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Season 4 Episode 27 is out with Nathan Jones. Nathan owns Elevation Athletic Performance located in Cassville, MO. Nathan prides his facility on quality Strength & Conditioning programs to help athletes reach their full potential.

Nathan started EAP in 2021 and has seen a lot of growth in the last year. Nathan goes in-depth talking about how to start a facility but more importantly knowing your population demographic. Nathan found his niche in Cassville, MO by offering best quality training programs and atmosphere.

Nathan spent time as an OPP Intern (Optimal Power Performance located in Tempe, AZ) in 2021. Nathan talks about how this was such an eye-opening experience for him and what quality player development entails. Nathan talks about how his experience gave him the confidence to learn and explore the field of strength & conditioning in a positive manner.

Nathan is a huge proponent of the conjugate method for athletes. Nathan goes on to talk about why he uses this method and why it is so helpful to all athletes no matter what season they are currently in (Off-Season, Preseason, In season, Postseason).

Please join me in listening to Nathan and his shared experiences about Strength & Conditioning!

Timestamps:

Ian's Experience with Elevation Performance

Background:

• Baseball background 2:15
• Before Elevation 5:20

Elevation Performance

• What made you start your own facility 8:50
• Facility backbone (Conjugate system or Conjugate for athletes) 15:50
• What have you learned from your first year? 20:58
• What are going to be your keys to having a successful facility 28:05

OPP Internship

• Experience 32:12
• Working with AJ Arroyo (you can go as in-depth as you want. He is very respected in the S/C field that's why) 33:45
• Hitting and the style? 42:00

Conjugate for athletes

• Favorite keys towards program (example: AMRAP Method) 49:40

Player development

• What have you been exploring within player development recently 55:20
• What are you looking to implement over the next year with your facility 59:50

Closing 61:04

Season 4 Episode 26 is out with Robert Frey. Robert is the lead developer for Prep Baseball Report. His role at Prep Baseball Report is to make all data more concise to the public. Robert's goal is to help coaches use data to make the best decisions possible for recruiting purposes. Robert can completely change the way coaches recruit players looking forward in the future.

Robert comes from a very strong background including being a Driveline Baseball Ops Analyst and Director of Analytics & Information Systems for Quincy University. Robert explains that both roles were very different in a sense but allowed him to think outside the box. He completely changes the way how a college analytics department should look like at a four year college.

Robert has a high level of understanding through R and Python while thinking outside the box on the player development side. Please join me in listening to Robert and his wide progressive knowledge about baseball!

Timestamps:

Previous positions

• Quincy University Director of analytics and information systems
• Driveline Baseball Ops Analyst

Prep Baseball Report 2:30

• what does your role entail 2:45
• What to expect? 5:00

Why R is the best programming language for baseball 8:02

• Is it a must for analysts? 11:25
• Your personal process of learning R 13:35
• Best places to learn (using a plug for your YouTube channel) 18:04

Previous roles: Quincy University Director of Analytics and Driveline Baseball Ops

• Explain what you did for both roles 23:15
• Difference of Interpretation of data (Coaches at QU and Driveline) 29:11
• Quincy Dashboard time 32:31

Player development in the next 5 years analytically (new technology or Baseball Ops positions)

• What to expect and personally looking forward too? 36:20
• What will an analyst position entail? 47:20

Closing

Season 4 Episode 25 is out with Casey Demko. Casey is currently an assistant coach at Abilene Christian University located in Abilene, TX. Before, ACU Casey played college baseball at many levels including (Ohio State, Sinclair CC, and Coker University). This has allowed Casey to have a very eye-opening college experience showing that there is talent at every level of baseball.

Casey started his college coaching career at Quincy University a Division 2 baseball program in Quincy, IL. Casey goes in-depth talking about how he used technology at Quincy to help develop infielders. Technology become a huge staple in his development process by analyzing every type of ground ball hit while also tracking throws through an application created through R.

Casey is a progressive coach while understanding that development is a process, and you need a plan for every player. Please join me in listening to Casey.

Timestamps:

Background 01:30

• Ohio State 1:34
• Sinclair CC 1:47
• Coker College 2:02
• Quincy University 2:23
• Abilene Christian University (Go through and explain your recent hire)

2022 season at Quincy 3:06

Overall path to becoming an assistant coach in college 5:45

• Process of being a grad student 5:50
• Grad school and coaching balance 7:30
• What do you really need to know going into this position 9:20

Skills that need to be learned

• Coaching style 13:25
• Process of actually running a real college program 18:30
• Player development qualities 19:20

How hard is it to get a D1 assistant coaches job 26:21

• would be interested hearing your experience without giving out to much personal information

Player development 2023

• Expectations 29:41
• Biggest differences between 2021-2022 39:16

Closing

Season 4 Episode 24 is out with TJ Wharton. TJ is currently the Director of performance and recruiting coordinator at Maryville College located in Maryville, TN. TJ has a long list of previous experiences including working for the New York Yankees ats a Bullpen Catcher/Performance Science Assistant during spring training. TJ also has experience working for Eckerd College, IMG, St. Petersburg College, and Catawba College.TJ goes indepth talking about his current positions at Maryville and talks about how much having a CSCS has helped him at the Division 3 level.

TJ has a ton of experience working worth difference organizations and colleges while having a knowledge in Exercise Science and Kinesiology. TJ is the definition of a Holistic approach towards the game of baseball. Please join me in listening to TJ.

Timestamps:

S: Kinesiology and Exercise Science

MS: Recreation and Sports Sciences, Coaching

Lots of experience/Jobs before Maryville. Want to go over a lot of these experiences 2:00

• Catawba College
• Eckerd College
• IMG
• New York Yankees 4:00

Recent Coach in Palm Beaches Colligate League 8:30

• Experience
• Why did you coach in this league

Being a D3 performance Coach 10:00

• Explain your role 10:30
• How important is it having a CSCS at the collegiate level 13:30
• D3 restrictions and how you deal with them 17:30
• How do you try to individualize athletes 22:30

Recent 2022 recruiting

• What has changed in the last two years of recruiting 27:00
• How do you recruit guys to go D3

Player Development 2023

• what to expect? 33:00
• What is one new aspect you have been researching? 35:15

Closing 45:00

Season 4 Episode 23 is out with "Stretch Talk'. What exactly is "Stretch Talk"? If you have played high school or college sports you know that every day you stretch. Stretching can be one of the most routine things you will do on an everyday basis. After a couple weeks, you become familiar on what you need to accomplish stretching wise and can do it in your sleep. During this time, you start to strike up conversations with your teammates.

This week's stretch talk is about "What I have learned through 100 episodes". I started this podcast back in 2019 trying to find as much information I can about baseball ops, player development, and overall business. Through this podcast I have learned so much information from overall controlling a conversation to player development. It has been one of the best decisions I have made and look forward to what is coming next1!

Timestamps:

• Why did I start a podcast (00:45)
• learning how to talk bec it's a skill. (5:00)
• connections connections!! (8:35)
• You really don't know much until you test yourself (10:55)
• Everyone has their own story (12:53)
• Podcasting is a grind (15:00
• Marketing and social media (18:30
• Creativity! (19:22)
• Your guests represent who you are (21:16)
• Your only as good as your last podcast (25:00)

Season 4 Episode 22 is out with Jackson Thorne. Jackson is very vocal about his pitching development and recent rehab with TJ.

Jackson and I go in depth talking about his past experiences with TJ. The overall process from surgery to their first experience back on the mound. TJ is a crazy experience and can change pitchers for the better because they can completely start over.

Jackson is attending Marymount University this upcoming school year. He will consistently post his throwing and S/C progression through all social platforms.

Intro

Background (1:15)

• School currently

TJ Backstory (3:20)

• Occurrence (4:15)
• Surgery (5:15)
• Recovery (8:20)
• Rehab (11:00)

Realistic expectations (14:56)

• Rehab S/C
• Throwing

Future of TJ pitchers (21:10)

• What is the future of rehab?
• What needs to change on a throwing side of recovery
• Nutrition?

Social media (27:00)

• Top 3 accounts (29:00)
• Oddity (31:16)

Current training (33:00)

• Throwing
• S/C
• Nutrition

Closing.

End

Season 4 Episode 21 is out with Landon Steiner. Landon is currently an assistant coach at Transylvania University located in Lexington, Ky. Landon has had success right away at Transylvania University winning the HCAC Championship his second year of coaching. Landon finished his college career at Winston-Salem State University.

Landon goes in-depth talking about the development at a D3 and how to overcome the restrictions that comes with that. Landon talks about how in order to become a successful organization you have to trust people outside of the school to train your players at a high level.

2022 has been a crazy year for recruiting. Currently for D1 there are 3,600 athletes in the transfer portal. The portal has changed everything about recruiting and it will only get crazier. Landon talks about his overall experiences with recruiting during the 2021-2022 season. He explains that recruiting is starting to completely change and protecting your current players might be more important than ever.

Please join me in listening to Landon and "Always Remember Be Yourself".

Timestamps (Coming Soon)

Intro

Background

• Henry Clay
• College experience
• Pecos
• Coastal Plains
• Trackman experience
• Transylvania

Success after first year of coaching collegiately

• HCAC championship
• 2021 season overall
• Talk about 2023

Development at a D3

• Explain how to develop players at a D3 level (shorter fall, less hours, high academics)
• Transylvania philosophy
• Transylvania S/C

D3 recruiting

• What does Transylvania look for in a specific player?
• How important is location impact (specific areas for recruiting)
• Differences post Covid

Player development 2023

• pitching
• Hitting
• Overall technical

Close

End

Season 4 Episode 20 is out with Andrew Bradley. Andrew recently graduated from Earlham college located in Richmond, IN. During the 2022 season, Andrew broke the Earlham College single season Homerun record after having zero career Homeruns and having nothing to show his first 3 seasons at Earlham College. Andrew also hit 5 Homeruns, 12 RBI'S, and 2 Doubles. At one point, Andrew was trending on Twitter for his amazing performance.

During this episode, Andrew and I talk about his previous college offseasons compared to his senior season. Andrew had a crazy body transformation from his freshman year to his senior season. He gained 30 pounds his junior year and explained how it helped him to progress into his senior season. Andrew graduated Earlham College with a psychology degree and is huge on mental side of baseball. Andrew explains what it takes to truly have a positive mentality outlook and have a progression towards on the field performance.

Please join me in listening to Andrew's story of his crazy 2022 season.

Timestamps

Recently named 1st team all region by ABCA

• Compare your previous year stats (1:300
• Junior year (2:30)

Different outlook towards 2022

• This off-season vs previous (lifting, hitting, nutrition, recovery) (5:10)
• Weight gain (8:10)
• 2021 lifts (13:00)
• 2022 lifts (18:50)

What did you do different within your swing

• Swing Progression (22:50)
• Hitting off season 2022/Progression (29:00)
• Using Video (33:00)

2022 season in your view

• Team environment difference (40:00)
• Coaching difference (44:00)

April 6th, 2022 (49:05)

• 5 Hrs, 12 RBI, 2 double

Close

Season 4 Episode 19 is out with "Stretch Talk'. What exactly is "Stretch Talk"? If you have played high school or college sports you know that every day you stretch. Stretching can be one of the most routine things you will do on an everyday basis. After a couple weeks, you become familiar on what you need to accomplish stretching wise and can do it in your sleep. During this time, you start to strike up conversations with your teammates.

This week's stretch talk is about "What is next after baseball". I go in-depth talking about keys to dealing with your post playing career. This can be harsh for many people due to just being overall lost and looking for what is next. People don't talk about how harsh that first year of a post playing career can be. I wanted to give my 5 overall keys.

Timestamps:

• Intro
• Who is this this podcast for? (1:09)
• My backstory after college (1:24)
• What I would do differently after college? 6:40
• Freshman – explore fields seem interesting – social media, s/c, business (supply chain and finance), and S/C (8:30)

Keys to think about post playing career

• The year after school? (9:40)
• Is going to grad school ideal? (11:50)
• Gap year and potential goals (13:50)
• Financially (15:37)
• Remember you are 20's get after it (17:20)

Season 4 Episode 18 is out with Dan Sarmiento or DSARM. Dan is a social media influencer athlete who will be attending Azusa Pacific University to play college baseball. Dan is known for vlogging in the baseball realm but has recently started a podcast called "The Show" with his friend Joe Norris. They were recently sponsored by @thebsblr

Dan talks about his start in social media and his love for videography. He talks about how he has been filming since he was a kid and is fascinated by how video can truly show a story about one's life through a lens.

Dan explains what is takes to become an athlete vlogger and now podcaster with consistently producing content regularly while keeping viewer retention high. Becoming a vlogger can happen overnight but it is a true process and a storytelling skill to keep content consistently flowing.

Dan goes onto talk about his current podcast style on social media. He explains why he cuts down his podcasts to a shorter time and how this is becoming a style of podcasting through social media. Dan explains how each platform really works form YouTube to TikTok and how different their roles really are towards viewership & retention rate.

There currently is not a lot of information out there to explain how to properly promote yourself as an athlete and how to keep your viewership consistently flowing/engaging. Dan does tremendous job thoroughly explaining his process and what you should expect promoting yourself! Please enjoy listening to him and follow him on all socials @DSARMYT.

Timestamps

• Where did you go to school and where are you going? (4:30)

• Intended Major? (5:05)

• Why did you pick this school? (5:50)

• Process of starting and finding what works for you? (7:32)

• Progression towards video editing (8:30)

• Vlogs vs Podcasts (10:35)

• How important is it to promote yourself as a high school guy in 2022? (12:35)

• What would you recommend to guys starting to promote yourself (on/off field progression) (14:50)

• Keeping the progression of content? (16:11)

• What is your favorite social media platform and sustainable (18:15)

• Style of "The Show" Podcast (21:20)

• Your goals? (22:50)

• Training goals? (24:04)

• How are you taking your social media presence to your next school?! (29:10)

• Process of having guests? (31:10)