“Use the data that you collect effectively, to make these guys the best athletes they can possibly be.”

This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget and needs to better serve your athletes. North American customers looking for more info should contact Andreas at andreas.ahlstrom@exxentric.com or 503-739-1391. All others, or to learn more about the kBox, kPulley and flywheel training, please go to their website at: https://exxentric.com/.

Today we are joined by Robert Ahmun to discuss how he handles his international cricket players with their hectic schedule and huge amounts of travel. After a brief rundown of how Robert got into the national team we dive right into some of the uniqueness of his situation working with the guys in-between professional seasons. This leads us into how they prepare the athletes for these long tours (they’re on a 5 week one to India now), how they evaluate the players, and how that drives their training. Rob then discusses with us how they prepared the guys prior to, and how they are handling the guys now on this trip when it comes to recovery, training, nutritionally, and climate acclimation.

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This past week I have had a couple of conversations with strength and conditioning coaches about how we handle taper for our swim and dive athletes. In today’s episode of My Thoughts Monday I discuss what I do, and why I feel, like with many things, the athlete’s input is so vital to having them “peaked” for their championship meet.

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“Behavior that has been reinforced in one context is likely to generalize to other similar contexts.”

“The culture of a team, of an organization, is based on the behaviors that the majority of those folks are engaging in.”

This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget and needs to better serve your athletes. North American customers looking for more info should contact Andreas at andreas.ahlstrom@exxentric.com or 503-739-1391. All others, or to learn more about the kBox, kPulley and flywheel training, please go to their website at: https://exxentric.com/.

Dr. Julie Slowiak joins us today to discuss behavioral analysis and the hows and whys to it within your team/organization. Julie is an associate professor of psychology at UMD. Her research and work revolves around applying psychological principles to organizations including teams and companies. Dr. Slowiak starts out by sharing with us what behavioral analysis is and why it’s important to athletes and teams including the importance of the coach in molding these behaviors. Julie shares with us multiple examples of how coaches can better gather information from athletes and how to “interpret” that information to do better by their athletes. Make sure to check out her page: www.injewelcoaching.com 

We are hoping to provide the best possible content for strength coaches with each of our shows. If feel this could provide value for anyone else in the strength and conditioning field please feel free to share.

You can find sensational content just like this in The Strength Coach Network. As a member of The Strength Coach Networks, you can access over 200 hours of the highest-level lecture content just like this one for 48 hours for only $1. Follow the link below to sign up and use the code CVASPS at check out to get a 48 hour trial for only $1. Check out The Strength Coach Network Here!

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“Without definitions all we’re going to do is continue to hit roadblocks.”

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Sport Specific Training! If you are a strength and conditioning coach you either just smiled or cringed or facepalmed yourself. This polarizing word is something that has a bunch of people shook because we don’t have a definition for it, and there is some confusion with other terms that people think may be synonymous, when in-fact they may not be.

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Enjoy the content? Then you should check out The Strength Coach Network!

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“What people really do is they only argue to maintain their belief system.”

“Our job, probably, is to fill empty buckets.”

“Coaches like to coach.”

“It’s not about what you like.”

“I think you have a responsibility to continue to learn if you’re going to coach.”

This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget and needs to better serve your athletes. North American customers looking for more info should contact Andreas at andreas.ahlstrom@exxentric.com or 503-739-1391. All others, or to learn more about the kBox, kPulley and flywheel training, please go to their website at: https://exxentric.com/.

In this weeks episode of The Podcast I get the opportunity to sit down and talk about the idea of sport specific training with Mike Boyle. This has been a bit of a “hot topic” on his instagram based off his 1:00 monologues that he is doing daily. Coach Boyle talks about what he see’s sports specific training is and what his problem is with it, where he sees training and how his needs analysis drives his training, and the idea of the “90%” of training. Mike then discusses where he sees the role of education as a coach and where the idea of looking for people who do the exact opposite of what you do, or at least don’t think similarly to you, and reevaluate some of your thinking. We finish off talking about what are some things that he has changed of late when it comes to “filling buckets” and how he sees sprinting and speed work now.

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“People with simple jobs are simply replaceable.”

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You see it all the time, coaches on social media talking about training and how “keeping it simple works.” While at times this may be correct, but there are many times where improving an athlete’s physical performance is anything but simple. In this weeks My Thoughts Monday I discuss why I feel that this “self talk” that gets shared within our departments could be holding us as a profession back a bit.

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“The only way people are going to get better is by being better people.”

“Be the person in your league that coaches want to come see.”

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The conference season for basketball is here, and it’s a great time to catch up and learn from practitioners at other universities. In this weeks My Thoughts Monday I piggy back of some of Mike Snowden’s thoughts from last weeks podcast when it comes to being open to spending time with coaches during the season to talk shop and learn from each other in every realm of coaching, not just the x’s and o’s of training.

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“Every year try to do something different, try to bring something to the program.”

This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget and needs to better serve your athletes. North American customers looking for more info should contact Andreas at andreas.ahlstrom@exxentric.com or 503-739-1391. All others, or to learn more about the kBox, kPulley and flywheel training, please go to their website at: https://exxentric.com/.

We are joined by Cincinnati Basketball’s Mike Rehfeldt to discuss progressing your program in this weeks edition of The Podcast. Mike dives right in and shares with us some of the work they have done with helping the athletes sleep and how it shows with performance. This includes the pro’s and con’s and what he saw from it. He then shares with us how his focus this year has been more of a performance based measurements like bar velocity measuring devices and force plates. This leads us into how he has developed as a coach and what things that, if he could, he would change that he did earlier in his career. We then discuss how the rule changes have impacted how he handles his guys though out the year, including the trials and tribulations of in season work with players. Mike finishes off by sharing with us what direction he seems himself going in and how that can best impact the student athlete’s he gets to work with.

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“If you make sure the student athlete’s taken care of everything else falls into place.”

This episode of The Podcast is brought to you by Exxentric, the makers of the kBox and kPulley. Exxentric is the world leader in fly wheel training technology providing multiple pieces to fit your budget and needs to better serve your athletes. North American customers looking for more info should contact Andreas at andreas.ahlstrom@exxentric.com or 503-739-1391. All others, or to learn more about the kBox, kPulley and flywheel training, please go to their website at: https://exxentric.com/.

In this weeks episode of The Podcast I get to catch up with Buffalo’s Mike Snowden to discuss the process he’s gone through taking over as the Director of Olympic Sports at UB. Mike starts out sharing with us how his learning experiences starting in the Navy, and moving into each position he’s had prior has impacted him as a director. Mike then shares with us how he has utilized resources around town and on campus to better help what they’re able to provide for their student athletes. This cross campus involvement is something that many coaches have issues with, so hearing how someone can connect and build multiple programs is exciting. Mike finishes off sharing with us talking about the NSCA Basketball SIG, and what they’re hoping to build with that. Make sure to check them out right here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/116257425618814/

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“Change culture through education, not through going to war with your kids.”

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As we enter this “coaching carousel” time of of the year there are some things that we need to keep in mind, but the biggest thing is the idea of “culture changes” that are asked of some coaches. In this weeks My Thoughts Monday I share my thoughts on how we could possibly do this a bit better and avoid some of the negative circumstances that have brought our profession some extremely negative attention in the recent past.

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