In this episode of the Barbell Nerds Podcast, we sit down with Brett Adams of Transcending Performance. Brett talks about the role of confidence, how to work with athletes who lack confidence and the importance of failing in practice and training. You can find Brett on Instagram @transcendingperformance. 

In this episode, we talk to each other! We realized that we never did an initial podcast episode introducing ourselves, who we are, where we've been, and why we do what we do. So this is for those people who don't know who Sean Fantuzzi and Will Ratelle are.

We also wanted to thank those who listen in from a couple of guys who love lifting, performance, and all that it encompasses! 

Follow our work in IG at @seanfan2z & @will.ratelle

Thank you to all our guests and listeners! We appreciate y'all more than you know! Please feel free to reach out however you wish!

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Episode 25 of the Barbell Nerds Podcast features Coach Mike Chatman, Stanford University Men's Basketball Sports Performance Coach.

As we talk about Mike's history in the field of performance we highlight the many mentors he has been honored to work with/for (we discuss his time with Coach Gayle Hatch more specifically), how the culture of the athlete drives the programming, how he uses Olympic lifting to learn how his athletes learn (auditory, visual, kinesthetic, etc), and other topics. 

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In this episode of the barbell nerds podcast we welcome Colin Masterson, Assistant  Sports Performance Coach of Villanova University.

Coach Masterson discusses his role with Villanova, some aspects of the rotary athlete (specifically the golfer) that he measure, and how his platform of Birdie Fitness has grown and what he has learned through this process.

Huge thanks to Colin for taking the time to be on our show. If you enjoyed this episode, please review and share to the platform of your choice! Thank you!

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In episode 23 of the Barbell Nerds Podcast, we welcome Assistant Sports Performance Coach Scott Kuehn of the University of Arizona Football Program.

Scott talks about his journey of how he got into the field of forging performance, working for incredible mentors along the way, and his work with data collection and analysis. 

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On this episode of the Barbell Nerds Podcast, we welcome University of South Carolina's Women's Basketball Sports Performance Coach Molly Binetti. 

Molly shares more in-depth on her research she has done early in her S&C career, we dive into the competitive athlete and how "You can't teach competition", and most importantly we Molly shared two questions she asks herself daily about the connections she has with not just her athletes but everyone she meets with daily. You'll have to listen in to find out what those questions are. 

We cannot thank Molly enough for spending the time and chatting with us tonight.

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In this episode of the Barbell Nerds Podcast, we chat with USC Strength and Conditioning Coach Darien Pyka.

Darien thoroughly discusses her strategies with the swimmers she works with and talks about what the true meaning of core strength and stability is.

We really appreciate Darien's time, and we loved having her on our show. Thank you Coach!

In episode 20 of the Barbell Nerds Podcast, we welcome Jake Tuura of Youngstown State University to the show.

Jake works with a number of different sports at Youngstown and is the creator of jackedathlete.com which features many training programs like his vertical jump protocol. He also runs his own podcast with features awesome guests and awesome conversations to push the field of Strength and Conditioning. 

We discuss the variance of volume appropriate for athletes of different training levels. This spurs us to discuss building buy-in with athletes through the training stimulus and the athlete's desire for training. We then chat about how to objectively measure the success and failure of a Strength and Conditioning Coach.

We cannot thank Jake enough for joining us on our podcast. If you'd like to follow more of his content follow him on IG @jaketuura, @vertical_jump_protocol, @hypertrophy_clusters, the Jacked Athlete Podcast (iTunes and Spotify), and jackedathlete.com. 

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The Nerds are honored to welcome Jay Demayo, Head Basketball Strength Coach for Richmond Basketball and Director of Central Virginia Sports Performance (CVASP).

In this episode, Jay discusses his beginnings with CVASP, the incredible connections he has made, and even more importantly the conversations he has had over the course of his time doing The Podcast, The Seminar, and producing The Manual are 2nd to none. We talk about some of those conversations he has had over the course of his 200+ episode of The Podcast and more of the other episodes he provides.

Jay, who is no stranger to providing thought-provoking content via his channel, got to sit on the other side of the table today. We cannot thank him enough for taking the time out of his busy schedule to chat with us. Follow EVERYTHING Jay Demayo and CVASP at cvasps.com (where you can find information on The Seminar and his publication The Manual) and on Instagram / Twitter @CVASPs. 

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In this episode, we interview Coach Sean Doherty, Assistant Sports Performance Coach at Villanova University.

Post-Covid Quarantine has presented a challenge for coaches around the nation. Sean dives into how he and his staff got some pretty influential data regarding sprint times that will have a big effect on future programming. We also go into topics such as microdosing speed as opposed to resistance training, how currently a periodization model for training doesn't exist due to an unknown start of play for some of his sports, and different KPI tests with different sports.

This was a very cool episode with Sean and we hope you enjoy it too. Check out more of Sean's work on IG @seand0herty and the Villanova Performance Staff @nova_strength_ .

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