• Small victories with 1-year-old twins 
• Connecting a BFR study with VBT systems 
• A BFR study with a non-linear undulating periodization program 
• Applying the study during Summer workouts 
• Good results from rehab, how will it benefit healthy athletes? 
• Gavin using the cuffs on himself before implementing them with the team 
• Getting buy-in to change the training style 
• Selling to the Football Coaches, showing results from the rehab guys 
• Returning from Covid with the BFR study 
• How the Season went itself 
• Submitting the study to the NSCA for Presentation 
• Continued implementation of BFR with more Athletes, other sports, longer duration 
• Ways to improve implementation now that the BFR study has validated the idea. 
• Added Competition & Power improvements 
• Expectations for next year 

Recorded May 14, 2021, on Instagram Live

Music: Death From Above 1979, 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'

• The new addition 
• AAPCA - African American Performance Coaches Association 
• Trumain Carroll, Kansas State Football 
• aapca.us 
• Elevating others around us 
• Dr. Pat Ivey, Louisville 
• Getting into the Strength & Conditioning Field 
• Getting a variety of experiences in coaching 
• SaJason's Coaching Journey 
• Playing with the Rattlers, being intentional with training 
• Surprises when moving from player to coach 
• Grow where you're at 
• Tech doesn't tell you everything 
• Being Intentional, understanding your Athletes 
• Starting at WSU right before Covid lockdown 
• Playing offense vs defense at EF meetings 
• Adding features based on our coaches 
• Competition mode starting fights :) 
• The AAPCA Facebook page 

Recorded on Instagram Live March 19th, 2021

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• The Dog-friendly weight room 
• Transitioning from NSCA role to Colorado College 
• Being back in the trenches, @rmckeefery 
• Managing expectations and working with all teams 
• Health & Wellness - preventive vs rehabilitation 
• Strength & Conditioning as a profession 
• Building relationships with the Admin 
• Non-coaching related Podcasts 
• Skiing & backcountry Skiing 
• Dr. Jacked, thanks to @penandpaperstrengthapp 
• Mountain biking 
• Work/life priorities - grinding as a young coach & taking the right opportunities for what you want to pursue 
• The 'Mega-Spring' 
• Future of the NSCA, Strength & Conditioning 

Recorded on Instagram Live on February 19th, 2021

Music: Death From Above 1979, 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It' 

• Christina's background & coaching journey 
• Getting injured as an Athlete without a certified Strength Coach 
• 'You shouldn't get hurt in the Weight Room' 
• Being really good at Excel math 
• https://www.66daysofdata.com/ @KenJee_DS 
• Diving deep to see how data relates to how students are progressing in the weight room, field, and training room 
• Facing the 'Mega-Spring' 
• Identifying KPIs for UDel teams 
• Bringing in technology for subjective data 
• Building a vision for a Data Dashboard 
• Measurables Podcast - https://www.measurablespod.com/podcast 
• Mathletics book - https://www.amazon.com/Mathletics-Gamblers-Enthusiasts-Mathematics-Basketball/dp/0691154589 
• Collegiate recruiting & analytics - 
• Coming up with new material for #66Days - everyone deserves to be highlighted 

Recorded January 29, 2021, on Instagram Live

Music: Death From Above 1979, 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'

• FKT (Fastest Known Times)
• The Kokopelli Trail (140-mile mountain bike trail)
• Why do this event?
• Planning & pacing the race
• Rebecca Rush
• The views & the playlists
• The end of the race
• Hot Tomato Pizza
• Doing the trail again?
• Race Day Fueling plans
• Riding a single-speed & learning to shift
• Setting FKT results
• Dietitians & Nutrition
• Plans for the 2021 Season with @butcherboxracing

Recorded Oct 30th, 2020 on Instagram Live

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• Kurt's Background
• Creating a Strength & Conditioning Major at ONU
• Making sure Strength & Conditioning Coaches are clinically ready
• Sorting through the Jargon
• Improving through Covid
• Bridging the Strength Lab, Athletic Training, and Athletics
• Pat Ivey - Person over Title
• Licenses & Accreditation
• Rick Danison
• Clinical Mentorship
• Being able to talk the science simply enough that people can clearly understand

Music: Death From Above 1979, 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'

Recorded Oct 16, 2020 on Instagram Live

• Handling an entire collegiate program solo 
• Andrea Hudy's Midwest Sports Performance Clinic 
• Teaching programs & clinics with PowerZone 
• @mark_simoneau
• Becoming the Strength Coach of Fort Hays
• Intensity & Passion - driving the culture of a program
• Recruiting to NCAA D-II schools
• Doug's wife is the best
• Returning to Competition
• Training multiple teams & athletes
• #Squatober

Recorded Oct 2, 2020 on Instagram Live

Music: Death From Above 1979, 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'

Shownotes: 

• The Shenandoah 100, a hundred-mile mountain bike race 
• Race strategy - Aerobars & the pros joining old school races 
• Upcoming schedule of Gravel Races 
• Dirty Kanza XL 
• Doing product videos on YouTube 
• Myths about being a cyclist, looking at the science 
• Stretching 
• Videos for beginner cyclists 
• Providing content through YouTube 

Recorded Live on Instagram Sept 18, 2020

Music: Death From Above 1979 'If We Don't Make If We'll Fake It'

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• Transitioning from athlete to coach 
• Late bloomers 
• Using VBT with High School athletes 
• Having an impact on developing student-athletes 
• Mentors shout out: Doug Boucher, Rod Cole, Al Miller 
• Mark's illustrious career as an NFL kicker 
• Getting athletes back to competition 

Recorded on Sept 4th, 2020 on Instagram Live

Music: Death From Above 1979 "If We Don't Fake It We'll Make It"

• Standardizing Student-Athlete welfare 
• What is good science? 
• Why are you doing that? (Having intent) 
• Getting your staff & interns involved in the training process 
• Winning Championships as a judgment for the S&C program 
• Being open to change 
• Moneyball & probability 
• Calling other coaches & managers outside sports to talk & learn 

Music: Death From Above 1979 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'

Recorded on Instagram Live, August 21st, 2020.

• Bringing Student-Athletes back to campus at Louisville 
• Pat's role within the Athletics Department 
• 'The Table' Book & Podcasts: https://pativey.com/podcast/ 
• Being a Leader
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95gP3m-uBHA (Eric B. & Rakim - Follow The Leader)
• Conversations on social issues with Student-Athletes. 
• Breonna Taylor 
• Initiatives being set out by the University 
• Empathy & accessibility 

Recorded on Instagram Live on August 14th, 2020

• Building relationships & acting professionally
• Influences that got Coach Mac into podcasting & writing his book
• Transition to Plae
• Creating multiple streams of income
• Coaching in China & getting outside your bubble
• Being in permanent Beta
• Getting back to gameday
• Incremental Improvements
• Mountain biking & Jui-Jitsu

Record on Instagram Live, July 24th, 2020.

Music: Death From Above 1979 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'

@MrCMar10

Skip & Clint had a super interesting conversation during the EliteForm Cocktail Hour about many things happening in Austin & around the world today. Some topics covered: 

• Bringing athletes back to campus 
• Training options to keep social distance 
• Coaching styles for different athletes 
• Having meaningful conversations about the recent social unrest around the country
• Talking with other staffs around the country 
• Whatever lane you fill, jump into it and keep moving 
• Staying fit while working with athletes 
• Technology in the weight room 
• Evolution of Sports Science & gathering data for training 

Recorded June 12, 2020 on Instagram Live 

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@skip_cronin

• Trying new training programs during isolation
• Golfing, bourbon, and cigars
• Being highly competitive
• Training Basketball players in the weight room
• Getting reps in at IMG Academy
• Interviewing for his newest role... and golfing
• Relationship building & comfort with failing
• the 'Big Hustle Guy' during pickup ball
• Peaky Blinders

Recorded Line on Instagram May 15, 2020

@bradenwelsh

@skip_cronin

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@tommorrisperformance

Tom & Skip got together for a virtual EliteForm Cocktail Hour and had a fun, casual conversation about a little of everything. Topics covered:

• Getting into Adventure Racing
• Training & Preparing for Adventure Races
• 'Investing in Seconds'
• Keeping Athletes & Staff safe on their return to campus (slight connection issues here, but they improve pretty quickly)
• Restarting Soccer in the Fall with under trained Athletes
• Bringing in the right Coaches & Coaching Turnover
• Hand Cycling

Recorded Live on Instagram, May 22, 2020

Music: Death From Above 1979, 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'

• Rehabbing from his own knee surgery so we can go mountain biking again
• Applying 'academia' within the athletic setting
• Establishing buy-in with athletes
• Understanding transfer: Responders vs Non-Responders 
• Testosterone as a biomarker of training
• Having more time to train for the 2021 Olympics
• Being a tinkerer/entrepreneur
• Creating products to fill a gap in the market
• BFR Cuffs & adding beneficial online content 

Social Media: @ChrisGaviglio 

Recorded on May 1, 2020

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@skip_cronin

- The origins of Hawkin Dynamics 

- Designing HD's Force Plates 

- Running and growing a small start-up business 

- Adapting to the pandemic 

- Coaches vs Covid & online education opportunities 

@hawkindynamics

Recorded on April 30th, 2020

Music: DFA 1979 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'

Associate Professor at the Human Performance & Sports Nutrition Lab, Institute of Sports Science & Medicine, Florida State University

@mikeormsbee

For this EliteForm Cocktail Hour, Mike joined Skip live on Instagram to discuss research at the Lab & how it applies to sport teams, training in heat, hydration, and Creatine. Mike also talks about his own training for Triathlons & the 2019 CrossFit Open, along with a host of other topics.

Episode recorded April 24, 2020

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@skip_cronin

@gcainstrength @ru_strong

Glenn joined Skip for Cocktail Hour Live on Instagram. They had a great conversation about how Glenn is training is team remotely, integrating new players from a distance, and Return to Play protocols once student athletes are back on campus. In addition, they dive into cooking and nutrition.

Book Recommendation: Rich Food Poor Food, Mira & Jayson Calton

Recorded April 23, 2020

Music: DFA1979 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'

@skip_cronin

1:40 Enterprise Legal Studio (Bart Dillashaw)

3:20 Ben’s Role at Invest Nebraska

7:10 Dan Hoffman & Matt Foley

10:35 Shark Tank pitching

11:35 The pitching process for Invest NE

14:35 ‘What is this problem you’re trying to solve in the world?’

19:05 Minimally viable product, the MVP

21:10 Categories of investments

24:25 Ocuvera & Steve Kiene

27:20 Covid19’s impact on finance

29:50 Metrics of growth

33:20 The Power Curve

41:05 Funding styles

44:20 Why VCs are okay with companies failing fast

47:45 Being an investor vs being a good investor

51:20 VC in pop culture has been bastardized 

53:40 The data on successful funds

59:20 Competition between funds in small vs larger market

1:02:35 Malort Moment

1:07:35 ‘No one is really good at picking companies’

1:09:00 Kauffman Foundation

1:13:20 Equity in a company defined

1:16:50 The Exit stage

1:32:05 Define Entrepreneur 

1:32:40 Ben’s Gym business

1:34:30 Parks & Rec reference from Skip (drink)

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4:05 John & Bryan’s roles at Brownsburg

5:55 550+ students through the weight room during the school day

6:30 Changing the culture is a commitment by the entire school

7:35 First steps for building a HS culture

10:55 It’s more than just putting in data

13:35 Casey Popenfoose chooses the music

16:25 Getting high school population to find training important

18:45 Rolling Meadows HS, Doug Millsaps

20:35 Bryan Neese getting into Bodybuilding, Highland Games, & World’s Strongest Man

22:30 Breaking Bricks with Jason Quellhorst

23:50 1999 US World's Strongest Man 

24:00 Odde Haugen

24:30 Martins Licis

24:50 Strongman Events then & now

29:20 Chad Coy

30:30 Training for Strongman

33:20 Mastiff Strength Equipment 

35:35 Hugo Girard

36:40 1999 Malta

38:10 Teaching while competing

43:15 One focus, getting you stronger

45:50 Disney

49:30 Brownsburg school system

51:10 Mike Richardson PowerLift

55:55 David Ballou

57:55 Learning to use EF

1:01:00 ‘Boards’ explained

1:06:30 API

1:07:30 Chris Doyle, Iowa

1:09:10 Maintaining workload throughout the season

Music: DFA 1979 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'

@skip_cronin

3:15 Wives are a godsend

4:30 Working at the Univ of Illinois

7:45 Roles within the strength staff

8:30 Interacting with players daily

10:20 Becoming a Strength Coach

13:45 Nate Moe, Chris Doyle, James Dobson

21:00 Malort moment

25:35 Willie’s R&D with EF

35:55 What’s next in sports tech?

37:00 Brad Schmidt podcast

39:05 Max Velocity Training, Catapult

40:15 John Ferranto

4630 CNN Video with Coy Wire

43:50 Progressing the profession & doing right by the Athletes

45:30 Coach Z Keeping Student-Athletes best interest in mind

47:30 ‘There’s a standard that needs to be met... before they like me.’

51:00 Memories of combat drills (Niko)

53:00 Helping players reach their next goal

Music: DFA1979 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'

@skip_cronin

5:30 Playing background & joint replacements

11:15 Watching sports as a father & performance coach 

13:45 NSCA Special Interest Group on Baseball

14:30 Is technology directing the field, or are sports directing the technology?

17:30 Working with KU Basketball

21:30 What drives areas of focus in the lab?

26:40 Dr. Bill Sands

27:15 State of S&C research publications 

37:00 How to get started in the research

45:05 The goal of a sport scientist

50:30 Sabbatical work – Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

52:50 Molecular & cellular responses in muscles to resistance training

57:30 AV Hill

58:45 Enhancing Cognitive Function and Brain Plasticity– Human Kinetics

1:01:05 Measuring the correct data incorrectly

1:05:35 Dr. Chris Bach

1:06:00 Costs & turnaround time of gathering data

1:08:05 Ali Kershner

1:16:20 Glenn Cain & basketball squat strength

1:20:20 Speed testing for baseball 

1:24:50 What question are we trying to answer?

1:25:30 Malort Moment

1:26:15 Dr. Mary Fry, Sports Psychology

1:29:50 Achievement Goal Theory

1:35:40 Dr. Candace Hogue, Penn State Harrisburg

Music: DFA1979 “If We Don’t Make It We’ll Fake It”

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1:20 Motivation

2:30 Chris Bach podcast

3:50 The role of strength coaches within the team

7:40 The YouTube psychology degree 

10:00 Building a department vs entering an established department

12:20 Glenn Cain & Frank Quartucci

13:00 Figure out how to get the most out of the people you have 

14:50 Listening and asking for opinions – giving them something to care about 

20:00 Technology used at Rutgers

25:30 Showing that you can add value for the Sport Coach 

33:00 Dostoevsky & suffering 

40:30 Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl

42:30 Ordinary People

46:50 Introducing new opinions & overcoming resistance

49:00 Progressing in the field

51:00 Being an introvert & being okay with uncomfortable situations

56:00 Malort moment 

58:15 Pregame process

1:03:10 Keep technology inconspicuous - Make it so the guys don’t realize they have technology on

1:06:20 Athlete mindset vs the coaching perspective

1:09:35 Playing cards at the Van Dyke house

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3:45 Jay Thomas 

5:55 Peloton therapy 

7:15 Socially data driven metrics

7:50 Cole Aldrich

10:50 Hypnotherapy 

15:00 Inclusivity & diversity through recruitment

19:35 Connecting with people through Social Media

23:00 Dr Coyle, Human Performance Lab & the Iso-inertial Ergometer Bike 

25:30 Load vs Range of Motion

30:45 Overloading without overworking

35:30 ‘Two Healthy sets per one Performance set’

38:10 Looking at the stat line to focus training in the weight room

39:00 Sparta & Catapult

41:45 Creating value as a Performance Coach

42:35 Decreasing fear of performance

46:00 ‘What do I need to do to play more?’ vs ‘Why am I not playing?’

Music: DFA1979 – ‘If We Don’t Make It We’ll Fake It’
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1:25 Celebrating birthdays

3:30 Competing with US Track & Field; Getting faster & wiser as we age

5:00 Ending 2019 Season ranked #1 in Javelin

7:10 From Gymnastics to Track & Field at Cal State Fullerton

9:20 Benjamin Brown

15:20 4-year-old LaDonna’s first track meet

17:45 Get Movin’ PT

25:55 Donate Blood, play Rugby

28:05 Role at NSCA

30:15 Controversial Take!! ‘I have never had coffee’

33:10 Natural Athletes & the US Anti-Doping Agency

44:30 Reintegration of athletes after a failed drug test

49:30 Saying ‘It’s a blessing that you’re alive’

50:30 Toronto for the World Championships

51:15 Determining how a Conference went from the NSCA perspective

57:15 Future NSCA Conferences

1:01:10 Novel approaches for vendors to make connections with people

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@skip_cronin

2:10 Qualisys motion capture system

5:45 Having array of tools, being able to apply appropriate resource for the situation

9:45 What is a Sport Scientist & Applied Sport Science on a day to day basis

17:25 Base stealing – Profiling the acceleration phase with 1080 Sprint

19:30 Chidi Enyia

29:00 Bucketing athletes into groups to inform specific training

32:20 Collecting video is critical 

38:00 Athletes are not lab rats

41:00 Malort moment, ‘it can’t get any worse’

43:25 Vitor Profeta

43:50 UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

47:00 Snippit Sports Science Podcast with Chris Gaviglio

49:00 Craig Pickering & John Kiely – the ‘omics’ & personalized sports training

56:45 How personal sporting experience puts context to current research & workouts

1:00:10 EF Podcast with Luke Bradford

1:02:30 Being rumble strips for athletes & the team

1:06:00 Firstbeat

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4:30 Leadboat Challenge

8:45 Team Over-analysis (Mark Savery) & prepping for a race at altitude

15:00 Factor Bikes & Champion System

16:20 Israel Cycling Academy & Team Parkhotel Women’s

17:20 Let my People Go Surfing, Yvon Chouinard

20:35 If I can ride my bike with you for an hour, and I enjoy it, we’re probably gonna work pretty good together

21:35 Internal & external customers

23:15 Creating a customer-centric identity

30:00 Shaping the perception of the Factor brand

40:30 Having a broad presence in a small social media community

42:25 TJ Eisenhart

42:45 Eric Marcotte

47:30 Inclusivity in the cycling world - Lindsay Knight, Instafund team

45:50 Bringing inclusivity into the bike shop – different voices make the company better

48:40 Lindsay Goldman

50:20 Events & opportunities in the Midwest

57:50 Evolution of bike production & improving messaging to consumers

59:50 Graham Schrive

1:02:05 DKXL & Land Run Double

5:30 Having something to prepare for physically

7:20 Zach Zillner – you’re working out or training

11:25 Update on Luke’s Role at KU

15:10 It takes an entire staff to get all the work done well

18:50 Sparta Science

19:15 Vert for managing training impact & volume in Volleyball

23:00 Collecting data and communicating with sport coaches

29:55 An intimate, convenient event to share information: ‘The Conference’ May 8th, 2020 

41:00 Moving between assistant to head roles

46:45 Talking about Portable & collaborating for installs

55:40 Improving our software

56:45 Joe Staub never backs down from a challenge 

1:05:50 Microadventures by Allister Humphries

1:08:50 DYK there are 53 fourteeners in Colorado? The corporate wellness brigade does

1:23:00 Kayak adventures & getting more joy out of less

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3:00 Transition to a new Football coaching staff 

10:15 How the environment in the weight room resets every year

12:30 Taking input from sport coaches & and student athletes

18:15 If you’re skipping reps in the weight room, you’re probably gonna take some shortcuts on the field

20:00 Having open dialogue with position coaches & players

28:20 Starting out at a small school, to the NFL, to FBS

35:45 Taking a walk with Mike Barweis

38:50 Staying in touch with guys after they’re done playing

45:05 Healthy ego vs big ego

52:00 Malort moments

54:30 Finishing the season in the weight room

1:03:05 Santi Murtaugh

1:03:45 Salaries & having a passion for what you’re doing

Music: DFA1976 – ‘If We Don’t Make It We’ll Fake It’

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2:30 - Using Firstbeat to monitor training, avoiding getting buried in the data

4:02 – Shout out Donnie Maib & Nate Moe

8:55 – Using Data to categorize drill intensities & get buy in from sport coaches

15:00 – Building larger purchases into new building projects

16:05 – Shout out Andrea Hudy

17:30 – Using force plates for F-V Profiling (partnership with PT & Ex Sci programs on campus – Lee Barker, Jake Siedlik)

18:55 – Athlete Centered Health & Wellness Initiative

Some additional info on the H&W Program at CU

29:50 – Attracting the next generation of student athletes to campus

Brad noted later on that enrollment rate numbers vary depending on the study, some additional info here: 1, 2, 3, 4.

49:45 – Motivate to Avoid Failure vs Motivate to Achieve Success

56:50 – So… Malort

1:03:55 – Improving the hiring process & compensation for full time strength coaches

1:08:10 – Giving coaches more oversight means Increased responsibility on health & safety

1:15:45 – Dr Baechle

1:18:45 – Cal Dietz

1:21:30 – Letting athletes have ownership and the importance of patience in the process

Music: DFA1979 - 'If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It'

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