Performance Talk with Dr. Ewell Gordon

Experienced High Performance Manager with 20 years experience in elite sport roles gained in professional football and Olympic sport environments. Highly organized and detail-oriented manager, able to prioritize and delegate tasks effectively to ensure successful delivery of physical performance programs within a team environment. An effective leader, who encourages excellence in individuals, and inspires team members to achieve their potential while working toward common performance goals.

I am Certified Mental Trainer® at The Mental Game and the Chief Operating Officer with Mental Training Inc. Certified Mental Trainer®, Sport Psychology Consultant, Author, Radio Host, Professional Speaker Specialties include: Pre & Post Performance Routines, Goal Setting, Team Building & Team Cohesion, Athletes Peak Performance and more...

When UFC fighters are broken, Heather Linden is on the front lines to help them feel better and get back to training. Heather has experience working with a variety of athletes and is currently the Director of Physical Therapy at the UFC Performance Institute. In today’s podcast, she shares some of her insights about keeping fighters healthy and helping them recover when injuries occur.

Sun Sachs brings 25 years of expertise in design, technology, product management and business strategy to create compelling products, meticulously build and innovate around the required technologies and inspire teams to actualize the vision. Sun is a life-long endurance athlete who grew up in Boulder, Colorado.

Former collegiate athlete and coach, skilled at building rapport with those of diverse backgrounds to work towards maximizing performance by optimizing nutrition. Hard worker, effective communicator, and uses technology to solve modern problems.

Director of Performance Services at Texas Optimal Performance & Psychological Services, LLC

#sportpsychology, #coachdevelopment, and #athletementalhealth

Trevor Petrucci serves as a dietitian for Carolina Rehabilitation to help people return to full activity through adequate nutrition. He is also a current Sports Dietitian and Strength and Conditioning Coach at Rock Hill High School providing nutritional education and sport-specific programming for approximately 300 athletes. Trevor utlizes his expertise to assess, monitor and educate student athletes through maximizing player performance, reducing injury risk, and optimizing competition readiness at every level. He takes a multidisciplinary-approach with athletes by collaborating with other stakeholders of the sports team to ensure game day readiness.

Trevor graduated from Clemson University in 2021 with a bachelor's degree in Human Nutrition and is now pursuing a Master's Degree at Winthrop University in research on the necessity of multidisciplinary collaboration in sports performance. At Clemson University, Trevor initially began his sports nutrition experience working with Clemson Football Nutrition Department during the 2017-2018 season. This was where he began to see how nutrition can assist student-athletes in their ability to practice and train at their best. Over the next few years, he began working with various collegiate and high school programs by providing individualized nutrition recommendations long term goal implementation for athletic departments. As an athlete himself, Trevor has constantly challenged himself to different performance goals by competing in a variety of event ranging from Crossfit, olympic weightlifting, ruck challenges, spartan races, and half Ironmans.

Trevor is a registered dietitian nutritionist and licensed dietitian (2022), certified Sports Nutritionist from the International Society of ports Nutrition (ISSN, 2021), certified strength and conditioning specialist (NSCA, 2022), and a licensed Level 1 Coach for USA Weightlifting. He was awarded the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Outstanding Dietetic Student Award and serves as a committee member for the upcoming SHPH Spring Symposium.

Trevor Petrucci serves as a dietitian for Carolina Rehabilitation to help people return to full activity through adequate nutrition. He is also a current Sports Dietitian and Strength and Conditioning Coach at Rock Hill High School providing nutritional education and sport-specific programming for approximately 300 athletes. Trevor utlizes his expertise to assess, monitor and educate student athletes through maximizing player performance, reducing injury risk, and optimizing competition readiness at every level. He takes a multidisciplinary-approach with athletes by collaborating with other stakeholders of the sports team to ensure game day readiness. Trevor graduated from Clemson University in 2021 with a bachelor's degree in Human Nutrition and is now pursuing a Master's Degree at Winthrop University in research on the necessity of multidisciplinary collaboration in sports performance. At Clemson University, Trevor initially began his sports nutrition experience working with Clemson Football Nutrition Department during the 2017-2018 season. This was where he began to see how nutrition can assist student-athletes in their ability to practice and train at their best. Over the next few years, he began working with various collegiate and high school programs by providing individualized nutrition recommendations long term goal implementation for athletic departments. As an athlete himself, Trevor has constantly challenged himself to different performance goals by competing in a variety of event ranging from Crossfit, olympic weightlifting, ruck challenges, spartan races, and half Ironmans. Trevor is a registered dietitian nutritionist and licensed dietitian (2022), certified Sports Nutritionist from the International Society of ports Nutrition (ISSN, 2021), certified strength and conditioning specialist (NSCA, 2022), and a licensed Level 1 Coach for USA Weightlifting. He was awarded the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Outstanding Dietetic Student Award and serves as a committee member for the upcoming SHPH Spring Symposium.

Scott Livingston is a master performance coach and Reconditioning Professional. He has over thirty-five years of experience in the human performance industry working in every conceivable performance environment. He is renowned for his dedication to building the “whole” athlete, improving performance, and athletic longevity. He has Trained and Reconditioned multiple World Champions and Olympic medalists during his career.

He is a leading authority in developing integrated support programming for athlete development and seeks to improve how athletes are trained and supported throughout their careers. He is also an authority on performance culture, building high-performance teams, creating vision, and direction, and executing performance plans. He has operated throughout his career in highly demanding performance stages and supported the delivery of winning results.

He is the host of the groundbreaking podcast "Leave Your Mark" found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts, as well as many other streaming services. He looks inside the lives of people in the human performance world who are making a difference and leaving their mark on others.

His goal is to develop a community of like-minded practitioners to share in the improvement of human performance programming through the Reconditioning approach that he and his wife Jaime Sochasky-Livingston founded.

His life purpose is to create change, challenge convention, and inspire through his own example, so that others may achieve their own success.

"Some men see things as they are and ask, Why? I see things that never were and ask, Why Not?"

Department of Defense Performance Dietitian and Faculty

Ph.D. Candidate in Leadership, Health and Human Performance, Board Certified Specialist in Sport Dietetics, International Olympic Committee Sports Nutrition diploma graduate, Level 2 ISAK anthropometrist, Certificate in Adult Weight Management, essential clinical nutrition background with food service management experience, program management, policy writing and effective teaching skills.

Exercise Science PhD | Exercise Physiology Consultant | Endurance Sports Coach | Human Performance and Nutrition Researcher

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States