Socorro, various levels, New Mexico Tech girls(college cl...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Dr. Andrew Wilson! Dr. Wilson an Ecological Psychologist and a researcher at Leeds Beckett University in the UK  He is an internationally recognised expert in perception, action and embodied cognition. He gained his PhD in Psychology and Cognitive Science from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2005. His research interests are broadly in the area of perception an...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Rafe Kelley! Rafe is the founder of Evolve Move Play and is one of the foremost movement practitioners on the world. He's studied and practiced everything from parkour, gymnastics, various martial arts disciplines, and much more.  Rafe absolutely crushes on this podcast and we discuss some very deep and interesting topics. If you want to learn more about Raf...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Chris McCosker!!..Chris is lecturer in the physical education, skill acquisition and motor control spaces at the Australian Catholic University with experience as a sport scientist for International, National and junior level athletes across sports including track and field, rowing, water polo, cricket, football (soccer) and baseball. The impetus for this episode...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to today's show! On this episode, I'm joined by my guy Shawn Myzka and we answer YOUR 2024 coaching questions! We asked you  on social media  to post any burning questions you had heading into the new year and you delivered!  Today, we answer those questions.  Some of the topics we covered include: Game day warmups:  Rote repetition vs a more variable approach to...

Send us Fan Mail My Guest today is Yuji Suzuki! Yuji works as a chiropractor and a remote coach to help people of all backgrounds overcome obstacles related to their health and fitness.  Over the years, his education has shifted his views on how he can be most helpful to someone dealing with pain and injuries, particularly being informed by the updated models of pain and the ecological dynamics fr...

Send us Fan Mail My Guests today are Stu McMillan and Shawn Myszka! Shawn has been on this podcast multiple times before, so you can refer this previous episodes for more info on his background. Stu  is the sprints coach and CEO at Altis, which is one of the leading companies in  in the world in coach educations Stu has over 25 years of experience in professional coaching and has personally coache...

Send us Fan Mail My Guest today is Austin Jochum! Austin the owner of Jochum Strength in Minneapolis Minnesota. The inspiration for Jochum Strength came when Austin was 15 years old and was told he had herniated a disk in his back from squatting and that he wouldn't be able to move the same way again. Through years of research, self experimentation and lots of trial and errors Austin proved a...

Send us Fan Mail For today's episode, we are going to discuss how a coach can guide an athlete's  search! As more and more people are starting to become aware of a modern approach to skill acquisition, there still seems to be this gap between knowledge and application. So today, I'm going to share w/ you 3 Ways to Guide An Athletes Search! If you're someone who's new to th...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Rob Nelson! Rob is the associate director of sports performance at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He directly oversees all program design for women’s volleyball, baseball, women’s basketball, and track and field. Prior that Rob worked at Wofford College, St Francis, and IMG academy.  I was first introduced to Rob via our mutual friend and head c...

Send us Fan Mail For today's episode, my guests are Drew Dunlop and Jacob Grossman! Drew and Jacob are the co-founders of The ProLane, a basketball skill sdevelopment facility.  Drew directed the pre draft process of Miami Heat guard, Tyler Herro.  He also coached 3 years in the Chinese Basketball Association and has served as a consultant for the Philippines basketball association. Jacob has...

Send us Fan Mail For today's episode, my guest is Tyler Yearby!! Tyler has been a multi time guest on this podcast, appearing back in episode 24 and episode 1. This time around, Tyler and I discuss his travels to England and China discussing ecological dynamics and using a CLA in practice. One of the concepts that Tyler is presenting on is "Reconceptualizing the Role of a Sports Performa...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Josh Peacock! Josh is the host of the Combat Learning Podcast. Josh is  lifelong martial arts fanatic with over 20 years in the game, including 8+ years as an instructor. He currently  holds 4th dan in taekwondo and a blue belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu — and has some sort of experience in most styles widely available today.  His love for teaching and learning marti...

Send us Fan Mail For today's episode, my guest is Shawn Myszka!! Shawn has been a multi time guest on this podcast, appearing back in episode 53 and episode 38 . This time around, Shawn and I discuss his new paper he authored alongside Tyler Yearby and Keith Davids, titled "Reconceptualizing Movement Behavior  in Sport as a Problem-Solving Activity". In addition to that, Shawn and I...

Send us Fan Mail For today's episode, we are going to discuss 3 ways to help make your practice design more ecological! As more and more people are starting to become aware of a modern approach to skill acquisition, there still seems to be this gap between knowledge and application. So today, I'm going to share w/ you 3 Ways to Make Your Practice More Ecological. If you're someone w...

Send us Fan Mail Gareth is currently coaching in Step 6 of the English Non-League pyramid.  Previously  he coached in the top tier of the Welsh football league pyramid - Cymru Premier - for two different teams. Gareth has experience coaching abroad in the the USA, Honduras, Catalonia and the UK.  Gareth is also a coach educator at MBP school of coaches.  An online coach development program.  The g...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to today's show!...My guest today is Carl Woods! Carl is a principal research fellow in the Institute for Health and Sport at Victoria University. Oriented at the intersection of sport science, ecological psychology and social anthropology, his research broadly relates to skill, knowing, and the exploration of more responsive approaches to inquiry in the sports scienc...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I'm joined by Will Roberts and Ben Franks! Will is a senior lecturer at the University of Waikato in New Zealnd.  Will is an experienced coach, and coach educator and has worked extensively in the UK. His work includes includes organisations such as the Premier League, Sport England, UK Coaching, Southampton Football Club, Manchester United Football Club, the English C...

Send us Fan Mail For today's show, I'm joined by Julian Khalili! Julian, is a USSF Licensed and ecological dynamics inspired coach. Julian's full time position is as a youth coach, and Coordinator of Zone 1 ages U6-U12 ages (recently extended to U14) at Richmond Kickers Youth Soccer Club in Virginia  As Zone 1 Coordinator, he is responsible for developing and overseeing a consistent...

Send us Fan Mail For today's show, I'm joined by my friend and now co-worker, Rich White from Emergence! Rich is a multi time guest on the podcast and was most recently on in Episode 28.   Last time, Rich was asking most of the questions and we dove deep into a blog post I did for Emergence about "Bridging the Gap" between return to play and performance. This time we are tackli...

Send us Fan Mail Dr Alex Lascu is a skill acquisition amateur (lover of) and research assistant at the University of Canberra. She exists in the gap between research and practice in sport coaching, in the hopes of one day bringing these worlds together.  Alex also has a background as a cricket coach, which we get into during the episode. I had heard of Alex before but really first came across her...

Send us Fan Mail We've got some  got some BIG news for you today!... I will officially be joining the team over at Emergence! For those of you who don't know, Emergence is a leading movement skill education company who provides the highest quality educational content to coaches across the world.   This has been something that me, and the team at Emergence have been working on for awhile...

Send us Fan Mail For today's show, I'm joined by Shawn Myszka and Tyler Yearby! Shawn and Tyler have been on the podcast a few times, so I won't bother spending too much time on their bio. Shawn and Tyler are the Co-director's of education at Emergence  and have also come  together to co-author a series of published articles, the first of which we discussed in episode 24.  This...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to today's show!...My guests today are Martijn Lips and Paul Nelson !   Martijn is  a lecturer at SOMT University of Physiotherapy and sports physical therapist from the Netherlands.  He focuses mostly on readaptation of lower extremity injuries, predominantly ACL-injuries.  He approaches human movement and readaptation from an Ecological perspective and believe this...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to today's show! In this episode, I share the conversation I had w/ Brian Willis on his platform, The Excellence in Training Academy! Brian is the founder of Winning Mind training - provides resources to law enformanance professional including seminars and courses    He is also the lead educator and founder of the Excellence in training academy - a professional develo...