On episode 12 of the Rogers That Podcast I have on Taylor Davis from Push Performance in Phoenix, AZ. Taylor is one of the first athletes that I trained when I first started out at Diamond Sports Training Center. I coached him during his junior and senior year of high school and then during the summers and winters when he was in college. He played two years at Lower Columbia College, a junior college in Longview, WA before finishing up his final two years at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. He interned with Gonzaga Sports Performance and with Zach DeChant at TCU before taking a full-time position with Push. On this episode, we talk about Taylor's experience during his internships and how those helped him along the way, the differences between training professional athletes and amateur athletes, and how he approaches speed and conditioning work. 

Taylor's Media:
Twitter: @tdavis_perform
Instagram: @tdavis_perform

Ryan Orr is a MiLB Strength and Conditioning Coach in the Los Angeles Angels organization. He played NAIA baseball and shoulder injuries derailed his career which led him to wanting to pursue a job where he could help people avoid the same problems he faced as an athlete. He received his masters degree from the University of Arkansas where he helped out with the Men's Basketball team. While at Arkansas, he was also volunteering with the Northwest Arkansas Naturals, a Double-A Affiliate of the Kansas City Royals. After spending some time as the Interim Head Strength Coach for the Men's Basketball team, he took a full time job with the LA Angels. In this episode, we dive deep into Ryan's background and how sports influenced his life growing up. We talk about some of the major similarities and differences between the college setting and the professional setting as well as the similarities and differences of baseball and basketball. Finally, we get into the characteristics that high performers share opposed to non-high performers and he talks about his stance on bench press for baseball players. 

Ryan's Media:
Instagram & Twitter: @ryanorr24

My Media:
Twitter:  @KyleRogers18
Instagram: @klrogers28

Eric Jagers is the Assistant Pitching Coordinator for the Cincinnati Reds and the Manager of Technical Development at Driveline Baseball. I spent time around Eric when he was both a trainee and a trainer at Driveline Baseball and I've never met somebody as driven as he is. On this episode, Eric talks about some of the cool things the Reds are doing remotely for both the players and coaches in the organization during the covid-19 pandemic. He goes into some details about pitch design and how it differs in the training environment and the game environment. Finally, we dive into the Driveline protocols and how the implement the drills. 

Eric's Media: 
Twitter and Instagram: @ericjagers 

My Media:
Twitter: @KyleRogers18
Instagram: @klrogers28

On episode 9 of the Rogers That Podcast, I answer six questions that followers on Instagram and Twitter asked me. Questions that I cover:

1. Why did your stance on bench press change so drastically?
2. Are there any lifts that I believe shouldn't be done with the intent to develop power and speed?
3. What is the best diet in my opinion?
4. What is my opinion on trap bar jumps vs. power cleans?
5. What is the most important process or resource I use to automate for program design? 
6. Advice for someone considering leaving the private sector to go to the college setting?

My media;
Twitter: @KyleRogers18
Instagram: @klrogers28

Brandon Mann is a former left handed pitcher for the Texas Rangers. He was drafted in he 27th round of the 2002 First Year Player Draft by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He spent 15 years in the minor leagues, Nippon Professional Baseball League (Japan), and Independent Professional Baseball leagues before finally making his Major League debut on May 13, 2018. Brandon was the first professional athlete that I trained and I owe a lot of my growth as a coach and trainer to the years that I spent working with Brandon. On this episode we go into details of his journey through the minor leagues to his eventual major league debut. We go over some of the things that helped him continue to develop as a pitcher even into his 30's. Lastly, Brandon talks about some of the common traits that are shared between the guys that he has trained alongside and played with though his career. 

Brandon's media:
Twitter: @brandonmmann
Instagram: @brandonmmann52

My media:
Twitter: @KyleRogers18
Instagram: @klrogers28

Cody Hughes is the Director of Human Performance at Madison Academy, a high school in Huntsville, AL. Before working at Madison Academy, he was an Assistant Strength Coach at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana where he worked primarily with the baseball team. Cody played collegiate baseball at University of Montevallo, an NCAA DII school in Montevallo, AL. On this episode, Cody talks about how much his philosophy has shifted since he first started coaching athletes and how he's transitioned from 1RM's being the end all be all to taking more of a movement focus to improving performance. He talks about how he programs at the high school level and the long term athletic development plan he utilizes with his athletes. Finally, we go into some common issues we both see in the field and what the direction we think the industry is heading and how we hope to fit into the future. 

Cody's Media:
Twitter and Instagram: @clh_strength

My media:
Twitter: @KyleRogers18
Instagram: @klrogers28

Gerry DeFilippo serves as head trainer and owns and operates Challenger Strength and is the host of the “Muscles and Management” podcast. Since founding Challenger Strength in 2016, Gerry has worked with over 50 college and college bound athletes across multiple sports. He has also had numerous articles published on EliteFTS, Muscles and Strength and Elite Baseball Performance. Gerry and I begin developing a friendship via social media a couple years ago when we found out that we had a similar path to becoming a strength coach when we learned that neither of us went to school to be a strength coach and we used experience as our best teacher. On this episode, we go in depth into the challenges that the coronavirus pandemic has brought us, how Gerry has evolved his philosophy as a strength and conditioning coach, and how social media can be both a very useful tool and complete utter garbage. 

Where can you find more about Gerry?
Instagram: @challengerstrength
Twitter: @Challenger_ST
Website: https://www.challengerstrength.com/
Podcast: “Muscles and Management”
 
Where can you find more info about me?
Instagram: @klrogers28
Twitter: @KyleRogers18

Killian Hamilton works with both Pre-Script and under his own consulting and coaching company, K2 Coaching. Pre-Script is an online coaching and education platform that's roots are ingrained developing mobility, stability, and strength. This idea translates to corrective programming that first seeks to increase the body’s range of motion, and then promotes patterned engagement of the body’s stabilizing muscles. Through Pre-Script, Killian provides more so an educational role to other coaches, chiropractors, and different facilitators of strength and conditioning. Through K2 Coaching, it’s combined athletes and consulting with coaches as well and he's actually writing my programming for me right now. Killian goes in depth into the skill acquisition model and how he applies it to strength and conditioning programming. He’s one of the more intelligent dudes that I’ve ever come across and there’s a lot to takeaway from this episode.

Where you can find more about Killian:
Pre-Scipt: https://www.pre-script.com/
K2 Coaching: https://www.k2coaching.ca/
Instagram: @killian.hamilton

Where you can find more about me:
Twitter: @KyleRogers18
Instagram: @klrogers28

This episode is an exciting one for me. I got the chance to sit down and talk with my co-workers at Diamond Sports Training Center, Alexander Lee and Steven Finch. Alexander Lee is the Director of Player Development and plays a huge role in the direction of the hitting and defensive work at Diamond Sports. He played college baseball at Radford University in Virginia and was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in 2014 and played two professional seasons before taking a full-time job at Diamond Sports. Steven Finch is the Director of Operations and handles a lot of the behind the scenes work at Diamond Sports and he also coaches our 16U Bulldogs team. He has a little more unconventional route to coaching but there aren't many other coaches out there who have that care factor characteristic that Steven has. He gets the most out of his teams and prides himself on developing young men just as much as he does good baseball players. In this episode, we talk a lot about the culture at Diamond Sports and how our culture paired with our training really separates us from others travel ball facilities in the industry. Where can you find Alexander Lee on social media? Twitter: @GeneralLee27 // Where can you find Steven Finch on social media? Twitter & Instagram: @yourboyfinch // Where can you find Diamond Sports on social media? Twitter & Instagram: @DiamondSportsTC // Where can you find me on social media? Twitter: @KyleRogers18, Instagram: @klrogers28. 

Joe Grinstain is the co-founder and Director of Strength and Performance at Hyperthrive Athletics in Sacramento, CA. Hyperthrive Athletics is a Strength and Performance facility that is owned and operated by 3 brothers, Aaron, Nolan, and Joe. They focus on building stronger, faster, and more durable athletes through high level coaching in a competitive training environment and specialize in baseball and softball development. Joe has worked with athletes of all levels, including Braden Bishop, an outfield for the Seattle Mariners. After receiving his degree from Chico State University, he interned at Cressey Sports Performance in Hudson, MA under coaches like Greg Robins, Nancy Newell, and Miguel Aragoncillo. In this episode, Joe addresses the benefits to training in a group setting and how it’s helped shape the culture at Hyperthrive. He touches on how his philosophy has evolved over time and how he made it unique to himself. Lastly, he talks about core training and how to create more carryover in bridging the gap between strength and skill in regards to core training. Where can you find Joe on social media? Twitter: @Grinstainjoseph, Instagram: @ClassicJoeJoeBeans / @hyperthriveathletics // Where can you find me on social media? Twitter: @KyleRogers18, Instagram: @klrogers28