Keith Scruggs is a PhD student and Performance Coach at the University of South Carolina. Keith earned his Master's from East Tennessee State University working under Dr. Mike and Dr. Meg Stone. Keith has also served as a Performance Coach at the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center working with the Bobsled and Skeleton athletes.

Mike Young, Owner of Athletic Lab, answers questions on Olympic weightlifting for sport.

Topics of discussion range from why we would use Olympic weightlifting to develop athletes, guidelines on programming the lifts, ideas on work capacity, EMOMs, and complexes, should we use both Snatch and Clean and what types of variations within the training year, and what to do if we can't Olympic lift.

Mike Young's full bio: bit.ly/mikeyoungbio

Ryan Horn is Director of Performance for the Wake Forest University Men's Basketball Team. He's in his third year with the team and spent previous years coaching at Tulsa, VCU, Robert Morris, and Liberty University.

This episode covers challenges as collegiate strength coach, managing fatigue at home and on the road as well as managing detraining throughout the year. We discuss aspects of his return to play and return to performance continuum and lastly if and how to implement plyometrics for basketball players.

Nick Winkelman is the Head of Athletic Performance & Science at the Irish Rugby Football Union. He has earned a PhD from Rocky Mountain University with an emphasis in motor learning and sprinting. Nick is formerly the Director of Education and Performance at EXOS where he headed the NFL Combine Prep and worked with athletes from the MLB, NBA, NHL.

We'll cover aspects of the demands of rugby and how to meet these demands through speed training, the weightroom, and conditioning, weekly setups for the off-season and the in-season and the types of monitoring tools the rugby teams are using and how they are implementing and making changes in training based on those tools.

Greg Everett is a weightlifting coach and owner of Catalyst Athletics. The author of Olympic Weightlifting: A Complete Guide for Athletes & Coaches and Director of American Weightlifting.

When you think of weightlifting and weightlifting education in the U.S., Greg is at the top of that list.

In this episode we'll discuss three main ways to become a successful coach and athlete in the U.S., training plans, variation in training, the use of plyometrics in weightlifting and training for the Masters athlete.

Mladen Jovanovic is a Performance Coach and Sport Scientist for Port Adelaide FC of the AFL. Previously Mladen has worked with soccer, volleyball, tennis, and basketball. In this episode we will cover team strategies and cultures with regards to soccer and the AFL, Agile Periodization methods compared to other, traditional, methods, and big-picture thinking. Lastly, we'll cover the team sport setting and how injuries and fatigue effect planning and training and some approaches to readjusting training.