Move the Needle: The Human Performance Podcast

By Mike Sullivan and Hunter EisenhowerHealth & Fitness

Move the Needle: The Human Performance Podcast episodes

December 13, 2023 Jonas Dodoo: Sprinting as the Assessment & Intervention
Jonas Dodoo - Head Coach of Speedworks Training - joins us for the 24th episode of MTN. One of the episodes that we were most excited to record, we sit down with Jonas to cover the spectrum of speed development. We go from using sprint profiling as a movement assessment, using AI to aid in sprint analysis, understanding pillars of deceleration, and much more.
Find Jonas on social media @eatsleeptrain_
Follow MTN on social media @mtn_perform and check back each Wednesday for a new episode
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With the belief that data-driven decisions power human potential, Lumin exists to improve performance and give time back to those who need it most.
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1 hr 12 min
December 06, 2023 Scott Kuehn: LSU Football Sports Science
Scott Kuehn - Manager of Applied Sports Science for LSU Football - joins us for the 23rd episode of MTN. On this episode, we dive into a handful of avenues within LSU Sports Science. Scott talks us through some of the evolution of the practices at LSU within sports science and how they consistently are evaluating and upgrading their team.
Follow Scott on social media @scottkuehn88
Find MTN on social media @mtn_perform and check back every Wednesday for a new episode
Big Thanks to our Sponsor, Lumin Sports:
Lumin Sports is your digital HQ for athletic performance.
The Australian-made platform centralises athlete management, team communications, scheduling, data visualisations, and features third party integrations to save valuable time and elevate decision making.
Trusted by pro-sport teams, colleges, high schools, and high-performance centres, Lumin is an affordable solution that seamlessly connects coaches, athletes, medical staff, and operations teams.
With the belief that data-driven decisions power human potential, Lumin exists to improve performance and give time back to those who need it most.
Download a free demo today to find out why teams around the world choose Lumin Sports.
1 hr 2 min
November 29, 2023 Connor Schoepp: Diving Deep into Return to Play
Connor Schoepp - Director of Applied Performance at Liberty University - joins us for the 22nd episode of MTN. On this episode of the podcast, we talk through injury in all aspects - assessment & asymmetry, progressing phases, establishing clear lines of communication, the neurological side of injury, and how to best break down an athlete's time & energy to put them in the best situation possible.
Follow Connor on social media @connorschoepp
Find MTN on social media @mtn_perform and check back each Wednesday for a new episode
Big Thanks to our Sponsor, Lumin Sports:
Lumin Sports is your digital HQ for athletic performance.
The Australian-made platform centralises athlete management, team communications, scheduling, data visualisations, and features third party integrations to save valuable time and elevate decision making.
Trusted by pro-sport teams, colleges, high schools, and high-performance centres, Lumin is an affordable solution that seamlessly connects coaches, athletes, medical staff, and operations teams.
With the belief that data-driven decisions power human potential, Lumin exists to improve performance and give time back to those who need it most.
Download a free demo today to find out why teams around the world choose Lumin Sports.
1 hr 12 min
November 22, 2023 Mike Sullivan & Hunter Eisenhower: Exploring the Speed & Force Systems
Today on the 21st episode of MTN, we sit down - just the two of us - and talk through a handful of ideas we have been throwing around privately the last few weeks. If you have seen anything that Hunter has been posting on social media recently, you've seen some of the thoughts that he has been talking through about his "Force System". Today, he expands more on that system and we also talk about Mike's evolution of how he views training in the weight room to create a wholesale speed development model.
Let us know what you think of our thoughts and the episode! Find us on social media @mtn_peform and check back each Wednesday for a new episode
Big Thanks to our Sponsor, Lumin Sports:
Lumin Sports is your digital HQ for athletic performance.
The Australian-made platform centralises athlete management, team communications, scheduling, data visualisations, and features third party integrations to save valuable time and elevate decision making.
Trusted by pro-sport teams, colleges, high schools, and high-performance centres, Lumin is an affordable solution that seamlessly connects coaches, athletes, medical staff, and operations teams.
With the belief that data-driven decisions power human potential, Lumin exists to improve performance and give time back to those who need it most.
Download a free demo today to find out why teams around the world choose Lumin Sports.
1 hr 17 min
November 15, 2023 Jeremiah Welch: Las Vegas Aces Performance
Jeremiah Welch - Head Performance Coach for the Las Vegas Aces - joins us for the 20th episode of MTN. Coming off their WNBA championship, we talk to Jeremiah about the evolution of performance in the league, how he's created individualized programs for his team, and how the increased access to technology - through the support of ownership - has pushed the way he thinks and programs.
Find Jeremiah on Instagram @jeremiahflys
Find MTN on social media @mtn_perform and check back each Wednesday for new episode
Big Thanks to our Sponsor, Lumin Sports:
Lumin Sports is your digital HQ for athletic performance.
The Australian-made platform centralises athlete management, team communications, scheduling, data visualisations, and features third party integrations to save valuable time and elevate decision making.
Trusted by pro-sport teams, colleges, high schools, and high-performance centres, Lumin is an affordable solution that seamlessly connects coaches, athletes, medical staff, and operations teams.
With the belief that data-driven decisions power human potential, Lumin exists to improve performance and give time back to those who need it most.
Download a free demo today to find out why teams around the world choose Lumin Sports.
55 min
November 08, 2023 Tommy Christian: 20+ Years of Speed Development
Tommy Christian - Owner/Founder of TCBOOST Sports Performance - joins us for the 19th episode of MTN. In this episode, we dive down the last two decades of training speed with Tommy. Few people have spent more time doing what he has and our conversation is wide-ranging around his time training athletes for the NFL Combine, navigating speed development for team sport athletes, turning speed into a physics equation, how he found himself on the side of a highway in India coaching speed, and much more.
Find Tommy on Instagram @tommy_christian
Find MTN on social media @mtn_perform and check back each Wednesday for a new episode
Big Thanks to our Sponsor, Lumin Sports:
Lumin Sports is your digital HQ for athletic performance.
The Australian-made platform centralises athlete management, team communications, scheduling, data visualisations, and features third party integrations to save valuable time and elevate decision making.
Trusted by pro-sport teams, colleges, high schools, and high-performance centres, Lumin is an affordable solution that seamlessly connects coaches, athletes, medical staff, and operations teams.
With the belief that data-driven decisions power human potential, Lumin exists to improve performance and give time back to those who need it most.
Download a free demo today to find out why teams around the world choose Lumin Sports.
1 hr 10 min
November 01, 2023 Dan Taylor: Sports Science with the Charlotte Hornets
Dr. Dan Taylor - Director of Applied Sports Science for the Charlotte Hornets - joins us the for the 18th episode of MTN. In our conversation, Dr. Taylor talks to us about his five "big rocks" within performance monitoring & explains how he uses this foundation to understand the present and predict the future. In a conversation that was wide-ranging and full of in-depth tangents, Dr. Taylor eloquently presents concepts within the field that are easy to digest and actionable for any coach within the team setting.
Find Dr. Taylor on social media @dt_buzzcity
Follow us on social media @mtn_perform and check back for a new podcast episode every Wednesday
Big Thanks to our Sponsor, Lumin Sports:
Lumin Sports is your digital HQ for athletic performance.
The Australian-made platform centralises athlete management, team communications, scheduling, data visualisations, and features third party integrations to save valuable time and elevate decision making.
Trusted by pro-sport teams, colleges, high schools, and high-performance centres, Lumin is an affordable solution that seamlessly connects coaches, athletes, medical staff, and operations teams.
With the belief that data-driven decisions power human potential, Lumin exists to improve performance and give time back to those who need it most.
Download a free demo today to find out why teams around the world choose Lumin Sports.
1 hr 32 min
October 25, 2023 Joel Smith: Athlete Evaluation, Exploring the Spectrum of Training, and Going All In
Joel Smith - Founder of Just Fly Sports - joins us for the 17th episode of MTN. In 2011, Joel began Just Fly Sports as a platform to promote information for athletes and coaches to reach their highest potential. In 2016, the first episode of his podcast "Just Fly Performance Podcast" was released. For the last seven years, Joel has been delivering the highest level of education in the performance field.
In this conversation, we had so many questions we wanted to dive into. Enjoy a conversation around evaluating athletes, the general evaluation process, exploring polarity in training, experiential learning for the performance field, and the journey Joel took from UC Berkeley to Just Fly.
Find Joel on social media @justflysports and make sure to tune in to his podcast
Find us on social media @mtn_peform and check back each Wednesday for a new episode
Big Thanks to our Sponsor, Lumin Sports:
Lumin Sports is your digital HQ for athletic performance.
The Australian-made platform centralises athlete management, team communications, scheduling, data visualisations, and features third party integrations to save valuable time and elevate decision making.
Trusted by pro-sport teams, colleges, high schools, and high-performance centres, Lumin is an affordable solution that seamlessly connects coaches, athletes, medical staff, and operations teams.
With the belief that data-driven decisions power human potential, Lumin exists to improve performance and give time back to those who need it most.
Download a free demo today to find out why teams around the world choose Lumin Sports.
1 hr 7 min
October 18, 2023 Justin Ochoa: Integrating Performance Training & Skill Development
Justin Ochoa - Owner of PACE Fitness - joins us for the 16th episode of MTN. In this episode of the podcast, we spend a lot of time going down the rabbit hole of marrying sports skill work with performance training. Justin's unique background in basketball and training lends itself to such a conversation. We chat about the pros and cons of being able to do it all or use a more "specialist" model.
Make sure to follow Justin on all social media @justinochoa317
Follow the MTN on social media @mtn_perform and check back each Wednesday for a new episode
Big Thanks to our Sponsor, Lumin Sports:
Lumin Sports is your digital HQ for athletic performance.
The Australian-made platform centralises athlete management, team communications, scheduling, data visualisations, and features third party integrations to save valuable time and elevate decision making.
Trusted by pro-sport teams, colleges, high schools, and high-performance centres, Lumin is an affordable solution that seamlessly connects coaches, athletes, medical staff, and operations teams.
With the belief that data-driven decisions power human potential, Lumin exists to improve performance and give time back to those who need it most.
Download a free demo today to find out why teams around the world choose Lumin Sports.
1 hr 40 min
October 11, 2023 Matt King: Building a Staff & Developing a System in College Football S&C
Matt King - Director of Football S&C at UCONN - joins us for the 15th episode of MTN. In this episode, we dive into a conversation about Matt's transition from an Assistant position at the University of Washington to the Director at UCONN. We chat about having to build a staff + his own system at a school on the other side of the country, and we discuss some action steps that anyone can take stepping into a new role with a new team & head coach. Matt's diversity of experience has created a special environment at UCONN and we were excited to be able to sit down and talk it through.

Find Coach King on Instagram @coach_mking

Find MTN on all social media @mtn_perform and check back next Wednesday for a new episode
Big Thanks to our Sponsor, Lumin Sports:
Lumin Sports is your digital HQ for athletic performance.
The Australian-made platform centralises athlete management, team communications, scheduling, data visualisations, and features third party integrations to save valuable time and elevate decision making.
Trusted by pro-sport teams, colleges, high schools, and high-performance centres, Lumin is an affordable solution that seamlessly connects coaches, athletes, medical staff, and operations teams.
With the belief that data-driven decisions power human potential, Lumin exists to improve performance and give time back to those who need it most.
Download a free demo today to find out why teams around the world choose Lumin Sports.
1 hr 2 min

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Move the Needle explores all areas of performance & coaching. Our goal - understand how to most effectively create positive change in athletic performance. Coaches & Professionals from around…