Episode 032: Today's podcast is about Basketball Specific Training with Charles Stephenson.  He brings nearly 25 years of experience as a strength coach at the collegiate level. He joined the Utah men’s basketball staff as the first basketball-specific strength coach in the program’s history and is entering his 6th season with program. 

In addition to coaching at Utah, Charles was also the strength coach for men’s basketball at North Carolina State from 1996-2011 and previously held the same position at Auburn from 1994-96. Prior to Auburn, he was an assistant strength and conditioning coach at the University of Virginia from 1987-94.

I met Charles through his High Performance Basketball Symposium that he holds in Las Vegas every year.  The conference is must-attend for anyone that wants to learn and share with other basketball-specific strength coaches.  

We connected this week to discuss:

• How to test basketball player's conditioning
• What makes a training program basketball-specific?
• Why nutrition is so important for health & performance
• How to apply NBA combine data to your team
• What high school players should focus on in the weight room

If you want to learn more about the High Performance Basketball Symposium, go to specificstrength.com

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Episode 031: David Nurse is an NBA Life Optimization & Shooting Coach that has worked with Lonzo Ball, Jeremy Lin, Kyle Korver and many others throughout the basketball industry.

He was kind enough to give me early access to his new book, Pivot & Go.  It's a 29-day road map to help improve you mindset and lifestyle so you can be the best version of yourself.

We sat down and discussed how mindset is the key to unlocking your potential.  Listen to this episode and find out...

• Why 17 seconds is a magic amount of time
• Where David played against the best team in the world
• Why the 80/20 rule shouldn't apply to the important things in life
• How to schedule your bedtime routine
• What David's uncle did to win the NBA Championship

If you want to learn more about David, check him out on social media @DavidNurseNBA

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Episode 030: Jordan Lawley was a four-year starter at UC San Diego, where he lead his team to their first ever NCAA tournament berth while becoming UC’s all-time scoring leader, making the most field goals, free throws, and highest field goal percentage in school history.

Upon finishing his collegiate career, averaging 21ppg and being named an NCAA All-American and Daktronics West Coast Player of the Year, Jordan played professional basketball in Mexico (16ppg) and New Zealand (18ppg), and was selected by Nike in 2014 as one of the top 16 players in the world to play in Barcelona, Spain for the Nike Summer is Serious II game.

Now, as a professional skills trainer, he has found his stride with a training technique that is unrivalled in the industry. He has travelled all over the U.S. to work with and train countless pros in the NBA, overseas (FIBA), WNBA, and thousands of Middle School and High School hoopers all around the world teaching them the efficient and effective ways to take their game to the next level!

If you want to learn more about Jordan, check him out online at jordanlawley.com & on social media @jlawbball

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Episode 029: Ashlee Bradshaw graduated from Carroll College with her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and received her Master of Arts degree in Clinical Counseling from Gonzaga University.

She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Nationally Certified Counselor, Certified Sports Psychology Coach, and is also certified in Mindfulness Based Therapies. Ashlee specializes in counseling for athletes who may be experiencing barriers to success on and off the playing field.

Today we discussed the rise in mental health cases in college basketball and how to help our athletes cope with tournaments and leagues being cancelled around the world.

If you want to learn more about Ashlee, go to udistrictpt.com

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Episode 028: Angie Asche, MS, RD, CSSD.  She's a board certified sports dietitian, certified exercise physiologist, and the owner of Eleat Sports Nutrition®. 

Since founding her private practice, she has worked with hundreds of collegiate and professional athletes across the country. Her company has become widely known across the social media space as providing evidence-based nutrition information. 

Her expertise and recipes have been featured in numerous publications, including Men’s Fitness, Muscle & Fitness, Food Network, Shape, Runner’s World, and NBC News.

Today we talked about basketball supplements to help improve player's performance.  Here's what we covered:

• Weight Gainers
• Collagen Peptides & Protein Powders
• Creatine
• Vitamin D & multi-vitamins
• Omega 3's
• Sport drinks & meal replacement bars

If you want to learn more about Angie, you can find her on social media @eleatnutrition and online at eleatnutrition.com

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Episode 027: Jerry Krause is the retired director of basketball operations for Gonzaga University and taught hoops at all levels for over 55 years. The author of over 13 books on coaching basketball and over 30 instructional videos, Krause is the retired chairman of the NABC Research Committee and former chairman of the NCAA Basketball Rules Committee.

In 1998, Krause received the prestigious NABC Cliff Wells Appreciation Award for his lifetime contributions to basketball. He was inducted into the NAIA Basketball Hall of Fame in March 2002. He is a member of the National Association for Sports and Physical Education and is in their hall of fame as both a coach and a physical educator.

I was lucky enough to be coached by Jerry Krause during my senior year at Gonzaga.  He is a coach of significance, teaching life and basketball lessons that transcend the game.  We sat down and I got to pick his brain on...

• Why he believes "we learn to live well by living to learn"
• How to be a coach of significance
• What Mark Few & Lisa Fortier do better than most coaches
• The most important basketball lessons he's learned in 55 years of coaching

If you want to learn more about Graham, go to CoachJerryKrauseOnline.com

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Episode 026: Graham Betchart is one of the world’s leading mental performance coaches. He has worked with some of the NBA’s best athletes including Aaron Gordon, Ben Simmons, Karl Anthony Towns, and Andrew Wiggins (to name a few) and professional organizations such as True Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, and the Utah Jazz.

Graham creates blockbuster companies, training programs, and online courses to help athletes, coaches, parents, entrepreneurs, and working professionals take their mental game to the next level. He is also the author of Play Present: A Mental Skills Training Program for Basketball Players. His mission is to bring mental training to the masses so that anyone (not just professional athletes and CEOs) can learn to perform better, and experience more joy in the process. 

We sat down and discussed how players can play in the moment.  Check out this week's podcast and learn...

• How to improve next play speed
• Why you should practice counting to 1
• What NBA players do to improve their mental performance
• How Kobe prepared for his 81 point game

If you want to learn more about Graham, go to grahambetchart.com

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Episode 025: Alan Stein, Jr. teaches proven strategies to improve organizational performance, create effective leadership, increase team cohesion and collaboration, and develop winning mindsets, rituals, and routines.

A successful business owner and veteran basketball performance coach, he spent 15 years working with the highest-performing athletes on the planet (including NBA superstars Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, and Kobe Bryant).

In his corporate keynote programs and workshops, Alan reveals how to utilize the same approaches in business that elite athletes use to perform at a world-class level. He delivers practical lessons that can be implemented immediately.

His clients include American Express, Pepsi, Sabra, Starbucks, Reeds Jewelers, FDA, Omnicell, and numerous college athletic programs.

The strategies from Alan’s book, Raise Your Game: High Performance Secrets from the Best of the Best, are implemented by corporate teams and sports teams around the country. His inspirational words are featured on 12-foot mural outside the Penn State Football Training Center, so that players run past it on the way to practice every day.

Check out this week's podcast and learn...

• Why you need to build trust before you hold people accountable
• Foundational principles of success on and off the court
• How great leaders serve their team
• The real definition of a role player
• What Alan learned from Kobe Bryant

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Episode 024: Today's I get to interview the Director of Strength & Conditioning for Men's Basketball at Liberty University, Henry Barrera.

Before working at Liberty, Henry was a Performance Training Specialist at Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton. While at Nike, he was instrumental in designing training content for multiple projects including Jordan Brand's Terminal 23 in New York and The Hangar in Los Angeles.

He continues to consult with many training companies including Nike Basketball, the Jordan Brand, Nike N7, Shoot 360 and multiple others.

As a basketball player, Barrera began his college career with Leon Rice at Yakima Valley Community College helping rebuild a dormant program and eventually becoming league co-champs in 1996-97.

After two years at Yakima Valley Community College Henry moved onto Multnomah University where he had a stellar career, averaging close to 20.0 ppg and dishing out almost 8.0 apg. Barrera was rewarded for his hard work and dedication by being named a three-time All-American and was ultimately honored with the 1999-2000 NCCAA Pete Maravich National Player of the Year award.

After receiving his bachelor's degree, Barrera played one season of professional basketball in Sweden before beginning his coaching and performance training career 14 years ago.

Along the way, Barrera made a stop at Concordia University, serving as the men's basketball strength and conditioning coach for four years, where he received a Master's degree. In addition, Barrera has spent the last decade serving in multiple capacities at the high school level, including the last seven years at West Linn High School where he helped build the Lions into one of the top programs in the country, winning three straight Oregon state championships.

Henry and I became friends back in 1995 while playing on a European tour team.  We connected on the podcast to discuss how to be a significant coach in & out of the weight room.  Check out this week's podcast and learn...

• What it means to coach for development vs coaching for performance
• How to create ant-like strong and cat-like quick athletes
• When to add barefoot training into your program
• How to move past season-ending injuries

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Episode 023: Dustan Lang is a Physical Therapist of twenty plus years and has experience with athletes from all levels (local, national, international, professional) in various sports.  More and more Dustan is treating young adolescent athletes with chronic sport injuries. These injuries can lead to mental health struggles, self destructive behaviors, and an unhealthy perception of exercise. Sadly, these type of injuries could be avoided.

Dustan has a vision the Champion’s Triangle will foster an empowering relationship between the athlete and sport that lasts a lifetime through remodeling the philosophy of practice.

Learn more about Dustan at LangPhysio.com

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