Building a Fighter

Orthopedic Cost, what does that mean? Is it a real thing? We riff on a trending tweet in the strength and conditioning world. We argue that exercise selection matters, and all exercise is not good exercise. We dive a bit into pain science, and how to correctly orchestrate exercise selection, load, volume and stress management. We contend that every variable in an exercise program needs to be weighed and thought through in order to have “the best” program not just a “good” program. Let us know your thoughts on this hot take! We would love to hear from anyone and everyone! 

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Orthopedic Cost, what does that mean? Is it a real thing? We riff on a trending tweet in the strength and conditioning world. We argue that exercise selection matters, and all exercise is not good exercise. We dive a bit into pain science, and how to correctly orchestrate exercise selection, load, volume and stress management. We contend that every variable ...

Shout out to Coach Augie from Landow Performance for the inspiration for this podcast. We are talking about finding and exploiting your athlete’s superpowers! Should you raise the ceilings aka train into your superpower, or should we focus on the weaknesses? The answer, as always, it depends. One key we highlight in this podcast is the awareness of your superpower and the awareness to utilize it. Becoming more aware and being able to utilize your superpower as a fighter, or being able to identify and coach an athlete through their superpower is very important and we talk about our process through that in this podcast!

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Message Building a Fighter directly at [email protected]

@buildingafighter on Instagram

Alex: IG @strong_a.f  email: [email protected]

Austin: IG  @warriorsportswellness  email: [email protected]

Shout out to Coach Augie from Landow Performance for the inspiration for this podcast. We are talking about finding and exploiting your athlete’s superpowers! Should you raise the ceilings aka train into your superpower, or should we focus on the weaknesses? The answer, as always, it depends. One key we highlight in this podcast is the awareness of your superpower ...

We talk about genetic potential and what percentage of success or performance comes from genetics. We play around with the idea of talent vs. hard work vs skill vs innate ability. Genetics predispose us to be better or worse at certain athletic qualities. As coaches we need to be able to recognize and plan for this.  The better we can match our training to utilize this advantage the more success that we can have. We reference “The Sports Gene” by David Epstien in this podcast and it is a terrific book on this topic. Genetics are a hard variable to plan for, but so key to recognize as a coach. We bring some light to this topic here. 

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Message Building a Fighter directly at [email protected]

@buildingafighter on Instagram

Alex: IG @strong_a.f  email: [email protected]

Austin: IG  @warriorsportswellness  email: [email protected]

We talk about genetic potential and what percentage of success or performance comes from genetics. We play around with the idea of talent vs. hard work vs skill vs innate ability. Genetics predispose us to be better or worse at certain athletic qualities. As coaches we need to be able to recognize and plan for this.  The better we can ...

This week we are joined by Alex’s fellow performance coaches at Landow Performance. We dive into strength and conditioning for mma. Augie Agyei and Eric Telly have been training fighters for 10+ years amongst other athletes. We primarily work with the Factory X professional fight team. These guys drop so many knowledge bombs in this short hour. I am insanely grateful to work alongside them everyday, and grateful that they joined this podcast. We hit topics of the strength and conditioning profession, approach to training MMA athletes, and approaches to coaching mentality. Thanks again to Augie, and Eric for this episode! Leave us a rating and lets get 2022 started right! Hope you enjoy it. 

Augie “Consistency” Agyei 

@persistance21  on IG and Twitter

Eric “Trust the Process” Telly

@EricTelly

@landowperformance

buildingafighter.com

Message Building a Fighter directly at [email protected]

@buildingafighter on Instagram

Alex: IG @strong_a.f  email: [email protected]

Austin: IG  @warriorsportswellness  email: [email protected]

This week we are joined by Alex’s fellow performance coaches at Landow Performance. We dive into strength and conditioning for mma. Augie Agyei and Eric Telly have been training fighters for 10+ years amongst other athletes. We primarily work with the Factory X professional fight team. These guys drop so many knowledge bombs in this short hour. I am insanely ...

On this episode of BAF we did a recap of 2021 for Alex and Austin Personally as well as Building A fighter as a business. Alex Came, Saw, and Conquered 2021. With his switch over to Landow Performance, joining up with Factory X Team, and Working with Queens City Rugby club. Austin also had a solid 2021! With Warrior Sports Wellness growing, getting married, and getting his first UFC cornering experience. Combined, Building A Fighter specifically was a part of 8 different camps this year, programs for 1 college team, and a couple high school teams. This is only the beginning and be sure to check out the episode to see where we're going! 

buildingafighter.com

Message Building a Fighter directly at [email protected]

@buildingafighter on Instagram

Alex: IG @strong_a.f  email: [email protected]

Austin: IG  @warriorsportswellness  email: [email protected]

On this episode of BAF we did a recap of 2021 for Alex and Austin Personally as well as Building A fighter as a business. Alex Came, Saw, and Conquered 2021. With his switch over to Landow Performance, joining up with Factory X Team, and Working with Queens City Rugby club. Austin also had a solid 2021! With Warrior Sports ...