Episodes
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In this episode of the TeamBuildr podcast, Grace Stiles sits down with Hunter Lakey the Assistant Baseball Strength & Conditioning Coach at Mississippi State University. They discuss Hunter's journey in the strength and conditioning industry and how his internship experiences paved the way for where he is today.
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In this episode of the TeamBuildr podcast, Grace Stiles and Mary Kate Feit discuss the best ways to create a positive learning environment for interns. MK provides examples of how Springfield College works to remove distractions and give interns the opportunity to develop the practical skills they need to be successful within the industry.
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In this episode of the TeamBuildr podcast, Grace Stiles and Daniel Howells sit down and talk about transitioning from working with one sport to another. He shares experiences and advice he has gathered from his 20 years in the industry and how he approaches energy system development.
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Jason Clark and Nate Palin join Hewitt Tomlin and Teofe Ziemnicki to discuss the quickly changing landscape of the tactical sector.
The four note that in order to move the needle you need to show that you care and buy into your athletes. They also talk about the biggest differences between college and tactical that surprise coaches transitioning into tactical. Jason and Nate round out the discussion by looking at the similarities between H2F and CrossFit and how H2F can learn to make themselves an experience.
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Our very own Head of Sports Science, Teofe Ziemnicki, takes some time to chat with Hewitt on this episode of the TeamBuildr Podcast. With Teofe’s years of experience as a collegiate strength coach, he details the challenges of presenting sport science data to a sport coach. He notes that you must understand what the sports coach cares about first and foremost. Once you present the information that a sport coach perceives the most value in you can further build that relationship and share more knowledge and data. Without that understanding coaches won’t care about data.
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In this episode of the teambuildr podcast, we are catching up with Christian Hartford--current athletic performance coach for USA men’s and women’s beach volleyball teams. Christian joins us fresh after the Olympics to fill us in on his experience and success in Tokyo--especially after the thrill of watching one of his own teams bring home the gold.
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Good friend Amanda Berg joins us on this edition of the TeamBuildr Podcast. Amanda has been a High School teacher, Physical Education Department Head and strength coach in Minnesota for over 15 years. She served overseas in Iraq with the Army National Guard, and is a huge fan of the NHSSCA. Don’t let her mild-mannered Mid-Western demeanor fool you, Amanda Berg means business!
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Tom Newman joins us on this episode of the TeamBuildr Podcast. Tom is the Chief Innovation Officer at weight room hardware & data company Hawkin Dynamics, and former Director of Performance at Yale University.
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Our good friend Gary Schofield joins the podcast to talk about all things High School strength. Gary is a highly regarded speaker in the S&C industry, and was one of the founding fathers of the National High School Strength Coaches Association (NHSSCA).
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Joel is widely considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on strength and conditioning for combat sports and is the new-age godfather in energy system training. In addition to influencing and improving coaches in a multitude of sports around the world, Joel has personally trained over a dozen world champion athletes as well as consulting and working with many elite organizations ranging from the Navy SEALS to professional sports teams. He is the best-selling author of Ultimate MMA Conditioning and creator of the BioForce HRV system.
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On this week’s TeamBuildr Podcast, we are proud to be joined by Shelton Stevens. Shelton is entering his third year as a Human Performance Specialist at US Special Operations Command, where he is a strength coach for elite tactical soldiers in the military. Before making the jump to tactical, he coached at college strength programs for over 10 years, most recently as Director of S&C at Liberty University. Shelton is also a business owner, and runs an online tactical training business.
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Joining us on The TeamBuildr Podcast this week is Liane Blyn. Liane is currently the Director of Sports Performance & Olympic Sports at Arizona State University but she is the game for about 20 years now as a strength coach, athletic trainer, business owner and international competitor. In this episode, we touch on the salary gap between assistant coaches and strength coaches, how she feels about being recognized as being a 'woman in the field', and her emphasis on the value of building relationships with all of her athletes.
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Matt Bruce is an Olympic Weightlifting National Champion, Co-Founder of the online training program powerhouse Brute Strength, and a High School strength and conditioning coach. In this episode Matt tells us his journey of becoming a coach after retiring as an athlete at the age of 28 and how he saw an opportunity in CrossFit to share his weightlifting expertise through online programming.
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This week we welcome the strongest strength coach in the industry, J.L. Holdsworth who is a champion powerlifter, an international speaker, and the founder/head coach at his training facility in Ohio, The Spot Athletics. With a hulk-like frame and many success, he can be intimidating but once you start talking to him you witness his vulnerable side about the mistakes he’s made along the way but also his passion to serve his coaches and his clients.
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Alyssa is the owner of Rocket Community Fitness in Seattle, a social justice-oriented fitness community that prides itself on its inclusivity. As a supporter of both the CrossFit methodology and the communities it cultivates, found herself at the forefront of CrossFit’s leadership upheaval this summer when an email exchange between her and former CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman garnered media attention.
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