Asking Better Questions

Wendy Sterling, MS, RD, CSSD, CEDRD-S is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian and Approved Supervisor through the International Eating Association of Eating Disorder Professionals, and a Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics in the Bay Area in California. She specializes in sports nutrition, eating disorders, and utilizes a non-diet, Health at Every Size® approach in her practice. Wendy maintains a private practice in the Menlo Park and Los Altos. She is now seeing clients virtually throughout the country. 

Wendy is a co-author of “How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder:  A Simple, Plate-by-Plate Approach to Reestablishing a Healthy Relationship with Food.” She and her colleague Casey Crosbie created the innovative approach to refeeding called the “Plate-by-Plate Approach®,” a no-numbers, visual approach, which has been featured in the Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics in an article entitled , “The Use of the Plate-by-Plate Approach for Adolescents Undergoing Family-Based Treatment.”  For tips, support and encouragement on building good plates for nutrition rehabilitation for the treatment of eating disorders, follow on instagram: @platebyplateapproach and @wendy_sterling! 

She is also the co-author of, “No Weigh! A Teen’s Guide to Body Image, Food, and Emotional Wisdom,” a book co-written by an adolescent doctor, therapist, and herself as the dietitian for teens about their changing bodies, hormones, emotions, and tips for improving sleep, body image, and their relationship with food. Her forthcoming book, “Raising Body Positive Teens: A Parent’s Guide to Diet-Free Living, Exercise and Body Image,” publishes March 2022.

Wendy has been the Team Nutritionist of the Oakland Athletics from 2016 through the 2021 season.  She has consulted for the Golden State Warriors, New York Jets  (2006-2013), NY Islanders, and Hofstra University’s. Wendy is part of the United States Olympic Committee Sports Dietitian Registry. She works closely with competitive athletes in order to enhance sports performance and gain a competitive edge.

Episode Details:

The Plate by Plate Approach

• How is it different?
• Alternate versions
• Where are the flaws in this concept?
• Who uses the Plate by Plate Approach
• What does this solve?
• What other benefits have you seen come from this approach? Within families? Healing?

Eating disorders in professional sports / general pop

• Food fears
• Athletes eating on a rest day
• Over and underconsumption 

How eating more can help you reach your goals

Rest/Sleep impact of eating habits

What society needs to do as a WHOLE 

Quick points:

• Helpful snacks - What is a good snack?
• Minimizing cravings or are you just hungry?
• GO TO - Supplements 

Dylan Hough, Head Beach Volleyball coach at Jacksonville University is going into his second year as the head coach. He has spent a good amount of time coaching volleyball from the club level all the way up to the professional level in the AVP. He was awarded the AVCA Thirty under 30 award which is given to coaches who are on the rise in the industry. 

 Topics Discussed:

-       Favorite coaching moments

-       Coaching in the 2021 Manhattan Open

-       Gratitude and the role it plays with his team

-       Delivering the kind-hard truth

-       Relying on your support sytem

-       Being liked vs. being respected

-       Going ALL IN

-       Beach Volleyball progress as a sport

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Reach out to Connor Derrickson

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Via email: [email protected] 

Via Instagram: @connorderrickson

Dylan Hough

Head Beach Volleyball Coach, Jacksonville Univeristy
Instagram: @jax_volleyball

Jenny is a communication and presentation skills coach, gym owner, personal trainer, and educator. She is obsessed with communication and has dedicated her career to exploring, practicing, and teaching what she knows.

Episode Details:

Communication and Effectiveness 

How can fitness professionals and coaches alike be more intentional with their communication?

How do we make GREAT first impressions?

Presence - Verbal and Non-Verbal Skills

• In person vs. Virtually

Active Listening

• Asking focused and earnest questions
• Listening in difficult conversations
• Emotions and conversation via texts
  • How does ego play a role within communication

How do you identify who you are talking to?

• Rudimentary vs. Intellectual Communication

Filler Words

• What If you lose your thought?
• Pausing
• Knowing what to say but not planning it

Article Referenced: https://betterhumans.pub/how-to-remember-everything-you-want-from-non-fiction-books-df17096d517f

To learn more about Jenny and her coaching, you can find her at 
https://fit-to-speak.com/ 
@fit_to_speak

Assistant Director of Sports Performance at Old Dominion University, coach Wayne Adams Joins the show to talk all things performance at the collegiate level. Previous Director at Catawba, previous Associate Director at Sacred Heart, and ALSO one of my first mentors as a young professional in the field. 

Topics of Discussion:
-  Managing a weight room at the collegiate level
- Training College Baseball Players
- Communicating early and coaching on the fly 
- The High/Low Model
-  Rotational Sports & Rotational training
-  Baseball Workload - In-season vs Off-season
     - Strength training all year
     - Sprints & Plyo's all year
     - Pitchers vs. Position Players

Quick Hitters
-  Next frontiers in sports performance
-  Advice to a young S&C professional
-  One piece of equipment in a weight room
-  Favorite hobby

Angie Asche is a registered dietitian and board-certified specialist in sports dietetics. She realized her passion for sports nutrition and working with athletes early on in her career, which led her to launch her private practice, Eleat Sports Nutrition. Since founding her company, she has worked with hundreds of high school, college, and professional athletes nationwide. She is also the author of the book Fuel Your Body, which was just released on May 11th. 

 During this episode Angie dives into many topics ranging from: 

-       Dietician vs. Nutritionist

-       Biases and putting the athlete first

-       Fad diets 

-       Simplifying the complex nature of nutrition

-       Dietician and nutritional coaching on a virtual platform

-       Thoughts on:

        o   Weight Watchers, v. low calorie diets, mass gainers

-       Carnivore diet and the media

-       Orthorexia with “dieting”

-       Supplements and their importance 

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Reach out to Connor Derrickson

CDPerformance Website ➡️ HERE

Via email: [email protected] 

Via Instagram: @connorderrickson

Angie Asche MS, RD, CSSD

Eleat Sports Nutrition, LLC
 www.eleatnutrition.com
[email protected]

Twitter/Instagram: @eleatnutrition 

Jason Pryor is an American épée fencer. He earned two individual bronze medals and a team gold medal at the Pan American Fencing Championships in 2014 and 2015, as well as an individual bronze medal and a team silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games. He represented the United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Jason’s first sport was soccer. He took up fencing when he was 11 after hearing about the sport from a friend. He was taught by coach Bill Reith at the Alcazar Fencing Club. He was later recruited by the Ohio State University, winning a team title in his junior year and earning twice All-American honors.

 During this episode Jason dives into many topics ranging from: 

-       The road to the Olympics

-       Fencing in college: Ohio State University

-       Making the world team

-       Competing in the World Cup

-       The unglamorous full-time fencing “job”

-       Fencing in college: Ohio State University

-       The decision: Train full time v. join the real world

-       Dealing with failure and setbacks and learning resilience

-       Finding your “win condition”

-       What makes you your best self?

-       Athlete turned coach

-       Life lessons from fencing

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Reach out to Connor Derrickson

CDPerformance Website ➡️ HERE

Via email: [email protected] 

Via Instagram: @connorderrickson

Reach out to Jason Pryor

Via Instagram: @pryorsixty8

Shelton Stevens has over 13 years of coaching experience and currently serves as a Human Performance Specialist for the United States Special Operations Command. 

Prior to his position with our United States Military he has worked with several Division I institutions as a strength and conditioning specialist. Some of his stops include Florida State University, Louisiana State University, Nova Southeastern University, University of Southern Mississippi, Mercer University, Arkansas State University and Liberty University. 

During his career he has trained several male and female Olympic Sports teams which has bred countless professional athletes. Stevens played collegiate baseball at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, FL. After suffering a career ending injury, Stevens found his passion in the field of human performance. 

Coach Stevens also has a goal to provide elite performance programs for individuals who strive to reach their full maximal potential outside of his direct realm in USSOC. He does this through his own company, 13Bar Performance.  

During this episode Shelton dives into many topics ranging from: 

-       Training the country’s top operators 

-       Collegiate vs. Military strength and conditioning

-       The cultural bond within a collegiate weight room

-       Hanging out in the locker room

-       Creating the space necessary for high performance

-       Best operators – worst in S&C performance: What do you do?

-       KPI’s for Army Special Operators

-       Most military training is WRONG – What you should be doing

-       The life of an US Special Operations Strength and Conditioning Coach

-       Entrepreneurship – 13Bar Performance

-       How you can really blossom as a coach

If you LOVED this episode, I encourage you to leave a review and tell me why. If you HATED it, leave a review and tell why! We encourage feedback and want to improve your listening experience.

Reach out to Connor Derrickson

CDPerformance Website ➡️ HERE

Via email: [email protected] 

Via Instagram: @connorderrickson

Reach out to Shelton Stevens

Via Instagram: @13barstrong & @sheltongstevens
Via Website: https://13barperformance.com

Matt Ibrahim leans in this week to give us a better understanding of what it is like to be a great coach that communicates well. Matthew’s background lies in performance coaching and also in the rehab sector. He has been mentored by and worked with some amazing coaches in the Boston area including Mike Boyle and Tim DiFrancesco (formerly LA Lakers). Currently, he's finishing his PhD with a focus on hamstring injury reduction & deceleration training; working as a professor creating the curriculum for 5 undergrad Ex Sci / Coaching classes; helping to build Science for Sport - Coach Academy; and has his own online training business. 

Matthew has his hands in a lot of different areas and is at the top of his game. Throughout this episode he:

-       Explains his story failing out of school to PhD

-       Coaching 

-       Meeting patients and clients where they are at

-       Why changing your tone, pitch, and eye contact for different clients is a priority

-       Entrepreneurship and Burnout

-       The fear of failure

-       The importance of a speaking coach

-       Mastering social awareness and emotional intelligence (EQ)

If you LOVED this episode, I encourage you to leave a review and tell me why. If you HATED it, leave a review and tell why! We encourage feedback and want to improve your listening experience.

Reach out to Connor Derrickson

CDPerformance Website ➡️ HERE

Via email: [email protected] 

Via Instagram: @connorderrickson

Reach out to Matthew Ibrahim

Via Instagram: @ MatthewIbrahim_

Do you want to create an environment that values questions?

Is your team honest with you? Do your employees give you and the organization honest feedback? 

How can we create an environment where asking the difficult questions and  giving transparent answers is the norm. Winning teams and successful organizations do a few things in common. In this episode we go into the 4 key ways in which you can start to create environment that values questions. 

Establishing this environment is NOT easy and can be super uncomfortable. Being uncomfortable is a small price you may pay to bring out the best in your team. Join me during this quick episode to learn how to bring out the best in your team!

Reach out to Connor Derrickson

CDPerformance Website ➡️ HERE

Via email: [email protected] 

Via Instagram: @connorderrickson

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So you want to be a Strength & Conditioning coach? 

The road to working in collegiate or professional athletics is always a glamorous one. There are times where you are dead set on what you want, how it is going to happen, and when it is going to happen. I am here to tell you. It won’t go as planned. You may have to momentarily take a step off your path to be able to realign back on the path. Coach Ed is a prime example of taking the opportunity that is in front of him and making the absolute most out of it. 

In this episode coach Ed Smith, Director of Strength and Conditioning at the University of Lynchburg hops on to talk about what is like being a coach at the collegiate level. Ed gives us detail on:

-       his journey through coaching 

-       what it takes to break through in this field 

-       acting as a resource for athletes

-       the mentors he grew with

-       how he was tested as a young coach 

-       landing a director position at a young age

-       coaching 500 athletes/week alone

-       the mantra: 1% better everyday

-       being a strength coach dad

Ed gives us some actionable steps for people that are chasing down the dream of working in college athletics. He is a class act that loves to give back to the strength and conditioning community. PLEASE feel free to reach out to him with any questions you have!  

If you LOVED this episode, I encourage you to leave a review and tell me why. If you HATED it, leave a review and tell why! We encourage feedback and want to improve your listening experience.

Reach out to Connor Derrickson

CDPerformance Website ➡️ HERE

Via email: [email protected] 

Via Instagram: @connorderrickson

Reach out to Ed Smith

Via email: [email protected]

Via Instagram: @esmith52