In this episode we chat with Dustin Brancheau owner of AdvantEdge in Marquette Michigan.  Dustin sought out help while he was training for the NFL and got Advice from Louie Simmons of Westside Barbell.  He was invited down in 2012 then the rest is history.  Branch started by training D1 Hockey players who went on to the NHL.  Then he worked with a state championship football team.  Branch has put out some athletes with the best NFL combine methods ever.  He's trained a championship pro boxer.  He has put someone in each major pro league trains  with the conjugate system.  

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In this episode we talk to Travis Mash owner and coach of Mash Elite Performance.  Travis was a 3 time powerlifting world champion and world record holder.  Mash is one of the top Olympic Lifting coaches in the country as his club Mash Mafia has developed world junior and senior members.  We discuss how he prepares and develops his world class Olympic lifters.

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In this episode Tony discusses how he trains agility with his Athletes giving examples of NFL vet Revis and Boldin.  He talks about how athletes can play too fast and can’t control their speed.  He says you can get more separation by cutting faster than running faster.  

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In this episode we chat with XPE co owner Tony Villani who trained some of the fastest Football players in NFL Combine history.  He tells how he got his start training athletes like Chris Carter, Randy Moss, Heinz Ward, Takeo Spikes. He then tells how he got into NFL combine training.  He goes into how his Shredmill helps him develop a bunch of 4.2-4.5 

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In this episode 19 year old American Deadlift record holder Maddie Kelly talks about her training at Byrd Sports Performance.  She talks about her speed and explosive power training for track and field in high school.  She took 2nd in her league track meet with a broken foot.  She also talks about how she fell in love with powerlifting and her rise to break Pennsylvania powerlifting and breaking the American College record at 75kg. She is one of the most hard working motivated athletes I've ever trained.

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In this episode Deppens describes how he trains Donovan Catholic athletic teams including his power lifting team.   

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In this episode we get into how Mark Deppen trains Donovan Catholic.  He talks about how he uses Conjugate method to turn his Iron Grifin’s to champions and earn scholarships all over the country.  

In this episode we discuss training with Donovan Catholic Griffin’s strength coach Mark Deppens early years after football at West Chester university.  We talk about how he and Glenn Mills coaches went to Westside Barbell and began to make Glenn Mills high school into one of the best football, Track and powerlifting teams in Pennsylvania.  Deppens trained with Louie Simmons each year for 20 years for a few weeks.  He tells us stories from his visits.  

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In this episode I talk with Westside Barbell owner Louie Simmons.  We talk about his beginning on how he got into lifting.  Louie tells us how he developed the Conjugate system and the methods involved in it.  We talk about how he invented the use of bands and chains.  We talk about how he developed specialized strength equipment like the Reverse hyper, belt squat, Inverse curl,  and static dynamic developer.  We talk about how he developed the strongest male and female athletes ever.  We discuss how he trains speed and jumping ability.  Each word he sentence he speaks is full of knowledge.  I can't thank Louie enough for taking his time to speak on the podcast.  You will be forever missed friend. 

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In this episode we chat with Chris Korfist owner of Slow Guy Speed School in Chicago Illinois.  Chris is a successful track and field coach at Homewood-Flossmoor High school and he runs the Slow Guy Speed school in his basement and on his street.  Chris has state finalist in 100 and 200m dashes and relays each year.  Korfist was the 2nd person in America with a 1080 Sprint. Korfist also trains NFL running back David Montgomery along with 4 other NFL players.  He is part owner of the Track Football Consortium and RPR.  We talk all things speed in this episode . Enjoy

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