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Cheeky Mid Weeky episodes

June 10 Real Talk with Top Strength Coach - CSCCa Day 1
Mike Joseph is the Assistant Athletics Director and Head Football Strength & Conditioning Coach at West Virginia University, where he has led the Mountaineers' strength and conditioning efforts since 2008. A pioneer in integrating sport science, recovery, nutrition, and performance technology, Joseph oversees athletic performance development across the department with a primary focus on football.
Rece Poulin is the Assistant Director of Sports Performance at Merrimack College, where he oversees Men's Ice Hockey, Women's Basketball, and Women's Lacrosse. A former Merrimack graduate fellow, he earned his master's degree in Exercise and Sports Science and was honored with the prestigious Lance Vermeil Award from the CSCCa for his commitment and potential in the strength and conditioning profession.
Kristina Jeffries is the Associate Director of Athletic Performance at Penn State University, where she currently oversees Men's and Women's Hockey. Since joining Penn State in 2014, she has worked with multiple programs, including Track & Field and Men's Soccer.
Dr. Bill Burghardt is the Director of Sports Science at Michigan State University, where he leads efforts to optimize athlete training, performance, and return-to-sport through the integration of sport science, technology, and data analytics. He previously served as Director of Football Sports Science and spent several years on the Spartans' strength and conditioning staff.
Scott Swanson is the Assistant Athletic Director and Director of Strength & Conditioning at United States Military Academy, where he oversees the physical development of more than 1,000 cadet-athletes across 28 varsity sports. Now in his 24th year leading the program, Swanson directs one of the most unique and comprehensive strength and conditioning operations in collegiate athletics.
Jordan Nilson joined Auburn University in 2024 and oversees all aspects of strength and conditioning for Auburn's Olympic sports while serving as the primary performance coach for women's tennis. Prior to Auburn, she spent several years at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she worked with gymnastics, women's tennis, and softball while also leading internship education and athlete leadership initiatives.
Kelly Powers is the Athletic Director at Saint Ursula Academy. Prior to this she was the Associate Athletic Director for Olympic Sports Performance at University of Cincinnati, where she oversees Olympic sports performance and nutrition while serving as the head strength and conditioning coach for women's basketball and volleyball. Since joining Cincinnati in 2008, she has helped lead the growth of the department's performance and athlete wellness initiatives.
1 hr 59 min
June 06 Read Supertraining In a Year | Pages 301-330
We are BACK with pages 301-330 from Supertraining. This will cover: early specialization, circuit training, genetics, periodization, and of course insights from Yosef.
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Power Lift
🌎Site: https://www.powerliftusa.com/
Power Lift is an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of American-made strength and conditioning equipment. They understand that your Brand is important and offer several diverse ways to incorporate that Brand into your strength equipment. For more about Power Lift click the link above.
Dashr
🌎Site: https://www.dashrsystems.com/
Dashr is a performance testing company best known for its laser timing, but also integrates with Teambuildr and offers a free Player Profile app used by 6k+ athletes. Beyond timing, they provide a full suite of testing solutions including verticals, broad jumps, RSI, biometrics, reaction, and AMS. For more about Dashr click the link above.
PlayerData
🌎Site:https://www.playerdata.com/en-us
PlayerData is Strength Coach Network’s trusted GPS provider and a FIFA Quality–certified system, used by coaches at every level to quantify training load and understand movement demands. PlayerData delivers reliable, actionable data at a strong value point, with seamless syncing that saves coaches precious time—so the focus stays on coaching, not managing technology. For more about PlayerData click the link above.
Thorne
🌎Site: https://www.thorne.com/
Thorne is a global leader in high-quality nutritional supplements and health testing. Trusted by professional sports teams, the U.S. military, and practitioners around the world, Thorne is known for rigorous ingredient sourcing, third-party testing, and science-backed formulations. Whether supporting performance, recovery, or overall health, Thorne provides products coaches and athletes can trust. For more about Thorne click the link above.
1 hr 20 min
June 04 Everything works but nothing works forever
Scott Caulfield is one of the most respected voices in collegiate strength and conditioning, currently serving as Director of Strength & Conditioning at Norwich University. In 2025, he was named the National Strength and Conditioning Association College Strength & Conditioning Coach of the Year, recognizing decades of impact as a coach, educator, and leader in the profession.
Before returning to Norwich in 2021 as the school’s first-ever Director of Strength & Conditioning, Caulfield spent more than a decade with the NSCA in Colorado Springs, where he served as Head Strength Coach, Coaching Education Manager, and Performance Center Manager. In that role, he helped shape coach education nationwide while collaborating with organizations across the NCAA, MLB, NBA, NFL, and Olympic sport systems.
His coaching journey also includes stops at Dartmouth College and Colorado College, along with experience in private sector performance and military fitness. A U.S. Navy veteran and Vermont native, Caulfield is known for blending high standards, real-world leadership, and relationship-driven coaching.
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Hawkin Dynamics
Site: https://www.hawkindynamics.com/
Hawkin Dynamics is the world leader in force plate solutions. Wireless hardware, intuitive software, and powerful analysis make Hawkin Dynamics the best choice for any coach or trainer.
Power Lift
Site: https://www.powerliftusa.com/
Power Lift is an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of American-made strength and conditioning equipment. They understand that your Brand is important and offer several diverse ways to incorporate that Brand into your strength equipment.
Dashr
Site: https://www.dashrsystems.com/
Dashr is a performance testing company best known for its laser timing, but also integrates with Teambuildr and offers a free Player Profile app used by 6k+ athletes. Beyond timing, they provide a full suite of testing solutions including verticals, broad jumps, RSI, biometrics, reaction, and AMS.
PlayerData
Site:https://www.playerdata.com/en-us
PlayerData is Strength Coach Network’s trusted GPS provider and a FIFA Quality–certified system, used by coaches at every level to quantify training load and understand movement demands. PlayerData delivers reliable, actionable data at a strong value point, with seamless syncing that saves coaches precious time—so the focus stays on coaching, not managing technology.
TeamBuildr
Site:https://www.teambuildr.com/en
TeamBuildr is a platform for any coach in any setting. Every day, thousands of coaches log into TeamBuildr to write training programs, build questionnaires and access athlete training in a simple and manageable way.
1 hr 1 min
May 27 How a Walk-On Became a Major League Strength Coach
Mark Weisman is a great example of how strong coaching relationships can come full circle. I had the chance to coach and work with Mark earlier in his career, so it’s been special to watch his path unfold from athlete to coach at the highest levels of sport.
A former standout running back at University of Iowa, Mark became one of the most productive backs in program history. After college, he spent time with the Cincinnati Bengals before transitioning into strength and conditioning after a short career in medical sales
Mark then returned to Iow a as an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach for football, later became Director of Sports Performance at Southeast Missouri State University, and continued building his career in professional baseball. He now serves with the Chicago Cubs as Major League Strength & Conditioning Coach.
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Site: https://www.hawkindynamics.com/
Hawkin Dynamics is the world leader in force plate solutions. Wireless hardware, intuitive software, and powerful analysis make Hawkin Dynamics the best choice for any coach or trainer.
Vitruve VBT
Site: https://vitruve.fit/
Join the over 7,000 coaches that trust Vitruve VBT. Vitruve makes Velocity Based Training simple and effective with reliable, affordable and easy to use technology.
Power Lift
Site: https://www.powerliftusa.com/
Power Lift is an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of American-made strength and conditioning equipment. They understand that your Brand is important and offer several diverse ways to incorporate that Brand into your strength equipment.
Dashr
Site: https://www.dashrsystems.com/
Dashr is a performance testing company best known for its laser timing, but also integrates with Teambuildr and offers a free Player Profile app used by 6k+ athletes. Beyond timing, they provide a full suite of testing solutions including verticals, broad jumps, RSI, biometrics, reaction, and AMS.
PlayerData
Site:https://www.playerdata.com/en-us
PlayerData is Strength Coach Network’s trusted GPS provider and a FIFA Quality–certified system, used by coaches at every level to quantify training load and understand movement demands. PlayerData delivers reliable, actionable data at a strong value point, with seamless syncing that saves coaches precious time—so the focus stays on coaching, not managing technology.
TeamBuildr
Site:https://www.teambuildr.com/en
TeamBuildr is a platform for any coach in any setting. Every day, thousands of coaches log into TeamBuildr to write training programs, build questionnaires and access athlete training in a simple and manageable way.
1 hr 23 min
May 23 Supertraining in a Year | Pages 286-300 | Special Guest Matt Thome
Matt Thome is the Director of the Nebraska Athletic Performance Laboratory (NAPL) at University of Nebraska Athletic Department, where he leads applied sport science initiatives focused on technology integration, athlete monitoring, training strategies, and return-to-play processes to optimize performance and athlete health.
Before Nebraska, Thome worked as a Sport Scientist at ALTIS supporting Olympic-level sprinters through monitoring, research, and strength training programming. He previously served as Head Strength & Conditioning Coach and Lecturer at Michigan Technological University and began his career at University of Richmond.
Thome earned degrees from Grand Valley State University and Indiana University, and completed his PhD in Sport Science at Edith Cowan University in 2024, with research focused on training load and elite sprinter monitoring.
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1 hr 35 min
May 20 From D-III Football Players To Building The Software Every Strength Coach Uses | TeamBuildr Founders
Hewitt Tomlin and James Peters are the co-founders of TeamBuildr, a leading training platform used by strength and conditioning coaches from high school athletics to the NFL. Former teammates and roommates at Johns Hopkins University, they created TeamBuildr after seeing how outdated spreadsheets and manual systems slowed coaches down.
Hewitt leads the business side of the company, overseeing growth and customer experience, while James drives the technical vision and product development. Together, they built TeamBuildr into a trusted, bootstrapped company serving coaches around the world.
In this episode, we discuss entrepreneurship, building software that solves real coaching problems, lessons from scaling a business, staying independent, and where sports performance technology is headed next.
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From our sponsors:
Hawkin Dynamics
Site: https://www.hawkindynamics.com/
Hawkin Dynamics is the world leader in force plate solutions. Wireless hardware, intuitive software, and powerful analysis make Hawkin Dynamics the best choice for any coach or trainer.
Vitruve VBT
Site: https://vitruve.fit/
Join the over 7,000 coaches that trust Vitruve VBT. Vitruve makes Velocity Based Training simple and effective with reliable, affordable and easy to use technology.
Power Lift
Site: https://www.powerliftusa.com/
Power Lift is an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of American-made strength and conditioning equipment. They understand that your Brand is important and offer several diverse ways to incorporate that Brand into your strength equipment.
Dashr
Site: https://www.dashrsystems.com/
Dashr is a performance testing company best known for its laser timing, but also integrates with Teambuildr and offers a free Player Profile app used by 6k+ athletes. Beyond timing, they provide a full suite of testing solutions including verticals, broad jumps, RSI, biometrics, reaction, and AMS.
PlayerData
Site:https://www.playerdata.com/en-us
PlayerData is Strength Coach Network’s trusted GPS provider and a FIFA Quality–certified system, used by coaches at every level to quantify training load and understand movement demands. PlayerData delivers reliable, actionable data at a strong value point, with seamless syncing that saves coaches precious time—so the focus stays on coaching, not managing technology.
TeamBuildr
Site:https://www.teambuildr.com/en
TeamBuildr is a platform for any coach in any setting. Every day, thousands of coaches log into TeamBuildr to write training programs, build questionnaires and access athlete training in a simple and manageable way.
58 min
May 18 Read Supertraining in a Year | Pages 271-285
Yosef's video and audio went out at 38:00 mark.
We talk all about plyos this week - will recap the missed part when we do 286-300.
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From our sponsors:
Hawkin Dynamics
🌎Site: https://www.hawkindynamics.com/
Hawkin Dynamics is the world leader in force plate solutions. Wireless hardware, intuitive software,
and powerful analysis make Hawkin Dynamics the best choice for any coach or trainer. Make sure you check them out in the link above.
Vitruve VBT
🌎Site: https://vitruve.fit/
Join the over 7,000 coaches that trust Vitruve VBT. Vitruve makes Velocity Based Training simple and effective with reliable, affordable and easy to use technology. For more about Vitruve click the link above.
Power Lift
🌎Site: https://www.powerliftusa.com/
Power Lift is an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of American-made strength and conditioning equipment. They understand that your Brand is important and offer several diverse ways to incorporate that Brand into your strength equipment. For more about Power Lift click the link above.
Dashr
🌎Site: https://www.dashrsystems.com/
Dashr is a performance testing company best known for its laser timing, but also integrates with Teambuildr and offers a free Player Profile app used by 6k+ athletes. Beyond timing, they provide a full suite of testing solutions including verticals, broad jumps, RSI, biometrics, reaction, and AMS. For more about Dashr click the link above.
PlayerData
🌎Site:https://www.playerdata.com/en-us
PlayerData is Strength Coach Network’s trusted GPS provider and a FIFA Quality–certified system, used by coaches at every level to quantify training load and understand movement demands. PlayerData delivers reliable, actionable data at a strong value point, with seamless syncing that saves coaches precious time—so the focus stays on coaching, not managing technology. For more about PlayerData click the link above.
Thorne
🌎Site: https://www.thorne.com/
Thorne is a global leader in high-quality nutritional supplements and health testing. Trusted by professional sports teams, the U.S. military, and practitioners around the world, Thorne is known for rigorous ingredient sourcing, third-party testing, and science-backed formulations. Whether supporting performance, recovery, or overall health, Thorne provides products coaches and athletes can trust. For more about Thorne click the link above.
39 min
May 15 Tony Villani: The Truth About NFL Combine Speed Development
This week’s episode builds directly off Wednesday's conversation with former NFL first-round draft pick Adam Archuleta, where we discussed intent-based training, speed development, and the training methods that helped shape his rise to becoming one of the most explosive athletes in football.
That conversation sparked an interesting follow-up discussion around long-term speed development, efficiency of training, and what actually separates good combine preparation from truly elite results. While Adam discussed the years of work that helped improve his speed profile, this episode shifts toward the modern world of combine preparation and the coaches who have consistently produced high-level testing performances in a shorter time frame.
Enter Tony Villani.
Tony is one of the most respected names in elite athlete development and NFL Combine preparation. As the founder of XPE Sports he has trained multiple first-round draft picks across the NFL, MLB, and NBA, helping athletes maximize their testing numbers and dramatically improve their draft stock. His work has helped shape the modern combine preparation landscape, particularly in speed development and explosive performance.
Tony earned his Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology from George Washington University, where his graduate research on exhaustive interval training was published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology. His career path included stops with the Washington Capitals, Orlando Magic, and Cris Carter’s FAST Program before launching XPE in 2002.
This episode dives into the realities of speed development, combine prep, and what actually moves the needle when athletes are trying to separate themselves at the highest level.
XPE: https://tonyvillani.com/
SHREDmill: https://tonyvillani.com/shredmill/
31 min
May 13 The Secret Behind Adam Archuleta's 4.37 Combine That Changed the NFL
Adam Archuleta is a former first-round NFL draft pick whose career has spanned elite football, broadcasting, and performance leadership. A standout at Arizona State University, he earned Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year honors before being selected 20th overall in the 2001 NFL Draft.
Archuleta played seven seasons in the NFL with the St. Louis Rams, Washington Redskins, and Chicago Bears, building a reputation as one of the league’s most physical and productive safeties. After football, he transitioned into broadcasting with major networks including CBS Sports and ESPN.
On this episode, we discuss his NFL journey, the methodology behind his training, the coaches who helped develop his power and explosiveness, lessons from broadcasting, leadership, and the future of high performance.
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From our sponsors:
Hawkin Dynamics
Site: https://www.hawkindynamics.com/
Hawkin Dynamics is the world leader in force plate solutions. Wireless hardware, intuitive software, and powerful analysis make Hawkin Dynamics the best choice for any coach or trainer.
Vitruve VBT
Site: https://vitruve.fit/
Join the over 7,000 coaches that trust Vitruve VBT. Vitruve makes Velocity Based Training simple and effective with reliable, affordable and easy to use technology.
Power Lift
Site: https://www.powerliftusa.com/
Power Lift is an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of American-made strength and conditioning equipment. They understand that your Brand is important and offer several diverse ways to incorporate that Brand into your strength equipment.
Dashr
Site: https://www.dashrsystems.com/
Dashr is a performance testing company best known for its laser timing, but also integrates with Teambuildr and offers a free Player Profile app used by 6k+ athletes. Beyond timing, they provide a full suite of testing solutions including verticals, broad jumps, RSI, biometrics, reaction, and AMS.
PlayerData
Site:https://www.playerdata.com/en-us
PlayerData is Strength Coach Network’s trusted GPS provider and a FIFA Quality–certified system, used by coaches at every level to quantify training load and understand movement demands. PlayerData delivers reliable, actionable data at a strong value point, with seamless syncing that saves coaches precious time—so the focus stays on coaching, not managing technology.
TeamBuildr
Site:https://www.teambuildr.com/en
TeamBuildr is a platform for any coach in any setting. Every day, thousands of coaches log into TeamBuildr to write training programs, build questionnaires and access athlete training in a simple and manageable way.
1 hr 15 min
May 09 Read Supertraining in a Year | Pages 255-270
Yosef and I start the episode talking about a recent social media call out by Antonio Squillante about Joe Kenn. We then re-dive into last week's talk about dynamic correspondence. After that we discuss how Yuri and other great coaches admired Doc Yessis. We end the conversation today with conversations on what plyometrics really mean, as well as other topics. Enjoy, not a dull moment here.
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From our sponsors:
Hawkin Dynamics
🌎Site: https://www.hawkindynamics.com/
Hawkin Dynamics is the world leader in force plate solutions. Wireless hardware, intuitive software,
and powerful analysis make Hawkin Dynamics the best choice for any coach or trainer. Make sure you check them out in the link above.
Vitruve VBT
🌎Site: https://vitruve.fit/
Join the over 7,000 coaches that trust Vitruve VBT. Vitruve makes Velocity Based Training simple and effective with reliable, affordable and easy to use technology. For more about Vitruve click the link above.
Power Lift
🌎Site: https://www.powerliftusa.com/
Power Lift is an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of American-made strength and conditioning equipment. They understand that your Brand is important and offer several diverse ways to incorporate that Brand into your strength equipment. For more about Power Lift click the link above.
Dashr
🌎Site: https://www.dashrsystems.com/
Dashr is a performance testing company best known for its laser timing, but also integrates with Teambuildr and offers a free Player Profile app used by 6k+ athletes. Beyond timing, they provide a full suite of testing solutions including verticals, broad jumps, RSI, biometrics, reaction, and AMS. For more about Dashr click the link above.
PlayerData
🌎Site:https://www.playerdata.com/en-us
PlayerData is Strength Coach Network’s trusted GPS provider and a FIFA Quality–certified system, used by coaches at every level to quantify training load and understand movement demands. PlayerData delivers reliable, actionable data at a strong value point, with seamless syncing that saves coaches precious time—so the focus stays on coaching, not managing technology. For more about PlayerData click the link above.
Thorne
🌎Site: https://www.thorne.com/
Thorne is a global leader in high-quality nutritional supplements and health testing. Trusted by professional sports teams, the U.S. military, and practitioners around the world, Thorne is known for rigorous ingredient sourcing, third-party testing, and science-backed formulations. Whether supporting performance, recovery, or overall health, Thorne provides products coaches and athletes can trust. For more about Thorne click the link above.
1 hr 36 min