The Grumpy Metalheads Podcast/ The Heavy Metal Strength Coach Podcast

Welcome to The Heavy Metal Strength Coach Podcast. Today our guest is Shane McLean of Balance Guy Training. I've followed Shane's work for a long time. He has published many amazing articles in the fitness realm and can teach you a hell of a lot about writing and having the confidence to publish work in your own words, from your own perspective.

Useful links & talking points:

Balance Guy Training

Outback Performance 

Tony Gentilcore.com

Barbend

The PTDC

Eric Cressey

Fitness Flow Writing Services

His first client.

How to talk to beginners.

When do clients start with an individualized program?

Unilateral upper body movements.

Landmine training.

Mike Boyle- Functional Strength Coach series

That time my client pulverized their finger between two kettlebells.

Learning from our coaching mistakes.

Dan John

Helping clients to regain their youth.

Regaining mobility.

Origins of the balance guy name.

Dave Schmitz, the band man.

The origin story of Outback Performance.

Did Shane's services improve when he started working in a commercial gym?

Discussing how most PT's struggle on the business side.

Coaches should have a coach.

The Tony Gentilcore Fan Club.

Cressey's Maximum Strength Program

Transitioning to educating other coaches.

Why write?

How often does he publish an article?

Nick English, Barbend editor

Making content actionable.

Keeping you you are writing for in mind.

Imposter syndrome as a writer.

No one has seen it from your perspective as a writer.

Lou Schuler

Jon Goodman/ The PTDC

Other useful links:

Instagram- @theheavymetalstrengthcoach 

Spotify-https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37TICZHdWRGe4Cgx2ZD47V?si=qBpPR_h_TnuTW5iKUVjgzQ

Website- gainsglutesglitter.co.uk

The Heavy Metal Strength Coach Blog- https://www.gainsglutesglitter.co.uk/blog-1

Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1VAwdffh9Nv0FkovrJ55kg?si=xJD9mDpHSp22dA76-hb8vQ

Join The Heavy Metal Strength Coach & Shrubs666 discussing the incredible new album from URNE, Serpent & Spirit.

We chat about:

Joe Nally

Chapters

Our interview with Joe

Serpent & Spirit

Shrubs gets kicked in the nuts.

Clutch

Mid-period Metallica

Mastodon

Killswitch Engage

Memorial Track

Memorial Part 2

Orion- Metallica

Chris Fielding

Skyhammer Studio

Desolate Heart

A Tomb So Frail

Conan

Urne tour with Orange Goblin

Check out this album. It's wonderful and deserves to be spread far and wide. You can find their website by following THIS link.

Welcome to The Heavy Metal Strength Coach Podcast

This week we dabble with some more new releases and cover EXACTLY what should be filling your ears.

Music featured today:

Dodsrit- Mortal Coil (release of the week)

MGLA

Uada

Bastard Priest

Elderwind

Summoning

Skyforest

Trna

Grima

Steel Bearing Hand- Slay In Hell 

Grave Miasma

Wode

Boss Keloid

Dvne

Mental Cruelty- A Hill To Die Upon

Ingested

Infant Annihilator

NAILS

Code- Flyblown Prince

Celtic Frost

At The Gates

URNE

Amenra

Darkthrone- Soulside Journey

Bathory

Midnight

Thanks for listening, you legends.

Useful Links:

Instagram- @theheavymetalstrengthcoach @shrubs666

Spotify

Website

The Heavy Metal Strength Coach Blog 

In this episode, we get to hear from my hero, MY GRANDMA, Christine Kershaw.

We discuss:

St. James Hospital, Harehills in the 1940's

Cinemas in Leeds in the 1950's 

Gone With The Wind

Being very different from the rest of the family.

Creating her own values.

The importance of working with many different cultures.

Finding people interesting.

Being an avid reader.

Seeing hospitals change over the years.

Creating a positive experience where people are often uncomfortable.

Making people feel like someone cares about them.

Creating a culture of care.

Introducing technology into hospitals.

Satisfaction and hard work.

Not finding working nights a problem.

Retirement.

Dancing.

Sequence dancing.

The Barn Dance.

The Gay Gordans.

The Square Tango.

Broken bones and injuries.

Lifting weights.

Heavy metal circuit training.

Going to the gym wasn't the done thing for most people.

Trying new things as you get older.

Training after a total hip replacement.

Pushing through pain.

Trusting the rehab process.

Back to deadlifting after a hip replacement.

Building her own exercise routine.

Farmers walk around the garden to maintain fitness during covid lockdowns.

The importance of being active.

Grandma's weekly quiet day.

The key to a happy life.

All-night parties.

Music by THE INFERNAL SEA. Buy their things. Watch them live. They are incredible.

Welcome to The Heavy Metal Strength Coach Podcast. I wanted to have a discussion with an online coach who started coaching online before training people in person. With Patrick Umphrey being a powerlifting coach, athlete, and fellow coach, I thought we would have a lot to chat about.

I wasn't wrong. This episode was awesome to be part of. 

Our topics of discussion were:

Cats

Is his love of online gaming connected to the fact he thrives on numbers and the online coaching process?

Bodybuilding.com

Myfitnesspal

Eat, Train, Progress Facebook Group

Is it ok to start as an online coach before you do in-person coaching?

Start by offering your services for free

Personal Preference & enjoyment for more advanced athletes- what role should that play in programming?

Do you have a preference for training gen pop or powerlifters?

Patrick's consultation process.

Does every powerlifter start with the same type of program or is it individualised?

Our approaches for building technique into our programming.

Facilitating enjoyment within a client's program- how does Patrick achieve this?

The importance of having a consult BEFORE you agree to take on a client.

Should an exercise be in a program because someone hates it?

Important questions to garner useful feedback from online clients.

The universal hatred for rear foot elevated split squats

Single-leg hip thrusts

How a client thinks they look while performing an exercise is a huge factor in exercise selection.

Do you need to be a successful powerlifter to be a successful powerlifting coach?

How often should an athlete film their lifts?

How often does Patrick film his lifts?

Changes in training phases

Making training more specific as competition approaches

What happens when an online client goes to a competition?

is it easier to compete or coach at a powerlifting competition?

Matt Gary

Mental exhaustion after coaching at a meet.

Being the stress shield.

A coach getting visibly stressed and agitated at a meet doesn't help the lifter.

When a lifter bombs.

Clients with high and low variability.

The importance of the post-competition debrief.

Lessons from bowling.

"all lifters are idiots on competition day"

Don White (bowling Coach)

Leading by example as a coach

Eric Helms

Greg Nuckols

Brian Minor & Eric Helms talk about hypertrophy

Dan John

Eat Train Progress Facebook Group

Eat train progress website

Should you show your prices online?

Thanks for listening to The Heavy Metal Strength Coach Podcast.

Unbelievably, we've reached 50 episodes. Thanks to everyone who has tuned in over the last year. It has been quite a ride. 

In this week's chapter on The History Of British Black Metal, we cover the fairly obscure band THUS DEFILED.

Here are some talking points and links for you:

Origins in 1992

Unholy Deification

"More of a touring band"

Thus Defiled tours

Thus Defiled members

A band called Paul?

Origins in a more death metal style

Thus Defiled first demo- Blasphemous Coven

Old Pink Dog Studios

Second Demo (Enchanted By The Dark One)

The list of bands Thus Defiled want to thank

Primordial

Through The Impure Veil of dawn (album #1)

Mayhem

Emperor

A Crimson vision in the glade of shadowfire (song)

Darkness Rape The Tranquil Shore Of Eternity

The Infernal sea

Dark Trinity Productions

Wings Of The Nightstorm

Where to find us:

Instagram- @theheavymetalstrengthcoach @shrubs666

Spotify-https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37TICZHdWRGe4Cgx2ZD47V?si=qBpPR_h_TnuTW5iKUVjgzQ

Website- gainsglutesglitter.co.uk

The Heavy Metal Strength Coach Blog- https://www.gainsglutesglitter.co.uk/blog-1

Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1VAwdffh9Nv0FkovrJ55kg?si=xJD9mDpHSp22dA76-hb8vQ

Join The Heavy Metal Strength Coach in a conversation with Matt Gary, one of the most decorated Powerlifting coaches in the game. It was wonderful to chat with Matt and I found him to be a fountain of knowledge regarding game-day handling. I learned a great deal from the perspectives offered within this episode and I can't wait to have him on again in the future.

This was a good one.

We talk about the following:

Sioux-z Hartwig-Gary

The USAPL

"Cultivate your passion"

Putting your athlete in the best position to succeed

Having a comprehensive understanding of the powerlifting rules.

Maximizing strategy on game day

Eliminating game-day stress

Be on time and on task.

Be an advocate for your lifter

The only thing a lifter should really have to do on competition day is execute the lifts

Earning lifter buy-in.

Detaching yourself from the emotion of competition.

Lifter feedback is important, don't shut them out, it's THEIR competition

As a coach, you are a master of the clock

Energy levels as deadlifts approach

Agreed upon language

Handling Mike Tuchscherer

Meet the personality of your lifter

The dangers of overcoaching

Having a game day questionnaire

What cues do you prefer to hear?

Are the terms "form" and "technique" interchangeable?

Being in a constant state of refinement with your lifters

As a lifter, be as robotic as you can be.

Lifting subconsciously.

Separating competition and technique blocks where possible

Is it a good idea to watch lifts on social media when you are close to the competition?

"Comparison is the thief of joy."

The wonderful powerlifting community.

The potential for idiocy is far higher when adrenaline is high.

When in doubt, hold your breath.

Meet and talk to your coach before meet day.

The post-competition debrief.

Does Matt handle men and women differently?

Minimum standards.

How many out of 9 should you go?

9/9 shouldn't be a unicorn.

Making the lifts = happy competition

Matt would like to thank his wife, Sioux-y Hartwig Gary, and the USAPL president Dr. Larry Maile Ph.D

Instagram

Useful Links:

Instagram- @theheavymetalstrengthcoach 

Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37TICZHdWRGe4Cgx2ZD47V?si=qBpPR_h_TnuTW5iKUVjgzQ

Website- gainsglutesglitter.co.uk

The Heavy Metal Strength Coach Blog- https://www.gainsglutesglitter.co.uk/blog-1

Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1VAwdffh9Nv0FkovrJ55kg?si=xJD9mDpHSp22dA76-hb8vQ

Join The Heavy Metal Strength Coach & Shrubs666 as we welcome you to another episode of The Grumpy Metalheads Podcast

This week we discuss the following talking points from the worlds of heavy metal:

Monolith Deathcult- Connect The Fucking Dots

They Drew Blood First

Dordeduh- Har 

A Forest Of Stars

Heilung

Wardruna

Forndom

Panopticon...And Again Into The Light 

An Autumn For Crippled Children- As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes (Release Of The Week)

Alcest

Coldworld

Spectral Lore

Mare Cognitum split

Rotting Christ

Macabre Omen

Grave Miasma

Pitchshifter- www.pitchshifter.com (Essential metal listening)

Godflesh

Where to find us:

Instagram- @theheavymetalstrengthcoach @shrubs666

Spotify-https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37TICZHdWRGe4Cgx2ZD47V?si=qBpPR_h_TnuTW5iKUVjgzQ

Website- gainsglutesglitter.co.uk

The Heavy Metal Strength Coach Blog- https://www.gainsglutesglitter.co.uk/blog-1

Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1VAwdffh9Nv0FkovrJ55kg?si=xJD9mDpHSp22dA76-hb8vQ

Join The Heavy Metal Strength Coach in episode 4 of season 2 of THE HEAVY METAL STRENGTH COACH PODCAST. Today we are talking to my friend, and long-term client Steven "Vegan Steve" Taylor to talk about his journey into fitness and the weird and wonderful worlds of steel bending and natural stone lifting.

Talking Points:

Fat kid to thin kid to strongman

Aggressive self-defense karate

British Combat Association

Geoff Thompson

Boxing 

Elliot Hulse (early work)

"The Transcendent Rep"

Barretts Health & Fitness

Powerlifting

Olympic Lifting

How Steve came to work with me.

Programming for yourself

Previous injuries

Competing in a powerlifting competition for the first time

Don't take your hobby too seriously

"Josh Greenfield gave me his shoes"

Transitioning to strongman

Eddie Hall

Steve's favourite strongman

Geoff Capes

Steel Bending

Raspberry Ape

Raspberry Ape Podcast

David Horne

Natural stone lifting

Dinnie Stones & Donald Dinnie

Whay are you vegan, Vegan Steve?

A family history of heart disease

Clarence Kennedy

Regenerative farming

Father Shrubs666

Useful Links:

Instagram- @theheavymetalstrengthcoach 

Spotify

Website 

The Heavy Metal Strength Coach Blog

Join The Heavy Metal Strength Coach & Shrubs666 as we welcome you to another episode of The Grumpy Metalheads Podcast series, The History Of British Black Metal. 

This week we discuss the following talking points from the world of British Heavy Metal:

From Cradle To Enslave Released 1999

Parr Street Studios

Spring Vale Studios

Music For Nations

Line up changes for Cradle To Enslave

Funeral In Carpathia EP edition

Drummer from At The Gates Adrian Erlandsson on this EP

Nicholas Barker drummer

Dani hates the song 'From Cradle To Enslave'

Censored video

Uncensored

PanDaemonAeon releases

Alex Chandon

Cradle of Fear

Ed Wood

Making Of Cradle To Enslave Video 

Midian released exactly a year after Cradle To Enslave

Clive Barker Cabal

Nightbreed Film

Producer John Fryer

Cthulu Dawn Song

Lord Abortion

Lord Abortion lyrics

Ted Bundy

Jeffrey Dahmer

Terry Gilliam's Brazil

Doug Bradley who plays Pinhead makes a cameo

Her Ghost In The Fog

Where to find us:

Instagram- @theheavymetalstrengthcoach @shrubs666

Spotify-

Website- 

The Heavy Metal Strength Coach Blog- 

Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1VAwdffh9Nv0FkovrJ55kg?si=xJD9mDpHSp22dA76-hb8vQ