The Principles of Performance

Gwen Lawrence has been named Best of Westchester, and featured in ESPN Magazine as “The Best Innovation In Sports Medicine” and to date has personally trained over 3,000 MLB, NFL, NHL, MLS, LPGA and NBA. Gwen has been a practicing fitness professional since 1990. Her current practice includes private yoga trainings, class instruction, team instruction and her Power Yoga for Sports, sports sp...

Derek is an International Sport Performance Consultant that has been working with athletes all ages and abilities in speed, strength and power sports since 1988. His coaching career started in Track and Field, providing instruction to sprinters of all ages eventually working with collegiate sprinters, hurdlers and jumpers. His career evolved rapidly working closely with some of the top performers...

Rett Larson is a Strength and Conditioning / Sports Performance Coach currently training the German Women’s National Volleyball Team. He has work with athletes and organizations all over the world including China and The Netherlands, serving as the former Vice President at JuzPlay Performance Training, Project Manager – EXOS China at Athletes’ Performance and Director of Coaching...

Greg Dea is a Registered International Sports Physical Therapist, as well as an International Instructor in diagnosing movement dysfunction. He has over 20 years of competing in track sprinting, Australian Football, soccer, golf, basketball, cricket, swimming, cycling and road running. Greg also has over 20 years of working in sport at professional football and rugby teams, institutes of sport in...

Dr. John Rusin is an internationally recognized strength coach, speaker, and writer, whose work has appeared in Men’s Fitness, Men’s Health, Testosterone Nation, Bodybuilding.com, Stack Magazine, and Muscle & Strength, to name a few. His innovative PPSC courses in-pain-free performance training systems have been taught to thousands of personal trainers, strength coaches and rehabilitation prof...

Kevin is a certified strength and conditioning specialist through the NSCA and is a Strength Coach employed at Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning in Woburn, Massachusetts. He has a BS in Kinesiology and Minor in Psychology from The University of Massachusetts-Amherst and is also a Licensed Massage Therapist. He is the Co-Founder/Educator at Certified Functional Strength Coach as well as the Co-F...

Ryan received his Doctor of Physical Therapy Degree from Stockton University in 2009. He has 13 years experience practicing orthopedic / sports Physical Therapy with emphasis on the rehab and training with baseball ball players Ryan is the Owner of Peak Performance Sports PT in Northfield New Jersey, as well as the Head of PT for the Baseball Performance Center and 220 Baseball Academy. He is FMS/...

Greg Rose is a board-certified Doctor of Chiropractic and holds an undergraduate degree in Engineering from the University of Maryland. Greg specializes in 3-D biomechanics, strength and conditioning, manual therapy, rehabilitation, nutritional supplementation and therapeutic exercises as they relate to golf. Greg is the co-host of the Golf Fitness Academy and a co-founder of the Titleist Performa...

  In this episode, Eric and Mike answer and discuss questions submitted by our listeners including: -Split vs Full Body Routines -Techniques for Developing Punching Power -Programming Reps and Sets for Power Exercises for Explosiveness -Power/Plyos/Speed/Agility Training for clients over 40 -Energy System Development -Training to Avoid Pulled Hamstrings -Case Study – Challenges Improvin...

Dr. Adam Wright – Director of Mental Performance – Washington Nationals Adam is a high-performance and executive coach, consultant, and educator who serves a broad range of elite performers whose craft demands peak performance in extreme, volatile, and high-stakes environments. He is privileged to work with athletes across various individual and team sports, including elite high school...

In this episode we are thrilled to welcome Lee Taft, known to most simply as “The Speed Guy”. We discuss Speed, Agility and Fixing Youth Sports. Lee is highly respected as one of the top athletic movement  specialists  in the world. In the last 30 years he has devoted the majority of his time training multi-directional speed to all ages and abilities. He has spent much of this time teaching his mu...

Dr. Charlie Weingroff is one of the most sought-after professionals world-wide in physical therapy  and athletic performance. He is a Doctor of  Physical Therapy , a Certified Athletic Trainer, and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist who has worked with countless A-List celebrities, professional athletes, as well as the general population. Charlie is currently based in the West Palm B...

Gray Cook is practicing physical therapist, a orthopedic certified specialist, a certified strength and conditioning specialist and an RKC kettlebell instructor. He is the founder of Functional Movement Systems, a company that promotes the concept of movement pattern screening and assessment. His work and ideas are at the forefront of fitness, conditioning, injury prevention and rehabilitation. Yo...

Dr. Michael D’Agati was graduated Cum Laude honors from William Paterson University with a Bachelor of Science in 2001 and was the sole recipient of the Exercise Physiology Honors award. In 2005, he was graduated Summa Cum Laude honors from New York University with his clinical doctorate in physical therapy.  As a DPT student, he was awarded the APTA Leadership Conference Scholarship Award (...

How do you choose the best exercises for your training program? In this episode, Eric and Mike discuss their thought process for how they select the exercises for their program and why.

How to write effective training programs based on your facility as well as considerations for setting up your own training facility.

Top 10 Mistakes in Programming (And how we have made every one of them!) 1 – Too many exercises 2 – Overcoaching 3 – Too complex or complicated to be well understood and/or executed 4 – Too biased to strength and neglecting other variables 5 – Lack of appreciation for tempo, intent and force dynamics 6 – Poor Incremental Dosing – Unclear model and mileston...