On this episode, we get to listener questions about lifting with limited equipment, sore lower backs, cheerleaders, rodeo athletes, longevity in training, bench press programming, cardio, macros for weightlifters, and more.

On this episode, we talk with Strength Coach and conversation starter Peter Noonan. Coach Noonan trains high school football players in the incredibly competitive state of Texas, so listen in to hear about his training methodologies, how to make sure that the work in the weight room transfers to the field, and also how he’s started great conversations among strength coaches on Twitter.

On this episode, we talk with Coach Mike Carroll of Fit for Golf. Coach Travis has admired Coach Mike for a long time on Twitter – because Mike is constantly dropping gold nuggets on rotational athletes, biomechanics, muscular asymmetries, avoiding injuries, and more.

On this episode, we talk with Josh Stanley of Combat Athletics. Coach Josh has built a thriving business working with all ages on wrestling, MMA, and more. So listen in to this one to hear about how he trains those athletes, how he builds such an amazing gym culture, how athletes need adversity to make them the best, and so much more.

On this episode, we talk to our good friend Seb from Weightlifting House. Seb gets us caught up on all that’s going on in International Weightlifting – from drug scandals to what makes lifters great – and of course the latest on Liu Xiaojun, Lasha, and all the American heroes of the sport.

On this episode, we talk with our good friend Sean Rigsby all about the current happenings in American weightlifting – all the latest rumors, the stats, what makes weightlifting so special for female lifters – and we also talk about some insane training experiments from the late Glenn Pendlay.

On this episode, we talk with renowned speed expert, Coach Lee Taft. These podcasts are some of our favorites because speed work is just so fascinating – so listen in to hear about mechanisms for speed, creating the perfect drills for the individual, and enhancing neurologic response.

On this episode we talk with Craig Cheek – a coach who flew onto Travis’s radar after some fascinating Twitter discussions. So on this episode we break down the idea of being a natural athlete and the concept of self-organization. How do you coach these people – do you get out of their way or do you try and intervene when that might be compromising their natural ability? Well that's we talk about today!

On this episode, we talk with strength training legend Coach Mike Boyle. Coach Boyle is one of the most famous and influential strength coaches of all time – so listen in to this heavy-hitting episode to hear about how Coach Boyle revolutionized training for hockey, how so many coaches have argued with him (and then came back to say that he was right), and how Westside programming and Russian programming might not be the best ones to learn from.

On this episode, Coach Travis goes off on something that he has been incredibly passionate about lately – monitoring and measuring athlete performance. We talk about why monitoring can have athletes making the maximum gains while not getting injured, we talk about simple and effective methods of measurement that are likely just as effective as super expensive tools – and we talk about what coaches need to do in order to be positioned for the new world of data and math in coaching.