As we look back at the previous nine years, we realize our greatest success is in the relationships we’ve established within the Athletic Performance community. So many extraordinary people are willing to “talk shop” about everything from performance, technology, business, to simply life at large.
Those conversations are meaningful enough to us that trying to share them only makes sense. Casual and unscripted, we just dive in and go. Check out the EliteForm Podcast now.
We are excited to launch TeamSync, our budget-friendly team solution for velocity-based training. In this episode, we chat with our early adopters, the strength and conditioning staff from Concordia St. Paul. They've been on the frontlines, collaborating closely with EliteForm to fine-tune and optimize TeamSync. Listen in to learn the ins and outs of TeamSync.
With his expertise in strength and conditioning, nutrition, and injury prevention, he's been instrumental in helping some of the nation's top athletes achieve their goals. But it's not just his technical skills that set him apart - it's his passion, his drive, and his unwavering commitment to excellence that make him a true game-changer.
Robert Stiner has been an integral part of the success of some of the biggest athletic programs in the nation, including; Notre Dame, USC, Cincinnati, LSU and Mississippi State to success. Now appointed Head Coach at Georgia Southern, he sheds light on his years of experiences which saw him rise to the top.
After a Podcast hiatus, this heavy-hitting return is sure to make up for the lost time. Host Skip Cronin and Cohost Andrea "the hurricane" Hudy take the opportunity to pick one of the biggest masterminds in Sports Science. Dr. Kraemer is a USA Strength & Conditioning Hall of Famer and is a world-renowned scholar for his work in resistance training.
In this episode, we sit down with cyclists Adam Mills and Innokenty Zavyalov to discuss their approaches to training and how they are preparing for the upcoming racing season.
On this episode of The EliteForm Podcast, Donnie Maib and Clint Martin join us on the show. They talk about everything from their relationship to how they get their players to succeed!
In this episode, we sit down with Jake Flint, LSU's Director of Development, to explore how he integrates EliteForm into his work with athletes!
Join us for our podcast with host and EliteForm CEO Skip Cronin, co-host and The University of Texas at Austin Coach Clint Martin, and special guest Andrea Hudy, Head Coach of the University of Connecticut Women's Basketball Team.
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Recorded May 14, 2021, on Instagram Live
Music: Death From Above 1979, 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'
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Recorded on Instagram Live March 19th, 2021
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Recorded on Instagram Live on February 19th, 2021
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Recorded January 29, 2021, on Instagram Live
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Recorded Oct 30th, 2020 on Instagram Live
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Recorded Oct 16, 2020 on Instagram Live
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Recorded Oct 2, 2020 on Instagram Live
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Recorded Live on Instagram Sept 18, 2020
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Recorded on Sept 4th, 2020 on Instagram Live
Music: Death From Above 1979 "If We Don't Fake It We'll Make It"
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Music: Death From Above 1979 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'
Recorded on Instagram Live, August 21st, 2020.
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Recorded on Instagram Live on August 14th, 2020
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Record on Instagram Live, July 24th, 2020.
Music: Death From Above 1979 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'
Clint Martin, Assistant Coach for Athletic Performance, University of Texas Austin.
@MrCMar10
Skip & Clint had a super interesting conversation during the EliteForm Cocktail Hour about many things happening in Austin & around the world today. Some topics covered:
Recorded June 12, 2020 on Instagram Live
Music: Death From Above 1979 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'
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On this Live episode, Skip & Brady talk about:
Recorded Line on Instagram May 15, 2020
@bradenwelsh
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Music: DFA 1979 "If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It"
Tom Morris, Assistant Athletic Director for Athletic Performance, Indiana University
@tommorrisperformance
Tom & Skip got together for a virtual EliteForm Cocktail Hour and had a fun, casual conversation about a little of everything. Topics covered:
Recorded Live on Instagram, May 22, 2020
Music: Death From Above 1979, 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'
Chris woke up early Brisbane time to join Skip for Cocktail Hour. They had a really fun conversation about all sorts of topics including:
Social Media: @ChrisGaviglio
Recorded on May 1, 2020
Music: DFA1979 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'
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Ben Watson, CEO of Hawkin Dynamics, joined Skip on Instagram Live for a fun conversation about:
The origins of Hawkin Dynamics
Designing HD's Force Plates
Running and growing a small start-up business
Adapting to the pandemic
Coaches vs Covid & online education opportunities
@hawkindynamics
Recorded on April 30th, 2020
Music: DFA 1979 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'
Mike Ormsbee, PhD
Associate Professor at the Human Performance & Sports Nutrition Lab, Institute of Sports Science & Medicine, Florida State University
@mikeormsbee
For this EliteForm Cocktail Hour, Mike joined Skip live on Instagram to discuss research at the Lab & how it applies to sport teams, training in heat, hydration, and Creatine. Mike also talks about his own training for Triathlons & the 2019 CrossFit Open, along with a host of other topics.
Episode recorded April 24, 2020
Music: DFA1979 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'
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Glenn Cain, Associate Director of Strength & Conditioning at Rutgers University.
@gcainstrength @ru_strong
Glenn joined Skip for Cocktail Hour Live on Instagram. They had a great conversation about how Glenn is training is team remotely, integrating new players from a distance, and Return to Play protocols once student athletes are back on campus. In addition, they dive into cooking and nutrition.
Book Recommendation: Rich Food Poor Food, Mira & Jayson Calton
Recorded April 23, 2020
Music: DFA1979 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'
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Show notes:
1:40 Enterprise Legal Studio (Bart Dillashaw)
3:20 Ben’s Role at Invest Nebraska
7:10 Dan Hoffman & Matt Foley
10:35 Shark Tank pitching
11:35 The pitching process for Invest NE
14:35 ‘What is this problem you’re trying to solve in the world?’
19:05 Minimally viable product, the MVP
21:10 Categories of investments
24:25 Ocuvera & Steve Kiene
27:20 Covid19’s impact on finance
29:50 Metrics of growth
33:20 The Power Curve
41:05 Funding styles
44:20 Why VCs are okay with companies failing fast
47:45 Being an investor vs being a good investor
51:20 VC in pop culture has been bastardized
53:40 The data on successful funds
59:20 Competition between funds in small vs larger market
1:02:35 Malort Moment
1:07:35 ‘No one is really good at picking companies’
1:09:00 Kauffman Foundation
1:13:20 Equity in a company defined
1:16:50 The Exit stage
1:32:05 Define Entrepreneur
1:32:40 Ben’s Gym business
1:34:30 Parks & Rec reference from Skip (drink)
Music: DFA1979 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'
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2:30 Indiana HS Cluster system - Skip’s still bent up about it
4:05 John & Bryan’s roles at Brownsburg
5:55 550+ students through the weight room during the school day
6:30 Changing the culture is a commitment by the entire school
7:35 First steps for building a HS culture
10:55 It’s more than just putting in data
13:35 Casey Popenfoose chooses the music
16:25 Getting high school population to find training important
18:45 Rolling Meadows HS, Doug Millsaps
20:35 Bryan Neese getting into Bodybuilding, Highland Games, & World’s Strongest Man
22:30 Breaking Bricks with Jason Quellhorst
23:50 1999 US World's Strongest Man
24:00 Odde Haugen
24:30 Martins Licis
24:50 Strongman Events then & now
29:20 Chad Coy
30:30 Training for Strongman
33:20 Mastiff Strength Equipment
35:35 Hugo Girard
36:40 1999 Malta
38:10 Teaching while competing
43:15 One focus, getting you stronger
45:50 Disney
49:30 Brownsburg school system
51:10 Mike Richardson PowerLift
55:55 David Ballou
57:55 Learning to use EF
1:01:00 ‘Boards’ explained
1:06:30 API
1:07:30 Chris Doyle, Iowa
1:09:10 Maintaining workload throughout the season
Music: DFA 1979 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'
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1:15 Willie’s mixtapes
3:15 Wives are a godsend
4:30 Working at the Univ of Illinois
7:45 Roles within the strength staff
8:30 Interacting with players daily
10:20 Becoming a Strength Coach
13:45 Nate Moe, Chris Doyle, James Dobson
21:00 Malort moment
25:35 Willie’s R&D with EF
35:55 What’s next in sports tech?
37:00 Brad Schmidt podcast
39:05 Max Velocity Training, Catapult
40:15 John Ferranto
4630 CNN Video with Coy Wire
43:50 Progressing the profession & doing right by the Athletes
45:30 Coach Z Keeping Student-Athletes best interest in mind
47:30 ‘There’s a standard that needs to be met... before they like me.’
51:00 Memories of combat drills (Niko)
53:00 Helping players reach their next goal
Music: DFA1979 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'
@skip_cronin
Dr Andrew Fry, KU Athletic Performance Lab
5:30 Playing background & joint replacements
11:15 Watching sports as a father & performance coach
13:45 NSCA Special Interest Group on Baseball
14:30 Is technology directing the field, or are sports directing the technology?
17:30 Working with KU Basketball
21:30 What drives areas of focus in the lab?
26:40 Dr. Bill Sands
27:15 State of S&C research publications
37:00 How to get started in the research
45:05 The goal of a sport scientist
50:30 Sabbatical work – Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
52:50 Molecular & cellular responses in muscles to resistance training
57:30 AV Hill
58:45 Enhancing Cognitive Function and Brain Plasticity– Human Kinetics
1:01:05 Measuring the correct data incorrectly
1:05:35 Dr. Chris Bach
1:06:00 Costs & turnaround time of gathering data
1:08:05 Ali Kershner
1:16:20 Glenn Cain & basketball squat strength
1:20:20 Speed testing for baseball
1:24:50 What question are we trying to answer?
1:25:30 Malort Moment
1:26:15 Dr. Mary Fry, Sports Psychology
1:29:50 Achievement Goal Theory
1:35:40 Dr. Candace Hogue, Penn State Harrisburg
Music: DFA1979 “If We Don’t Make It We’ll Fake It”
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David VanDyke, Rutgers University Assistant Athletics Director – Strength & Conditioning
1:20 Motivation
2:30 Chris Bach podcast
3:50 The role of strength coaches within the team
7:40 The YouTube psychology degree
10:00 Building a department vs entering an established department
12:20 Glenn Cain & Frank Quartucci
13:00 Figure out how to get the most out of the people you have
14:50 Listening and asking for opinions – giving them something to care about
20:00 Technology used at Rutgers
25:30 Showing that you can add value for the Sport Coach
33:00 Dostoevsky & suffering
40:30 Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
42:30 Ordinary People
46:50 Introducing new opinions & overcoming resistance
49:00 Progressing in the field
51:00 Being an introvert & being okay with uncomfortable situations
56:00 Malort moment
58:15 Pregame process
1:03:10 Keep technology inconspicuous - Make it so the guys don’t realize they have technology on
1:06:20 Athlete mindset vs the coaching perspective
1:09:35 Playing cards at the Van Dyke house
Music: DFA1979 ‘If We Don’t Make It We’ll Fake It
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Andrea Hudy - Head Coach, Basketball Strength & Conditioning, Texas Longhorns
3:45 Jay Thomas
5:55 Peloton therapy
7:15 Socially data driven metrics
7:50 Cole Aldrich
10:50 Hypnotherapy
15:00 Inclusivity & diversity through recruitment
19:35 Connecting with people through Social Media
23:00 Dr Coyle, Human Performance Lab & the Iso-inertial Ergometer Bike
25:30 Load vs Range of Motion
30:45 Overloading without overworking
35:30 ‘Two Healthy sets per one Performance set’
38:10 Looking at the stat line to focus training in the weight room
39:00 Sparta & Catapult
41:45 Creating value as a Performance Coach
42:35 Decreasing fear of performance
46:00 ‘What do I need to do to play more?’ vs ‘Why am I not playing?’
Music: DFA1979 – ‘If We Don’t Make It We’ll Fake It’
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LaDonna Reed, Exhibit & Conference Manager - NSCA
1:25 Celebrating birthdays
3:30 Competing with US Track & Field; Getting faster & wiser as we age
5:00 Ending 2019 Season ranked #1 in Javelin
7:10 From Gymnastics to Track & Field at Cal State Fullerton
9:20 Benjamin Brown
15:20 4-year-old LaDonna’s first track meet
17:45 Get Movin’ PT
25:55 Donate Blood, play Rugby
28:05 Role at NSCA
30:15 Controversial Take!! ‘I have never had coffee’
33:10 Natural Athletes & the US Anti-Doping Agency
44:30 Reintegration of athletes after a failed drug test
49:30 Saying ‘It’s a blessing that you’re alive’
50:30 Toronto for the World Championships
51:15 Determining how a Conference went from the NSCA perspective
57:15 Future NSCA Conferences
1:01:10 Novel approaches for vendors to make connections with people
Music: DFA1979, 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'
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1:00 NAPL, the in-house sport science lab
2:10 Qualisys motion capture system
5:45 Having array of tools, being able to apply appropriate resource for the situation
9:45 What is a Sport Scientist & Applied Sport Science on a day to day basis
17:25 Base stealing – Profiling the acceleration phase with 1080 Sprint
19:30 Chidi Enyia
29:00 Bucketing athletes into groups to inform specific training
32:20 Collecting video is critical
38:00 Athletes are not lab rats
41:00 Malort moment, ‘it can’t get any worse’
43:25 Vitor Profeta
43:50 UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
47:00 Snippit Sports Science Podcast with Chris Gaviglio
49:00 Craig Pickering & John Kiely – the ‘omics’ & personalized sports training
56:45 How personal sporting experience puts context to current research & workouts
1:00:10 EF Podcast with Luke Bradford
1:02:30 Being rumble strips for athletes & the team
1:06:00 Firstbeat
Music: DFA1979 ‘If We Don’t Make It We’ll Fake It’
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Jay Thomas, Factor Bikes & Champion System
4:30 Leadboat Challenge
8:45 Team Over-analysis (Mark Savery) & prepping for a race at altitude
15:00 Factor Bikes & Champion System
16:20 Israel Cycling Academy & Team Parkhotel Women’s
17:20 Let my People Go Surfing, Yvon Chouinard
20:35 If I can ride my bike with you for an hour, and I enjoy it, we’re probably gonna work pretty good together
21:35 Internal & external customers
23:15 Creating a customer-centric identity
30:00 Shaping the perception of the Factor brand
40:30 Having a broad presence in a small social media community
42:25 TJ Eisenhart
42:45 Eric Marcotte
47:30 Inclusivity in the cycling world - Lindsay Knight, Instafund team
45:50 Bringing inclusivity into the bike shop – different voices make the company better
48:40 Lindsay Goldman
50:20 Events & opportunities in the Midwest
57:50 Evolution of bike production & improving messaging to consumers
59:50 Graham Schrive
1:02:05 DKXL & Land Run Double
Luke Bradford, University of Kansas
5:30 Having something to prepare for physically
7:20 Zach Zillner – you’re working out or training
11:25 Update on Luke’s Role at KU
15:10 It takes an entire staff to get all the work done well
18:50 Sparta Science
19:15 Vert for managing training impact & volume in Volleyball
23:00 Collecting data and communicating with sport coaches
29:55 An intimate, convenient event to share information: ‘The Conference’ May 8th, 2020
41:00 Moving between assistant to head roles
46:45 Talking about Portable & collaborating for installs
55:40 Improving our software
56:45 Joe Staub never backs down from a challenge
1:05:50 Microadventures by Allister Humphries
1:08:50 DYK there are 53 fourteeners in Colorado? The corporate wellness brigade does
1:23:00 Kayak adventures & getting more joy out of less
Music: DFA1979 - 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'
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Corey Meredith, Kansas State University Football
3:00 Transition to a new Football coaching staff
10:15 How the environment in the weight room resets every year
12:30 Taking input from sport coaches & and student athletes
18:15 If you’re skipping reps in the weight room, you’re probably gonna take some shortcuts on the field
20:00 Having open dialogue with position coaches & players
28:20 Starting out at a small school, to the NFL, to FBS
35:45 Taking a walk with Mike Barweis
38:50 Staying in touch with guys after they’re done playing
45:05 Healthy ego vs big ego
52:00 Malort moments
54:30 Finishing the season in the weight room
1:03:05 Santi Murtaugh
1:03:45 Salaries & having a passion for what you’re doing
Music: DFA1976 – ‘If We Don’t Make It We’ll Fake It’
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Brad Schmidt, Creighton University @BlueJayBrad
2:30 - Using Firstbeat to monitor training, avoiding getting buried in the data
4:02 – Shout out Donnie Maib & Nate Moe
8:55 – Using Data to categorize drill intensities & get buy in from sport coaches
15:00 – Building larger purchases into new building projects
16:05 – Shout out Andrea Hudy
17:30 – Using force plates for F-V Profiling (partnership with PT & Ex Sci programs on campus – Lee Barker, Jake Siedlik)
18:55 – Athlete Centered Health & Wellness Initiative
Some additional info on the H&W Program at CU
29:50 – Attracting the next generation of student athletes to campus
Brad noted later on that enrollment rate numbers vary depending on the study, some additional info here: 1, 2, 3, 4.
49:45 – Motivate to Avoid Failure vs Motivate to Achieve Success
56:50 – So… Malort
1:03:55 – Improving the hiring process & compensation for full time strength coaches
1:08:10 – Giving coaches more oversight means Increased responsibility on health & safety
1:15:45 – Dr Baechle
1:18:45 – Cal Dietz
1:21:30 – Letting athletes have ownership and the importance of patience in the process
Music: DFA1979 - 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'
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