The EliteForm Podcast: Recent Episodes

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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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Show notes:

  • Small victories with 1-year-old twins
  • Connecting a BFR study with VBT systems
  • A BFR study with a non-linear undulating periodization program
  • Applying the study during Summer workouts
  • Good results from rehab, how will it benefit healthy athletes?
  • Gavin using the cuffs on himself before implementing them with the team
  • Getting buy-in to change the training style
  • Selling to the Football Coaches, showing results from the rehab guys
  • Returning from Covid with the BFR study
  • How the Season went itself
  • Submitting the study to the NSCA for Presentation
  • Continued implementation of BFR with more Athletes, other sports, longer duration
  • Ways to improve implementation now that the BFR study has validated the idea.
  • Added Competition & Power improvements
  • Expectations for next year

Recorded May 14, 2021, on Instagram Live

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Shownotes: 

  • The new addition
  • AAPCA - African American Performance Coaches Association
  • Trumain Carroll, Kansas State Football
  • aapca.us
  • Elevating others around us
  • Dr. Pat Ivey, Louisville
  • Getting into the Strength & Conditioning Field
  • Getting a variety of experiences in coaching
  • SaJason's Coaching Journey
  • Playing with the Rattlers, being intentional with training
  • Surprises when moving from player to coach
  • Grow where you're at
  • Tech doesn't tell you everything
  • Being Intentional, understanding your Athletes
  • Starting at WSU right before Covid lockdown
  • Playing offense vs defense at EF meetings
  • Adding features based on our coaches
  • Competition mode starting fights :)
  • The AAPCA Facebook page

Recorded on Instagram Live March 19th, 2021

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Show notes: 

  • The Dog-friendly weight room
  • Transitioning from NSCA role to Colorado College
  • Being back in the trenches, @rmckeefery
  • Managing expectations and working with all teams
  • Health & Wellness - preventive vs rehabilitation
  • Strength & Conditioning as a profession
  • Building relationships with the Admin
  • Non-coaching related Podcasts
  • Skiing & backcountry Skiing
  • Dr. Jacked, thanks to @penandpaperstrengthapp
  • Mountain biking
  • Work/life priorities - grinding as a young coach & taking the right opportunities for what you want to pursue
  • The 'Mega-Spring'
  • Future of the NSCA, Strength & Conditioning

Recorded on Instagram Live on February 19th, 2021

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Shownotes: 

  • Christina's background & coaching journey
  • Getting injured as an Athlete without a certified Strength Coach
  • 'You shouldn't get hurt in the Weight Room'
  • Being really good at Excel math
  • https://www.66daysofdata.com/ @KenJee_DS
  • Diving deep to see how data relates to how students are progressing in the weight room, field, and training room
  • Facing the 'Mega-Spring'
  • Identifying KPIs for UDel teams
  • Bringing in technology for subjective data
  • Building a vision for a Data Dashboard
  • Measurables Podcast - https://www.measurablespod.com/podcast
  • Mathletics book - https://www.amazon.com/Mathletics-Gamblers-Enthusiasts-Mathematics-Basketball/dp/0691154589
  • Collegiate recruiting & analytics -
  • Coming up with new material for #66Days - everyone deserves to be highlighted

Recorded January 29, 2021, on Instagram Live

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Show Notes: 

  • FKT (Fastest Known Times)
  • The Kokopelli Trail (140-mile mountain bike trail)
  • Why do this event?
  • Planning & pacing the race
  • Rebecca Rush
  • The views & the playlists
  • The end of the race
  • Hot Tomato Pizza
  • Doing the trail again?
  • Race Day Fueling plans
  • Riding a single-speed & learning to shift
  • Setting FKT results
  • Dietitians & Nutrition
  • Plans for the 2021 Season with @butcherboxracing

Recorded Oct 30th, 2020 on Instagram Live

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Show notes: 

  • Kurt's Background
  • Creating a Strength & Conditioning Major at ONU
  • Making sure Strength & Conditioning Coaches are clinically ready
  • Sorting through the Jargon
  • Improving through Covid
  • Bridging the Strength Lab, Athletic Training, and Athletics
  • Pat Ivey - Person over Title
  • Licenses & Accreditation
  • Rick Danison
  • Clinical Mentorship
  • Being able to talk the science simply enough that people can clearly understand

Music: Death From Above 1979, 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'

Recorded Oct 16, 2020 on Instagram Live

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Show notes: 

  • Handling an entire collegiate program solo
  • Andrea Hudy's Midwest Sports Performance Clinic
  • Teaching programs & clinics with PowerZone
  • @mark_simoneau
  • Becoming the Strength Coach of Fort Hays
  • Intensity & Passion - driving the culture of a program
  • Recruiting to NCAA D-II schools
  • Doug's wife is the best
  • Returning to Competition
  • Training multiple teams & athletes
  • Squatober

Recorded Oct 2, 2020 on Instagram Live

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@dylanjawnson 

Shownotes: 

  • The Shenandoah 100, a hundred-mile mountain bike race
  • Race strategy - Aerobars & the pros joining old school races
  • Upcoming schedule of Gravel Races
  • Dirty Kanza XL
  • Doing product videos on YouTube
  • Myths about being a cyclist, looking at the science
  • Stretching
  • Videos for beginner cyclists
  • Providing content through YouTube

Recorded Live on Instagram Sept 18, 2020

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@skip_cronin

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Show notes: 

  • Transitioning from athlete to coach
  • Late bloomers
  • Using VBT with High School athletes
  • Having an impact on developing student-athletes
  • Mentors shout out: Doug Boucher, Rod Cole, Al Miller
  • Mark's illustrious career as an NFL kicker
  • Getting athletes back to competition

Recorded on Sept 4th, 2020 on Instagram Live

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Shownotes: 

  • Standardizing Student-Athlete welfare
  • What is good science?
  • Why are you doing that? (Having intent)
  • Getting your staff & interns involved in the training process
  • Winning Championships as a judgment for the S&C program
  • Being open to change
  • Moneyball & probability
  • Calling other coaches & managers outside sports to talk & learn

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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Shownotes:

  • Bringing Student-Athletes back to campus at Louisville
  • Pat's role within the Athletics Department
  • 'The Table' Book & Podcasts: https://pativey.com/podcast/
  • Being a Leader
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95gP3m-uBHA (Eric B. & Rakim - Follow The Leader)
  • Conversations on social issues with Student-Athletes.
  • Breonna Taylor
  • Initiatives being set out by the University
  • Empathy & accessibility

Recorded on Instagram Live on August 14th, 2020

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Shownotes:

  • Building relationships & acting professionally
  • Influences that got Coach Mac into podcasting & writing his book
  • Transition to Plae
  • Creating multiple streams of income
  • Coaching in China & getting outside your bubble
  • Being in permanent Beta
  • Getting back to gameday
  • Incremental Improvements
  • Mountain biking & Jui-Jitsu

Record on Instagram Live, July 24th, 2020.

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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: 

  • Bringing athletes back to campus
  • Training options to keep social distance
  • Coaching styles for different athletes
  • Having meaningful conversations about the recent social unrest around the country
  • Talking with other staffs around the country
  • Whatever lane you fill, jump into it and keep moving
  • Staying fit while working with athletes
  • Technology in the weight room
  • Evolution of Sports Science & gathering data for training

Recorded June 12, 2020 on Instagram Live 

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@skip_cronin

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On this Live episode, Skip & Brady talk about:

  • Trying new training programs during isolation
  • Golfing, bourbon, and cigars
  • Being highly competitive
  • Training Basketball players in the weight room
  • Getting reps in at IMG Academy
  • Interviewing for his newest role... and golfing
  • Relationship building & comfort with failing
  • the 'Big Hustle Guy' during pickup ball
  • Peaky Blinders

Recorded Line on Instagram May 15, 2020

@bradenwelsh

@skip_cronin

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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:

  • Getting into Adventure Racing
  • Training & Preparing for Adventure Races
  • 'Investing in Seconds'
  • Keeping Athletes & Staff safe on their return to campus (slight connection issues here, but they improve pretty quickly)
  • Restarting Soccer in the Fall with under trained Athletes
  • Bringing in the right Coaches & Coaching Turnover
  • Hand Cycling

Recorded Live on Instagram, May 22, 2020

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Chris woke up early Brisbane time to join Skip for Cocktail Hour. They had a really fun conversation about all sorts of topics including: 

  • Rehabbing from his own knee surgery so we can go mountain biking again
  • Applying 'academia' within the athletic setting
  • Establishing buy-in with athletes
  • Understanding transfer: Responders vs Non-Responders
  • Testosterone as a biomarker of training
  • Having more time to train for the 2021 Olympics
  • Being a tinkerer/entrepreneur
  • Creating products to fill a gap in the market
  • BFR Cuffs & adding beneficial online content

Social Media: @ChrisGaviglio 

Recorded on May 1, 2020

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?’

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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