Mar
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The Sports Gene: An Innovative Take on Nature vs. Nurture

Category: Strength & Conditioning, Talent ID & Development

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Genetic advantage, illegal drugs & messing around with mother nature
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Is world-class sports performance just a matter of thousands of hours of deep practice, or do you have to have the right genes? What’s the latest on the nature versus nurture debate?
the_sports_gene_boo_david_epsteinDavid Epstein has studied the issue intensely over several years and has produced the excellent book: The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance. Join us a most incisive conversation.

Sports Coach Radio is a series of weekly in-depth interview with world-class sports coaches, leaders and scientist, hosted by Glenn Whitney, a coaching psychologist. Follow us on Twitter, where we post coaching tips and links to interesting articles ust about every day of the week. The handle is @sportscoachtalk. And we’d be grateful if you’d leave a short review of the show on the Apple iTunes page.

Feb
22

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Explosive Sports Expert Dan Pfaff on Highly Specific Training

Category: Olympics, Strength & Conditioning, Track & Field

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Sprinting to long & high jumping to NFL preparation
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It’s always an honor to have a true master coach on the show. This week, sports renaissance man Dan Pfaff joins us.

Coach Pfaff has worked with 49 Olympians, including nine medallists, most recently helping Britain’s long jumper Greg Rutherford win a gold medal in London. The Canadian 100-meter champion Donovan Bailey was also one of his charges.
He’s also served on five Olympic Games coaching staffs in five different countries and nine World Championship staffs for six different countries.
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Among Coach Pfaff’s many others achievements: he has tutored five world record holders.
Coach Pfaff also provides consultancy to players and teams in professional football, baseball, hockey, golf, tennis, European soccer and the Canadian Winter Olympic Program.

He was appointed last year Education Director and Jumps Coach at the newly created World Athletics Center in Phoenix, Arizona.

Sports Coach Radio is a series of weekly in-depth interview with world-class sports coaches, leaders and scientist, hosted by Glenn Whitney, a coaching psychologist. Follow us on Twitter, where we post coaching tips and links to interesting articles ust about every day of the week. The handle is @sportscoachtalk. And we’d be grateful if you’d leave a short review of the show on the Apple iTunes page.

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Feb
15

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100m Sprint Specialist Dennis Mitchell on Coaching Transitions and Beating Bolt

Category: Olympics, Track & Field

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Justin Gatlin, Strength Training for Explosive Sports
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Gold in 4 X 100m in the Barcelona Olympics, we have one of the top speedsters of his generation on the show this week. Dennis Mitchell is now the coach of the leading U.S. sprinter, Justin Gatlin, currently the fastest man in the world who isn’t Jamaican. Can Justin beat Usain Bolt in the upcoming track season? You’ll hear how in this two-part interview. Coach Mitchell is also training a dozen other world-class athletes from about 10 different countries, at his club Star Athletics, based in Montverde, Florida, near Orlando.
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Both Coach Mitchell and Justin Gatlin have had negative experiences with illegal performance enhancing drugs and have learned valuable lessons, which you’ll also hear about in this interview.

Sports Coach Radio is hosted by Glenn Whitney, a coaching and leadership psychologist. You can follow us on Twitter, where we post useful articles and coaching tips just about every day of the week. The handle is @sportscoachtalk. And we’d be grateful if you’d leave a short review of the show on the Apple iTunes page.

Usain Bolt’s and Yohan Blake’s top rival is now Justin Gatlin, following the disqualification of Tyson Gay, who test positive for illegal performance enhancing substances last summer. Justin Gatlin won the Bronze Medal in the London Olympics. His all-time personal best 9.79 for 100 meters. He won the Gold Medal at the Athens Olympics.

Feb
8

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US Ski Team: Women’s Head Coach Alex Hoedelmoser Revisited

Category: Olympics, Skiing

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Mikaela Shiffrin, Julia Mancuso head coach
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With the focus firmly fixed on the slopes of Sochi, we thought it would be an excellent time to revisit our in-depth interview with the head coach of the U.S. Women’s Ski Team, Alex Hoedlmoser.

It’s filled with insights into the ultra high-performance and rather risky world of alpine ski racing. With Lindsey Vonn out of this year’s Olympics, there is even more pressure on some of the younger skiers on the team, including slalom phenomenon Mikaela Shiffrin, as well as on the veteran downhill racer Julia Mancuso.
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This interview was recorded just before the start of the 2012-2013 ski season.

US Ski Team: Alex Hoedlmoser, Women’s Head Coach: Mikaela Shiffin, Julia Mancuso.

Jan
31

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Primal Health, Recovery and Resilience With Mark Sisson

Category: Sports nutrition, Strength & Conditioning

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Preventing Over-Training the Paleo-Primal Way
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It’s an honor to have Mark Sisson on the show this week. He’s the go-to-guy for guidance and inspiration in high-performance nutrition, anti-inflammatory diets, weight loss, and rest and recovery. His incredibly useful and comprehensive website is www.marksdailyapple.com

One of the key founding fathers of the currently rampant Paleo-Primal nutrition movement, Mark has a strong background in high-performance sports. He was a top-level national marathoner in the 1970s and a world-class level triathlete in the 1980s.

Mark also served for 15 years as the anti-doping and drug-testing chairman of the International Triathlon Union and as its liaison to the International Olympic Committee.
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In this interview we talk extensively about his shift from competing and coaching in endurance events to his current focus on happiness, meaning and purpose, and sustainable health. We also explore how these ideas can be used by the coaches of elite athletes to keep athletes injury free and healthy, and to prevent over-training and depression.

Sports Coach Radio is hosted by Glenn Whitney, a coaching and leadership psychologist. You can follow us on Twitter, where we post useful articles and coaching tips just about every day of the week. The handle is @sportscoachtalk. And we’d be grateful if you’d leave a short review of the show on the Apple iTunes page.

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Jan
25

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Balancing Athletics With a Corporate Career: Martin Bingisser

Category: Athlete-to-coach transition, Track & Field

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Anatoli Bondarchuk; Remote coaching

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We’ve got the thinking man’s hammer thrower on the show this week. Martin Bingisser is an international tax lawyer, a world-class athlete and a writer about all things related to track and field, strength and conditioning, you name it.

As Martin puts it – he leads two lives: During the day he’s tied to his corporate desk and after work he trains hard as the Swiss national champion and is developing as a coach, learning from some of the top names in athletics, especially his long-time coach and mentor Anatoli Bondarchuk.
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Bondarchuk is a multiple Olympic medal-winning hammer thrower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1970s and has since coached over a dozen Olympic medallists. He is now based in Canada. Martin tell us how this long-distance coaching works and he shares tips for optimizing similar remote relationships.

Martin’s website, which covers a wide-range of track & field throwing-related topics is: www.hmmrmedia.com and his Twitter handle is @bingisser

 

Jan
16

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U.S. Rowing Coxswain Mary Whipple: A Decade at the Very Top

Category: Olympics, Rowing

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Two Olympic Gold Medals; One Silver
mary_whipple_thrownThree Olympics in a row: One silver medal and two golds. A winning streak that culminated in London under the weight of the heaviest of expectations.

Mary Whipple was literally the driving force of the indomitable U.S. women’s eight rowing crew for over 10 years. As coxswain she was responsible for setting the pace, motivating the rowers and steering the boat, as well as taking the lead role in hundreds and hundreds of workout over the period. Working often as go-between the coach and the rowers, Mary was the ultimate middle manager in one of the most successful Olympic rowing boats of all time.
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Now she’s educating a new generation of coxswains, leading specialized training camps throughout the year and running a website called 9thseat.com – a reference to her place at the stern of the boat.
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Sports Coach Radio is hosted by Glenn Whitney, a coaching and leadership psychologist. You can follow us on Twitter, where we post useful articles and coaching tips just about every day of the week. The handle is @sportscoachtalk. And we’d be grateful if you’d leave a short review of the show on the Apple iTunes page.

 

Jan
9

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Ultra Runner & Triple Ironman Champion Christopher Bergland on Sporting Obsessions

Category: Marathon, Triathlon

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Triathlon, 24-Hour Running Record
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Christopher Bergland ran 153.76 miles in 24 hours on a treadmill and lived to tell about it – just barely. That’s an average per mile pace of 6 minutes and 24 seconds for an entire day and night – a world record that’s held up for nearly a decade.

Christopher has also won three different triple Ironman triathlon competitions, including one in a record-breaking 38 hours and 46 minutes.

Now he’s a thinker, a writer and an ultra-endurance athlete in recovery. A fascinating person, Christopher now looks closely at what makes us happy, how to stay healthy and what place sports and exercise can and should play in our lives.

Christopher is the author of the book The Athlete’s Way: Sweat and the Biology of Bliss and writes a regular blog column of the same name for Psychology Today.
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Sports Coach Radio is hosted by Glenn Whitney, a coaching and leadership psychologist. You can follow us on Twitter, where we post useful articles and coaching tips just about every day of the week. The handle is @sportscoachtalk. And we’d be grateful if you’d leave a short review of the show on the Apple iTunes page.

Dec
30

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Dr. Sweat Science is Back With Hits & Misses of the Year

Category: Sports nutrition, Strength & Conditioning

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We’re very glad to have “Dr. Sweat Science” back on the show. Alex Hutchison has a PhD in physics, a passion for running and an intense calling to comb through the constant flow of sports science research to highlight the good, the bad and the ugly.

Alex writes a highly engaging and practical blog for Runner’s World and the Jockology column on fitness and exercise for the Globe and Mail in Toronto, where he is based.

One point of clarification – about half-way through this interview we’re talking about protein supplementation. Alex’s preferred type is whey protein rather than casein protein.

Alex is also the author of the highly useful compendium “Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?”
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Dec
20

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Golf and Improving Your Emotional Control With John Haime

Category: Golf, Mental toughness

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Golf emotional managementMental toughness & emotional intelligence

It’s about time we had a guest from the golfing world!

John Haime is a mental and emotional performance specialist and former professional golfer. His expertise is particularly in the area of developing emotional intelligence in athletes from golf as a well as a wide range of other sports and he works with business people too. John is the author of the book You are a Contender! Build Emotional Muscle to Perform Better and Achieve More … in Business, Sports and Life. He’s the president of the consultancy New Edge Performance and co-creator of the Emotional Intelligence Sports Inventory, an innovative evaluation tool.

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Dec
10

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Thriving Under Pressure With High-Performance Psychologist Michael Gervais

Category: Mental toughness, Motivation

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Winning mindset, mental toughness

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This week we’re joined by one of the world’s top independent performance psychologists – Michael Gervais. Michael works with a wide range of athletes, coaches and leaders, including NBA players, the Seattle Seahawks Head Coach Pete Carroll, mixed martial arts fighters, the military, world-class surfers – you name it.

Michael has also worked with three-time Olympic gold medallists in beach volleyball: Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor.

Sports Coach Radio is hosted by Glenn Whitney, a coaching and leadership psychologist. You can follow us on Twitter, where we post useful articles and coaching tips just about every day of the week. The handle is @sportscoachtalk. And we’d be grateful if you’d leave a short review of the show on the Apple iTunes page.

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Dec
1

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Tim DiFrancesco Inspires An L.A. Lakers Real Food Revolution

Category: Strength & Conditioning

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Here’s Part Two of our interview with Tim DiFrancesco – the L.A. Lakers’ head of strength and conditioning and all-around inspiring chap. In this part, Tim talks in detail about the truly all-natural power foods he has been instrumental in getting the players to eat. He gives some exercise tips and tells who among this team of superstars is a model Paleo athlete. Is it Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash or someone else?

Tim’s Twitter feed is: @tdathletesedge

Nov
22

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Endurance Expert Neal Henderson on World-Class Cycling and Triathlon

Category: Cycling, Triathlon

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Taylor Phinney, Evelyn Stevens, High altitude training
Neal_HendersonNeal Henderson is the U.S. Olympic Committee’s winner of the Sports Science Coach of the Year Award for 2012.

Neal has a vast array of knowledge across many sports but his main specializations currently are cycling and triathlon. World-class athletes he’s been working with include triathletes Cam Dye and Flora Duffy and cyclists Evelyn Stevens, this year’s winner of the Giro del Trentino, and Taylor Phinney, who at 23 already has a half dozen major victories under his belt.

Based in Boulder, Colorado, Neil is an expert on aerodynamic drag analysis as well as supplemental oxygen training for athletes working at high altitude, plus blood lactate analysis and much more. The best place to go on the web for more information is: apexcoachingco.com
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Sports Coach Radio is hosted by Glenn Whitney, a coaching and leadership psychologist. You can follow us on Twitter, where we post useful articles and coaching tips just about every day of the week. The handle is @sportscoachtalk. And we’d be grateful if you’d leave a short review of the show on the Apple iTunes page

Nov
14

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L.A. Lakers’ Tim DiFrancesco On Building Strength and Resilience

Category: Basketball, Sports nutrition, Strength & Conditioning

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Real food sports nutrition
tim_difrancesco_dwight_howard2This extensive conversation with Tim DiFrancesco brings together many of our favorite themes – innovative approaches to building power, speed and mobility, optimal fueling for intense performance and recovery and the motivation to make it all happen. Tim’s approach to sports nutrition is nothing short of revolutionary.

Tim is the strength and conditioning coach of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team. For the few listeners not familiar with the Lakers, they have consistently been one of the top teams in NBA over the past fifty years. Their roster currently boasts some of the very best players in the world, including Pau Gasol and of course Kobe Bryant.

In addition to Tim’s infectious passion for real food, he’s got a serious background in sports medicine, including a Doctorate of Physical Therapy from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, which he earned in 2006.
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This interview will be podcasted in two parts. We’ll be back in two weeks with Part 2.

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