CVASPS The Podcast

This week we are joined by 2023 Seminar presenter, Kansas University’s Director of Sports Performance for football, Matt Gildersleeve. Our last discussion with Sleeve was OTR #79, and we catch up right where we left off. Sleeve dives into:

• What the first off season was like, and how it set up their program moving forward.
• The impact of the COVID summer and in what ways that continues to impact his program.
• A simple thing that has helped him not stay “stuck in his ways” and keep pushing to find better ways, means, and methods for all aspects of life.
• How the law of 100/100 has impacted him both professionally and personally
• What “really matters” and how “winning the off season” sometimes isn’t what leads to the best on field results.
• How becoming a father changed his thought process and how he sees the word “sacrifice”

We hope you’re as excited as we are to welcome Coach Sleeve to The Seminar, July 21 and 22 at PLAE HQ! For more info and to book your seats use the link here: https://cvasps.com/2023-seminar/

It’s always great to catch up with Dr. Bryan Mann, and this week’s episode of The Podcast is no different. In the 36-minute discussion Doc and I go into: 

1)     His new position and role at “The U”

2)     Force Velocity Profiling, some of the issues and FAQ’s with it, and practical ways to implement it (oh and this is what his presentation is on at The 2023 Seminar)

3)     How looking at averages at times is appropriate, but can also hinder development

4)     How important math and physics are to what we do

5)     The importance of asking why, along with how important who answers the question impacts our view of the answer. 

6)     How our biases impact our perspective, and how that can impact our continued development as coaches

7)     The importance of “letting it go”, and how that had a huge impact on him both at work and home.

Can’t wait to have Dr. Mann back on the docket at The Seminar and hope you can join us at PLAE HQ this July 21st and 22nd! For more info and to book your seats use the link here: https://cvasps.com/2023-seminar/

I couldn’t be more excited to have had the opportunity to sit down and catch up with 2023 presenter Coach Boo Schexnayder on this week’s episode of The Podcast. After a quick catch-up with Coach Boo we get into:

1)     The role of science and practical common sense thinking in coaching, and how what is “scientific” vs common sense has come full circle.

2)     What the role of research is in his coaching, and how he sees some limitations to research 

3)     Why he’s very reserved when it comes to the flavor of the week fads and leans towards time tested methods and means

4)     The role of coming up as a coach before the “technology movement” has helped him have a better understanding of what is and isn’t useful in sports tech.

5)     Trusting your instincts when it comes to making decisions on programming and during training session.

6)     How important mistakes are in a coach’s development ONLY if they are able to be critical of themselves.

7)     The importance of having outside interests from coaching to help us stay grounded and avoid burnout.

I hope you’re as excited as I are to bring to Coach Boo back to The Seminar and can join us at PLAE HQ this July 21st and 22nd! For more info and to book your seats use the link here: https://cvasps.com/2023-seminar/

I am so fired up to welcome Molly Binetti back to The Podcast and introduce her as our 2nd presenter at The 2023 edition of The Seminar. In the 35-minute discussion we talk about:

1)     The challenges of the season after winning a championship and how that’s impacted our approaches to not just training, but how we handle our athletes

2)      The importance of making sure you’re progressing the younger players on a successful team and not letting them be comfortable riding the coat tails of those who built the success in front of them. 

3)     The challenges to finding out what truly maters when it comes to impacting wins and losses

4)     What matters when it comes to “doing your job well”?

5)     How taking care of #1 made her better in every aspect of coaching and life.

I hope you’re as excited as I are to bring to Molly back to The Seminar and can join us at PLAE HQ this July 21st and 22nd! For more info and to book your seats use the link here: https://cvasps.com/2023-seminar/

The Podcast returns with a sensational conversation with PLAE’s Chase Campbell. Chase and I discuss:

1)     The decision to move The Seminar to PLAE HQ

2)     What Greybeard’s presentation will be on at CVASPS and different lenses to look at reverse engineering through

3)     The role of simplicity in programming and how our view on it has changed as we have gotten older

4)     The most valuable aspects of CVASPS to both of us

5)     What is one thing outside of work could help all coaches be better at what they do that, for the most part, we are all horrible with.

6)     How teaching and buy in go hand in hand when it comes to training

7)     Using different one-off opportunities to allow more autonomy and see how much the athletes have learned from you about training

We hope you’re as excited as we are to bring to The Seminar to PLAE HQ this July 21st and 22nd! For more info and to book your seats use the link here: https://cvasps.com/2023-seminar/

“We all live in the same physical world and environment, it’s just the demands of your sport may have some degrees of variant within that.”

One of the things I try to do is bring the people doing the research to The Seminar, and after writing the book on biomechanics of basketball, Dr. Petway is the go to in that discipline. During the 42-minute talk we cover:

1)     His voyage into sports performance, and what drove him towards researching biomechanics

2)     How being asked the right questions by his mentor changed his whole perspective on training progressions

3)     A few books that were game changing to him both educationally and in his coaching

4)     The big limitation to using “clock sports” as our guide in training. 

5)     What are the two “big rocks” when it comes to performance outcomes

6)     The importance and value of working with high school athlete’s 

7)     The role of systems and how they need to constantly evolve

I’m elated to have Dr. Petway at The Seminar and elated to welcome him to the CVASPS family and have him as part of The Pittsburgh Seminar! I hope you’re able to join us July 15 and 16 at The Marriott Short Pump! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-richmond-seminar/

“There are some general principles about how we train and how we could train based on humans first based on how we respond to training.”

This episode of The Podcast is a super discussion with Jonas Dodoo. During the 41-minute talk we cover:

1)     Principles and systems, the power behind them and why their vital for coaches

2)     Different ways that the general impacts the specific in training

3)     The rule of thirds, and how it can help us understand programming

4)     Confidence as an objective of many aspects of training

5)     The role and power of trust and what it leads to

6)     Pro’s and con’s to “buckets” with athletes

7)     A different way to look at time and distance to improve speed

I’m so fired up to have Jonas on the docket as part of The Richmond Seminar, and hope you’re able to join us July 15 and 16 at The Marriott Short Pump! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-richmond-seminar/

“Being able to have something that you stand for, and being able to consistently deliver that message in a way that’s authentic and gets to the core root of the issue and to your audience, that IS coaching.”

Always awesome to catch up with Ali Kershner, and this week’s episode of The Podcast is no different! Throughout the 40-minute chat we talk about:

1)     Ali’s new role and what inspired her to take the leap to step away from coaching athletes

2)     Some aspects of growth strength coaches excel at, and some we may need to improve upon

3)     A simple way to help improve communication between people, not just coaches. 

4)     The importance of finding who you are as a coach

5)     Ways that the “system” that we progress coaches through could be better

6)     Sales, marketing, and personal brands and what their role is in coaching.

We couldn’t be more excited to have Ali on the docket as part of The Richmond Seminar, and hope you’re able to join us July 15 and 16 at The Marriott Short Pump! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-richmond-seminar/

“It’s much more challenging to find solutions to problems then it is to complain.”

Always great to catch up with Coach Brijesh Patel, and this episode of The Podcast is no different. Throughout the 35-minute chat we talk about:

1)     How a deep dive into fascia has had a massive impact on his programming

2)     Eldoa, what it is and why it’s important

3)     How isokinetic training can improve performance, and help with injuries

4)     How coaches can build each other up to drive the profession forward

5)     The issues with complaining vs providing answers

6)     The impact of your “inner circle” and critical thinking, and how the two may not be symbiotic

I’m elated to welcome B to the CVASPS family and have him as part of The Pittsburgh Seminar! I hope you’re able to join us April 29th and 30th at Union Fitness in Pittsburgh, PA! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-pittsburgh-seminar/

“You do what they can do, build in what they can do, circumvent the weaknesses and try to get them to that.”

“There’s nothing really new, science has helped us understand the effects of things better, great coaches have made us understand it from their experiences. We’ve all learned from our fairs, unfortunately I’ve made the same mistakes a couple times, which makes me upset.”

“The great ones, relative to your level, do things you can’t coach. Don’t uncoach them.”

In this week’s episode of The Podcast, I have the absolute pleasers of sitting down and talking with Vermeil. Throughout the 100-minute chat we talk about:

1)     Two things “Young Coaches” should never stop doing.

2)     A simple evaluation that coaches can use and ways to improve upon it

3)     Why he feels coaches should start out coaching in high school, and the lessons it taught him. 

4)     The importance of going to the source, and the originator of ideas

5)     What factors he has seen to impact transfer of training to sport

6)     The impacts of size and limb length on work capacity on athletes

7)     The importance of working on technique when building sport skills

8)     How your philosophy is the backbone of what you do as a coach and how coaches can make alterations based off that.

We couldn’t be more excited to have Al on the docket as part of The Richmond Seminar, and hope you’re able to join us July 15 and 16 at The Marriott Short Pump! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-richmond-seminar/

“I tell young coaches and young trainers all the time, just because you have the title of strength coach at this school or the title of trainer at this school that really doesn’t mean anything, it means absolutely nothing other than the paycheck.” 

“Ultimately, if the kids come to you and the athletes come to you and you help them and you come up with answers for them they’re going to keep coming to you.”

I got the opportunity to chop it up with Boo Schexnayder in this week’s episode of The Podcast. Throughout the 35-minute chat we talk about:

1)     What coaching is, and where he sees the role of “problems” in coaching.

2)     What the coach’s role in injuries actually is.

3)     The importance of drawing knowledge from multiple fields

4)     Some of the unique challenges to the educational progressions of coaches

5)     What he truly loves about sports

6)     What really drives buy-in and brings athlete’s back to a coach. 

7)     How cultural norms hold us back from being elite

8)     The effects of commercially driven trends and fads

9)     Why some means and methods have stood the test of time

We are so excited to have Coach Boo on the docket as part of The Pittsburgh Seminar, and hope you’re able to join us April 29th and 30th at Union Fitness in Pittsburgh, PA! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-pittsburgh-seminar/

“If you have the outputs you can have compensations and breakdowns in your technique. If you don’t have the output and you don’t have the ability to be a freak athlete then you better move really, really well and create impulse at the right time.” 

In this week’s episode of The Podcast I got to catch up with Zach Dechant. Throughout the 35-minute chat we talk about:

1)     Zach’s new role at TCU and where he sees that progressing forward.

2)     Some new things that he’s implementing with his baseball players revolving around resisted sprinting.

3)     Metrics that he uses to evaluate his players, and what the data is showing him. 

4)     The roles and symbiotic nature of general and specific strengths. 

5)     The underappreciated value of training rotation, and where it impacts performance in areas we may overlook. 

A huge thanks to Exxentric for supporting the show. Exxentric is the leader in fly wheel technology. Their kBox and kPulley have had a huge impact in the preparation and RTP programs. Make sure you hop over to www.exxentric.comand check out all their sensational products today!

We couldn’t be more excited to have Zach on the docket as part of The Richmond Seminar, and hope you’re able to join us July 15 and 16 at The Marriott Short Pump! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-richmond-seminar/

“What am I going to do for this kid? Because he doesn’t even know what makes him good. Genuinely, we can say we do, we have no idea what makes these people good.” 

In today’s episode of The Podcast I sit down and chat with Freak Strength’s Mike Guadango. During the 32-minute chat we talk about:

1)     The crazy world of being a “sport specialist” and the ebbs and flows of it that he’s lived through.

2)     The role asymmetries in sport, and why coaches may not want to “correct” some.

3)     A unique method to build “work capacity” in rehab that has helped his athletes improve at a greater rate. 

4)     The role of psychology in high level sport and the mental gaps between the good and the elite. 

5)     The misconceived connection between aesthetics and performance.

6)     Understanding that the outliers do things differently because they’re outliers, and maybe “correcting” those “mistakes” is not what’s best for their performance. 

A huge thanks to Exxentric for supporting the show. Exxentric is the leader in fly wheel technology. Their kBox and kPulley have had a huge impact in the preparation and RTP programs. Make sure you hop over to www.exxentric.comand check out all their sensational products today!

We couldn’t be more excited to have Mike on the docket as part of The Richmond Seminar, and hope you’re able to join us July 15 and 16 at The Marriott Short Pump! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-richmond-seminar/

“You always figure things out when it’s too late. This is the problem of human nature. You figure out you’re on the wrong track when your athletes are not performing well, but that mistake has been made three months before when you didn’t see it, when you though “hey this is going great, I’m such a good coach.” Then they fail miserably, and then that mistake has been made before so always try to plan ahead.” 

Always great to get to catch up with my good friend Henk Kraaijehnof in this episode of The Podcast. Throughout the 38-minute chat we talk about:

1)     Henk’s new roles in the world of coaching, and how some things have come full circle.

2)     How a new location has allowed Henk to “do Henk things” with exploring and researching.

3)     How hindsight is always 20/20, so identifying “mistakes” in training may be more difficult then we tend to believe. 

4)     Trends that could be holding coaches back, and how we can all filter who we are learning from and what we are looking at

5)     The importance of being your biggest critic 

6)     Humility, and understanding that what may be great today may not lead to success tomorrow.

A huge thanks to Exxentric for supporting the show. Exxentric is the leader in fly wheel technology. Their kBox and kPulley have had a huge impact in the preparation and RTP programs. Make sure you hop over to www.exxentric.comand check out all their sensational products today!

We couldn’t be more excited to have Henk back on the docket as part of The Pittsburgh Seminar, and hope you’re able to join us April 29th and 30th at Union Fitness in Pittsburgh, PA! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-pittsburgh-seminar/

“As cool as our job is and as much as we all love training, and making them better and watching them do their thing.  At the end of it, what are we actually leaving them with and what are we helping them do?”

We are joined this week by South Carolina Women’s Basketball Sport Performance Coach and my Free-VASPS co-host, Molly Benetti for this episode of The Podcast. Throughout the 40-minute discussion we dive into:

• How COVID has continued to impact the preseason preparation strategies
• The pros and cons of having a veteran led team
• The role and importance of feedback from the athlete’s and staff
• The importance of educating ourselves outside of the world of S and C, and the irony of talking about that during an S and C Podcast.

A huge thanks to Exxentric for supporting the show. Exxentric is the leader in fly wheel technology. Their kBox and kPulley have had a huge impact in the preparation and RTP programs. Make sure you hop over to www.exxentric.comand check out all their sensational products today!

We are elated to have Molly on the docket as part of The Pittsburgh Seminar, and hope you’re able to join us April 29th and 30th at Union Fitness in Pittsburgh, PA! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-pittsburgh-seminar/

“None of this strength and conditioning shit matters if we can’t get our athletes to understand what we’re asking them to do, or if they don’t understand how it applies. If they don’t get it, it doesn’t matter.”

Welcome back to The Podcast. If I was going to bring this thing back it had to be Jeff Moyer batting leadoff. In this 40-minute talk, Jeff and I talk about:

1)     The new and unique rabbit holes that the pandemic has allowed Jeff to dive down

2)     What were the driving factors behind him digging deep into neurology, and what this research has impacted in his evaluations and programming?

3)     How his personal experiences growing up have been a guiding light in pushing him to find better answers.

4)     How “comfort zones” don’t’ just limit athlete’s, but coaches as well. 

5)     The importance of a mentor, and why young coaches need to reach out to people as early as possible to learn from them

6)     The importance of his presentation being applicable the Monday after The Pittsburgh Seminar and what to expect from his presentation. 

A huge thanks to Exxentric for supporting the show. Exxentric is the leader in fly wheel technology. Their kBox and kPulley have had a huge impact in the preparation and RTP programs. Make sure you hop over to www.exxentric.com and check out all their sensational products today!

We are so excited to have Jeff back on the docket as part of The Pittsburgh Seminar, and hope you’re able to join us April 29th and 30th at Union Fitness in Pittsburgh, PA! Tap the link to book your seat today! https://cvasps.com/the-2022-pittsburgh-seminar/