The Performance Podcast | Strength Training, Olympic Weightlifting, Performance, Fitness, Speed | Wil Fleming and Coach Dos

On this episode Dos interviews Coach Matt Shaw of the University of Denver.

Shaw oversees the UD's strength and conditioning program with an emphasis on men's hockey and men's soccer, while also managing team monitoring and the department's staff education. Since his arrival in 2012, he has trained and consulted with athletes from the NHL, KHL, MLS, MLL and PLL. During Shaw's time with the Pioneers, he has helped the hockey team to the 2017 National Championship, three Frozen Four appearances and seven NCAA Tournament appearances

On this episode we talk with Josh Henkin about how to build resiliency and how to assess movement properly in weightlifters.

We talk about building a simple screen of human movement which can reveal big weaknesses and we discuss how to move better when an athlete's sport is single planar!

Check out more from Josh at

Ultimatesandbagtraining.com

On this episode Coach Dos and I have a roundtable with Josh Henkin about balance training, barefoot training and power training.

We go through some of the biggest problems with fitness trends, and how to evaluate good information.

Learn more about Josh at Ultimate Sandbag

On this episode we interview Coach Todd Wright, the Vice President of Player Performance for the LA Clippers.

Coach Wright has one of the best resumes in the game and has unmatched credentials in basketball performance.

On this episode he talks about influential moments in his career.

How one player's nagging injury changed the lens with which he views performance.

How to manage a team of experts on a professional staff devoted to player performance.

Check out his gym HERE

On this episode I interview Coach Lew Caralla. Coach Caralla went viral earlier this year for his incredible speeches to his teams. This might be our best episode ever.

Coach Caralla talks about his mentors that got him to the place he is now.

How getting fired in back to back years shaped him and his resolve.

How he became a master motivator to his athletes.

Why love is overused by coaches and players.

Check out Coach Caralla on instagram

We are super pumped to have Rick Huegli on this episode. Rick is the S&C director at Lakeside School in Seattle. Prior to that he was the S&C director at the University of Washington for Football.

We talk about the difference between high school and college coaching.

Why knowing the "person" is the most important factor in coaching high school athletes.

On this episode I interview Alec Pagan of RPE 11 about coaching strongman.

He talks about the resistance he's faced coming from "outside" strongman.

The lessons from traditional S&C which inform his programming.

He talks about the best movements from strongman for traditional strength and conditioning.

Learn more about Alec on his Instagram

On this episode Coach Dos goes it solo and talks to Josh Henkin about a very hot topic.

Knees over toes

Risers for squatting

and more.

Check out Josh at https://ultimatesandbagtraining.com/the-original-sandbag/

On this episode Coach Dos and I talk to Donnie Maib, Director of Performance for Olympic Sports at the University of Texas.

We talk to coach Maib on how to reinvent yourself in the performance field.

How to learn new skills that will make you a better coach.

How to coach your kids!

Check out more from Coach Maib at DonnieMaib.com

On this episode Coach Dos and I interview Bob Alejo from Cal State Northridge.

We talk about Coach Alejo's incredible experience level and why that's not happening in today's S&C field.

We talk about "Sports Science" and how that can be a tricky term.

We talk about how Coach Alejo became the only MUST FOLLOW on S&C twitter.