The Business of Speed: Recent Episodes
Steve Breitenstein
Insights, Research, and Industry thought Leaders regarding Speed Development, Leadership and Business Development.
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Discussion Around:
Speed Training Methodology:
What did we believe that no longe is true?
Situational Influences
Right Ideas, but not quite right execution
Business:
Systems in order to scale
Writing out Procedures for the simplest to most complex tasks
Leadership:
Balancing Developing Team members while maintaining responsibility for the direction of team/business
When is a fail acceptable vs unacceptable
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Discussion Around:
Speed Training Methodology:
How were our beliefs formed?
Who were the influences?
How often does our current methodology change?
Business:
Unique Staffing Solutions
Where can you find part-time staff?
Why are these individuals great options?
Leadership:
Reinforcing the Language and Beliefs of Your Facility/Business Culture
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Discussion Around:
Pro Day Trends
What is this years trend based on performances?
What change really is being made during pro day prep?
What role is technology really playing in this short window of training?
Fundamental areas of focus in pro day prep!
Business:
End of March = Plan for summer should be in place
Nick - Brain Dump of what should be getting checked now to be ready for summer training
Steve - What is the capacity I want and how do I message to athetes?
Leadership:
No time to wait to develop staff. Pour into them now even if they end up leaving in 6 months!
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Discussion Around:
Coaching Less!!
What we see vs what we choose to say
What are the cues or ideas we are repeating the most
What things do we intentionally avoid saying
Business:
Brainstorming that goes into becoming an entity coach vs facility coach
Some ideas around Capacity, Type of Clients, Renting Space, Type of Facility Culture, Equipment Investment
Leadership:
Taking Risk and How do we frame it
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Discussion Around:
Hip Flexion Focus to Stride Length in:
Starts, Transitional, and Top Speed
Ideas to train thigh split and angular velocity of swing leg
Hip Height control and height in Top Speed
Business:
Future Casting your business
Am I caught in Manager Mode or am I actually Leading?
Goals can be lofty, but do I understand the repercussions of achievement?
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Discussion Around:
Setting up in the Blocks: How do limb lengths come into play?
What does Projection really mean?
Is Force a bad description for the start?
How are we training speed of thighs?
Hip Flexors they Key?
Business:
Steve moving on from TCBOOST. Full Time into WinningLeader and running independent coaching.
What was the timing?
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Discussion Around:
What is shaping the training rhythm at BSP this Spring?
Working with sprinter out of blocks:
Are they worth it?
Does the 2/3 setup have value?
Common faults
Business:
How do you develop a niche?
Does the niche change over time?
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Discussion Around:
Jesse's journey in the profession of sports performance.
From experiences in different settings and levels of athletes, How does he evaluate an athlete and train simultaneously?
What was the catalyst for his move into the consulting space?
Who is Balance the Bar making an impact with?
What are the characteristics of great leaders that Jesse has worked alongside over the years?
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Discussion Around:
Speed:
Coaching College athletes on winter break
Common Mechanical issues
Push for Gains or Return in Shape?
How are we assessing on the fly?
Business:
Career Direction
Consistency Day to Day, Week to Week
No Short Cut
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Discussion Around:
Speed:
Providing great training to athletes juggling multiple practices and other workouts.
How do we always provide a speed stimulus?
How do we evaluate readiness/ability to train?
Business and Leadership:
Simple Steps for Young Coaches to fast track their professionalism.
Maximizing your relationship with a mentor
When in doubt ask WHY?
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Discussion Around:
Coaching
- Tyler's path from Professional Dunker traveling the world to Coaching
- Moments that led to a niche in jump training and online coaching
- Simple Structure for remote programming
Social Media Following
- Early Youtube posting and community engagement
- Utilizing Instagram and growing a following
- Rhythm and Strategies of posting
Future Plans
- What's next for Tyler Ray
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Discussion Around:
Speed:
How are we developing ankles and feet for Stiffness?
Level 1 Progressions
OverSpeed Jumps and Drills Valuable?
Business Development:
Shift in Perception of Private Sector Coaches
Trend of Coaches moving from HS, College or Pro setting to Individual Coaching
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Discussion Around:
Why have we not recorded in a month?
Building Permits and intended use
Hiring Process and Fresh Energy
Is this all worth the pain and agony day to day?
How do we keep going in order to persevere?
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Coach Jeremy Boone joins the podcast:
How his lens as a coach was formed
Game Based Speed and Agility Training
How did the business develop and lead him to the NFL and around the world
Axiology and Understanding decision making
Athlete Development body and mind transition to Leadership Development
Desire to Lead, Winning Leader Academy and Leaderkit
https://www.winningleader.com/
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Discussion Around:
Struggles as a coach to be GREAT at certain aspects of coaching or pretty good at a lot of aspects.
Why are you valuable as a potential hire to a staff?
What leads people to want to hear you present or consult for their program?
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Discussion Around:
Speed:
- Advanced progressions of overspeed cutting
Hip Flips and Retreat Skills
- Resisted vs Assisted Approach Jumping
Business:
Current changes in the facilities:
- Working through a change in Client Managment Systems and Client Retention Management
- What are the reservations going into this process and What drives the need for a change
- Website design and maintenance that is clean and easy
- Streamlining how clients receive information and engage with us
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Discussion Around:
Speed:
- Exploring advanced speed training protocols
- What do we need to see in order to attempt higher level training?
- Acceleration: Resist Release training
Business:
- Bringing Solutions to problems to potential clients BEFORE they know there is a problem
- Nick gives great examples of recent business success
- Make an opportunity easy for the other side of interaction!
Leadership:
- Creativity and Being an Agile Leader
- Mindset
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It's ok to make decisions and then have to correct because it didn't work out, but paralysis with no direction will crush an organization
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Discussion Around:
Speed/Business:
- Offering Assessments and Evaluations - Technology for ROM
- Why you can't have norms for General Population Adults as the guide for evaluating Athletes!!!
- Similarly you can compare the most Elite athletes to high school athletes
- Do we really understand what a sport dictates the body be able to do?
Leadership:
- Struggles to give and receive criticism/feedback to other coaches
- What is the foundation of an environment of GROWTH on a staff?
Moving from being a Coach, to a Professional in the Industry, and then to World Class
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1 Struggle of young coaches in their Journey
- Simple strategies to take control of the Week!
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Coach Tony Holler joins the podcast to talk about his journey through the business of speed coaching as a twist from his content surrounding Feed the Cats philosophy!
- The Evolution of his career from science teacher and high school coach to speed entity!
- What was the catalyst for TFC's creation
Keys to the "Overnight Success"
What level of intentionality was there along the way to create a business from coaching?
Reflections on the journey what are the key moments that stand out that have led to where he is now?
What is the most asked Questions that he receives after speaking at events?
Closing thoughts and advice from Coach Holler
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Discussion Around:
Speed:
Over scheduled summer and ACL injuries
What is our role in an athlete's Return to Play Process?
What is a realistic timeline for Return?
Where do we begin training strategy wise?
- Eccentric, Isometric, Concentric
- Bodyweight, Loading, Cutting
Business:
Offsite opportunities
Are we going offsite in the summer?
How do we strategically use combines and demos offsite to drive in clients?
- process of planning, pre event marketing, during event contact points, and follow ups
15 points of contact before a Call to Action is Made
Leadership:
CONSISTENCY
Creating consistent experiences for staff - minimizing the peaks and valleys
Developing the 3 Level of Mentorship to have mentors and Co Growth individuals to confide in and seek advice
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Discussion Around:
Speed:
Types of Training for Hip Flexor Development
Considerations of tempo, positioning, Range of Motion, simple to complex
Business:
What does Busy REALLY mean???
Lazy Busy vs Productive Busy
Leadership:
Discipline: Where is it showing up and where is it missing?
DEEP Work
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Discussion Around:
Speed:
Programming for athletes that only train during the summer (multi sport athletes)
Emphasis of in season training and the pitfalls of not
Challenge of high number of competitions in early summer while simultaneously making huge improvements.
Business:
What are big focuses as a busy season comes upon us
Where are we spending our time and energy
Leadership:
Continuing to invest in our staffs through the busy season. MANDATORY
Surprising topics that matter to younger staff
The evolving lens of a veteran coach
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Mike Shares Insights from Guiding Teams in Corporate America for 20+ years
- Defining Corporate Cultural and 4 Pillars to guide its development
- Effective Strategies in branding and incorporating social media
- What is the Foundation of Effective Leadership in Corporate Setting and does it scale down to small business
- What really matters in the hiring process? Resume, Experience, Potential?
- How to develop a new hire and what it means to have staff move on to new opportunities
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Discussion Around:
Speed:
How do we bring our Summer College athletes into training for an 8- 10 week training period
What is unique about working with College vs High School and Middle School
Evaluation while training vs Formal Evaluation
Business:
How long to plan before being able to execute
What are the intentional steps
How long before ROI is clear (hint: longer than you'd like)
Leadership:
Strategies to blend new staff members to a team and the addition of interns
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Discussion Around:
Brattain Sports Performance Move to New Location
- Process of announcing a move and executing the actual move
- How did clients respond and pitch in
- What are the best features of new space and unexpected issues that are now being solved
- Anything that would do different if there was do over
- Nostalgia of long term clients
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Discussion Around:
Speed Training:
How to keep long term athletes engaged when revisiting fundamental skills
Developing a culture of learning
Randomized Jump Stimuluses
Business:
Scaling a coaching business
Lessons Learned starting and growing a brick and mortar facility
Leveraging your strengths as an owner and hiring around you
Leadership:
How do I develop coaches into their own vs mini versions of you
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Discussion Around:
Speed Training:
Basketball Early Offseason - AAU, College, High School
What are Top Priorities?
How are we Assessing and Bucketing?
Business:
Pros and Cons of Staff Turnover - Opportunity for Business Growth?
Leadership:
Conflict of Revenue vs Leading and Developing a staff
When the numbers take over our thought process!
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Discussion Around:
Speed Training:
Hip Flexor importance in Change of Direction
What makes an exercise transferable? What are our strategies to train the hip flexor and its patterning?
Is muscle stimulation, patterning or velocity the key?
Business:
Nick takes us through some of the not so obvious items that need attention when evaluating a space for rent or purchase
How to eliminate headaches later on!
Leadership- 10min
When TRUST is conditional
How can we develop better levels of trust in relationships
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Discussion Around:
Speed Training:
Can we train Force Output and Frequency at the same time?
Sled Protocols to maximize benefit
Are we undervaluing hip flexor function?
Business:
Hiring - What makes a candidate stand out
Investing in the process of hiring - flying potential coaches out to the facility, shadowing a day,
interview process
Intentionally Slow to Hire
Leadership- 10min
Maintaining Direction amongst a Sea of DISTRACTIONS
The Matrix of Important and Urgent
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Discussion Around:
What has happened in the last year personal and business wise?
Why are we back creating content?
Speed Training:
Discussing Current Trends in Speed Training
Conditioning vs Speed - Pendulum
Case Studies vs Methodologies - Speed Product Development
Investing to develop coaching eye for speed
Label of FTC, Altis, Exos, etc same as Westside, Conjugate
Business:
Hiring - Discussing the Pre Process of New Staff Hires
Make it About the Hire not You
Leadership- 10min
Language of A Leader
What do you want FOR staff vs FROM staff
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Discussion Around:
Recap of the 2021 Coaching year. Relaunch of the Podcast in 2022.
Speed Training:
Current trends in training, Data Collecting and decision making
Whats Next?
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Discussion Around:
Return to play protocols
- Common issues athletes are returning from
- Progression of movements
- Bridging the Gap from Rehab to Full Play
Courageous Athletes
- Why confidence is over emphasized
- How to cultivate courage
Business
- Continuous Loop of Communication
- Language of FOR others vs From Others
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Discussion Around:
Speed Endurance
- How do we define it?
- How do we evolve it during the year?
- How to adjust based on training load
Leading from a Distance
- How do you stay connected and guide?
Business Concept - Purchasing and outfitting space
- Build as you go, financing equipment
- What is your facility designed around?
- What is the dream setup vs what is the minimum necessary to train?
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Discussion featuring Pat Nolan:
Change of Direction Training
Shangles, Drill Creation and Large Group scaling
Business Development
Opening a Facility during the shutdown
Motivations for becoming a business owner
Biggest Hurdles and Solutions
Leadership
How do you mentor your athletes beyond just a training session!
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Discussion Around:
Mid Summer Check-in
Experience Of Clients
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3rd Place
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Intentionality Before, Pre, During, End, Post Sessions
Leading a staff
- How to evaluate the training experience
3 Month Lag
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Discussion Around:
Rhythm and Timing of Stride VS Absolute Speed
· What are we looking / listening for?
· How can we use data (1080) to better understand what is happening within stride?
· Rhythm within the body during stride
Leading Beyond the Facility/ Leading at Home
· What does it look like to lead at home?
· How do you navigate leading both family and staff?
· How can you set an example for your staff through your prioritization of family
Next Steps After Selecting a Physical Location
· What expenses should you be preparing for?
· What leasing options should you be prepared to negotiate?
· How do you decide between business type?
· How do you set up future employees?
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Discussion Around:
Working with Female Athletes in the Weight Room
- Training Age
- Misinformation of fitness, nutrition and performance training
- Sport Culture difference male and female and how it influences training environment
What are key considerations when working volleyball athletes?
What Value has Missy seen from the NHSSCA and where is she focusing on adding the most value going forward
Preview of 2021 NatCon
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Discussion Around:
Resisted Sprinting
What Tools are we utilizing?
What is the Focus of Specific Drills with Resistance?
What is the Desired Outcome of Resisted Sprinting?
Leading as an Introvert
Does leading as an introvert look different?
Are there less opportunities because of this?
How do you take care of yourself?
Understanding Relationship Building with Other Coaches
Always be looking for opportunities to ADD VALUE!
Always be looking for ways to form new relationships
Resource mentions:
Jab Jab Jab Right Hook - Gary Vaynerchuk
Louis Sauer Golf
Carbon Diet APP - Layne Norton
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Discussion Around:
Ground Contact Time (GCT)
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Why is this important?
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How are we measuring and tracking this?
Caring for those you are guiding
How do you show you care?
What are questions to drive conversations?
First Steps when choosing a building for Brick and Mortar business
Where are your clients coming from?
What are the dimensions?
Many more questions to ask before choosing!
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Discussion Around:
Plyometrics and Olympic Lifting Continued
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Progressions and Applications
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Why coaches are hesitant to use Olympic Variations
Communication as a Leader
- Why Communication isn't enough!
-From vs For Language
Created your Brand Name, now intentional relationship building
- Search opportunities to add value with others
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Discussion Around:
Comparing Usage of Olympic Lifting Variations and Plyometrics Part 1
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Defining Variations of Olympic Lifts
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Defining Plyometric vs Jumping
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Understanding Ankle Reactivity
Leading through details
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How have small details made big impacts
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Visionary vs task orientated team members
Creating a name for yourself
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Become a thought leader, then SHARE those concepts
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Speaking and adding value to increase your notoriety
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Discussion Around:
Unilateral and Bilateral Training
- The Age Old Debate
-When and why do we utilize each
Obtaining and Utilizing Leadership Concepts
-Beyond Chronic Content Consuming
-Creating Context for Concepts
Designing Pricing Structures
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What is right for your current situation
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Evolving pricing as facility changes
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Discussion Around:
Power Training For Speed Development
- Age, Sport Considerations, Intra Week Adjustments
- Movement Selection
Leading Up
- Navigating Discussions with Superiors during times of Disagreement
Creating Experience for Athletes and Clients
- When RESULTS aren't enough
- What sets your training apart
- Why do clients/athletes want to come back
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Coach Matt Tometz joins to Discuss Sport Science and Application to the Private Setting
1. Defining Sport Science
2. Readiness Evaluations and sRPE
3. What does research look like in a setting with minimal control?
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Special Guest Episode featuring Lee Taft
Discussion Around:
- The Pendulum of trends in training Micro Dosing and Top Speed focused training
- How to apply new innovative training without losing the foundation of system
- The Process of Evaluating Athletes
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Navigating coaching as a career - having a facility, consulting, clinics, product development - He's done it all!
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Leadership - Developing next generation Leaders through athletes coached and coaches mentored
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This Episode Discusses:
1. What does strength training look like when training for speed?
-Age Considerations, Sport Considerations, Intra-week adjustments
-Exercises, Sets/ Reps, Days of Week
2. Establishing and Maintaining Expectations
3. What does an onboarding process for interns and coaches
- Integration into current culture and evolution of culture
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This Episode Discusses:
Organizing Top Speed, Acceleration, Change of Direction and Agility in a week training plan.
What does company culture look like and does it change over time?
Hiring New Staff: Where do you start your search and What are you searching for?
Continuing Education Corner
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This Episode Discusses:
After the Evaluation, Foundations of Linear Speed Programming in a group and private setting
As Leaders, taking risk and the courage required to lead a team.
Intentional content creation. Creating a yearly plan and executing
Continuing Education Corner
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This Episode Discusses
Evaluating Athletes as the they come into the facility or join from an offseason
As Leaders, Creating opportunities for others to lead and why is this important
Steps to take in developing your own personal brand and the value
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Who are Nick Brattain and Steve Breitenstein
This Episode Discusses value of Speed Development for athletes and what does speed training look like.
What are the different types of leaders and what the dangers and strengths
No matter where a coach is right now, creating a personal brand is the utmost importance.