Podcast #64: Mastering the Intangibles: Building Sustainable Cultures in Elite Sport with Mubarak Malik
Well Traveled Wellness | Maximum Performance, Minimum Fuss
Release Date: 02/02/2017
Podcast #66: Ron McKeefery on Professional Development & Field Education
Well Traveled Wellness | Maximum Performance, Minimum Fuss
Ron McKeefery is a multi-decade veteran of coaching in the NFL, NCAA and beyond, though his newest project, PLAE US, may be his most impactful work yet! In this episode, we discuss Ron's current entrepreneurial work in the ambition of providing first-class professional development and education to practitioners.
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Podcast #65: Selwyn Griffith on Bridging Medicine to Performance and Exponentially Weighted Load Monitoring
Well Traveled Wellness | Maximum Performance, Minimum Fuss
Selwyn Griffith is Rehabilitation and Strength and Conditioning Coach at the Brisbane Lions of the Australian Football League. In addition to being a qualified Osteopath, Selwyn's broad skillsets provides a unique perspective bridging medicine and performance in elite sport. In this interview we cover the newest advances in load monitoring and management, how performance and medical staffs can best work together, jump profiling and sport-specific demands, and where our focus should be as practitioners.
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Podcast #64: Mastering the Intangibles: Building Sustainable Cultures in Elite Sport with Mubarak Malik
Well Traveled Wellness | Maximum Performance, Minimum Fuss
Mubarak Malik is Head of Performance at the New York Knicks of the NBA and Treasurer of the NBA's Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association. "Bar" has helped build successful performance setups in both Major League Baseball and now the National Basketball Association. This is one of the most 'uncomfortable' interviews to date: Vulnerabilities, errors, and obstacles are discussed at length and in depth. We discuss everything a coach needs in his toolkit BESIDES the sets and reps knowledge. If you want to learn how to really make it in elite sport, give this a listen!!
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Podcast #63: Ben Kenyon on Purposeful Coaching and Being YouNique
Well Traveled Wellness | Maximum Performance, Minimum Fuss
Ben Kenyon is Head of Athletic Performance at the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. In this interview, Ben talks us through his journey through the NCAA ranks, where he practiced management skills across a multitude of sports, onto the NBA where he's learned how-and how not to-push elite athletes to be their best.
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Podcast #62: Michael Roncarati on Injury Prevention and Lifestyle Management in the NBA
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Michael Roncarati is Director of Rehabilitation for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association in America. A native New Englander, Michael has followed a journey from Northeastern University into private practice and then the Golden State Warriors before heading to Atlanta. A veteran of huge successes on both coasts in an enormously demanding sport, Michael shares his candid wisdom about what works vs what doesn't and who should be providing what services in professional sporting environments.
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Podcast #61: Justin Crow on Antifragility in Australian Football and the Olympics
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Justin Crow is High Performance Manager at Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League. He leads the performance operations for his elite team competing year in and year out overseeing a multitude of staff and over forty athletes. Justin uses unique skillsets in AFL to minimize injuries and maximize performance. In this interview we discuss how Justin has applied "Antifragile" approaches to his own work at Essendon, and gives some examples of antifragile moments in the recent Rio Olympic Games. We also touch on sprinting for injury prevention, program...
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Podcast #60: Part 2 Ryan Horn on Specific Conditioning and Peaking for March Madness
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In part two of our interview with Ryan Horn of Wake Forest Basketball, we learn how Ryan conditions his athletes for such a unique sport. Peaking for the infamous March Madness is a special task, and Ryan takes us insides his methods to the...Madness. If you've got a multifactorial performance-setup challenge, you won't want to miss this one!!
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Podcast #59: Ryan Horn on Multi-directional Movement and Student-Athlete Development
Well Traveled Wellness | Maximum Performance, Minimum Fuss
Ryan Horn is Head of Performance at Wake Forest Basketball, where he oversees athletes aged 18-23 over long, highly variable basketball seasons balanced with full student workloads. In this interview Ryan tells us about the uniqueness of basketball, how he balances desired stimuli with feasibility, and how to make sense of velocity bands. If you are interested in multidirectional athletes and the challenges of team sports, this talk is for you!!
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Podcast #58: Jamie Tout on GPS Best-Practice and How to Make Tech Work For You
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Jamie Tout is Sports Performance Director at VXSport Athlete Monitoring company and Strength and Conditioning Coach of the New Zealand Black Ferns XVs team. Armed with decades of experience in elite sport, Jamie provides valuable insight from the trenches of the sports tech world. Want to know how to make GPS work for you? Curious where this technology is heading? Ready to learn the most efficient ways to keep your athletes trained enough but not too much? Listen to practical and sensible wisdom from Jamie Tout here!!
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Podcast #57: Brett Bartholomew on How To Be A Conscious Coach
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Brett Bartholemew is Director of Performance at Unbreakable Performance in Los Angeles and Bartholemew Strength online. Brett has worked with NFL UFC and Olympic athletes around the world yet is as down-to-earth as it gets in this field. Many people are posting neat quotes on Twitter about the "soft skills" we all need to succeed, while Brett is actually LIVING them!! What does it mean to be a "Conscious Coach" and how can we become ones? What are the biggest similarities and differences between the public and private sector? Which commonalities has Brett found...
info_outlineMubarak Malik is Head of Performance at the New York Knicks of the NBA and Treasurer of the NBA's Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association. "Bar" has helped build successful performance setups in both Major League Baseball and now the National Basketball Association.
This is one of the most 'uncomfortable' interviews to date: Vulnerabilities, errors, and obstacles are discussed at length and in depth. We discuss everything a coach needs in his toolkit BESIDES the sets and reps knowledge. If you want to learn how to really make it in elite sport, give this a listen!!