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Episode 153: Phil Wagner - Sparta Science

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This episodes guest is Phil Wagner of Sparta Science.Phil spent 8 years as a strength & conditioning coach at University of California Berkeley and University of California Los Angeles, including 3 National Championships, as well as a performance coach for the Canterbury Crusaders and the New South Wales Waratahs (professional rugby teams in New Zealand and Australia). Following his coaching career, he graduated medical school as a physician from University of Southern California, focused on studying biomechanics at their School of Physical Therapy’s Biokinesiology Lab. Dr. Wagner founded Sparta Performance Science in the Silicon Valley as a facility to directly measure and enhance performance alongside athlete resilience to injury. This business evolved to include a larger technology business, Sparta Software Corporation (est. 2012), which provides an athlete data management platform to establish evidence based practices within sports organizations.On this episode Phil and I discuss

  • Phil's background
  • How big is the sparta team currently
  • Phil discusses how he has gotten the entire team at Sparta to share the companies core values and vision
  • Why Phil decided to go back to Medical School
  • Phils's influences
  • What are the good and not so good things that Phil currently see's with the physical preparation profession, and what solutions would he offer for the not so good things he is seeing
  • Phil talks about the importance of how we preceive feedback and how we should learn the difference between disagree vs dislike
  • Phil discusses why he feels its important for coaches to develop empathy as this can help develop a greater degree of relateness with our athletes
  • Why did Phil call the company Sparta
  • Phil discusses why its so important to approach data with an open and critical mind
  • Phil talks about how the squat, deadlift, and bench press had the highest co-relation with eccentric RFD
  • Phil and I discuss about confirmation bias' within science
  • Phil shares with us the testing protocols that they utilize at Sparta
  • Phil shares with us the training system utilized at Sparta
  • Phil discusses the partnership that Sparta has with many other elite organizations around the world
  • Phil discusses the future of Sparta
  • Phil shares with us the biggest lessons he has learned so far in his career and life
  • Phil shares his top resources
  • Phil gives us his top advice to all the listeners
  • And if Phil could invite 5 people to dinner, dead or alive, who would he invite and why?

This was an outstanding episode with Phil guys, and I hope you really enjoy it.

Stay Strong,

RB

Show Notes:

Sparta Science Twitter Phil Wagner Twitter

Show Sponsors:

Ultimate Performance Online MentorshipTo get INSTANT ACCESS to almost 20 hours of World Class online video Strength and Conditioning Information go to upmentorship.com

ALTIS

ALTIS 360ALTIS Foundation Course

National Sports Performance Association

Certified Program Design Specialist

Certified Speed and Agility CoachCerfitied Weightlifting Performance Coach

Certified Sports Nutrition Coach

Athletes AccelerationComplete Speed Training

Complete Speed GamesComplete Jumps TrainingComplete Olympic LiftingComplete Guide to Training the Female Athlete

Complete Core

Complete Sports Conditioning Complete Sports Nutrition

Complete Program Design

Sports Camp Empire

Patreon

Help support the podcast by becoming a Patreon to the show here - Patreon

  continue reading

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When? This feed was archived on September 28, 2020 13:10 (3+ y ago). Last successful fetch was on August 08, 2020 06:18 (3+ y ago)

Why? Inactive feed status. Our servers were unable to retrieve a valid podcast feed for a sustained period.

What now? You might be able to find a more up-to-date version using the search function. This series will no longer be checked for updates. If you believe this to be in error, please check if the publisher's feed link below is valid and contact support to request the feed be restored or if you have any other concerns about this.

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This episodes guest is Phil Wagner of Sparta Science.Phil spent 8 years as a strength & conditioning coach at University of California Berkeley and University of California Los Angeles, including 3 National Championships, as well as a performance coach for the Canterbury Crusaders and the New South Wales Waratahs (professional rugby teams in New Zealand and Australia). Following his coaching career, he graduated medical school as a physician from University of Southern California, focused on studying biomechanics at their School of Physical Therapy’s Biokinesiology Lab. Dr. Wagner founded Sparta Performance Science in the Silicon Valley as a facility to directly measure and enhance performance alongside athlete resilience to injury. This business evolved to include a larger technology business, Sparta Software Corporation (est. 2012), which provides an athlete data management platform to establish evidence based practices within sports organizations.On this episode Phil and I discuss

  • Phil's background
  • How big is the sparta team currently
  • Phil discusses how he has gotten the entire team at Sparta to share the companies core values and vision
  • Why Phil decided to go back to Medical School
  • Phils's influences
  • What are the good and not so good things that Phil currently see's with the physical preparation profession, and what solutions would he offer for the not so good things he is seeing
  • Phil talks about the importance of how we preceive feedback and how we should learn the difference between disagree vs dislike
  • Phil discusses why he feels its important for coaches to develop empathy as this can help develop a greater degree of relateness with our athletes
  • Why did Phil call the company Sparta
  • Phil discusses why its so important to approach data with an open and critical mind
  • Phil talks about how the squat, deadlift, and bench press had the highest co-relation with eccentric RFD
  • Phil and I discuss about confirmation bias' within science
  • Phil shares with us the testing protocols that they utilize at Sparta
  • Phil shares with us the training system utilized at Sparta
  • Phil discusses the partnership that Sparta has with many other elite organizations around the world
  • Phil discusses the future of Sparta
  • Phil shares with us the biggest lessons he has learned so far in his career and life
  • Phil shares his top resources
  • Phil gives us his top advice to all the listeners
  • And if Phil could invite 5 people to dinner, dead or alive, who would he invite and why?

This was an outstanding episode with Phil guys, and I hope you really enjoy it.

Stay Strong,

RB

Show Notes:

Sparta Science Twitter Phil Wagner Twitter

Show Sponsors:

Ultimate Performance Online MentorshipTo get INSTANT ACCESS to almost 20 hours of World Class online video Strength and Conditioning Information go to upmentorship.com

ALTIS

ALTIS 360ALTIS Foundation Course

National Sports Performance Association

Certified Program Design Specialist

Certified Speed and Agility CoachCerfitied Weightlifting Performance Coach

Certified Sports Nutrition Coach

Athletes AccelerationComplete Speed Training

Complete Speed GamesComplete Jumps TrainingComplete Olympic LiftingComplete Guide to Training the Female Athlete

Complete Core

Complete Sports Conditioning Complete Sports Nutrition

Complete Program Design

Sports Camp Empire

Patreon

Help support the podcast by becoming a Patreon to the show here - Patreon

  continue reading

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