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• Learn more about Scott

  • Leave Your Mark Podcast
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Reconditioning HQ
  • How much weight you can lift vs. how much you need to lift to be good at your sport
  • Strength training for American Football vs. Hockey
  • Understanding the demand of their/your sport
  • Getting into professional sports then shifting to owning a private facility to working with olympic athletes
  • Winter Spring Seminar Talk - Using Video Analysis to Inform Your Programming
  • Specificity is looking at what the demands of your athlete are where you apply overload and stimulus to systems to prepare them to manage chaos
  • The gym is a laboratory for experimentation
  • Look for how things are connected
  • How Scott got started podcasting and kept going
  • Reconditioning HQ

Book of the Week:

• Scott: Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey and The Attributes: 25 Hidden Drivers of Optimal Performance
• Kevin: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk

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• Vinny Talluto

  • Website
  • IG @vinny_talluto
  • Twitter @vinny_talluto
  • Linkedin
  • MBSC Spring Seminar (available in-person and online)
  • Start with Why
  • As a young coach - Be a “Yes” person

  • The “DNA” around group and semi-private training

  • Programming

  • The Art of Coaching
  • Creating an experience
  • Logistics dictates programming
  • COVID helped with the organization of MBSC and it’s programming
  • Program conservatively, you can always make it more difficult
  • Try to program proactively, coach reactively.
  • You need to be able to communicate with clients to show that you care
  • Coaching volume can be developed (dimmer switches)
  • Hand hold clients in the beginning, slowly let the dove fly away
  • Don’t coach them until you know their name, their family, their interests, their goals
  • With injured clients, write the program as if they were 100% then work back wards using your regressions and lateralizations
  • Bad coaches say I’ll remember, good coaches write it down
  • Never Lose a Customer Again

Book of the Week:

• Vinny: I Will Teach You to be Rich by Ramit Sethi
• Kevin: Overcome: Crush Adversity with the Leadership Techniques of America's Toughest Warriors by Jason Redman

MBSC Spring Seminar(available in-person and online)

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• Introduction and Where to find Pat “Active and Agile”

  • Website: https://www.activeandagile.com/
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/activeandagile/?hl=en
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pat-vangalen-activeandagile99a53420/
  • Progressing through as we age… get after when you’re younger “Put the bone in the bank early! Put the muscle in the bank early!”
  • Daily, weekly, and seasonal habits and practices
  • Choose the right tool for the job
  • Maximize your health span, not just your life span
  • Train, Play, Move
  • Blue Zones
  • Fall prevention
  • We don’t want injuries in the gym but you need to prepare them for the uncertainty of life and movement
  • There are no silver bullets, it's more like silver buckshot!
  • You can change the pace at which you age
  • Basics, Baselines and Benchmarks, earn ‘em and fight to keep ‘em
  • The MBSC Spring Seminar attend In-person or Virtual April 1st and 2nd

Book of the Week:

• Pat: Blue Zones by Dan Buettner and Neurobics by Lawrence Katz and Manning Rubin
• Kevin: Spring Chicken by Dan Gifford

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Train Smarter and Harder Fitness

• The Garage Gym
• The 24/7 Hybrid Model?
• Opening before COVID vs after COVID
• Silver vs. Platinum Memberships
• Uninitiated believers 63% - Price | Time | Value
• Whatever you decide to do you’re going to have headache
• Just send an email, the worst that can happen is they say no or they don’t answer

Zone 2

• Is low intensity cardiac output work, done for an extended period of time
• Build a bigger gas tank
• Can you have a conversation still is Zone Two, if you’re breathing heavy it’s probably not Zone 2
• If you’re not fast or good enough to get on the field, court or ice, then it doesn’t really matter how big your gas tank is. Horsepower first.
• the Long Term Athletic Development Model and Type II muscle fibers during peak velocity growth
• There’s a lot of Couch to 5K programs, but there are no Couch to NBA programs
• It’s much harder to help someone get strong or powerful than it is to help someone get in shape.
• Zone 2 takes so much time that realistically it doesn’t make sense to program if you only have 3 hours a week in the gym
• Your gas tank only has to be big enough, bigger might not be better. If you think of Racing they could put bigger gas tanks in the car to decrease the number of pit stops but a heavier car is a slower car. You’d lose every race.
• Interval training can improve Vo2Max
• When it comes to the general population and we are thinking longevity and health then zone 2 makes more sense or I may be more willing to do long slow training for 45+ minutes
• Sports = performance, wins, injury prevention, contracts
• Gen Pop = blood panels, disability years, ADLs, longer life, decrease pain
• Meet people where they’re at! Episode 13
• Context matters, the answer is to probably do a little bit of both
• The MBSC Myzone challenge - Understand your heart!
• People don’t really care about the prizes, people are competitive by nature, wants to compete and wants to be recognized for it
• The MBSC Spring Seminar attend In-person or Virtual Sign Up by Jan 18th for the Early Bird Discount!

Book of the Week:

• Brendon: The Book of Joe: Trying Not to Suck at Baseball and Life by Joe Maddon, Tom Verducci, et al.
• Kevin: How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes: Science-Based Strategies for Better Parenting - from Tots to Teens by Melinda Wenner Moyer

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• 15 year Anniversary of the Strength Coach Podcast!

  • Get the exclusive "40 Mistakes, 40 Years" with Michael Boyle episode here: https://50for50.aweb.page/p/77df8889-82e1-4b7a-ae7b-9ee5d237759e
  • Podcasting before it was cool
  • Be Like the Best Book (and corresponding workbook)
  • What it means to have a mentor like Michael Boyle
  • The more I give the more I seem to get in return
  • What is Anthony currently working on: 50 for 50

Book of the Week:

• Brendon: Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke
• Anthony: Building a Story Brand by Donald Miller and Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
• Kevin: Be Like the Best by Anthony Renna

Where to find Anthony:

• Continue Fit
• Strength Coach Podcast
• 50 for 50
• @antrenna

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• Introduction

  • Clubhouse Fitness
  • Instagram @theclubhouse and @notmarksanchez
  • The benefits of being a generalist
  • Working in professional sports
  • Working as a manager at Equinox
  • Self care and burnout - Schedule yourself like a client and change your environment!
  • Setting boundaries

Book of the Week:

• Kevin: Making a Literary Life by Carolyn See
• Marco: Anatomy of Breathing by Aandine Calais-Germain

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• Follow Megan:

  • Website: https://www.mp-athletictherapy.com
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganpomarensky/
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/meganpomarensky
  • Join Her Newsletter: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5f89b001976827736b42d253
  • “Rehab is training in the presence of an injury”
  • “You’re not injured, you’re 85% healthy”
  • Rehab has gotten very passive
  • Meet them where they’re at with graded exposure and empower them to move actively
  • Where is the line between a medical professional and a trainer? Unexplained pain.

  • Article: STOP WORRYING, AND START LIVING.

  • 90% of people between 50-55 years old have age related changes in their spine (but 9/10 people don’t have back pain).

  • 48% of people between 20-22 years old have age related changes in a disc, while 25% had a bulge (so there goes that “just getting old” analogy).
  • 77% of healthy, pain-free hockey players have hip abnormalities shown on imaging.
  • 20% of healthy, pain-free adults have partial rotator cuff tears.
  • “Need to clinically correlate” Findings on images need to line up with what you find with their movement.
  • You won’t lose clients for making referrals!
  • What is your virtual therapy process like?
  • Bad personal experiences
  • Trust - Connection - Relationship - Human
  • Client education examples: Explain Pain / Why do I hurt?
  • Is there a world where you can treat 5 or 6 people at a time and do it right and do it well? Does it all come down to the environment, community, and relationships? This is where the coupling of Rehab & Strength Training would be incredibly important

Book of the Week:

Kevin - The Quadrant System: Navigating Stress in Team Sport by Daniel Bove

Brendon - Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

Megan - Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization Scott Barry Kaufman

Contact Us:

• Website: http://movement-as-medicine.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MovementAsMedicine/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MovementAsMedicine

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• Injuries are a part of the natural process of becoming a better coach

• What to do if a client gets hurt in session?

  • Take ‘Extreme Ownership’, Ask a lot of questions and don’t make it worse
  • Communicate clearly and call their parents if it’s a minor
  • Reflect on your mistake and make an action plan
  • Follow up with the individual or parent in 1-3 days
  • Be careful/aware of your own bias and other coaches' biases. The n=1. Everyone’s context is different.
  • Murphy’s Law -” What can go wrong, will go wrong.” That’s why we have rules.

Book of the Week:

Kevin - The True History of the American Revolution by Sydney George Fisher

Brendon - The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter

Where you can find us next:

• Upcoming Level 2 CFSC events - Reading, PA - Colorado Springs - Edmonton Canada - Boston @ MBSC - Wyckoff, NJ - Plano, TX

Contact Us

• Website: http://movement-as-medicine.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MovementAsMedicine/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MovementAsMedicine

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Two Movement As Medicine Articles on Training The Pull-Up:

• http://movement-as-medicine.com/overhead-pulling-with-adult-groups/
• http://movement-as-medicine.com/the-pavel-fighter-pull-up-program/

Social Media: The Psychology of Online Political Hostility

Bor and Peterson

• https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/psychology-of-online-political-hostility-a-comprehensive-crossnational-test-of-the-mismatch-hypothesis/C721597EEB77CC8F494710ED631916E4
• Physical Activity and Energy Balance - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10610070/
• The Hungry Brain - https://amzn.to/3ea4gfZ

What Can We Learn From Radiologists About Coaching?

• Selection with Variation in Diagnostic Skill: Evidence from Radiologists

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/137/2/729/6513421

Book of the Week:

Kevin - Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe

Where you can find us next:

• Upcoming Level 2 CFSC events - Reading, PA - Colorado Springs - Edmonton Canada - Boston @ MBSC - Wyckoff, NJ - Plano, TX

Contact Us

• Website: http://movement-as-medicine.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MovementAsMedicine/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MovementAsMedicine

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• Introduction
• Intellectual capital - Financial capital - Social capital
• Side hustle incubators
• Fail to learn
• The aggregation of marginal gains
• Creating intentional culture
• Never lose a customer again
• Solid service delivered by good humans
• Goldman Sach 10,000 Small Business Program
• Base operating systems
• Continually chasing best practice or the perfect program - like an Apple or Tesla update
• Hiring? An internship program is a must - try before you buy! For both parties.
• Where is your seat on the bus? It doesn’t always need to be the driver's seat, and sometimes you need to be at the bus stop!

Get in Touch with Dr. Josh

• Twitter/ IG / TikTok - @drjoshfunk
• IG / TikTok - @rehab2perform
• https://www.facebook.com/Rehab2Perform

Where you can find us next:

• Upcoming Level 2 CFSC events - Boston, Chicago then Reading, PA
• Perform Better Summits - Chicago July 15th - 17th then Providence August 26th - 28th

Contact Us

• Website: http://movement-as-medicine.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MovementAsMedicine/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MovementAsMedicine

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Show Notes:Question #1: I have a couple of clients with Parkinson and also clients over the age of 80+. As you know, most doctors aren’t easy to get on board with proactive health care.

Can you please send me the reference or do you have any books or other research I could share with doctors to get them on board?

Research Review: https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mds.21922

• The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge

• The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean

• Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey MD

• Life span vs. Health Span

• Visualization & Meditation = Mirror Neurons

• Let movement be thy medicine. Let mindset be thy medicine. Let nature be thy medicine. Let medicine be thy medicine.

Question #2: What are your key considerations when training endurance athletes? I’m specifically interested in learning about how you approach both strength and conditioning for clients who are preparing for long-distance running events like the marathon.

• Coach Matt Dixon
• Buckets for Endurance: Run, Bike, Swim / Recovery / Nutrition & Fueling/ Strength
• Training Buckets: Mobility / Strength / Power / Conditioning
• Be A Bucket Filler by Michael Boyle
• The Bucket Hierarchy by Brendon Rearick
• The 10% Rule… don’t increase more that 10% in distance or intensity per week
• Functional Training for Runners by Kevin Carr
• Make Small Jumps by Michael Boyle
• Endurance athletes are almost always in-season

Book Club recommendation:

• Kevin: Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban
• Brendon: ​​Why Michael Couldn't Hit: And Other Tales of the Neurology of Sports by Harold L. Klawans

Where you can find us next:

• Upcoming Level 2 CFSC events - Boston, Chicago then Reading, PA
• Perform Better Summits - Chicago July 15th - 17th then Providence August 26th - 28th

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Programming for Adult Groups

• Different price points = different expectations and options for individualization
• A system of regressions and progressions ensures no one is held back, no one is left behind and everyone is safe and successful
• The rule of 3 and 10: your operations and systems need to change whenever you multiply by 3 or 10… 3 people, 10 people, 30 people, 100 people, 300 people, etc…
• The philosophy stays the same, but the methods change. If you have a universal belief system all your workouts should look similar.
• Do we have the equipment? Do we have the space? Is it safe for a large group?

Intro Program (micro)

• We do have the same ability to assess people signing up for group training due to the lower price point
• 8 week intro program that provides guardrails and gives up a mini-assessment and address all our movement patterns (squatting, hinging, pushing, pulling, low impact)
• After that the adults groups are on a 12 month rotational program
• We write ONE program that is then adapted to the individual. NOT 10 individualized programs. If you want an individualized program you pay the high price for that aka personal training
• Ex. The group is kettlebell swinging but the new group member will be hinging or deadlifting. The kettlebell swing is advanced and earned.
• Cast a really big net to catch a lot of fish, but you won’t catch all the fish and that’s okay.
• Have workout number 12 and beyond in your mind when you’re setting up an introductory program and starting out. Don’t try to crush them with volume or intensity. Think about and talk about the next workout.

Training Structure

• The first few workouts are just understanding where things are, how things work, where things are, who’s part of the community - teach them the recipe!
• Don’t single the new individual out. Keep them moving within the group. Be okay with not completing the whole workout(s) the first few weeks.
• You DON’T have to do an assessment on the first session. You can just make it a meet and greet and save the “physical” assessment for the second workout

12 sessions and beyond (macro)

• Each month (phase) has a different focus - tempos, isos, eccentrics, hypertrophy, density, circuits, complexes
• Seasonal training - in season, off season, maintenance
• There’s a bit of “enter-trainment” needed when training people train with you for a long time

Personality types

• Check the box types
• Goal oriented types
• Training focused types

How to develop great “adult athletes/clients”?

• Nurture relationships
• Gym culture
• Buying into their goals
• Keep Pushing them

Book Club recommendation:

• Kevin: How We Learn to Move: A Revolution in the Way We Coach & Practice Sports Skills by Rob Gray
• Brendon: ​​Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss

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Ask us a question!

Question # 1 - Many of my clients are over 50 and 60. What are the best power exercises for them?

• As we age, we lose power twice as fast as we lose strength
• Power is all relative
• What is a true plyometric?

• Lower body favorable exercises for older clients

  • Anything faster than walking!
  • Ladder drills - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZNrxYDbpoM
  • Brain games
  • Skipping - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChT8WHQNLM0
  • Jump roping or pogos - https://youtu.be/EexK-lFozXg
  • BOUNCE!
  • What’s a warm up for an athlete may be a power exercise for an adult client
  • Squat drops
  • Low amplitude bounds
  • Box jumps
  • Tissue changes as we age paper - https://www.fasciaresearch.de/publications/Schleip_TrainingPrinciplesFascial.pdf
  • Most advanced: kettlebell swing is just a broad jump in place without the pounding on your joints
  • We don’t hop, hurdle, bound linearly or Olympic lift with adults due to the risk of injury
  • “I don’t care how high you can jump, I care about how well you land. Once you can land well, then I care how high you can jump!”

  • Medicine ball throws is jumping for you upper body:

  • Chest pass

  • Side toss - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmyCzDza2NQ
  • Slams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNyWF-P5WYM
  • Shot puts
  • Catching the ball is the absorption/eccentric part and important
  • How to build your own medicine ball wall
  • Soft Medicine balls from Perform Better are very low risk and quiet
  • We don’t do any plyo push ups due to the risk and lack of wrist extension and shoulders mobility

Question # 2 - Should I stretch or not? And if so, when?

• I feel so much better after I stretching = more stretch tolerance
• Stretching helps us get into better positions
• After not moving all day, stretching is a nice way to get into your body and get into end ranges
• Stretching doesn’t affect power if you warm up, strength train properly and work on motor control and patterns

Book Club recommendation:

• Kevin: Force: The biomechanics of training by Dan Cleather
• Brendon: ​​The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh

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1. What brought them here? What are their goals? What do they want out of the experience? Ask the 5 whys. Do not assume or take their first answer and run with it. Dive deeper.
2. What equipment do they have access to? And what logistics may you have to plan around?
3. What is a realistic commitment? Do their and your expectations align?
4. History review, Previous experience and current experience with exercise and a physical assessment
5. Write the first rough draft of the program
6. Refine the program based on their feedback and what you learn while going through the rough draft program together.
7. Creating a plan for your clients that they do for two weeks and then quit because it was too difficult is not a good plan. You may not have trouble getting clients, but you’ll struggle to keep them.
8. Ask your clients and athletes to tell you about their needs, values and concerns. Use this information to connect and communicate with them. If they’re timid to begin training with you, you’re better off recognizing that from the beginning and easing them in through a few phone calls and a gym walk-through or inviting them to watch you coach a session.
9. The more you can involve people in developing a plan that fits into their schedule, challenges them just above their current physical and mental abilities, and is sound in its principles, the more enjoyable and sustainable your training will be.
10. People will buy in if they have a say in the process.
11. Some may view this as coddling, but it’s not; it’s understanding. Your client is a human being, not just your next project.
12. Exercise, for whatever reason it’s being pursued, is a lifelong endeavor. Set yourself up to be a long-term partner not a short-term fix.

Book Club recommendation:

• Kevin: Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding by Daniel Lieberman
• Brendon: InSideOut Coaching: How Sports Can Transform Lives by Joe Ehrmann

Where you can find us next:

• Lots Upcoming Level 2 CFSC events!

Contact Us

• Website: http://movement-as-medicine.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MovementAsMedicine/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MovementAsMedicine

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Follow Noël: @brand.sc

Follow Sanne: @sanne.bominaar

Breda Strength & Conditioning: @breda.sc

Website: https://bredasc.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/BredaSC

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Former Oregon offensive lineman Doug Brenner is suing the NCAA for $100 million in punitive damages over allegations of lifelong injuries sustained during a series of controversial workouts as a player in 2017, according to a report from ESPN.

Brenner is seeking punitive damages from the NCAA for a condition called rhabdomyolysis, which he says he began suffering from as a result of workouts conducted at Oregon.

• “Mental toughness is finding the good in everything”

  1. Reframing
  2. Preparation (Doug Kechijian explains all of this in more detail in these two posts: The Myth of Mental Toughness Training Part 1 and Part 2)
  3. Consistency
  4. Want to help yourself and others build mental toughness? Start reframing what’s ‘bad’ in your life, prepare for the things you can control, and be consistent in your words and actions, even when the going gets tough.
  5. Read Mindset by Carol Dweck
  6. Read Culture Code by Daniel Coyle

  7. Build “mental toughness” by creating a culture with high standards.

  8. A cultural standard of hard work and discipline creates an identity. If you have a WHY it’s much easier to do hard things.

  9. Do the next right thing.
  10. Mental toughness has nothing to do with physical capacity
  11. Punishment training is an attempt to make up for a lack of standards/communication. You do fix behavior problems with exercise, you fix them with communication.
  12. "We define Grit as perseverance and passion for long-term goals. Grit entails working strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity and plateaus in progress." - Angela Duckworth
  13. Read Legacy by James Kerr

Book Club recommendation:

• Kevin: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Brendon: The New Toughness Training for Sports by Jim Lorhr

Where you can find us next:

• Upcoming CFSC events

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1. How Do We Use Heart Rate Monitors At MBSC?

• We encourage all clients to use MyZone Heart Rate Monitoring.

• Primarily to monitor resting HR, prescribe rest and screen for possible health issues.

  • Resting HR - Elevated resting HR directly correlates with all-cause mortality independent of physical fitness (Goal: under <60 seconds)
  • HR Recovery - Low HR Recovery is directly correlated with all-cause mortality (Goal: a 30 beat drop in 60 seconds after a intense bout of exercise)
  • Health Concerns - Abnormal jumps/elevations in HR
  • We prescribe work INTENSITY for HIIT using MAS

2. What is the 30-15 IFT Test?

• Field test was developed by Martin Bucheit to indirectly measure VO2 and program for aerobic output.
• Progressive shuttle running intervals of 30 seconds interspersed with 15 seconds of passive recovery. Starting at 8 km/hr and increasing by .5 km/hr at each bout.
• Test ends when the subject can no longer reach the end line/maintain speed.

• Problems with practical application for us: Time and Space

  • It takes 20-30 minutes to complete
  • It would work well in a team setting done outside. Not great in a private setting indoors.

3. What Max Aerobic Speed (MAS)?

• MAS is physiologically defined as the lowest speed at which you reach maximal oxygen uptake (VO2).
• Time spent at or above 100% of MAS seems to be a critical factor for improving aerobic power
• Short intervals at > 100% os MAS are the most effective way to improve aerobic power.
• Specifically, intensity of 120% of MAS was determined to be the best single speed for short intervals to improve MAS

• We use a set time trial or a set distance test on the airdyne or assault bike.

  • 5-6 min time trial
  • 2 mile time trial on Assault bike (most will fall in between 4-7 minutes)
  • Modified Coopers Test YouTube Video
  • MAS speed chart link
  • Do the test on yourself before you have other people to do it!

Book Club recommendation:

• Kevin: Business Adventures : Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks
• Brendon: How bad do you want it: Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle by Matt Fitzgerald

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• Mike Perry Colon Cancer Fundraising
• Be the Match
• The Boilermaker Story
• “You’re paying for the years, not for the minutes”

• Your cost is a result of..

  • Your Demand
  • Experience
  • Quality Of Services
  • Your Costs/Expenses
  • Location/Market
  • The customer is effectively renting out your equipment, tools, space \
  • It’s easier to charge less or a discount, than it is to go up on people
  • At some point to make more money without working more hours you will need to combine clients or hire people to service the sessions for you
  • Make enough money to live your lifestyle to then be able to do pro-bono work and help those who might not have access
  • What’s your perfect month cost? How much do you need to work per week, how many sessions do you need to do per month to live your best life?
  • Use your non-client hours to improve your value and expertise by pursuing more education and talking to other coaches
  • Every 7 years what you value, what you want, how you live your life will change.
  • For the first 7 years of your career say “YES” to every opportunity. The next 7+ years learn to say “NO”

Book Club recommendation:

• Kevin: The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat by Dr. Stephan Guyenet, Aaron Abano
• Brendon: The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz

Where you can find us next:

• Upcoming CFSC events

Contact Us

• Website: http://movement-as-medicine.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MovementAsMedicine/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MovementAsMedicine

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1. Turkish Get-Ups

• Men's Health Post
• Kettlebell Community Response see comment section
• What do we think of TGUs - Pros, Cons, Application w/ different populations ( Gen Pop, Athletes, Groups, 1 vs 1)
• TGUs - Develop a lot of general qualities to a low/medium degree but none to a high degree. This makes it a great warm up drill.
• The Sit-Rise test
• Dan John: Get up and down circuits
• Break down the get up into its smallest parts and train it that way
• Why are we so emotionally attached to exercises? (KB people)
• Also, why do we need to make clickbait posts (Men’s health)

2. “Do you do warm-up sets and if so how do you program?”

• Yes, but not a ton, because we warm up 20-25 minutes before we step foot in the weight room

• We only really do 1-2 work sets “money” or “growth” sets

• Picking Set 3 - Use the second to last set to decide what the final set should be

• Bill Starr 5x5

• Create a relationship and ask for a RPE (Rating of Perceived Exertion) for their heavier set

Book Club recommendation:

• Kevin: Kinesiology of the Musculoskeletal System: Foundations for Rehabilitation by Donald Newman
• Brendon: Never Lose a Customer Again: Turn Any Sale into Lifelong Loyalty in 100 Days by Joey Coleman

Where you can find us next:

• Upcoming CFSC events

Contact Us

• Website: http://movement-as-medicine.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MovementAsMedicine/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MovementAsMedicine

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Today's Discussion Points:

1. Risk v Reward and Durability Thread from StrengthCoach.com - Is strength training for performance the same as strength training for durability? Is it possible to be more durable but less explosive, or does higher strength/power in most situations translate to reduced injury risk? And on the flip side - is it possible to actually gain performance, but increase risk of injury? What might be an example of that?

2. The Risk vs. Reward Whiteboard Photo

3. Survivorship bias

4. Goldilocks training - Certified Functional Strength Coach

5. Only 20% of people need “specialized” training. Most of us (80%) need the same thing.

6. “Most people you are going to train are a really good Toyota Camry” - Pat Davidson. Fixing the car = Rehab. A Ferrari is the 20% that need the specialized aggressive stuff

7. The cart is also context dependent… Sometimes machine based training is HIGH reward depending on that individual's goals and where they’re starting from.

8. Grandma doesn’t need to deadlift 225. We don't do Straight Bar or Trap Bar Deadlift with adults. We don’t do Hops or Olympics lifts or run timed sprints.

9. If your client can’t work, they can’t get paid, and you can’t get paid.

10. If they keep score, there are playoffs, your heart rate hits its anaerobic threshold during the event, and your paycheck or scholarship depends on your training, then you fall into the sport performance bucket. Everyone else is gen pop. Simply, if you can have beer in your hand and play it, it’s not a sport.

11. Recurring Theme from the Winter Seminar: “Meet the client where they’re at”

12. "Begin with the end in mind" - Steven Covey

13. "I want to get back to doing...." It's not about what you want.

14. The winter seminar will be available on MBSC.tv this week to view

Book Club recommendation:

• Kevin: Why Do I Hurt? A Patient Book About the Neuroscience of Pain by Adriaan Louw
• Brendon: Ninety Percent Mental by Bob Tewksbury, Scott Miller, et al.

Where you can find us next:

• Our other upcoming CFSC events

Contact Us

• Website: http://movement-as-medicine.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MovementAsMedicine/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MovementAsMedicine

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Today's Discussion Points:

1. Shoveling Snow is a lot of work
2. Drew Massey

Website: Game Time Fitness

Instagram: @gametimesportstn

Personal: @masseystrengthcoach 3. Carlos Felix -

Website: Fitness Pro Education

Instagram: @fitnessproeducation

Personal: @coachfelixatl 4. Three biggest barriers for entry into exercise

1. Financial / Access
2. Fear
3. Education / Not knowing what to do

1. The benefits of group training
2. Brazilian culture through Felix’s story
3. Career phases

4. Career phases

   1. Grit by Angela Duckworth
   2. Fail A Lot
   3. Relationships
   4. At some point you can pick & choose your client
   5. Learn to adapt to your environment
   6. Diversify
   7. “Stop wasting so much time looking over other people’s fences”

Book Club recommendation:

• Kevin: Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the New Innovation Era by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith

• Drew:

  • Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson
  • Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman

  • Felix:

  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

  • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance

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Today's Discussion Points:

1.) In-season Training - the Why

• It’s possible now to play the same sport year round and in-season training is almost year round
• Do you value playing more games or value improving and recovering physically?
• “You won’t have to GET ready if you always STAY ready.”
• You will atrophy during the season, you give up strength and muscle to play the game. But the goal should be to atrophy the least amount possible, and less than your competitor.
• It’s not just missing lifts, it’s the increase in stress, pressure, travel, nutrition on the run, and lack of a routine
• The team with their best players playing at the end of the year has the best chance of winning in the postseason

2.) The How

• If you stay consistent (x2 week in season) and select the right exercises and intensity you don’t need to worry about getting sore or jeopardizing performance
• Soft tissue work, stretch, short warm up, lift a few heavy things, do some single leg and core stuff, go home (30-45 minute workouts)
• Drop the volume and duration, keep the intensity high
• Minimal Effective Dose! If you do just enough, some athlete may actually make gains in-season
• Rules: 1 heavy set, no impact (no jumping or running), no conditioning, don’t skip rolling and stretching
• The best conditioning is a well organized practice - John Wooden on Leadership

Book Club recommendation:

• Kevin: The Happiness Advantage & Before Happiness by Shawn Archer
• Brendon: The Back Mechanic by Stuart McGill

What's coming up next?

• CFSC Los Gatos Feb. 27th - CFSC Level 1 Certification | February 27th, 2022 - Los Altos, CA
• MBSC winter seminar - Feb 26th & 27th Virtual & In-person
• Our other upcoming CFSC events

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Today's Discussion Points:

1. Should I go to massage school?

   1. Have a plan. Understand what you’re giving up and why you’re doing it.
   2. Stay in your lane
   3. Know when to punt the ball
   4. You are not replacing any medical professionals, develop relationships instead
   5. Your price point has to be higher than what you charge for training

   6. Movement Assessments

   7. It doesn’t matter what assessment you use, what matters is that you have one and that it helps you make a better decision moving forward

   8. Screening saves you so much time and is a wonderful sales tool
   9. Use the same first workout for everyone
   10. You don’t have to do an FMS the first day. Make the first workout fun and successful.
   11. Make the client feel like they’re in good hands
   12. Training vs. workouts vs. exercises

Book Club recommendation:

• Kevin: Injury Free Running and Human Locomotion by Tom Michaud
• Brendon: Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger

What's coming up next?

• CFSC Level 1 in Chicago Feb 20th w/ Strength Faction - CFSC Level 1 Certification | February 20th, 2022 - Niles, IL
• CFSC Los Gatos Feb. 27th - CFSC Level 1 Certification | February 27th, 2022 - Los Altos, CA
• MBSC winter seminar

Contact Us

• Website: http://movement-as-medicine.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MovementAsMedicine/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MovementAsMedicine

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Today's Discussion Points:

• 1). What is the idea of "minimum effective dose" in training and how does it apply to general population clients and athletes?

  • More is not better, better is better
  • “Train race horses, not work horses” - Tony Holler
  • Play the long game
  • Charlie Francis Training Systems
  • Minimal Effective Dose
  • Kevin’s Minimal Effective Dose Slides @ 21:00 minutes
  • How Strong is Strong Enough

  • 2). How can I find my niche in strength and conditioning and become the "go-to" professional with a specific population."

  • Your niche finds you

  • Crush it by Gary V
  • Range by David Epstein
  • Learning to Speak Coach

Book Club recommendation:

• Kevin:

  • I Will Teach You to be Rich by Seth Ramit

  • Brendon:

  • Motivation Myth by Jeff Haden

What's coming up next?

• CFSC Level 1 in Chicago Feb 20th w/ Strength Faction - CFSC Level 1 Certification | February 20th, 2022 - Niles, IL
• CFSC Los Gatos Feb. 27th - CFSC Level 1 Certification | February 27th, 2022 - Los Altos, CA
• MBSC winter seminar https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-mbsc-winter-seminar-featuring-les-spellman-and-nicole-rodriguez-tickets-204511438217

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Show Notes:

Introduction

• Our second episode!
• Listen to our first episode here: https://rss.com/podcasts/movementasmedicine/

Today's Discussion Point: “What goes into creating an amazing client experience?”

• The Over-delivery checklist
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Never Lose a Customer Again
• Raving Fans
• Taking people’s "temperature"
• It’s everyone's job
• Connection, Instruction, Modification!
• Brendon’s Article - I’m a personal trainer and here’s why I’m not afraid of Peloton, Mirror, Tonal, NordicTrack, or the Nike Training Club/Future Apps replacing me.
• "To Sell is Human" Tell me About that Book Podcast w/ Anthony Renna
• CNP - Certified Nice Person Article

Book Club recommendations:

• Kevin: Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying)
• Brendon: Go Wild: Eat Fat, Run Free, Be Social, and Follow Evolution's Other Rules for Total Health and Well-being & Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John Ratay

What's coming up?

• CFSC Level 1 Certification | February 20th, 2022 - Niles, IL
• CFSC Level 1 Certification | February 27th, 2022 - Los Altos, CA
• MBSC winter seminar
• Kevin is speaking at The Raise the Bar Conference in Orlando
• CFSC Happy Hour with Megan Pomarensky

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Show Notes:

Introduction

• Our first episode!
• Expectations - What? Where? And When?

Discussion Point #1: Orthopedic Cost Tweet

• https://twitter.com/mboyle1959/status/1484516046686019586?s=21

Discussion Point #2: Creating Value on Social Media

• Why do many coaches choose an inflammatory approach to online communication?

Book Club recommendation:

• Kevin: Smart Moves
• Brendon: High Ten & Coach to Coach

What's coming up next week?

• CFSC Level 1 in Woburn Jan 29th & in Los Gatos Feb. 27th, MBSC winter seminar

Contact Us

• Website: http://www.movement-as-medicine.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MovementAsMedicine/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MovementAsMedicine