In Sport, balancing training, practice and rest and recovery has quickly become one of the most powerful tools in maximizing sport performance.

Day to day, week to week, month by month micro and macro programming has changed how we manage our athletes.

However, at the developmental and youth levels of sport the concept of “Athlete Management’ is greatly non-existent.

With Great intentions we train year-round and pack the weekly schedule with all kinds of activity – could it be holding you back or even worse setting you up for failure?

This week on Krush Performance we talk with Ed Subel, Associate Head Strength and Conditioning for the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers.

The NBA is on the forefront of athlete and player management and the league itself has made strategic changes to the schedule to help players avoid fatigue and ultimately injury.

We talk with Ed about his approach to working with the world’s best Basketball players, Effort is a big piece of the puzzle and we look at how we can apply this to players at every level of the game.

Focusing on effort and collaborating with your athletes in their programming is a BIG part of the process when you are Creating Coachable Players.

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Welcome to Season 19 of Krush Performance.

This week we kick off 2025 with Krush Hall of Famer: The Zone Coach, Jim Fannin as we break down the Ultimate Mental Performance System.

This will be the 12th consecutive year that we launch the New Year talking with Jim and for good reason Jim has spent 50 years helping people accel in sport business and in life.

When we are seeking out top performance it is all about planning, executing adjusting and persevering.

And in those hard times, when things are tough or appear impossible YOU need to understand and remember:

You Are Not Lost – You Just Haven’t Found Your Way

Today we talk with Jim about the very fabric of elite mental performance as we discuss PERCEPTION, Decision Making and dealing with Adversity.

We discuss how you MUST STAMP out Worry and shift your mindset to replace Worry with Positive thinking.

And, we Teach you Jim’s science-based thought management, Jim’s transformative S.C.O.R.E. System. This system is the only proven approach to attract the mindset of the Zone.

Connecting the Mind and the Body is a critical part of athlete and player development when you are Creating Coachable Players.

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Success in sport starts with one thing…Planning.

Athlete Development and Player Performance is exactly like planning a trip and like any trip you need to have a well though out plan.

And, if you are going to create a World Class Plan you need to have World Class Information.

This week on Krush Performance I share some of the World Class information you MUST be thinking about when designing your plan.

Today we hear Treasured Information From Krush Hall of Fame Guests – The Best of The Best:

· Dr. Joe Baker: talking Talent ID & predicting future Performance.

· Lou Farah: Sport Researcher talking about the professional draft and how difficult it is to predict future talent.

· is Dr Kevin Micthell from Trinity College in Dublin: The Brain an incredible learning machine

· Bob Tweksbury: Performance Consultant discussing the Three areas of Performance – are you playing to your potential?

· Dr. Jaques Dallaire of Performance Prime: The HOLY GRAIL of Human Performance

· Jim Fannin The Coach of Champions: We are Products of our Environment & Braking Negative Cycles.

· Dr. Richard Harvey from San Francisco State University: Resilience & Optimism vs Hardiness & Courage

· Dr. Martin Mrazik: The Superpower of Mindfulness

Remember, being Intentional, working with Purpose, Problem Solving and Decision Making are all very Trainable Superpowers when you are Creating Coachable Players.

I’m Jeff Krushell

We’ll be back on January 8th with a Blockbuster Kick off to the New Year.

Have a great holiday season everyone– talk to you then.

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Sport is a commodities market and the #1 commodity in sport is Talent!

Its like the Wild West, Guns for Hire and its BIG BUSINESS.

You’ve probably hears all about it: The Largest Deal In Professional Sport History.

Juan Soto, $765 Million over 15 years. With signing bonus and incentives, he will earn close to $840,000,000 by the time its all done.

Soto is obviously a HOT commodity but how do you value Talent?

It’s a numbers game. A players performance numbers compared to all other players, it’s a market value system.

Its Cut and Dry, Black and White and it is Absolutely Unforgiving.

Either you have the numbers, or you do not.

However, what do you do as a young player with a dream of playing in the big leagues?

Or as a parent of an athlete who has that dream?

Or as a coach of a driven passionate kid who loves sport.

My best advice, for what its worth, is to get an understanding of the long game that is athlete development and read up on Talent.

This can really help you guide your athlete through the process and at the same time give you some great knowledge that you can use to make informed decisions.

That is exactly what we are going to do on this week’s episode of Krush Performance as we sum up all of our work looking into Talent and Talent ID.

Soto’s contract with bonuses and clauses can add up to more than $840 million over the15 years – he’ll be 41.

Its Great Work if you can get it and there is nothing like the thrill of the chase when you are creating coachable players.

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One of the most important questions in sport today,

What to do over your off season?

The off season for me is one of the most important periods in an athlete’s annual plan.

This is where you train the athlete to be a more coachable player.

Annual Planning, it’s a cycle of Athlete & Player management that can be broken down into 4 phases:

· Off season

· Pre-Season

· In-Season

· Post-Season

Remember all programmed work MUST be built around our #1 Priority for program planning, Rest & Recovery.

And when it comes to an athlete’s daily performance, Sleep Rules all!!!!

When you are planning an athlete’s workload & recovery there are 4 factors you need to consider:

· Volume – the how much

· Intensity – the how hard

· Frequency – the how often

· Movement Efficiency – the how much stress/damage

Bottom line, take advantage of any downtime you can get!

As you head into your off-season ask yourself What is the benefit to year-round sport?

It takes time to master a sport and there are no truer words than MORE IS NOT BETTER when you’re Creating Coachable Players

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Today, you can probably pick out the organizations with great cultures with great accuracy:

Kansas City Chiefs – The LA Dodgers – Vegas Knights -Celtics

Or Top Schools: Stanford, Penn State, University of California

Storied football Franchises: Liverpool, Barcelona FC Real Madrid, Chelea

They all have a Culture of Winning / Winning Cultures.

Coming off of last weeks show with Kevin Tyler, President of Altis the conversation with our listeners surprised me.

It was more about the environment and culture that Kevin and Altis has created and not so much the details that make up a performance program.

The talk was about the big picture of when an athlete or coach step into an environment like this – only good things can happen, and I really thought this takeaway was interesting.

There is no question, the idea of “culture” has been a focus in sport for a long, long time.

On this week’s Episode of Krush Performance we go back into our 2022 Theme: Organizational and Team Performance with my conversation with Joan Ryan, acclaimed journalist and author of 5 books, including “Intangibles: Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry.”

Get set as we work to crack the code on organizational and team performance and the elusive concept of “Team Culture” is a perfect place to start.

“Culture Trumps Strategy Every Time.” Harvard Business Review

The Environment and Culture you create for your players is one of the most important things you can do when you are Creating Coachable Players.

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Every athlete experiences doubt at some point.

· Doubt about whether they are playing as well as they could be playing or

· Whether they are progressing as fast as they feel they should be or

· Whether they are going to be good enough to achieve their goals and objectives.

The Good News – if you are or have experienced doubt you are not alone.

Even Better News – you can make doubt work to your advantage if you fame it up correctly.

Doubt is a natural part of the athlete and player development process and if you can learn to embrace it, it can be a very helpful tool.

Doubt can be an indicator that it might be time to take a step back and evaluate where you are at, what you have been doing and how you have been planning in relation to your goals and objectives.

In the process of athlete and player development we spend the majority of an athlete’s lifespan preparing for a few years of elite – top performance.

Years and years building the foundation that will eventually support performance outcomes at the highest levels of performance.

Unfortunately, most athletes, coaches, parents underestimate the demands at the highest levels of sport. And in turn, do not fully appreciate the importance of the building phases of development that must happen to support elite performance.

This week on Krush Performance we discuss that process and the importance of coaching development as we breakdown the lifespan of an athlete and everything that goes into creating top performance with Kevin Tyler, President of Altis.

There are no shortcuts in the process of Creating Coachable Players.

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A Look at Elite & Professional Sport

If you are working to compete at a higher level it is Critical that you understand what that higher level of competition looks like.

You Have to Know What it Looks Like!

This means much more than just watching a game on TV or attending a game or live event.

No, if you really want to know what the higher levels of performance look like – and you NEED TO know – you must understand the demands at that next level.

· The physical, mental and emotional demands.

· The travel, the schedule the time demands.

· The competitive demands – the incredible Skill & Talent level of elite/pro athletes.

· You also need to understand the Business side and the Ebb and Flow of elite sport.

It’s just like my analogy of planning a trip – you need to know the weather, terrain, food and social landscape of where you are going so you can prepare properly.

This week on Krush Performance we put Elite & Pro Sport into context in a roundtable discussion with three Krush Favorites from my TSN Sport Radio days: Craig Moonen (Former Krush Co-Host), and Sportscasters Corey Graham and Marc Majeau.

Join in as I ask the guys their thoughts & opinions on:

· The MLB World Series

· Best Players in Baseball – Payroll parody in MLB

· The Toughest Championship to win

· The Toughest Schedule in Sport

· The Toughest Sport Period

· The Best athletes in SPORT: Past Present

· The Best Athlete EVER

Having a clear idea of what elite sport looks like is a critical part of the journey when you are Creating Coachable Players.

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This week on Krush Performance an incredible journey of perseverance, survival, teamwork and problem solving all while performing at the highest levels of Sport and Business.

The Outcome: An Incredible Program that I personally believe will change how we work with, support and develop athletes.

In a truly inspirational story we talk with Jason Campeau, CEO of Elite Athlete Services, a program designed to help armature and professional athletes with all of their cognitive, mental and performance needs.

Today I will ask you to step into the lead roll and imagine yourself as a young hockey player leaving home to step into the turbulent and uncertain world of professional hockey.

Then with injuries and concussions forcing you out of sport, you step into the Tech Industry where you help build a great company.

The comes a big buyout and this allows you to step back into the world of sport this time however your teammates won’t be 20 or so other hockey players.

No, this time your team will be made up of 16 of the most loyal and dedicated teammates you could ever imagine.

Teammates that will take you thousands of miles across the arctic in one of the most brutal, difficult and challenging races on earth not just once or twice but 5 times.

On the fourth race, these teammates will save your life after a terrible fall helping you survive just long enough through a brutal blizzard and – 55 /-60-degree temperatures.

Just Long enough for some special people could safely arrive with an Blackhawk Helicopter to get you back to safety – a safety that would turn out to be a new kind of nightmare. The kind of nightmare that can come with a major brain injury/ concussion.

This is a story of dreams and goals, survival and perseverance that all come together in a new cutting-edge program that will change Sport Performance / Human Performance for all time.

I am so glad you are joining me here today and I’m very proud to share Jason’s incredible story on this week’s episode of Krush Performance: “From the Rink to the Boardroom: It’s Okay Not to Be Okay”.

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What Does it Take to be Great

This week on Krush Performance we are going to take a good hard look at talent, the development of talent and ultimately what it really takes to get better at something.

It’s a massive discussion with multiple layers and many areas of grey so lets review what we know about talent and talent development so you can informed decisions and move forward with purpose.

Let me start with a question: Is Talent Overrated?

Does talent come first?

Does there need to be recognizable Talent – whatever that is – in order to have the chance to go on to success?

Are we born with Talent?

Or is Talent something that we develop?

There are so many questions revolving around talent – and one of the most important just might be – what exactly is talent in the first place?

This week we go to one of the very important early discussions that kick started the Krush our look into Talent and Talent Development with Krush Favorite: Geoff Colvin, Award-winning journalist for Fortune & CBS Radio, Bestselling author & renown speaker as we discussed his research and best-selling book and Krush MUST READ: “Talent is Overrated: What really separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else.

If you are working to get better at something or if you are a coach, teachers, boss or manager or even a parent of people with goals and objectives this could be one of the most important discussions you could hear when you are Creating Coachable Players.

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