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Episode 13 season 3 is out with Kyle Brennan. Kyle is a performance coach with the Houston Astros that has a concentration with strength/conditioning and catching. For the 2022 season, Kyle will be working the Houston Astros Double – A affiliate Corpus Christi Hooks.

Before working for the Houston Astros, Kyle played baseball at the University of Buffalo and started for 3 ½ years. In 2017 Kyle, was named to the Johnny Bench Award Watchlist. After college, Kyle didn't go directly into baseball but decided to work as an EMT. During, this time Kyle started up his catching machine performance page. He decided to post to this page when he had off time during his job in the truck during the EMT.

Kyle decided to go full time working in baseball and S/C. He coached two seasons with CatcherMTRX, the Long Island Titans and Ward Melville High School. Kyle went on to pass his CSCS (Certified Strength and Conditioning Program) and obtained Functional Range Conditioning Mobility Specialist (FRCms).

Kyle talks about what its like to work in professional baseball and it is changing every year. Being a professional coach, you need a wide arrange of skills to become successful. Kyle talks about what he is currently working to learn and what makes him standout from other coaches. Kyle mentions technology and data about how important it towards player development during 2021.

Kyle has a bright future in professional baseball and shows that he is constantly learning to become a better coach. Kyle is a big advocate of not letting social media affecting his mentality towards his personal life or his coaching style. I am really looking forward to see how 2022 goes for Kyle and how many players he will reach this season.

Episode 12 season 3 is out with Kris Körper. Kris currently has his own gym out in Las Cruces, NM. It is by far one of the most interesting gyms I have ever seen. Kris puts out a ton of great information on his Instagram and is currently documenting his training with Ronnie Allen who currently is playing for the Florence Yalls in the professional frontier baseball league.

Kris talks about his early years of training and how he back obsessed with it. Kris was a highly ranked baseball prospect while he was in high school but wanted to forgo the draft. He decided instead to serve a mission for his church in Boston, MA.

During this time, Kris talks about he continued to train out of a barn with stone weights. Yea stone weights this dude is an animal. After serving his mission, Kris went and played junior college baseball and after played at New Mexico State University.

Kris goes in depth about his social media but talks about how it is so little of what he does. He believes if he were to blow up his social media, he would be doing a disservice to his athletes and not pay attention to them as much. Kris has such a great outlook towards social media and I will do the same going forward.

Throughout the rest of the podcast, Kris talks about his training style and the methods he uses. Kris talks about his currently athlete Ronnie Allen and talks about his custom program. He talks about who it is only specific to him and is very serious about the proper recovery and nutrition that goes into his program to be able to perform.

I really enjoyed my time with Kris. Kris is one of the smartest S/C coaches I have met through this podcast and has such a great energy for athletes. He is exactly what a S/C coach embodies.

Episode 11 season 3 is out. I decided to talk about how I program my athletes. I go through four sections including- Eval, Pitching Eval, Progression, Exercise Order. I wanted to take a deep dive into these topics because I know they are completely different per coach. Topics that will be included:

Eval

FMS: OH Squat, SL Squat, Active Straight Leg Raise

1) Truck Stability Test

2) Thomas Test

3) SL Glute Firing

4) Ankle Mobility

5) T Spine Extension

6) T Spine Rotation

7) Arm Care App: Measures Rotator Cuff and Scap strength

8) Broad Jump

9) SL Lateral Jump

10) 40 yard dash

Throwing Eval

Trunk Movement

• Stabilization Phase
• Rotation Phase
• Flexion Phase

Arm Movement

• Separation Phase
• Pickup Phase
• Disconnection Phase
• Elbow Spiral Phase
• Driveline Phase

Lower Half Movement

• Loading Phase
• Striding Phase
• Rotating Phase
• Blocking Phase

Progression

1. GPP/Muscular Endurance
2. Basic Strength
3. Eccentric
4. Isometric
5. Max Strength
6. Speed

Exercise Order

Throwing Program Exercise Order

Episode 10 Season 3 is out with Alex Simone. Alex is the owner of Simone Baseball Performance and an Assistant coach for the Orleans Firebirds in the Cape Code League. A 2010 Major League Baseball draft pick of the Milwaukee Brewers out of high school, Alex elected to attend college, playing four years of at the University of West Alabama and LaRoche College. Alex is well known for his content on social media that has reached out to high school, high school, and pro baseball players all around the country.

Alex talks about life after baseball and how that he knew exactly what he wanted to do. He loved to train and loved training athletes. He started with just one or two clients after playing and put 100% into them, one of them getting drafted a couple years later.

Alex decided he wanted to intern at Cressey Sports Performance. He talks about his experience during that time and how much it helped him along the way. Alex and I commented during this time about our first experiences interning at a strength and conditioning facility and Im glad I wasn't the only person completely lost on their first day of work.

Alex currently is training baseball players at a high level and puts out amazing content on social media and his website. He talks about his overall goal is to just help as many athletes as he can and taking a selfless way of looking at his growth over the past couple years.

Alex is steering the way for many trainers in baseball and how to use social media as a tool to put out the best possible info and by putting it out for free.

Topics:

• Cape strength coach and then cape assistant coach
• Background?
• Played college baseball at west Alabama and LaRoche college and drafted in the 49th round by the Milwaukee Brewers
• Worked at Cressey Sports Performance… Experience
• Starting Simone Baseball Performance
• How?
• Process?
• In Season Progress in the Cape
  • Huge advantage for your team in this aspect? First week for a player on the firebirds?
  • How do you eval your guys and transitioning from college S/C programs
  • By position? There is always an interesting conversation towards this
  • Your progression through the summer and when do you feel you should be adding isometrics?
• Best advice for starting a baseball specific s/c?

Episode 9 Season 3 is out with Joe Singley. Joe is currently a student assistant at Coastal Carolina working with pitchers, catchers, and hitters. Joe currently studying exercise science and is very interested in biomechanics. He is currently know for putting out great catching information TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter

Joe was a two-time all-state selection at catcher at Archmere Academy. Rated as the No. 2 catcher and the No. 9 overall prospect in the state of Delaware coming out of high school in the class of 2016. Before Coastal Carolina Joe attended Tulane and Indian River State College, Singley saw his collegiate career cut short due to four shoulder reconstruction surgeries. His dad, Joe Singley, played football at Temple University and then went on to play professional baseball with the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago White Sox. Joe's father's had a long battle with cancer and after his passing Joe started the foundation called Singley Strong in his honor to help families struggling with cancer.

Joe talks about this whole social media experience he has had and how his main goal was just to put out great information about catching and what it takes to work hard. He talks about how he has connected with people from all walks of life and how it has influenced his coaching career.

Joe has a bright future in coaching and has the passion for it. I look forward seeing what happens his baseball future because it sure is a bright one!

Topics Include:

• How did you start making videos?
• Explaining the "new style to catching" = way more athletic
• Extension to Flexion, thumb down
• REPS= EXPERIENCE, EXPERIENCE = UNDERSTANDING, UNDERSTANDING= ANTICIPATION, ANTICIPATION = COMFORTABILITY
• Putting out Tik Tok videos good bad and ugly
• Working with pro guys
• Exercise science within catching

Episode 8 Season 3 I decided to talk about my experience passing the CSCS (Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist) certification. I have watched and listened to so many different Youtube/podcasts about how to take this test.

I started to study for this test near the end of 2019. I decided to take this exam because my goal was to work for a professional baseball organization within player development. I graduated college with a degree in supply chain management and did not have any professional attributes to further my progression in player development. The members of the Double A Corpus Christi Hooks told me to be respected you needed to get your CSCS.

This certification was a process to get but I am so happy I decided to take a chance to pass this test. I not only learned about strength and conditioning but I learned about how to self-study, personal diligence, and to not fear failure.

Topics Include;:

• What is the CSCS?
• Why I decided to pursue this test
• The 2 year process
• Why people hate on the CSCS
• What are the actual best ways to study

Episode 7 Season 3 is out with Justin Liserio. Justin is currently a High-Performance Coach at Tread Athletics located in Charlotte, NC. Tread is pitching development company that builds custom training and throwing plans to help pitchers increase velocity and performance. They combine strength/conditioning, pitching development, and nutrition to develop pitchers into the best versions of themselves.

Before Tread, Justin studied Kinesiology and Exercise Science at Heidelberg University and played college baseball there. Justin had an interesting college career and decided to not play his senior year of college. He decided to accept an internship at Texas Christian underneath Zach Dechant.

Justin has tremendous knowledge about pitching development and in S/C. Justin is paving the road for the new style of pitching development coaches in the industry. I am really excited to him progress at Tread Athletics and the future of pitching development.

Topics Include:

• Not playing your senior year of college baseball?
• TCU S/C Internship
• The truth about the CSCS
• Beginnings of Tread Athletics
• Tread Athletics Coaching Development Process

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Episode 6 Season 3 is out with Rory Tekulve Rory is currently Head of Analytics at Miami-OH University and studies business analytics as his major. Rory has an internship this summer at The Strike Zone Facility located in Vermont. Rory is also head of pitching development for a summer baseball program called Cincinnati Royals.

Miami Ohio is becoming of the best data driven schools in the Midwest and is one of the best in the MAC (Mid-American Conference). Rory talks a ton about what it is like to be head of analytics at a Division One baseball program. Rory goes in-depth about how they pick specific students, about the different departments, and what they are doing to build the bridge between coaching and analytics.

This summer Rory will be working at The Strike Zone Facility located in Vermont. The Strike Zone has a ton of great instructor but he is excited to work with Zac Morain who is the Director of Player Development and worked previously at Driveline. He will be working with all different technologies such as ProPlayAI to understand the biomechanics of pitching. Rory is very interested in biomechanics as a whole for pitching and he believes working at this facility will help him a lot to learn an overall basis.

Rory is becoming a product of new age player development. Rory's goal is to become a data driven developer with the knowledge of biomechanics and strength/conditioning development in pitchers. I am very excited to hear about Rory's experience this summer and uses what he learns at Miami Ohio!

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Episode 5 Season 3 is out with Wyatt Edwards. Wyatt is currently Tim Tebow's personal Bible Tutor. He is also working with Research and Content Development at XV Enterprises, a company of Tim Tebow. Wyatt received his BBA in Marketing from Tiffin University. He recently finished his Masters of Biblical & Theological Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary.

Throughout college, Wyatt thought he was going to work in the business world. He really enjoyed marketing because it's a combination of creativity and knowledge. This was his ultimate passion in college. He had interests from many different companies on the west coast including Google. Wyatt changed his decision during his last year of college and become really interested in biological studies. He worked for Grace Community Church located in Fremont, OH and started to find his passion.

During 2019, Wyatt was hired to be the Assistant to Josh McDowell. Josh McDowell has been a huge leader in ministry for more than 50 years. Working with Josh opened Wyatt's eyes to ministry and an overall different outlook at life.

During one of his trips with Josh to Florida. Wyatt went and did something crazy. He wanted to work for Tim Tebow and he knew that he was located in Florida. Wyatt decided to be bold and show up to Tim's house. He left a cut out of a recent post on Linkedin with a message. A couple days later Tim called him.

Wyatt and I met at Tiffin University playing baseball our freshman year of college. Wyatt has always be someone that goes outside his comfort zone and really enjoys life. We have stayed friends since college not because of baseball but because we both push ourselves to be the best version of ourselves that we can be!

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

Topics include:

• Crazy Background, Explain in your eyes.
• Talk about your daily life of working for Tim Tebow.
• Worked in different industries before working with tebow. How much as that helped in your future business endeavors.
• Mentorship?
• Traveling?
• Going outside your comfort zone and how to confront it moving forward in life?
• How do you find yourself giving back to people including your family?

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Episode 4 Season 3 is out with Christian Sullivan. Christian is currently the Director of Sports Performance at PRP (Passion Resilience Process) location in Noblesville, Indiana.

PRP has become a leading facility in the Midwest for baseball development. PRP currently know for their summer college program which allows players to get the reps they need and not waste time during the summer sitting on the bench.

PRP assess and evaluates each and every player to get the most customized program they can achieve. PRP is also well know for their able to develop pitchers at a high level. They also have a great development program for position players that includes the use of technologies such as Rapsodo, Edgertronic and Blast Motion.

Christian graduated from Franklin College in Indiana (Division 3). Christian is very interesting because he graduated from college with a bachelors in Economics and had another career before working for PRP. Christian talks about his career change and how it was one of the best decisions of his life.

Christian brings a role of "management stress and performance of all athlete". He has a great understanding of functional anatomy and learning everyday how to convert that know to applied biomechanics into the future.

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

Topics discussed include:

• The future of pitching development
• What is a deload?
• How do you train players that are currently training with their high school team without overtraining them at the same time?
• Certified Strength and Conditioning exam?
• How did he change his career path to Player Development?