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

On this episode, Coach Dos and I have the opportunity to interview our most successful strength coach ever!

Andrea Hudy of UCONN has 9 national titles as a coach, dozens of first round NBA draft picks and has coached some MAJOR basketball programs at Kansas, Texas, and UCONN.

Coach Hudy talks about the "keys to success" of the teams she's coached.

She talks about why professionalism is the biggest secret to being a successful coach.

She talks about words of wisdom to young females in the performance field.

In this episode Dos and I talk about our favorite subject.

Power Development!

We talk about why everyone should be muscle snatching.

How to develop power, how to measure power accurately.

Why speed and load are important not one or the other.

Coach Nate Brookreson joins us to talk about how he has developed one of the most extensive networks of performance coaches in the country.

He talks about the unique challenges he has faced as the Seattle Kraken are set to begin their inaugural season next year, and he gets the chance to build a program completely from scratch.

On this episode Coach Dos talks with Mike Gattone, USA Weightlifting's Director of Performance and Sport.

Coach Gattone has had an incredible career and discusses the path he's taken from professional sports (the Chicago Bulls), Sports Marketing with Gatorade, and his time with USA Weightlifting.

He tells us about working with Al Vermeil.

How to create a system of training over just exercises.

How using the Olympic lifts are important to performance of field and court athletes.

How Team USA may do at the Olympics this year.

This is a great episode you don't want to miss!

On this episode Coach Dos and I interview Coach Ron McKeefery. Coach McKeefery (www.RonMckeefery.com) has one of the most incredible careers in S&C having coached at all levels and has helped 200 coaches move on to professional careers in coaching.

We talk about the key to creating culture with your athletes, and the key with culture for your coaches.

The current role of technology in S&C.

His book the CEO Strength Coach

And the importance of being an entrepreneur as a strength coach

On this episode Coach Dos and I interview Tanner Maher, the Coordinator for S&C for Football at the University of Florida.

Tanner tells us about:

how Junior College molded him.

The blue collar culture they are creating at UF.

How to develop trustworthy relationships with your athletes.

The 3 questions you should ask your players when they arrive

This is a great episode!

On this episode Coach Dos and I interview Brian Johnson, the director of football performance at Cal Berkley.

Coach Johnson (@_coachbee1) fills us in on his philosophy of training. How he progresses and regresses movements and what it takes to be a successful coach.

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On today's episode we have Anthony Renna, author of Be Like the Best: A Guide to Reaching the Top in the Fitness Profession.

Anthony is the host of the Strength Coach Podcast and co-owner of Strengthcoach.com. In this episode he shares the process of writing this monumental book and the things he has learned from interviewing the best coaches in strength and conditioning.

Learn more and buy the book at www.belikethebest.com

On this episode I interview collegiate track and field coach, 14x nationals pole vault qualifier Jeff Coover (also one of my best friends) about...

How to sprint faster. Why the only way to run faster is to run fast. What transfers from the weightroom to the track.

This is a great episode, check it out!

In the coach Dos segment we talk about the fallacy of a big 3 and particularly only using those movements to train your athletes. This is a good one!

This week I interview Jimmy Duke of Lift For Life Weightlifting, a non-profit program for at risk youths in St. Louis. Jimmy is the coach of multiple international team members and an incredible coach. He fills us in on how he structures training for the youth athletes he trains.