Welcome Paul Robbins! Paul is a world renown sports scientist. Formerly of Athletes Performance (EXOS), Paul now works in data analytics to create conditioning for the athletes in the NBA, NHL, NFL, and Professional Tennis. Paul is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to conditioning, and analyzing sport movement and data. He supplies his contracted teams with data to optimize their conditioning protocols. He also goes through great conditioning progressions and his experience at Athletes Performance. It was great talking with Paul and he handled our questions with grace and ease. Thank you Paul for your time! 

 

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Growth Mindset and awareness of mental training. We dig into what a strong mental approach means for mixed martial artists. Consistency and accountability make up two of the key performance indicators for a growth mindset. Being honest and aware of your own consistency is super necessary when it comes to a smart mental approach. We touch on ensuring the right environment for growth, as a coach and as athletes we must take ownership over the process and truly kill it. The important piece of this podcast is to set yourself up for not only success but for consistent success in your schedule, intensity and approach. 

 

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Workload management. What does that mean? Specifically in this podcast we talk about weekly schedules. Your schedule needs to be balanced enough to ensure recovery from hard training and that you are fresh enough to train hard. When we continually grind we are performing at suboptimal levels constantly. No, you wont feel like rainbows every time you need to train but if we are chronically fatigued we will never feel or perform great.  Another motivation behind this conversation is to get into the nitty-gritty of scheduling. We are offering a free 15 minute conversation to anyone who wants to optimize their current training schedule. We will help you organize your skill training according to difficulty, recovery, and high level training schemes. This can only set you up for success in training. 

 

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Quick take on youth sports development and sports specificity. Should we specify one sport? Is there value to branching out and trying multiple sports? We agree that there is value to trying multiple sports and adding movements to your skill set. Ultimately more diversity in movements allows for more physical and mental robustness. This robustness is what is needed if your kid, or you are to make it in a sport of your choosing. Specifying is necessary at some point on the career journey, just not too early or against anyone’s wishes. 

 

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Welcome to our live programming session. We talk about building a program for an athlete, and even put on a case study so that you guys can see our process. We go through philosophies, principles of lifting and even get into the weeds of methods for our athletes. We hit on a lot of background questions off the get go, but we bring it completely practical in the end. If you listen intently you can take a free lesson in strength and conditioning and a free workout home! Let us know what you think of our process and if you think you can benefit from the podcast or the workout! 

 

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Toe spacers!! Lol this is a trend that has caught on in Crossfit, and should catch on in MMA. Take care of yo’ feet! We are Freestylin’ in this episode and we cover some peripheral exercises and supplements, grading your return to play from low back pain, and opportunity cost in strength and conditioning. We hit a lot on “functional” ...

Our Favorite Registered Dietician is back! Christina Chu, Dietician extraordinaire! Follow here @christinaychu on Instagram or reacher her through her website: www.christinaychu.com Nutrition Power Hour! Christina joins us to talk on many nutrition topics for our listeners! We cover a broad range of topics including nutrition for recovery, post workout fueling, quick nutrition tips for fight week, and common myths ...

Building a Fighter Ep.112    Coaching Philosophy. What is it and is it useful? We brainstorm and talk about our coaching philosophies in this episode. While we do get into the details a bit in this podcast a solid performance approach with a well organized system will enhance your overall coaching game. A coaching philosophy helps direct your attention and progress ...

Training Unilaterally. This training intervention can introduce variability and more athleticism to your workouts! Typically in MMA we are exploding ...

Recovery’s 3 R’s - regulate, refuel, and reflect. You are only as good as you can recover. Each training session cost us - energy, fuel, mental exhaustion. We must come back from that cost even stronger. Here we offer various methods to recover in between workouts and on a constant basis. These methods are not one-off sexy theraguns and ice baths, but rather consistent routines that will have a meaningful impact on your training and lifestyle. Let us know what you think! 

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