Today we are joined by Coach Reed Maltbie (Twitter: @Coach_Reed) to talk about (raising) excellence, mastery, values, team culture, and what youth athletes REALLY need from their coaches. Coach Reed not only has a wealth of knowledge and experience in soccer and work with people, but he has also reflected a lot on how we as a collective sport can move toward excellence. As a coach, I found this episode immensely valuable and know you will to.

Coach Reed Online: www.raisetheirgame.com

Tori Corsaro, Technical Goalkeeping Coach at The Keeper Institute in New Jersey (IG: @CoachToriTKI), joins the show today to talk all things Keepers! She breaks down how GKs are evaluated, what systematic, long-term development of the position looks like, what it takes to make the pros, mental training, and how to train without a keeper coach. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did!

Find Tori:  @thekeeperinstitute (IG), thekeeperinstitute.com

In this episode, Allison Tenney (IG: @allisontenney) joins us to discuss the Student-Athlete life and beyond; being a female athlete, her path to Division I college (Go Mason!), decision-making, planning for the future, and dealing with a new identity. We also discussed in depth the "darker" side that no one talks about; what Student-Athletes miss out on, the downsides of teamwork, body autonomy issues, how to build an identity, self-awareness and self-regulation, self-sabotage, and learning how to do the work. Allison's passion for sport, humans, and social justice is clear here and I hope you all benefit from this discussion as much I did!

Allison online: www.allisontenneyfitness.com

This week we are joined by Hunter Charneski, MS, CSCS (IG: @hunter_charneski) of Charneski Power and Freak Faktory. He's a 260lb sprinter. More specifically, he's a football player turned powerlifter turned 260lb sprinter, but he's also a strength & speed coach. His mission is helping youth athletes build their confidence, stay healthy, and find their purpose. He's nothing if he's not honest, sincere, direct, and passionate about training. We unpack what it takes to get fast, conditioned, and resilient as a soccer player and how athletes can train sprints, even without a coach.

Hunter online: charneskipower.com

Today we are joined by Emily Pappas, MS, USAW. She's the founder of and head performance coach at Relentless Athletics (IG: @relentless_athletics_), an adjunct faculty at Temple University, and an all-around badass. We discussed nutrition for soccer, especially the needs of female athletes, and what we often get wrong about food as fuel. She broke down all the complicated chemistry for us and provided actionable steps of what any athlete can do to improve their nutrition starting right now.

Relentless Online: relentlessathleticsllc.com

Today we are joined by journalist and author Jonathan Harding to discuss what it takes to develop both elite athletes and great human beings. The sport industry tends to commoditize athletes; how do we, as coaches and players ourselves, change that?

Jonathan Harding is a sports writer for Deutsche Welle's football desk in Germany. In 2014, he accompanied Die Mannschaft on their World Cup win in Brazil and has been producing content on the German game ever since. Early in 2019, he published his book on coaching in German football called "Mensch: Beyond The Cones".

Twitter/IG: https://twitter.com/JonBloggs66

Amazon "Mensch": https://www.amazon.com/Mensch-Beyond-Cones-Jonathan-Harding/dp/1910906182/ref=sr_1_1?crid=28RJKCXRUS0WO&keywords=mensch+beyond+the+cones&qid=1565043228&s=gateway&sprefix=mesnch+beyon%2Caps%2C233&sr=8-1

We're BACK and joined this week by Erica Suter to talk about High Potential Players vs. High Performing Players in soccer. What's the difference? Why does it matter? And how can a High Potential become a High Performer?

Erica Suter, MS, CSCS is a Strength & Conditioning and Soccer Skills Coach based out of Baltimore, MD, USA. She played soccer at Johns Hopkins University, where she now works as a recruiter, as well as playing in the Brazilian women's league. She is an avid blogger and content creator, as well as a Dutch National Team fan. #Oranje 

Find Erica online! IG/Tw: @fitsoccerqueen, www.ericasuter.com

Welcome (back) to The Lion's Mane Podcast! 

This is a relaunch and a rebrand. In this new and improved version of TLMP, we're going to be talking exclusively about EVERYTHING soccer with some of the greatest in the industry, from players to coaches to scientists. More than anything, we're going to be aggressively normal human beings and make complicated themes as simple and realistic as possible. 

Thanks for your patience, friends. Let's do this.

PILOT SEASON:

Erica Suter (MS, CSCS, USSF-C) is a soccer skills and S&C coach based out of Baltimore, MD. She outlines how she makes off-season and pre-season programs work for her youth athletes, how she monitors load, the growing importance of addressing The ACL Problem and injury prevention, and how to coach better (without overcoaching). Instagram & Twitter: @FitSoccerQueen Website: www.ericasuter.com

PILOT SEASON:

Paul is a sport psychology expert and powerlifting coach of national-level athletes. Now based in Leipzig, Germany, he has a diverse, international background, which brings a uniqueness to his outlook on mentality and sport. We dose you with all things psychological skills training, maximising longevity in powerlifting, and all things strength sport. Instagram: @holisticstrengthgermany