Krush Performance

What makes a great coach, leader, teacher, boss, and mentor? Hats off to all who coach or lead. It is an incredible commitment preparing, planning, communicating and leading both parents and kids down the pathway of development.

There are tricks to the trade here and there are some great resources you can tap into to help you along the way.

Today, Jeff Krushell talks with Wayne Parro, Senior Coaching Consultant for the Coaching Association of Canada. Canada has one of, if not the very best, coaching development program in all of sport. We talk with Wayne about the tough situations a coach can find themselves in and discuss the important aspects of being and effective coach. Injury management & assessment, emergency action planning, ethical decision making, practice planning and most importantly making sport fun again.

Also, we go back to the Fun Maps to review what kids think are the most important traits of a good coach.

Let us know and if you have any Questions, Comments or Smart Remarks or a topic you would like us to investigate let us know we may dedicate a segment or even an entire show to your topic.

Thanks for downloading! Pass the show on to your teammates, friends, and family and make sure to check out my new book “The Performance Plan” on Amazon.

Until next week, go get better.

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E-Mail Jeff with your questions and comments for the show and don’t forget to visit KrushPerformance.com for live streaming, blogs, links, and so much more.

It’s a long way to the top if you want to play professional sport. Going pro is tough, really tough!

Today, we talk about the odds of going pro and to be honest they are not good. No one can do it alone and no one can predict, with absolute certainty, who will make it and who won’t. While the odds may be stacked against you, remember someone has to play. Going pro is a process consisting of decision making, strategic planning and time lots of time. There are opportunities and tricks to the trade you can leverage to increase your chances of realizing the dream of going pro.

We talk about the power of the mind with registered psychologist John Stevenson of Zone Performance. NHL goalie Braden Holtby of the Stanley Cup Champion Washington Capitals recently gave John a shout out recognizing John for helping him not only get to the NHL but performing at the highest level of the game.

Also, we’ll ask certified NHL agent Manny Schmidt of Link Management International about increasing player value and choosing the best developmental path for aspiring athletes.

Let us know and if you have any Questions, Comments or Smart Remarks or a topic you would like us to investigate let us know we may dedicate a segment or even an entire show to your topic.

Thanks for downloading! Pass the show on to your teammates, friends, and family and make sure to check out my new book “The Performance Plan” on Amazon.

Until next week, go get better.

Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio, and now on Google Play! Don’t forget to rate and review the show!

Follow Jeff Krushell on Twitter and Facebook!

E-Mail Jeff with your questions and comments for the show and don’t forget to visit KrushPerformance.com for live streaming, blogs, links, and so much more.

The mind has a powerful influence on performance, no matter what you are doing. The good news, you have more control over how your mind works than you might think.

In this episode we talk with former Major League Baseball Pitcher turned Mental Skills Coach Bob Tewksbury. Bob has worked with the Boston Red Sox, the Major League Players Association and now consults with the San Francisco Giants as they make a charge for post season play and the World Series.

Even the best players in the world can struggle with lack of confidence and finding that things are not always easy even if you are one of the best.

It’s normal to experience these things and it is also important to arm yourself with strategies for dealing with the challenges. Today we talk strategies for mental performance, in sport, school, business or life in general you can apply the principles of the mental game to improve your performance.

Consistent Routines equal Consistent Performance!

Let us know and if you have any Questions, Comments or Smart Remarks or a topic you would like us to investigate let us know we may dedicate a segment or even an entire show to your topic.

Thanks for downloading! Pass the show on to your teammates, friends, and family and make sure to check out my new book “The Performance Plan” on Amazon.

Until next week, go get better.

Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio, and now on Google Play! Don’t forget to rate and review the show!

Follow Jeff Krushell on Twitter and Facebook!

E-Mail Jeff with your questions and comments for the show and don’t forget to visit KrushPerformance.com for live streaming, blogs, links, and so much more.

The biggest show in sport on Earth? The FIFA World Cup is certainly among the front runners.

This week, we look at the rankings of the biggest events in sport and we ask the question, “Is the World Cup Of Soccer the toughest championship to win?”

We talk with Krush Favorite Mike Ozanian, Assistant Managing Editor at Forbes and Co-Host/Managing Editor of the award winning “Forbes Sports Money Show,” to review the Forbes 15th Annual List of the World’s Most Valuable Soccer Teams. Who rules soccer? We find out.

Also, we look at the most valuable sport franchises in ALL of Sport. Where do the top soccer teams rank? How about the NFL, MLB, and NBA? They all make the list but who gets the ranking of the most valuable sport franchise?

We tell you on this week’s episode of Krush Performance!

If you have any questions or a topic you would like us to investigate get to us, we may dedicate a segment or an entire episode to your topic. E-Mail Jeff and let him know!

Thanks for downloading! Pass the show on to your teammates, friends, and family and make sure to check out my new book “The Performance Plan” on Amazon.

Until next week, go get better.

Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio, and now on Google Play! Don’t forget to rate and review the show!

Follow Jeff Krushell on Twitter and Facebook!

E-Mail Jeff with your questions and comments for the show and don’t forget to visit KrushPerformance.com for live streaming, blogs, links, and so much more.

It has been a very busy spring here at Krush Performance as we work to spread the good word and help people work towards their goals. We love the questions and work to answer every message we get. So this week, I answer these questions as we dip into the Krush Mailbag to address some of the messages we have received over the last few weeks and answer these three questions:

• “Krush, What are the Keys to Performance in Developmental Sport? I’d like to hear more about your presentation to that sport council you mentioned.”

• “Jeff, loved the Drunk & Stoned show. Now that CBD oil is off the Banned Substance list, is it safe? What does it do for you?”

• “What process does a substance go through to be taken off the banned substance list? It either helps performance or it does not. How does and why would the status change?”

• “Krusher, heard you mention your presentation to the road building company. What does a sports guy say to a construction company?”

Also this week, I’m going back to our “Drunk & Stoned” episode and all of the questions regarding CBD oil. I wanted to dig a little deeper into the implications of CBD oil being taken off of the World Anti Doping Agency’s Banned Substance List. To help us with this, we are joined by Rob Koehler, the Deputy General Director of the World Anti Doping Agency.

Finally, what does a sports guy have to say to a construction company? Listen, anywhere there are people working towards a goal or objective the fundamental principles of human performance can be applied, I’ll let you know what we talked about and why I believe every company, school and team should be having these conversations.

If you have any questions or a topic you would like us to investigate get to us, we may dedicate a segment or an entire episode to your topic.

Thanks for downloading! Pass the show on to your teammates, friends, and family and make sure to check out my new book “The Performance Plan” on Amazon.

Until next week, go get better.

Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio, and now on Google Play! Don’t forget to rate and review the show!

Follow Jeff Krushell on Twitter and Facebook!

E-Mail Jeff with your questions and comments for the show and don’t forget to visit KrushPerformance.com for live streaming, blogs, links, and so much more.

Technology and the Mind – the two areas of greatest potential for pushing the limits of Human Performance!

We have a solid grip on the physical side of development. Faster. Higher. Stronger. Farther. We really know how all of this works and it’s really no problem at all. When we look at this combined with what we know about talent development, and skill acquisition, there is not an athlete we can’t help get better.

Now, with advancements in technology, we are in a place where we can not only see what is going on in the minds of our athletes but we can see it in real time and, even better, we can teach them how to control their minds for improved performance.

It’s not rocket science but maybe it takes a rocket scientist!

Today, we talk with Jason Sherwin, co-founder of DeCervo and aerospace engineer, about their great technology and program, uHit.

In an industry that is flooded with sensors, programs, and data, what is useful? What is meaningful? What can we use to actually impact our athletes and their performance?

Here is what I can tell you….. when the technology catches up and matches our knowledge of training and development, all HELL is going to break loose in the world of Human Performance!

In this episode, we get one step closer.

If you have any questions or a topic you would like us to investigate get to us, we may dedicate a segment or an entire episode to your topic.

Thanks for downloading! Pass the show on to your teammates, friends, and family and make sure to check out my new book “The Performance Plan” on Amazon.

Until next week, go get better.

Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio, and now on Google Play! Don’t forget to rate and review the show!

Follow Jeff Krushell on Twitter and Facebook!

E-Mail Jeff with your questions and comments for the show and don’t forget to visit KrushPerformance.com for live streaming, blogs, links, and so much more.

This week is one of the most important Krush Performance episodes of 2018.

Our research was focused on the implications of alcohol and drug use in sport, on performance and development and simply put, we opened a giant can of worms. The number of uncertainties, questions, and issues here turned out to be much, much bigger than we first suspected. We quickly realized that one episode will not be enough but today we’ll get a good start.

We’re be joined by Rebecca Haines-Saah, Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, and co-lead for the O’Brien Institute for Public Health’s, Population Health and Prevention Interest Group.

There are many uncertainties and questions surrounding the impact of alcohols and drug use:

• How does alcohol impact performance? It’s pretty basic and it might go deeper than you think.

• When we talk drugs today, let’s focus on cannabis:

– How does it impact performance

– How does it impact development

– What are the issues we are facing with legalization?

– What can we learn from certain states in the US where it is legalized

– And as Canada gets set to legalize from coast to coast – what are we looking at…in terms of sport & development?

– Medical benefits are well documented, Medical exemptions in sport

– CBD oil taken off of WADA’s banned substance list in January 2018

– Pot and anything with THC is still banned.

– Questions on production, purity, public health, potency….every issue we see in the supplement industry we see here.

• How does Cannabis impact development? Are there issues with addiction and dependency?

There are so many questions and so little time.

Also, in this episode, we are going to look deeper into the impact of substance use on our youth, consider the implications of legalization, look at an incredible movement that is getting kids off drugs and alcohol (Hint: Education just doesn’t work!) and we’ll touch on the effects of alcohol on performance.

If you have any questions or a topic you would like us to investigate get to us, we may dedicate a segment or an entire episode to your topic.

Thanks for downloading! Pass the show on to your teammates, friends, and family and make sure to check out my new book “The Performance Plan” on Amazon.

Until next week, go get better.

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This week on Krush Performance, we get back to some of the fundamental concepts that are forming our approach to performance development. We look at what I feel are the two most important areas in the future of human performance, technology and training the mind.

First, we talk with Andre Lachanch of Sport Canada about the great Long Term Athlete Development Program that is now being adopted by sport organizations all over the globe. Then, it’s our good friend John Stevenson of Zone Performance who talks about how we are now able to not only monitor the brain activity of our athlete but train them to control it!

Also, we outline the Krush Performance Summer Line Up as we reveal some of the topics and episodes we are currently working on all in the name of helping you tap into your potential.

If you have any questions or a topic you would like us to investigate get to us, we may dedicate a segment or an entire episode to your topic.

Thanks for downloading! Pass the show on to your teammates, friends, and family and make sure to check out my new book “The Performance Plan” on Amazon.

Until next week, go get better.

Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio, and now on Google Play! Don’t forget to rate and review the show!

Follow Jeff Krushell on Twitter and Facebook!

E-Mail Jeff with your questions and comments for the show and don’t forget to visit KrushPerformance.com for live streaming, blogs, links, and so much more.

For better or for worse, numbers are changing sport. Today, we examine the impact of analytics and data as it touches virtually every aspect of the $90 Billion professional sports market from player recruitment to fan engagement.

Organizations are using the numbers to them get an edge on the competition and the numbers are now influencing player development, talent recruitment, fan engagement, injury prevention and even contract negotiations.

What do the numbers really mean AND are we looking at the right ones though?

Wayne Greiner of Quality of Pitch Baseball joins us to talk about how they are pushing the analytics envelope in a quest for more meaningful numbers and it is a conversation that every general manager, coach, player, and fan should listen to as we get insight into the wicked world of numbers in sport.

If you have any questions or a topic you would like us to investigate get to us, we may dedicate a segment or an entire episode to your topic.

Thanks for downloading! Pass the show on to your teammates, friends, and family and make sure to check out my new book “The Performance Plan” on Amazon.

Until next week, go get better.

Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio, and now on Google Play! Don’t forget to rate and review the show!

Follow Jeff Krushell on Twitter and Facebook!

E-Mail Jeff with your questions and comments for the show and don’t forget to visit KrushPerformance.com for live streaming, blogs, links, and so much more.

This week on Krush Performance, modified sport – is it better for development? Short nets, smaller rackets, bats, balls, smaller fields, courts & ice surfaces? Are sport modifications for kids better for long term development? Does it make sense?

We talk with Krush Favorite Paul Carson, Vice President of Membership Development for HockeyCanada.ca.

Hockey Canada has initiated changes to novice hockey with the half ice game. We’ll talk to Paul about the initiative and what they are hoping to accomplish with this innovative move. Sport organizations all over the world should be watching closely.

We did a Twitter poll question earlier in the week asking our followers: “Are sport modifications for kids better for long term development?

Here are the results:

 56% Yes

 9% No

 32% Sometimes

Let us know what you think.

I also lay out my thoughts on some of the strategies we use to maximize the performance of our athletes. Getting good is SO much fun!

If you have any questions or a topic you would like us to investigate get to us, we may dedicate a segment or an entire episode to your topic.

Thanks for downloading! Pass the show on to your teammates, friends, and family and make sure to check out my new book “The Performance Plan” on Amazon.

Until next week, go get better.

Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio, and now on Google Play! Don’t forget to rate and review the show!

Follow Jeff Krushell on Twitter and Facebook!

E-Mail Jeff with your questions and comments for the show and don’t forget to visit KrushPerformance.com for live streaming, blogs, links, and so much more.