The Strength Coach Podcast

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Dr. Mike T Nelson, research fanatic who specializes in metabolic flexibility and heart rate variability, creator of the Flex Diet Certification

We spoke about:

• Metabolic Flexibility
• Physiologic flexibility
• Do Cals Matter? Cals in vs Cals Out
• Protein
• Collagen Protein
• Creatine and caffeine
• Recovery Methods- Sauna & Cold Immersion
• Intermittent Fasting
• Nasal Breathing
• Electrolytes
• What else is there?

We spoke about:

• Breathing Drills in the Winter 2021-2022 Adult program
• How will the new turf change Programming at MBSC
• Teaching the Hang Clean

Vince discusses continues his 2 part series called “The 4 Things we did to sellout our athlete program…before it even started.”

If you need some help with your marketing head over to www.kissmarketing.net to book a FREE coaching call with Will “The Tech Nerd” Matheson…Also known as…Vince Gabriele’s secret marketing weapon. 
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Jenny is on to take you through "Three communication lessons she learned this year and tell you how you can apply them in your own life."

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About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 12 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

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Erica Suter, Strength Coach and author of "The Strong Female Athlete"
Gena Bradshaw, Strength Coach and author of "A Survivor's Story"

Co-Hosts of "The Girls to Queens" Podcast

We spoke about:

• Masculine and feminine Energy

• Their thoughts on Feminism

• How Women and Girls can Lean into their Femininity      

• Adversities coming up as a female strength coach     

• Their thoughts on the Gender Pay Gap    

• Their Message to young up and coming female strength coaches

• much more

We spoke about:

• Doing the Math on Alex Natera's single leg research (link to his paper)
• His article "There's a Reason There's a Box"

• Post-Meniscus Surgery Recommendations

Vince talks about "The 4 Things we did to sellout our athlete program…before it even started" 

Link to the website Vince talked about in the show- Club.VinceGabriele.com

If you need some help with your marketing head over to www.kissmarketing.net to book a FREE coaching call with Will “The Tech Nerd” Matheson…Also known as…Vince Gabriele’s secret marketing weapon. 
The Tech Nerd will take a look at your current marketing plan and give you some real time profit boosting advice…so you can stop stressing about your marketing and start seeing more money in your checking account.

Your 30-day trial comes with 1 credit (2 credits for Prime members), good for any premium selection titles you like—yours to keep.

About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 12 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

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Allistair McCaw, Leadership, Team Culture and Mindset consultant, author of "Champion Minded" and "Lead with Purpose, Make an Impact"

We spoke about:

• Why having a title does not automatically make you a leader
• the Zulu phrase Ubuntu and how it relates to coaching
• You don't need a big team, a staff or a lot of followers to make an impact
• A Reward leader vs. a Responsibility leader
• How strength coaches can show integrity

• How to Influence and Inspire yourself

• Why Self-Awareness is important
• How to lead with Trust
• much more

We spoke about:

• Take aways from "Is Strength Training Cardiovascular?"
• Cueing toes up, heels down" in the bridge and hip lift
• Professionalism in social media

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Vince discusses "The 2 Most Important Parts of Your Business""

If you need some help with your marketing head over to www.kissmarketing.net to book a FREE coaching call with Will “The Tech Nerd” Matheson…Also known as…Vince Gabriele’s secret marketing weapon. 
The Tech Nerd will take a look at your current marketing plan and give you some real time profit boosting advice…so you can stop stressing about your marketing and start seeing more money in your checking account.

Jenny is on to take you through 3 principles to improve your business writing - think tweets, social media posts, writing blogs, emails. Specifically, she's going to tell you how you can write in the 'tone' that works best for your reader, considerations you'll want to make when it comes to word choice, and practical tips to speed up the editing process.

Fit to Speak is where Great Coaches Go to be Great Speakers.

Get the PDF that details the skills and steps Jenny spoke about here

About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 12 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

Thanks for Listening!

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Rett Larson, Head S&C for the German National Women's Volleyball Team

We spoke about:

• Why a week of warm-ups should take as much time to design and plan as your strength sessions

• Why all of this other stuff if the injury-reduction and performance advantages of a proper warm-up vetted by meta-analysis can largely be attributed to the physiological benefits of increased temperature within muscle tissue

• Microdosing Strength       

• Out-of-Alignment Strength      

• Constraints-Based Programming

• Stretching      

• Individualizing Team Warm Up

• Cooling down

• much more

We spoke about:

• The forum thread Is Strength Training Cardiovascular? 
• His article "12 Great Airbike Workouts"

Vince asks "Are you committing marketing malpractice?"

If you need some help with your marketing head over to www.kissmarketing.net to book a FREE coaching call with Will “The Tech Nerd” Matheson…Also known as…Vince Gabriele’s secret marketing weapon. 
The Tech Nerd will take a look at your current marketing plan and give you some real time profit boosting advice…so you can stop stressing about your marketing and start seeing more money in your checking account.

About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 12 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

Thanks for Listening!

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Eric D'Agati, founder, One Human Performance, Co-Creator of "Principles of Program Design"

We spoke about:

• Mistakes in Program Design
• Getting out of Silos
• Getting Buy-in and Rapport
• Data Collection and Interpretation in regards to Program Direction
• Developing a System

• His new workshop "Principles of Program Design"

• much more

We spoke about:

• Forum thread "Little League Shoulder"
• His "Coach's Minute" segment on "It's the Things You Skip that Matter"
• Foam Rolling research

Vince discusses "How many hours a week should gym owners spend on marketing?"

If you need some help with your marketing head over to www.kissmarketing.net to book a FREE coaching call with Will “The Tech Nerd” Matheson…Also known as…Vince Gabriele’s secret marketing weapon. 
The Tech Nerd will take a look at your current marketing plan and give you some real time profit boosting advice…so you can stop stressing about your marketing and start seeing more money in your checking account.

Jenny is on to walk you through two aspects of giving and receiving feedback you've probably never considered. The first is how to choose what form of feedback you're using with greater intention, and the second is viewing feedback interactions as an opportunity to not just to learn about yourself - but to learn more about the person giving you the feedback

Fit to Speak is where Great Coaches Go to be Great Speakers.

Get the PDF that details the skills and steps Jenny spoke about here

About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 12 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

Thanks for Listening!

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The Meeting of the Minds Summit is coming Dec 2-4, click here for more info

David Joyce, author of "High-Performance Training for Sports"

We spoke about:

• Changes is high-performance sport over the last few years
• The new edition of "High-Performance Training for Sports"
• Establishing and developing resilience
• Developing athletic capabilities
• Enhancing and sustaining performance

• His chapter - Retraining the Injured Athlete

• much more

We spoke about:

• His article "Hypertrophy Training for Athletes"
  • Why he never trains athletes with the goal of producing muscle hypertrophy
  • Taking body types into consideration
  • Applying all of this to female athletes

Vince discusses "Preparing Now for Black Friday Offers"

If you need some help with your marketing head over to www.kissmarketing.net to book a FREE coaching call with Will “The Tech Nerd” Matheson…Also known as…Vince Gabriele’s secret marketing weapon. 
The Tech Nerd will take a look at your current marketing plan and give you some real time profit boosting advice…so you can stop stressing about your marketing and start seeing more money in your checking account.

About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 12 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

Thanks for Listening!

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Matthew Johnson, Butler Men's Basketball Strength and Conditioning Coach

We spoke about:

• Philosophy about working with basketball athletes
• Sport specific training and needs analysis for basketball
• Train big ranges before big weights
• How he is programming single leg training
• Understanding the foot

• Technology used at Butler

• much more

We spoke about:

• Forum thread Falling of the horse drills for equestrian athletes
  
• Forum thread Coaches that use the Foam Roll 
  

• Forum thread about Gary Taubes article how Calories in vs Calories out is tragically flawed

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Vince discusses "How much should you charge for small group training?"

If you need some help with your marketing head over to www.kissmarketing.net to book a FREE coaching call with Will “The Tech Nerd” Matheson…Also known as…Vince Gabriele’s secret marketing weapon. 
The Tech Nerd will take a look at your current marketing plan and give you some real time profit boosting advice…so you can stop stressing about your marketing and start seeing more money in your checking account.

Jenny is on to speak about "Best practices when it comes to communicating your value to others. This might be when you're talking to potential new clients, interviewing for a job, asking for a promotion, or maybe submitting a proposal to speak at an industry event. We all communicate our value, but is it possible you could do it better?"

Fit to Speak is where Great Coaches Go to be Great Speakers.

Get the PDF that details the skills and steps Jenny spoke about here

About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 12 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

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Vince Gabriele, owner of Gabriele Fitness and founder of Fitness Business University and Kiss Marketing 
Creator of the Free Masterclass for Gym Owners: "How To Get Your Next 20 Small Group Personal Training Clients in 30 Days.."

We spoke about:

• The case for Small Group Personal Training
• One-on-One has made a comeback, should we think about adding it as a service?
• Mis-information out there about marketing for Small Group Personal Training
• The best way to market Small Group Personal Training
• Market to message match
• Who Do You Want to Be the Hero To?
• The 6-Week New Client Surge
• His Free Masterclass for Gym Owners: "How To Get Your Next 20 Small Group Personal Training Clients in 30 Days.."

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Nicole Rodriguez, physical development coach currently supporting youth academies and organizations in Poland, Slovakia, and Czechia.
Former MBSC and EXOS Performance Coach

We spoke about:

• They WHY? behind her move back to working with young athletes
• The stages of the young athlete's development
  • Foundation
  • Development 
  • Performance
• Peak Height Velocity- what is it and how can we measure it
• Key Physical Development Qualities
• The reality of working with kids who Specialize Early
• Windows of Trainability
• much more

We spoke about:

• Methods of measuring client strength
• Recovery
• Lifting on game day

Vince discusses "If I was starting a gym from scratch this is what I’d do…"

If you need some help with your marketing head over to www.kissmarketing.net to book a FREE coaching call with Will “The Tech Nerd” Matheson…Also known as…Vince Gabriele’s secret marketing weapon. 
The Tech Nerd will take a look at your current marketing plan and give you some real time profit boosting advice…so you can stop stressing about your marketing and start seeing more money in your checking account.

Brendon Rearick finishes the series "Why new coaches should "Stick to the Recipe, Part 3". 

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About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 14 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

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Chris Ritter, CEO of RITTER Sports Performance and creator SURGE Strength Dryland Certification

We spoke about:

• Needs analysis for swimmers
• What are the most prominent injuries
• Assessment & Testing
• uniqueness of swimmers compared to other athletes
• history of strength training in the sport

• Online training, serving a niche and building a business

• SURGE Strength Dryland Certification (SSDC) (Enrollment for the latest cert ends Tuesday, Sept 14th)
• much more

We spoke about:

• His video on Transverse Chops
• His article Poor Mans Sprint Training or, Feeding the Cats When You Have No Money
• Putting Yourself Out There

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Vince discusses "A referral idea that really works"

If you need some help with your marketing head over to www.kissmarketing.net to book a FREE coaching call with Will “The Tech Nerd” Matheson…Also known as…Vince Gabriele’s secret marketing weapon. 
The Tech Nerd will take a look at your current marketing plan and give you some real time profit boosting advice…so you can stop stressing about your marketing and start seeing more money in your checking account.

Jenny is on to speak about "Practical advice on asking better questions. She'll talk about what qualifies as a good question, three specific things you can do to improve your questions, and then she'll introduce you to a simple framework you can follow to make sure your questions get answered when you ask them."

Fit to Speak is where Great Coaches Go to be Great Speakers.

Get the PDF that details the skills and steps Jenny spoke about here

About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 12 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

Thanks for Listening!