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

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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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“Complacency kills, it looses more games than anything else.”

“80% of your job is know what doesn’t work.”

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This weeks episode of The Podcast is an instagram live discussion I was fortunate to have with Fergus Connolly recently. In the talk we go over quite a bit about his latest book, “59 Lessons”. Fergus also dives into some of the issues he sees with “sport science” today, including some of the limitations of tech, and how it needs to impact people because we are a people business. We also talk about his presentation in The Strength Coach Network, and how problem solving is what he’s always been looking to do, and how leadership fits into that. We finish out talking about his involvement as a presenter for The 2019 Seminar.

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“What if we were just doing better with the time we are using?”

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In a profession where we pride ourselves as being blue collar and working long hours and busting our butts taking a step back and trying to improve the quality of things we are doing as opposed to just adding to our days can be a challenge. In this weeks My Thoughts Monday I share how I’m trying to do that for myself to have better quality in different aspects of my life professionally and personally.

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“It’s more about, are you providing the athlete that opportunity to be available next week or the week after?”

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This weeks episode of The Podcast we are joined by Chris Tombs to discuss the role of education in coaching. Chris starts out by sharing with us his international voyage in coaching within rugby from England, Wales, to The US, and back to GB going from coaching to lecturing and mentoring. He then shares with us how he feels his experience as a coach has a positive impact on educating future coaches, as opposed to the typical academic model we see today. This includes the ability to be able to evolve and adapt on the fly to make sure that, not only the players are getting better, but you’re making sure they’re available for all competitions. We then get into discussing how he worked with athletes to make behavioral changes when it comes to nutrition and recovery ideas to help them be better, and at times, how he has “tricked” them into having better choices. We finish off discussing where he sees the direction of academia in training coaches going forward in the future.

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“If you aren’t there you can’t be there.”

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With the multiple hats and the tough bravado that is sometimes tied together with being a Strength Coach it’s all too often that coaches don’t get the help they need during difficult times. In this weeks My Thoughts Monday I talk about just this. Please, if you need, know that there are people there for you. If you don’t have someone there for you in your direct circle or would prefer to talk with someone outside your circle please know there are resources out there:

Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741 to text with someone
National Suickde Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255

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“It’s about making sure they’re still capable of doing as much as they possibly can for as long as they possibly can.”

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This weeks episode of The Podcast welcomes Darren Veness to discuss how he trains his cricket players. After a brief intro bringing us how he got into Cricket he gives us a break down of the sport, the demands of competition, and some of the challenges he faces with training these athletes. This includes how he evaluates the athletes, and what he sees in his needs analysis of these athletes. He then shares with us how his programming changes as these players age, what he’s looking for specifically to make sure they’re healthy first, and how the match schedule at times limits how he works with his guys, along with some common injuries he see’s within the sport and how they handle them. We finish off discussing the role of mental and psychological fatigue on cricket players and how he evaluates that with his team.

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“Once you have incorporated the athletes incite into the training you have to show them that you’re giving them what they’re asking for.”

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This weeks My Thoughts Monday I piggy back off of last weeks podcast episodes and talk about how plan on reevaluating the programming we implement with our student athletes. This includes: what we are looking to accomplish, and how we are changing our view what is important in training.

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“My best athletes in the weight room, probably spent too much time in the weight room.”

“We like numbers to justify our existence.”

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Today we are joined by PLAE’s Gary Sheffield to discuss his voyage as a coach. Gary starts with a bit of his back story of how he got into strength and conditioning starting as an athlete, to an Athletic Trainer, leading him to building the NHSSCA, to PLAE. We then get right into some self reflection he has had as a coach including: taking a step back and looking at what’s really important in training, understanding our bias as a coach and how that impacts programming, and self severing vs athlete serving. We finish off talking about the NHSSCA, how they built it and what direction they see it going in.

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“Not one thing is going to be a cure all for all, but one thing may help people in different ways.”

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This weeks My Thoughts Monday is a discussion about how we have done some self reflection of how we train our athletes based on presentations form this summers edition of The Seminar, and how that has brought us back to implementing some methods we have utilized in the recent past. This self reflection is what we try to do each year after The Seminar to help better progress our programing for the student athletes we get to work with.

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