The Principles of Performance

Phil Plisky has an incredibly diverse professional background as a clinician, researcher, teacher and consultant. He is a Professor in the University of Evansville’s Doctor of Physical Therapy Program and PhD in Health Professions Education Program, Director of Residency Programs, and performance systems consultant for collegiate and professional sports.

Phil received his Master’s of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Evansville and his Doctor of Science degree in Orthopedic Physical Therapy from Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions. He is also an a NATA Board-Certified Athletic Trainer and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

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Lynne Peeples is a science journalist whose writing has appeared in The Guardian, Scientific American, Nature, and other publications. Before her move to writing, she crunched numbers as a biostatistician for HIV clinical trials and environmental health studies. Peeples was an MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow and holds master’s dergress in biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health and in science journalism from New York University.

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Kevin Neeld is the Head Performance Coach for the Boston Bruins, where he oversees all aspects of designing and implementing the team’s performance training program, as well as monitoring the players’ performance, workload and recovery. Prior to Boston, Kevin spent 2 years as an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach for the San Jose Sharks after serving as the director of a private sports performance facility in New Jersey for 7 years, working with pro, college, junior and elite level youth hockey players. He also served as a strength and conditioning coach with the U.S. Women’s Olympic Ice Hockey Team for 5 years.

Neeld is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), Certified Performance and Sport Scientist (CPSS), and Registered Strength and Conditioning Coach (RSCC*D) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). He serves on the executive council of the Strength and Conditioning Association of Professional Hockey (SCAPH), and the NSCA’s Ice Hockey Special Interest Group, and is a founding board member of Metabolic Elite. Neeld earned his PhD in human and sport performance from Rocky Mountain University, where his research focused on the relationship between workload and performance in elite hockey. Neeld has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals, has authored 2 books Ultimate Hockey Training and Speed Training for Hockey. He has been an invited guest speaker at events hosted by the National Hockey League (NHL), National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), and USA Hockey.

Links: https://www.kevinneeld.com

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On this week’s show we take questions submitted by our listeners, including:

1. What are 3 ways technology has helped coaches?

2. How has technology hurt coaches?

3. What does power training look like for older adults? How does it differ than working with athletes?

4. Some people refer to Bulgarian/Rear-Foot Elevated Split Squats as single leg training and others says it’s not truly single leg. Does this matter?

5. Do you have any conditioning assessments that are appropriate for general population clients ?

6. If you could only program three core exercises for the rest of your life, what would they be?

7. What are your thoughts on Olympic lifting for high school athletes?

8. If you could give a young coach three pieces of advice to make them successful in the future, what would they be?

Do you have a question that you would like us to answer? Drop it in the comments and we will get to it next time qe do a Q&A!

Tony is the founder, owner and head coach of Bonvec Strength, the premiere strength training gym in West Boylston, Massachusetts. Tony began competing in powerlifting in 2010 and has posted competition personal records of a 578 squat, 405 bench press and 584 deadlift. He has earned an elite total in the 198-pound weight class and a master total in the 220-pound weight class.

Previously, Tony co-owned The Strength House in Worcester, where he trained powerlifters, team sport athletes and strength enthusiasts from all walks of life. Prior to that, Tony spent three years coaching at Cressey Sports Performance in Hudson, Massachusetts, where he worked primarily with professional and amateur baseball players.

Tony is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association and earned his Master’s degree in exercise science from Adelphi University in 2013.

Tony is an avid writer, and his articles have appeared in various written and digital publications such as Yahoo Sports, Testosterone Nation, MyFitnessPal and Bodybuilding.com.

Prior to his coaching career, Tony played baseball at Saint Michael’s College, a small Division II school in Vermont, where he played catcher and led the team in home runs and slugging percentage as a senior

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TonyBonvechio

Tim Kettenring is a high-performance coach and consultant with over 15 years of experience working with coaches and athletes in every sport setting.

Currently Tim is the High Performance Director for NOLA Gold Rugby and the President of Maverick Human Performance. Previously he was the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Loyola University.

Links:

https://www.maverickhumanperformance.com

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVnZUeEUSA- r9YdGcSxi4Xg

Pete Dupuis is the Vice President and Co-Founder of Cressey Sports Performance. He has served as business director of CSP since it was established in 2007.

Since graduating with an MBA from Babson College during the spring of 2007, Pete has been able to apply his entrepreneurial skills in helping to build CSP into the prominent strength and conditioning business and brand that it is today

Links:

http://www.petedupuis.com

https://cresseyperformance.com/

https://businessforunicorns.com

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Erica Suter is a Speed, Agility, and Strength Coach in Tampa, Florida and online, who has been working with athletes for 13 years. She is the author of The Strong Female Athlete book, which is a science-based and experience-based text with a fresh, novel approach for youth female athletes to improve speed, reduce injury, and increase strength.

Erica is also a 3x college All-American, Hall of Fame inductee for Johns Hopkins Women’s Soccer, and former US and Brazil semi-professional soccer player. Her passion for training and biomechanics led her to obtain my Master’s in Exercise Science in Performance Enhancement and Injury Reduction.

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Dr. Dan Braun received his Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science his Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) from Lebanon Valley College. Dan is passionate about performance training and rehabilitation of athletic injuries, especially the ankle, knee, hip, and shoulder injuries.

Dan has researched the impact of manual therapy techniques at the ankle on improving range of motion and dynamic balance which was presented at APTA-Pennsylvania in Fall 2021. He is also the host of the Braun Performance and Rehab podcast (Formerly the Brawn Body Podcast) and is the Director of Rehabilitation for Isophit.

Links:

https://braunpr.com

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-braun-398617125/

Braun Performance and Rehab Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4p2PNyXcOUAcSCT26zKVKg

During his two decades in private practice and beyond, Dr. Maffetone has been a respected pioneer in the field of complementary medicine, bringing the latest advances to health-care professionals around the world. He is an internationally recognized researcher, educator, clinician and author in the field of nutrition, exercise and sports medicine, and biofeedback.

Dr. Maffetone has worked with endurance athletes of all types, professional baseball and football players, adventurers, NASCAR drivers, and Olympic medalists in a variety of sports.

Outside the sports arena, Dr. Maffetone has coached a variety of people in the entertainment field, including musicians James Taylor and Johnny Cash, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and producer Rick Rubin, and has also provided a system of success for some of the world’s top business executives as well as the United States military. Dr. Maffetone’s research has been reported in newspapers, magazines and other media around the world, including Huffington Post, The Today Show, Men’s Health, CNN, Readers Digest and The Atlantic magazine.

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