Athletic Performance

Your Questions Answered – The Barbell Life 302

It’s time again for another one of my favorite podcasts. I love answering questions that listeners have written in. That way I know that we’re helping people and not just talking into a mic with no one benefitting. We had some great topics to talk about today – on everything from mobility to career advice […]

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Monitoring and Improving Athlete Progress with Dr. Keith Leiting – The Barbell Life 300

Every athlete is different. Every day is a different day of training. Adapting a program to an athlete is crucial. And the best coaches have to be able to push an athlete when the time is right or hold them back if their body just isn’t up to that day’s planned training. Well on today’s

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Lessons from a Career as a Female Strength Coach with Jena Ready – The Barbell Life 299

How many female strength coaches you know? Well prepare to meet one more today – Jena Ready, the head strength and conditioning coach for Wake Forest University’s Women’s Basketball program. She started off coaching Division II sports (which is where she recommends EVERYONE start), so she coached tons of athletes in all sorts of sports.

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New Horizons in Athlete Testing

It’s safe to say that I am coaching some of the strongest young people in America in the areas of Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting, throwing, football, and wrestling. We have: two youth weightlifters who have medaled at the Youth World Championships. multiple American records multiple Pan American Records a powerlifter who has unofficially benched 20 pounds

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Coaching Groups and Avoiding Injury with Paul Oneid – The Barbell Life 297

Paul Oneid has had a long and varied career as a powerlifter, D1 strength coach, and now a functional rehab specialist. So we had a ton to talk about on this podcast! We got into how he’s pursuing a healthy lifestyle as a powerlifter. But we talked a great deal about Paul’s coaching approach and

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Testing Athletes – 1RM, 3RM, or Something Else?

Coach Joe Kenn recently made a post for Dynamic Fitness and Strength regarding testing progress with 1RM (one repetition maximums) versus multi-repetition maximum (3RMs or 5RMs). View this post on Instagram Today’s 60 Second Strength Coach comes from South Bend, IN home of the Fighting Irish ☘️ Tonight’s topic is risk as it pertains to

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