Brandon and Joel are joined by Mike Kamal, the Assistant Athletic Director for Strength and Conditioning at Merrimack College. We dive into a variety of topics mainly focused on the processes that went into Coach Kamal growing the Merrimack pr

Episode 44: Ryan Gipson

Oct 31st, 2022 52m 38s

This week Ryan Gipson joins the gang to talk ego, expectations and echo chambers in strength and conditioning. Ryan is a strength coach at Joint Base Lewis-McChord working alongside AC.

Episode 43: AC & Wickett Round Table

Oct 17th, 2022 45m 56s

AC and Brandon discuss a variety of topics but mainly focus on how they went about shaping the internship program at UMass to be as valuable as possible to everyone involved. Check it out!

Episode 42: AC, Joel, & Wickett Round Table

Oct 3rd, 2022 40m 38s

We're back! In this week's episode we chat about what we've been up to since we last published!

Episode 41: Paul Jackson

May 17th, 2021 52m 40s

This week's guest is Paul Jackson. Coach Jackson is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for Utah State University Football and, in our opinion, one of the highest performers, if not the highest performer, in our field based off of his bo

Episode 40: Michael Zweifel

May 3rd, 2021 57m 12s

This week's guest is Michael Zweifel, the owner of BBA Performance. We have a great chat about recognizing great movement skills, where to start when introducing variability into training, and how his mock football season went in the fall.Make

Episode 39: Dr. Ken Clark

Mar 22nd, 2021 1h

This week's guest is Dr. Ken Clark. As you can imagine we talk all things speed. We start with promoting front side mechanics and move into wearable resistance and stiffness at the foot/ankle complex. A great episode!https://www.kenclarkspee

Episode 38: Brandon Wickett

Mar 8th, 2021 37m 47s

This week we have Brandon Wickett on for the second time and talk about how he is utilizing our new Hawkin Dynamics force plate to maximize training.Make sure to head over to https://www.sprint-jump-throw.com/ and sign up for access to our excl

Episode 37: Adam Feit

Feb 22nd, 2021 58m 33s

This week's guest is Adam Feit. He is the Coordinator of Physical and Mental Performance and an adjunct professor at Springfield College. We talk about building and promoting autonomy in athletics with both student-athletes and coaches along w

Episode 36: Bob Alejo

Feb 8th, 2021 50m 22s

This week's guest is Bob Alejo. He is the Senior Assistant Athletics Director for Performance and Student Athlete Welfare at Cal State Northridge. We have a great chat about how he approaches his role, how his background as a strength coach p

Episode 35: Adam Ringler

Jan 25th, 2021 57m 19s

This week's guest is Adam Ringler, Strength Coach and Sports Scientist for the University of Colorado. We dive into all things athlete data during this episode. Collecting, organizing, engaging the athletes you're collecting the data from, a

Episode 34: Austin Jochum

Jan 11th, 2021 57m 8s

This week's guest is Austin Jochum. He is the owner of Jochum Strength and Strength Coach at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. We chat developing an app for his business, qualitative versus quantitative measures, and the im

Episode 33: Nick DiMarco

Dec 7th, 2020 55m 50s

We are joined this week by Nick DiMarco. He is the Director of Sports Performance at Elon University. We chat about overarching principles that Nick leans on when running his department and fostering a high performance culture with his assista

Episode 32: Scott Kuehn

Nov 16th, 2020 1h 1m

This week's guest is Scott Kuehn. He is an Assistant Strength and Conditioning for Arizona Football. We have a great chat about how to build a sustainable and actionable data monitoring system in a sport environment. We also dive into lessons

Episode 31: Joey Bergles

Nov 9th, 2020 1h 7m

This week's guest is Joey Bergles. We have a great chat about doubling down on what you find most important in a program and how to best organize for a large athlete to coach ratio!Hope you enjoy!Make sure to head over to https://www.sprint-ju

Episode 30: Brandon Wickett

Nov 2nd, 2020 1h 1m

This week's guest is Brandon Wicket. He is an Assistant Sports Performance Coach at UMass who oversees Men's Ice Hockey, Baseball, and Women's Tennis. We chat about stepping in as a new coach in an already high performing organization and the

Episode 29: Keir Wenham-Flatt

Oct 26th, 2020 59m 42s

This week's episode is with Keir Wenham-Flatt. We have a great chat about systemic issues within sports performance and collegiate athletics as a whole. Hope you enjoy!Make sure to head over to https://www.sprint-jump-throw.com/ and sign up f

Episode 28: Scott Salwasser

Oct 19th, 2020 54m 46s

This week we have a great chat with Scott Salwasser, Assistant Football Strength and Conditioning Coach at the University of South Carolina, about how a constraints based approach has influenced his thoughts on linear sprinting, how he approach

Episode 27: Josh Washington

Oct 12th, 2020 1h 1m

This week's guest is Josh Washington, the Sports Performance Coach for UMass Men's Basketball. We have a great chat about his journey to UMass, initial steps he focuses on when starting a new job, and how he approaches training the basketball

Episode 26: Jamie Pasquin

Oct 5th, 2020 1h 6m

This week's guest is Jamie Pasquin, the Men's Basketball Strength and Conditioning Coach at Monmouth University. We have a great chat about the value of self-awareness as coaches when it comes to understanding our own personalities and behavio

Episode 25: Jordan Nieuwsma

Sep 28th, 2020 1h

This week's guest is Jordan Nieuwsma, the Associate Director of Sports Performance at Elon University. We have a great chat about his collaboration with sport coaches, particularly men's soccer and tennis, as well as how he organizes plyometri

Episode 24: Q&A w/Joel and AC

Sep 21st, 2020 54m 27s

This week AC and I expand on our SimpliFaster Q&As that we did in the last few weeks while also providing some insights on return to activity notes that we are seeing!https://simplifaster.com/articles/team-sport-speed-andrew-cormier/https://sim

Episode 23: Steve Reinhardt

Sep 14th, 2020 1h 12m

This week's guest is Steve Reinhardt. Along with being Joel's dad, he is the VP of Product Development for Quantum Computing, Inc. We have a great chat about how supercomputing is being utilized in a sports setting and other ways for it to po

Episode 22: Eric Donoval

Sep 7th, 2020 57m 47s

This week's guest is Eric Donoval, the Director of Sports Performance for Wyoming Football. We discuss the benefits of a record/rank/publish system for both high performers and low performers as well as how his staff organizes and communicates

Episode 21: Joel Smith

Aug 31st, 2020 1h 3m

This week's guest is Joel Smith of Just Fly Sports. We discuss his personal and professional evolution that led him to where he is at now in his career, what parts of Speed Strength he'd love to update, and the value of adding games and free pl