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 digit staff run today.
This week Ryan Gipson joins the gang to talk ego, expectations and echo chambers in strength and conditioning. Ryan is a strength coach at Joint Base Lewis-McChord working alongside AC.
AC and Brandon discuss a variety of topics but mainly focus on how they went about shaping the internship program at UMass to be as valuable as possible to everyone involved. Check it out!
We're back! In this week's episode we chat about what we've been up to since we last published!
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 training, the benefits of a power/strength split versus upper/lower, and how he pushes his assistants to elevate themselves. A fantastic conversation!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 products!!
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 Jump Throw Thorne Store. 25% off of all products!!
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 Sprint Jump Throw Thorne Store. 25% off of all products!!
This week we have Brandon Wickett on for the second time and talk about how he is utilizing our new Hawkin Dynamics force plate to maximize training.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 products!!
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 access to our exclusive Sprint Jump Throw Thorne Store. 25% off of all products!!
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.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 products!!
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 https://www.sprint-jump-throw.com/ and sign up for access to our exclusive Sprint Jump Throw Thorne Store. 25% off of all products!!
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.sprint-jump-throw.com/ and sign up for access to our exclusive Sprint Jump Throw Thorne Store. 25% off of all products!!
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 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 products!!
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.sprint-jump-throw.com/ and sign up for access to our exclusive Sprint Jump Throw Thorne Store. 25% off of all products!!
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 products!!
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.com/ and sign up for access to our exclusive Sprint Jump Throw Thorne Store. 25% off of all products!!
This week's episode is with Keir Wenham-Flatt. We have a great chat about systemic issues within sports performance and collegiate athletics as a whole. 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 products!!
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 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 products!!
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 exclusive Sprint Jump Throw Thorne Store. 25% off of all products!!
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 access to our exclusive Sprint Jump Throw Thorne Store. 25% off of all products!!