If you’ve ever wondered how to write training programs for an NBA athlete, you’re going to love this episode.

Whether we’re talking about off-season development, managing the grind of an 82-game season, or bringing an injured athlete back to 100%, today’s guest has seen it all.

Eric Schmitt is in his fifth year as the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach with the Memphis Grizzlies.

And prior to his arrival in Memphis, he served as the Director of Sports Performance at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 2016-2019, and he came to UCSB after serving as an Assistant Sports Performance Director at UCLA from 2013-2016.

And in this episode, Eric and I are going to take a deep dive into program design for NBA athletes.

By just training you can get a good idea if someone has been training…and if someone hasn’t been training that’s pretty evident as well. So you can treat that session like an evaluation without having to go through more formal testing measures. – Eric Schmitt

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