Chalk Talk

Tyler Relph, basketball trainer, has worked with every level athlete from middle school ballers up to NBA superstars like Julius Randle and Amar’e Stoudemire.

This basketball takeover is a free-flowing conversation about basketball, greatness, and what it takes to be elite.

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“If you are in the weight room teaching or coaching students, then you are a strength coach.” PE Teachers, Sports Coaches, and Strength Coaches are all trying to do what is best for their students.

Tobias Jacobi talks about strength coaches being seen as the educators they truly are.

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“To get a high school strength coach job, you might want to consider getting an education degree as well.” This is what a young Travis Lombardazzi was told as he was finishing up his exercise science degree.

Travis took this same two-pronged approach to build a high school strength program at Brunswick High School in Ohio. Build buy-in through PE and grow from there.

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Event + Response = Outcome or (E+R=O). How can we take this equation and think about the weight room and strength training for high school athletes?

Brian Kight, the founder of Daily Discipline, joins PLT4M to talk about setting up systems and structures for successful training.

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“The high school weight room is a slow cooker, not a microwave.”

Coach Garrett Keith CSCS, breaks down the high school weight room using both Tier and Block on this episode of PLT4M Chalk Talk.

Coach Keith is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Westminster Christian High School in Alabama and is the 2019 NHSSCA National Strength Coach Of The Year.

“The high school weight room is a slow cooker, not a microwave.”

Coach Garrett Keith CSCS, breaks down the high school weight room using both Tier and Block on this episode of PLT4M Chalk Talk.

Coach Keith is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Westminster Christian High School in Alabama and is the 2019 NHSSCA National Strength Coach Of The Year.

Everyone high school athlete wants to have the biggest and best vertical. Plyometrics are the only way to work on that right?

Coach Breslin and Coach Reno JUMP in on the plyo discussion and talk about what a well-rounded strength and conditioning program can do for an athlete's jumping.

High School Strength and Conditioning is unlike any other level of S+C. Coach Mike Winkler, CSCS has spent time at the college and pro level but has embraced the beast of HS Strength & Conditioning.

Mike Winkler is the Director of Strength and Conditioning at Archbishop Hoban High School (OH), the NHSSCA Ohio State Director, and recognized as the NHSSCA Regional Strength Coach of the Year.

Coach Winkler talks about growing bonds in the weight room, educating other sport coaches, and the power of the NHSSCA.

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Students are more stressed-out than ever before. Where in their lives can we help them find balance? Physical Education.

Molly Collins, PE Teacher, talks about building relationships, being vulnerable, and understanding that not every day is perfect….for students or teachers.

This episode is sponsored by the PLT4M Essay Contest. Students across the country have the chance to think and write creatively as to why PE is important to them this October. Good luck!

High School Athletics can be the stepping stone for students to “make it to the next level.” Getting recruited is a young athlete’s dream. So how does it all work?

We talk with college coach Greg Hadley about juggling camps, social media, and all of the in’s and out’s of recruiting.