Krush Performance

By Jeff KrushellSports Health & Fitness

Krush Performance episodes

June 30, 2021 Krush Performance: Talent Identification & The Pro Draft
Athletes, coaches, GM’s, parents, and administrators this is a talent conversation you do not want to miss!
Why is it so difficult to identify future performance? Despite all of the resources, time, and effort we really have not gotten that much better at it.
This week on Krush Performance, we talk with Lou Farah, Sport Researcher at York University, who has focused the majority of his research on the professional sports draft and athlete selection process, in particular the NHL draft.
What makes a great hockey player?
I want to get to a few major points in our Talent ID conversation with Lou. We discuss:
• Where we are at in our understanding of talent and identifying future talent?
• Why have we historically been so poor at predicting future talent and performance?
• What are some of the things we need to think about to improve our ability to select and predict future performance?
• How important is it to select the right athlete/player into the right environment?
• How do the values of an organization steer the selection process?
• And what are scouts looking for as they evaluate talent?
• Are they focusing on the correct things or should we recalibrate what we find important in athlete selection and talent ID?
• Scouting may be one of the most difficult positions in all of sport, we’ll discuss why.
It is a jam-packed Talent ID episode of Krush Performance.
For athletes, coaches, GMs, parents, and administrators this is a conversation you do not want to miss.
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46 min
June 23, 2021Krush Performance: Skill vs. Talent – There’s A Big Difference
What exactly is Talent? Why is it so difficult to predict future success? What is the difference between talent and skill? When it comes to talent and talent identification, there seem to be more questions than answers.
Talent and talent ID are one of our main themes for 2021 and this week on Krush Performance, we dive into episode two of our “Talent Series” as we talk with Dr. Nima Dehghansai, Athlete Development and Talent ID Specialist with the Australian Paralympic Committee.
We dive down the talent rabbit hole to address some of the major questions revolving around our understanding of talent and talent ID and why we are struggling to make significant progress in our developmental and performance programs.
We will discuss:
Our current understanding of talent.
Talent transfer vs athlete transfer.
Talent vs skill – there is a big difference here and we need to make sure we are focusing on the correct things.
Developmental timelines
Critical periods of development
Supporting our coaches and coaching development
Skill acquisition specialists – providing perspective
We often say, “A problem accurately defined is already partially solved.” It is very, very difficult to solve a problem without a clear understanding of what that problem is.
Join us as we take a deep dive into our 2021 theme – Talent and Talent ID.
June 23: Episode #2: Skill vs Talent with Dr. Nima Dehghansai
June 30: Episode #3: Talent ID – The Draft and Scouting with Sports Researcher Lou Farah
July 7: Episode #4: Coaches Eye: Coach Decision making During Talent ID with Dr. Alex Roberts.
As always, if you have a topic you would like us to investigate get to us at KrushPerformance.com and keep yourself on the cutting edge of human performance. Subscribe to the Krush Performance Podcast and sign up for our weekly newsletter while you are there.
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1 hr 1 min
June 16, 2021 Krush Performance: The Hockey Offseason – Like No Other!
Let’s get set for the return of sport! We are heading into what looks like a fairly regular summer and hopefully a normal sporting landscape this fall. In a normal year, for our hockey players, we would be well into our off-season training but we CANNOT treat this summer as if it were a normal off-season.
No matter what sport you play or compete in, what are the consequences of missing an entire competitive season?
We have never been through this before but we do know that we cannot treat this summer off-season as if it were normal.
This week on Krush Performance, we are discussing a strategy for attacking this hockey offseason and talk with Joel Jackson, Strength and Conditioning Coach at Competitive Thread. Joel just published a great article, “Movin’ On Up: Stair Conditioning for Hockey Players.” It is a great article looking at how stair training can be a great tool for hockey players. We’ll talk with Joel about cross-training and setting up your plan for this off-season.
Then, we will talk with Doug Crashley, Founder of Crash Conditioning. Doug and his team work with hockey players at all levels of the game. We will talk with Doug about the impact of missing an entire season and the importance of addressing both the athlete and the player as we get set for the upcoming season.
It’s a true performance episode of Krush Performance as we get set for the return of sport.
As always, if you have a topic you would like us to investigate get to us at KrushPerformance.com and keep yourself on the cutting edge of human performance. Subscribe to the Krush Performance Podcast and sign up for our weekly newsletter while you are there.
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1 hr 1 min
June 09, 2021 Krush Performance: The Science Of Sweetness – Pt. 1
Everything we eat and drink influences our bodies in some way. No matter if it’s low fat, high fat, high protein, no protein, a carbohydrate, a sugar, an artificial sweetener, added sugar, no sugar, it doesn’t matter. There is a metabolic response and with each response, there is an impact, be it good or bad. Don’t you think it’s time we better understood what that impact might be?
That is what our Science of Sweetness Series is all about and it is also the mission and the passion of the Brix Glycemic Impact Research & Science Institute.
This week on Krush Performance, the #KrushWarOnSugar continues with Episode #1 of #TheScienceOfSweetness. For each episode, we will be joined by Krush Hall of Famer Dr. Ann de Wees Allen, Chief of Biomedical Research at the Glycemic Research Institute.
Each month, we will dedicate an entire episode to our Science of Sweetness Series where we will be investigating and attacking some of the most important questions concerning the foods we eat and how they impact our bodies our brains and our performance.
Let the adventure begin!
If you have any questions along the way about the Science of Sweetness or if you have something you’d like us to address, let us know! Write to us at info@krushperformance.
The Science of Sweetness Series is brought to you by The Brix Glycemic Impact Research & Science Institute. Check out their great information at https://www.brix-certified.com/
As always, if you have a topic you would like us to investigate get to us at KrushPerformance.com and keep yourself on the cutting edge of human performance. Subscribe to the Krush Performance Podcast and sign up for our weekly newsletter while you are there.
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1 hr 14 min
June 02, 2021 Krush Performance: The Krush Brain Game – Perception & Reality
This week on Krush Performance, its Episode 4 of “The Krush Brain Game” as we discuss the process of perception and how it impacts our learning, our development and our performance.
There are over 100 billion neurons in the human brain all working away to make us who we are. While we are just scratching the surface in our understanding of how the brain really works, we could be on the very doorstep of some of the most exciting discoveries ever made.
What if we could turn parts of our brain off? Wouldn’t it then make sense that we could possibly turn parts on?
We talk with Dr. Mayak Mehta, Professor and Researcher at the UCLA Department of Neurology, The Department of Physics and Astronomy, and The Department of Electronic and Communication Engineering, about all of this and how virtual reality may very well turn out to be the porthole to the Brain.
It is a powerful episode of the Krush Brian Game. Pass it on, share it, and let’s all work to get a little bit better.
As always, if you have a topic you would like us to investigate get to us at KrushPerformance.com and keep yourself on the cutting edge of human performance. Subscribe to the Krush Performance Podcast and sign up for our weekly newsletter while you are there.
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56 min
May 26, 2021Krush Performance: Sleep & The Brain – Recovery, Regeneration & Storing Your Memories and Information
Sleep is one of the most powerful influencers on your brain function and health. You may think you are resting but when you sleep your brain is in a hyper mode repairing itself, building memories, getting rid of the garbage, and locking in the important stuff, reinforcing learning, and clearing toxins and waste.
Considering we spend about a third of our lives sleeping, sleep quickly becomes a key player in the Krush Brain Game!
This week on Krush Performance, we talk with Krush favorite, Dr. Charles Samuels of the Center for Sleep and Human Performance.
We discuss:
sleep science
keys to getting good sleep
the impact of broken sleep
and the importance of for the brain
If we have one piece of advice for every single one of you Krushers out there:
Protect Your Sleep!
The Krush Brain Game….. Where do the Brain and everything that it entails fit into the developmental model for sports performance for human performance?
As always, if you have a topic you would like us to investigate get to us at KrushPerformance.com and keep yourself on the cutting edge of human performance. Subscribe to the Krush Performance Podcast and sign up for our weekly newsletter while you are there.
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56 min
May 19, 2021 Krush Performance: The Krush Brain Game – The Incredible Power of Your Subconscious
This week, we take you to the Mental Edge of performance. How you think, perceive, and learn may have more to do with creating high-performing people than anything else. Much of this has to do with the environment you are in your physical abilities, which are very trainable but also your subconscious mind.
The Subconscious Mind is defined as “of or concerning the part of the mind of which one is not fully aware but which influences one’s actions and feelings.”
We dive into an area of the Brain Game that is not talked about that often, perhaps because it’s not very well understood and that’s the area of our subconscious. Our subconscious mind is incredibly powerful on its own but even more so when you understand it, become aware of it, and perhaps maybe even get a little control of it.
We are joined by peak performance expert Wayne Lee, who is a former athlete, teacher, and celebrated presenter. For over 20 years, he has helped people realize the self-limiting beliefs in their subconscious minds keep them from bringing their fullest potential to their performance.
We walk the mental edge of performance and look into the subconscious mind all in our quest to truly understand what it takes to achieve human maximum performance.
The Krush Brain Game….. where do the brain and everything that it entails fit into the developmental model for sport performance for human performance?
As always, if you have a topic you would like us to investigate get to us at KrushPerformance.com and keep yourself on the cutting edge of human performance. Subscribe to the Krush Performance Podcast and sign up for our weekly newsletter while you are there.
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59 min
May 12, 2021 Krush Performance: Treated Like the Pros – Locker Room Sport Medicine
Injury in sport happens. How do you get back better and faster than ever? For athletes, there is no better approach than the “Locker Room” approach when it comes to sport injury.
In any professional training room, you will find an interdisciplinary team of experts working together with the athlete to determine the best treatment and return to play strategies possible.
This week, it’s a Krush Performance Roundtable with the experts from Health Pointe Pain, Spine, and Sport Medicine and Advantage Sport Medicine and Physiotherapy.
Dr. Dhiren Naidu
· Head Team Physician for the NHL Edmonton Oilers, The CFL Edmonton Football Team & Founding member at Health Pointe
Michael Cook
· Lead Strength and Conditioning Coach at Advantage Sport Medicine and Physiotherapy and Canada’s Men’s National Volleyball Team.
Tahisha Naidu
· Physiotherapist at Advantage Sport Med. And Physiotherapy and Head Therapist with the Saskatchewan Rush of the NLL.
TD Foress
· Head Athletic Therapist with the Edmonton Oilers.
As we transition into spring sport and slowly turn the page on the COVID shutdown, get back to sport safely and at the top of your game.
What do you need to know about reducing you risk of injury? What do you need to know when an injury happens?
We cover it all on this week’s special Roundtable edition of Krush Performance.
As always, if you have a topic you would like us to investigate get to us at KrushPerformance.com and keep yourself on the cutting edge of human performance. Subscribe to the Krush Performance Podcast and sign up for our weekly newsletter while you are there.
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1 hr 16 min
May 05, 2021 Krush Performance: Draft Day & Talent Identification
“A day where Lives are changed, Fates are decided, Dynasties are born, and the clock is always ticking…. of course, I’m talking about Draft Day.”
The NFL Draft has just wrapped up: 32 teams, 7 rounds, 224 picks of the top players available in the football market.
I love everything about it BUT are the very best players being selected in the Draft? In any draft? In any sport?
How good are we at identifying current talent? How good are we at predicting future talent?
The answer is not good. Not good at all. For example, here are some numbers from the NFL.
Of the players that took the field in 2020:
• 13 percent were first-rounders.
• 21 percent were drafted in the second and third.
• 66 percent were selected in the fourth or later.
So, as exciting as it is to be drafted early, it does not necessarily mean you will play, prosper, or have continued success.
I mean, Tom Brady went in the 6th round, 199th overall, and one of my all-time favorite players Bo Jackson went in the 7th round, he was the 183rd pick. Both had incredible, storied careers, we still don’t truly know the true depths of Brady’s greatness.
In this week’s episode of Krush Performance, we take a look at some of the top performers in sport to decide what makes them special. We’ll break down the numbers when it comes to draft day and we’ll compare some of the numbers from the major sports.
Then, we ask, “What makes great players great?” I’ve got some ideas on this that I would like to share with you, lets see if you agree.
It’s Draft Day and Talent ID & Development this week on Krush Performance.
As always, if you have a topic you would like us to investigate get to us at KrushPerformance.com and keep yourself on the cutting edge of human performance. Subscribe to the Krush Performance Podcast and sign up for our weekly newsletter while you are there.
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53 min
April 28, 2021 Krush Performance: Spring Sport, Incredible Feats, & Krushing Injury
Broken.
Broken: Injury rates are on the rise; we look at why and how you can stay healthy.
Broken: One of the most celebrated sports records has fallen.
This week on Krush Performance, we attack a Twitter question that came in from a loyal Krush follower:
“Hey @JeffKrush, kids are so competitive now, always training, are you seeing more of these types of injuries in younger players? The forces in a pitcher’s arm, skating, or the butterfly goalie movement, are unique to most sports. Does early physical literacy help these sports?”
It is an important question that leads to an important conversation. We break it down.
As spring sport rolls on, we take a look at the 2021 Krush Watchlist and what we have learned from the teams, players, and storylines coming out of professional sport. Humbly, we are kicking ass with our watch-list picks so far this year.
Also, we reset our 2021 themes, the Krush Brain Game and Talent and Talent ID, and the return of the Krush War on Sugar.
We have some seriously great performance content coming up so get set to simply get better right here on Krush Performance.
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As always, if you have a topic you would like us to investigate get to us at KrushPerformance.com and keep yourself on the cutting edge of human performance. Subscribe to the Krush Performance Podcast and sign up for our weekly newsletter while you are there.
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52 min