Chasing Edges

Dr. Charlie Weingroff is one of the most sought-after professionals world-wide in physical therapy and athletic performance. He is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, a Certified Athletic Trainer, and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist who has worked with countless A-List celebrities, professional athletes, as well as the general population.

Topics In Order:
0:00 Drive 495. Training A list celebrities and Athletes
15:00 Charlie's Background
17:10 NBA, Training = Rehab
19:45 How can I help? Even if it's not me. Kill Hubris
25:28 Biological Bank Account, Buckets of Performance
28:30 Assessment and Evaluation
32:00 Load Management
34:00 Coaching Perspective Variable
36:30 Universal Language
42:15 Need the right people, need time
56:50 What should players look for in a trainer or assessment?
1:00:40 FMS, NORDBOARD
1:09:45 Readiness and Sensory Systems
1:17:50 Lowest hanging fruit, Great evaluation

Charlie is currently Physical Performance Lead and Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Canadian Men’s National Basketball Team, which currently tops all foreign countries with a total of 20 active players in the NBA. He often lectures overseas often, and his relationship with Beijing Yanding Trading Company has brought him through mainland China for the last 5 years.

Previous roles Charlie has held have been Nike Executive Performance Council, Lead Physical Therapist for the United States Marine Corps Special Operations Command, Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA, and Director of Athletic Development for the Roddick-Grunberg Tennis Academy. Charlie has consulted for teams in all major North American sports as well as Manchester United and Manchester City in the English Premiere League.

His Training = Rehab series is often discussed as a thought leading model that brought to light the value of medical, fitness, and science professionals all working together as one staff or unit.

The T=R DVD series is often recognized as the most successful train-the-trainer product over the last decade.

Charlie is currently based in the West Palm Beach, Florida area with facilities in Jupiter, FL, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Boynton Beach, FL, Boca Raton, FL, Coral Springs, FL, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Miami, Manhattan, NYC and surrounding areas.

FIRE AWAY QUESTIONS
What's more important, adding value to yourself or those around you?
What's the hardest sport on the planet? 
What life lesson did you have to learn the hard way?
What is the meaning of peace to you?
Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton? 
If you could ask a question about your future and have it answered, what would it be?

Questions In Order:
0:55 What supplements to use to get the most out of your Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapies?
8:35  Testosterone Therapy for ex-athletes and law enforcement who function in high stress environments and still want to perform at a high level? What are healthy testosterone levels?
13:15 Proper sequencing in cocontractions drills within the training session and in the training periodization? What is cocontraction?
19:27 Thoughts on hygiene products to get rid of toxic products?
25:14 What are your thoughts on night shade vegetables (tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, white potatoes) very common in latino diets, interested in Doc's thoughts?
28:25 What are your thoughts on peptides? If you suggest using them what are the best ones to be combined or to be used individually?
36:30 What are your overall thoughts on cholesterol? Total vs HDL/LDL individually? Threat of high cholesterol? How to keep low cholesterol while eating high fat diet?
40:45 Is deuterium a concern with nutrition regarding mitochondrial health long term? If so should we be in a low carb state the majority of the time? 
45:25 At what point did you both realize you wanted to be a doctor in your respected fields? Was there a light switch moment?
53:58 Recommendations for programming and training for Rugby, how would you stack lifting and running?
1:00:05 Best test to access gut health? Favorite dietary strategies or probiotics to improve overall dysfunction?
1:04:19 Thoughts on Chorella supplements?

Rachel is a minor league manager for the New York Yankees and has worked in professional baseball for 11 years. She was the first female manager in MLB history. She was also  the first woman to be a full time strength and conditioning coach and also the first woman to be a full time hitting coach in the history of professional baseball. She holds 2 masters degrees, she most recently achieved her masters in Biomechanics & NeuroScience in Amsterdam. She is a highly sought after speaker and mentor. By trade she is a hitting coach and baseball manager, but in reality, she describes herself as "a student, athlete, minimalist, feminist and nomad. Those are things that I resonated with long before my career and will be with me long after my career in sports is over."

Rachel was also a D1 Softball player at the University of New Mexico and has also held roles with the St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros, LSU Tigers, Driveline, Chicago White Sox, and API (now EXOS)

TOPIC ORDER:
Learn by Doing, Always a Student
Transition into Head Coach Role & Tactics
Developing Standards and Structure for Accountability and Competitiveness
Lead by Example vs Vocal Leaders
Challenges as a Woman getting into the industry
Eye Tracking
Grit
Letting go of identities
Language deficiencies in baseball
Best Advice

Leo Daniel is a breath specialist, breath & optimal health coach with Innate Strength (innate-strength.com) and author of Breathe Free (Releasing in the next couple months). Leo earned a  MSc from University College Dublin, he continued to educate himself through a  professional career in Ireland and internationally. He attained multiple diplomas and certificates from many elite personal training, physical therapy and breathing schools including Dip. Buteyko Method, Wim Hof Instructor, Oxygen Advantage Master Instructor, Fascial Stretch Therapist, Strength and Conditioning Specialist and Pilates teacher. He is one of the few in the field that understand breathing, its impacts on the whole human being, its application to life, sports performance and how to train it. 

His love and experience for health and physical performance led him to research more than 100 breathing techniques, mentor with coaches to Olympians, UFC Fighters, World Champions and he undertook several internships with the world renowned Dr. Eric Serrano. He has coached hundreds of clients during his career. Their profiles range from Olympians to recreational sports people and those who haven't trained in a decade. 

Logan Gelbrich is the founder of DEUCE, a brand of unique coaching-oriented strength & conditioning gyms. Gelbrich has not only demonstrated the ability to create asymmetrical value in the fitness space, but he has also become a developmental leader offering courses like Coach’s Prep 101 that drives adaptation in coaches looking to improve their craft and Business Prep 101 to help entrepreneurs build a developmental organization. The former professional baseball player took to strength sports after baseball competing in the CrossFit Games in 2011 and North American Strongman championships in 2016.

Gelbrich now travels the world teaching a strongman seminar and his Hold the Standard™ Summit. The two-day course combines academically progressive adaptive leadership concepts and real-world entrepreneurial performance to educate leaders across all industries.

His best selling book, Going Right: A Logical Justification for Pursuing Your Dreams, is his most universal contribution so far as it unveils a decision-making framework that clears the way for men and women to pursue their peak expression. Gelbrich resides in Venice Beach, California.

Rudy Reyes is a retired Recon Marine, and a current actor on Fox's show Special Forces: The Ultimate Test and SAS: Who Dares Wins. He is also an author of 2 books, including Hero Living, and founder and supporter of Force Blue a conservation organization gear towards cleaning and protecting the world coral reefs.

At the age of 18, he then began to study martial arts, training in Kung-Fu, eventually winning the title of International Jing Woo Martial Art College Champion, multiple times. In sum, his martial art achievements are over 20 medals, 14 of which were gold. He worked various jobs, from construction to table bussing, while simultaneously training as a kickboxer, in an effort to provide stability and discipline for himself and his brothers (who he also got into kickboxing.)

In 1998, Rudy found himself watching a film covering orphans in Kosovo who’s parents were killed by their own countries snipers. Rudy, at the age of 26, was so compelled to do something to help, decided to enlist in the United States Marine Corps (USMC).

Rudy enlisted in the USMC as a infantryman, and graduated as the honour grad and iron man of Boot Camp and School of Infantry. Rudy, due to his merit and initiative, was granted an opportunity to try out for Recon. The Reconnaissance Marine Community is 300 strong, between 5 units, making it the most prestigious and difficult group in a Marine Corps of 300,000. A group that no man may sign up to join but must be invited and prove their worthiness to earn the title of a United States Recon Marine.

After being a special forces operator for three years, during which Rudy became a “schooled-out“ (paratrooper, combat diver, demolitions expert, scout sniper, closed quarter combatant, and SERE trained) Recon Marine, Rudy was called for his first combat reconnaissance mission in 2001 in Pakistan – a preparation mission for USA's Special Ops insertion to Afghanistan. Once the war officially started, his team ran operations that located and destroyed Al Qaeda within Afghanistan. 

After leaving the military, Rudy spent time in Africa where he trained wildlife preserve rangers in anti-poaching tactics and later went on to found ‘Force Blue’ a Veteran Non Profit which pairs former Special Operators with Marine Scientists to work rebuilding and restoring coral reefs, saving turtles, and working within the conservation community. He also competes and trains people for Adventure Racing and Martial Arts.  In 2008, Rudy appeared on the HBO miniseries Generation Kill, aseven-part series based on Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright’s 2004 book of the same name. Rudy plays himself, depicting his time as a member of the lead combat force that entered both Afghanistan and Iraq. He also has worked on many survival shows, Apocalypse Man and Ultimate Survivor Alaska. He was also one of the main contributors for multiple BAFTA nominated documentary series Once Upon a Time in Iraq which was also nominated for an Emmy. 

He most recently can be found hosting UK Show SAS: Who Dares Wins and the new American version Special Forces: The Ultimate Test

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Matt Wenning is a 3 time world champion powerlifter, and multiple time world record breaker in both raw and equipped lifts. He has directed over 6000 troops in strength, conditioning, and wellness for the U.S. Army including Infantry and Ranger Divisions. He holds a Masters Degree in Biomechanics and a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science from Ball State University. Matt was featured in the documentary Westside Vs The World and now owns and coaches out of his gym, Ludus Magnus Gym on the west side of Columbus, Ohio.

Matt grew up in Indiana, raised by a hard working, middle class family. His mother was a nurse, and his father was a Marine and truck driver. When he was six years old, Matt was hit by a car going 50 mph, which took a toll on his physical development. After undergoing 12 months of full leg casts and 12 months in a boot, his legs were underdeveloped.

Four years later, Matt discovered lifting. It allowed him to see he was capable of anything, despite what he had gone through during recovery from his injuries. Then, when Matt was 13, his father passed away due to cancer; a result of complications from agent orange. That’s when he started lifting in competitions. In the beginning, lifting was just a stepping stone to the goal of football. But it became a much larger pathway in his life. Lifting inspired Matt to attain higher education and become a strength coach. He excelled with a 3.9 GPA. He has been an adviser for the NFL, an international speaker for the NSCA, as well as a contractor for border patrol, airborne divisions, and the pentagon.