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Brandon and Joel are joined by Mike Kamal, the Assistant Athletic Director for Strength and Conditioning at Merrimack College. We dive into a variety of topics mainly focused on the processes that went into Coach Kamal growing the Merrimack program from a Division 2 program that he ran by himself to the Division 1 program he and his almost double d…
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This week's guest is Paul Jackson. Coach Jackson is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for Utah State University Football and, in our opinion, one of the highest performers, if not the highest performer, in our field based off of his body of work at Ole Miss and South Carolina. We talk about how he fosters a high-performance environment in tr…
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This week's guest is Michael Zweifel, the owner of BBA Performance. We have a great chat about recognizing great movement skills, where to start when introducing variability into training, and how his mock football season went in the fall. Make sure to head over to https://www.sprint-jump-throw.com/ and sign up for access to our exclusive Sprint Ju…
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This week's guest is Dr. Ken Clark. As you can imagine we talk all things speed. We start with promoting front side mechanics and move into wearable resistance and stiffness at the foot/ankle complex. A great episode! https://www.kenclarkspeed.com/ Make sure to head over to https://www.sprint-jump-throw.com/ and sign up for access to our exclusive …
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This week's guest is Adam Feit. He is the Coordinator of Physical and Mental Performance and an adjunct professor at Springfield College. We talk about building and promoting autonomy in athletics with both student-athletes and coaches along with some other great topics! Make sure to head over to https://www.sprint-jump-throw.com/ and sign up for a…
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This week's guest is Bob Alejo. He is the Senior Assistant Athletics Director for Performance and Student Athlete Welfare at Cal State Northridge. We have a great chat about how he approaches his role, how his background as a strength coach prepared him well for the role, and also the lessons he learned from being around the Moneyball Oakland A's. …
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This week's guest is Adam Ringler, Strength Coach and Sports Scientist for the University of Colorado. We dive into all things athlete data during this episode. Collecting, organizing, engaging the athletes you're collecting the data from, and ultimately ensuring that real change is made based off of the data collected. Make sure to head over to ht…
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This week's guest is Austin Jochum. He is the owner of Jochum Strength and Strength Coach at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. We chat developing an app for his business, qualitative versus quantitative measures, and the importance of athlete perception during open or closed activities. Make sure to head over to https://www.sprin…
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We are joined this week by Nick DiMarco. He is the Director of Sports Performance at Elon University. We chat about overarching principles that Nick leans on when running his department and fostering a high performance culture with his assistants as well as how he goes about balancing structure and creativity in a collegiate setting. Make sure to h…
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This week's guest is Scott Kuehn. He is an Assistant Strength and Conditioning for Arizona Football. We have a great chat about how to build a sustainable and actionable data monitoring system in a sport environment. We also dive into lessons he gleaned, both good and bad, from his time at William & Mary. Make sure to head over to https://www.sprin…
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This week's guest is Joey Bergles. We have a great chat about doubling down on what you find most important in a program and how to best organize for a large athlete to coach ratio! Hope you enjoy! Make sure to head over to https://www.sprint-jump-throw.com/ and sign up for access to our exclusive Sprint Jump Throw Thorne Store. 25% off of all prod…
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This week's guest is Brandon Wicket. He is an Assistant Sports Performance Coach at UMass who oversees Men's Ice Hockey, Baseball, and Women's Tennis. We chat about stepping in as a new coach in an already high performing organization and the value of our specific experiences as young coaches. Make sure to head over to https://www.sprint-jump-throw…
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This week we have a great chat with Scott Salwasser, Assistant Football Strength and Conditioning Coach at the University of South Carolina, about how a constraints based approach has influenced his thoughts on linear sprinting, how he approaches sprint work for offensive and defensive linemen, and his approach to late stage, on-field rehab. Make s…
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This week's guest is Josh Washington, the Sports Performance Coach for UMass Men's Basketball. We have a great chat about his journey to UMass, initial steps he focuses on when starting a new job, and how he approaches training the basketball athlete. Make sure to head over to https://www.sprint-jump-throw.com/ and sign up for access to our exclusi…
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This week's guest is Jamie Pasquin, the Men's Basketball Strength and Conditioning Coach at Monmouth University. We have a great chat about the value of self-awareness as coaches when it comes to understanding our own personalities and behavior tendencies. Check it out! Make sure to head over to https://www.sprint-jump-throw.com/ and sign up for ac…
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This week's guest is Jordan Nieuwsma, the Associate Director of Sports Performance at Elon University. We have a great chat about his collaboration with sport coaches, particularly men's soccer and tennis, as well as how he organizes plyometrics into an 8-vector system. Really great stuff from Jordan! Jordan's YouTube Page Make sure to head over to…
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This week AC and I expand on our SimpliFaster Q&As that we did in the last few weeks while also providing some insights on return to activity notes that we are seeing! https://simplifaster.com/articles/team-sport-speed-andrew-cormier/ https://simplifaster.com/articles/game-speed-injury-prevention-joel-reinhardt/ Make sure to head over to https://ww…
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This week's guest is Steve Reinhardt. Along with being Joel's dad, he is the VP of Product Development for Quantum Computing, Inc. We have a great chat about how supercomputing is being utilized in a sports setting and other ways for it to potentially be used. Make sure to head over to https://www.sprint-jump-throw.com/ and sign up for access to ou…
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This week's guest is Eric Donoval, the Director of Sports Performance for Wyoming Football. We discuss the benefits of a record/rank/publish system for both high performers and low performers as well as how his staff organizes and communicates their data science in order to best collaborate with the football staff. Make sure to head over to https:/…
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This week's guest is Joel Smith of Just Fly Sports. We discuss his personal and professional evolution that led him to where he is at now in his career, what parts of Speed Strength he'd love to update, and the value of adding games and free play into training environments. Make sure to check out his book Speed Strength, it's an incredible read! Ma…
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Our guest this week is Pete Remmes, Athletic Performance Coach for Indiana Football. We talk about putting athletes in advantageous situations so they can express truly high outputs as well as collaboration with sport coaches to ensure transfer of training onto the field. Hope you enjoy it! Make sure to head over to https://www.sprint-jump-throw.co…
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This week's guest is Michael Zweifel, owner of BBA Performance in Dubuque, Iowa. We talk RPR, skill acquisition, and the tailoring of representative environments. We both came out of this one with great notes and learned a lot. Hope you do as well! https://www.building-better-athlete.com/ https://emergentmvmt.com/ Make sure to head over to https://…
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Great chat this week with Fergus Connolly. We dive into the importance of the operations team in helping athletes prepare for performance and other overlooked aspects of an organization that play a big role in pushing towards high performance. Check out Fergus' new book here! Make sure to head over to https://www.sprint-jump-throw.com/ and sign up …
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This week's guest is Terrence Kennell. He is the Strength and Conditioning Rehab Coordinator for the Houston Astros. TK gets into the value of a principle based approach to the rehab process, what professions he draws from outside of sports, and the value of being put in challenging situations early in your career. Make sure to head over to https:/…
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