Toes On The Line Podcast

Coach Gilfedder returns for his second time on Toes on the Line. I consider Coach Gilfedder one of the best strength coaches in the country when it comes to progressions in the weight room with all of his athletes. In today’s episode, Coach Gilfedder talks us through his progressions in the weight room, and his step-by-step analysis of when the athlete has “earned the right” to progress to a more...

Coach Kristina Jeffries puts her Toes on the Line, and we are talking a lot about Hockey strength and conditioning.  Hockey is such a unique sport for the fact that players are skating on ice while twisting, turning, and accelerating.  Coach Jeffries talks about key KPIs in the sport of hockey, how she addresses those KPIs in training, and the training process itself.   Hockey is a sport where ath...

Coach Jarwarski Beckhum, Director of Speed Training with the University or Oregon puts his toes on the line.  Coach Beckhum has a similar history to myself, being that he started his coaching career at a speed training facility, Velocity Sports Performance.  He took what he has learned from there throughout his coaching journey and has been able to establish sound conditioning and sprint programs...

Coach Tim Campbell puts his toes on the line in todays episode.  Coach Campbell is the Director of Strength & Conditioning with the University of Akron. Coach Campbell has been at Akron for over a decade now and has worked with every sport program there, and currently oversees the Men Soccer & Softball programs. Today's episode we take a deep dive into Coach Campbells time at Akron, how he got to...

Coach Joel Welsh puts his toes on the line today and he is sharing his journey of strength and conditioning throughout his career.  Coach Welsh brings a wealth of knowledge on this episode on what he has done, what he is currently doing, and what he truly believes makes a great strength coach at the collegiate level.

In this episode, I take a small dive into Rate of Force Development and its severe importance in sport.  As strength coaches, we can always get caught up in the "numbers" of how much is on the barbell (I was guilty of that at one point in my career), however when we look at the context of sports it is all about who can produced the most amount of force in as little time as possible. To not upset a...

Monmouth University Head Strength and Conditioning Coach Tim Rehm puts his Toes on the Line, and he's talking about how we have been success in training the fastest FCS team in the nation during the 2022 football year. Coach Rehm shares his philosophy on what it takes to efficiently develop speed as well as his personal background being a track and football athlete. Tim talks about his time with t...

In this episode I talk about a newly coined term "Hamstring Vaccine". I speak mostly about my personal work, research, and data reviews on how we have been able to stay hamstring injury free over the course of the 2022 Football Season here at Monmouth University.   I cover: My top 4 hamstring injury risks 3 technological platforms that can help identify risk factors How to take data and apply it i...

Season 3 is back, and we are kicking things off with Seton Hall University Strength and Conditioning Coach Angelo Gingerellli. A Strength coach, NSCA State Director, Author, sneaker head, hip hop enthusiast, Angelo is the premier guy to kick off Toes on the Line, Season 3! Angelo has been at Seton Hall University for over a decade and shares his experiences, as well as how he has been able to sust...

Coach Steve Georgio joins me today and puts his toes on the line, and we talk about how to develop an internship curriculum as well developing a great culture for interns to thrive off of.  Steve and I both coaches together at Fordham University where he interned for me back in 2019. His work ethic was unmatched and he was promoted to a full-time member of the staff and has ever since helped grow...

Coach Autumn Lockwood, from the University of Houston, puts her Toes on the Line in today’s episode.  Coach Lockwood talks about her Three-Tier Athlete Self-Accountability Model System, and how she helps develop her athletes’ qualities in: Self-Awareness, Self-Assessment, and Self-Leadership. She explains how she attacks the psychological aspect of her athletes’ development, and how she develops t...

Coach Scott Leech, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at the University of Rhode Island puts his Toes on the Line! Coach Leech talks about his Football ‘Contact Prep’ conditioning work that he has installed with his team. Contact prep is basically preparing the athletes body for the contact they will face once the pads come on.  Players will face a physical cost for colliding with people, and th...

Coach Brian Johnson, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Cal University has spent much of his career analyzing the demands of the game of football both at the collegiate and professional levels.  In today's episode, Brian shares his process of how he and his staff objectively utilize the information they receive from their GPS monitors in practice. I have personally spent the past year studyin...

Jason Wooding comes back onto the podcast and shares his coaching techniques and knowledge on speed development. Coach Wooding talks about how he has transformed his sprint coaching techniques based on his testing and feedback he gets from utilizing the 1080 sprint.  Whether its about starting position, foot placement, angular positioning, Coach Wooding understands how to correct inefficient movem...

Coach Don Day joins the show today and he shares his coaching journey, teams he’s coached, and how he has found his passion in coaching athletes. Talk about a guy that really loves what he does, Don Day is just that guy. Don Day is also an author of the book The Servant: Correcting a Flawed System, which he shares his coaching journey, as well as ups and downs, and personal battles he has faced wh...

Rodney Hill is back on the Toes on the Line podcast, and today we are chopping it up about our personal findings on dealing with force plates. Rodney and I both utilize two different force plate companies with our athletes, and over the past year have compared the data with each other. This episode is solely based on our personal findings and opinions on how to utilize force plates and what metric...

Matt Mikulski was one of my former athletes from Fordham University who got drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 2nd Round of the 2021 MLB Draft.  In this episode, Matt talks about his path to the draft, as well as his work ethics on what he believes will help him elevate his game.

This is an episode you won't want to miss ... this is literally and insider's edition of the types of conversations we would have back in the office. We touched on A LOT of topics in this episode, because quite frankly, why not? Coach Joe Gilfedder is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY.  He and I had worked together for 4 years from 2018 to the summer o...

Coach Pat Basil is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Hamilton College in upstate New York. He puts his toes on the line on this episode as we chat about the importance of being a business man in strength and conditioning and giving the athletes the best customer service experience possible. Coach Pat Basil has authored many ebooks in which he creates another avenue of income, which will...

In this episode, Coach John Patrick joins me today to talk about fatigue assessment and programming modifications he makes to his players during his in season model.  Coach Patrick goes in depth about a few fatigue protocols he runs with his athletes as well as what he looks for when utilizing these assessments. Fatigue will be the #1 reason why athletes will not achieve peak performance in season...

Steve Leo puts his toes on the line today, and we're chatting up about how he coaches his high school track and field team.  Steve Leo is a pioneer of Sports Performance who helped start the Parisi Speed School with Bill Parisi and Martin Rooney (just to name a few). Steve Leo is the Head Coach of the Outdoor Track and Field at Gill St. Bernard's School. Leo is a veteran of the sport, as he has co...

Coach Derek Stein puts his toes on the line.  Coach Stein talks about his journey as well as some things he is currently working on with his team at Eastern Illinois University Football. Coach Stein starts us off with his jump profiling system and what he is looking for with the 3 jump tests he runs his athletes through.  Then he gets into his programming methods as his team prepares for a Spring...

Welcome back for part 2 ... on this episode, we discuss some of Sully's success with speed and agility training during his tenure at the Parisi Speed School, where he has spent over 10 years training athletes.  Sully touches base on the basics of developing and training speed and agility and some tools in which he finds to be his "go-to".

WELCOME to the first ever Super Bowl Edition of Toes On The Line with Sully Parker. In this casual conversation, Sully and I have fun talking about football, and some throwback wrestling. Sully and I worked together at Parisi Speed School in Fair Lawn NJ, where Sully is currently still coaching his athletes. HOWEVER, in this very special Part 1 episode, Sully and I talk about this past football se...