Rugby Strength Coach Podcast

For the half century episode of the Rugby Strength Coach podcast I sat down with William Wayland, owner and operator of Powering Through in Chelmsford, Essex. William is a strength [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #50: Training elite fighters with William Wayland appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

Cory Schlesinger is a Sports Performance Coach responsible for the physical preparation of one of the most prestigious college basketball programmes in the world, Stanford. His coaching career also includes [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #49: Stanford Basketball with Cory Schlesinger appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

Ryan Banta is a teacher and track and field coach at Parkway Central High school in Chesterfield Missouri. Ryan is a frequent contributor to well known speed development websites including [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #48: The Sprinter’s Compendium with Ryan Banta appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

Mike Guadango is the owner and operator of Freak Strength, a private training facility based in New Jersey, USA. Mike made his name as an athlete training at Defranco’s Training [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #47: Defranco’s, Buddy Morris and training Chris Hogan with Mike Guadango appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

Chris McCormick is Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at Florida Atlantic University. Though he comes from an academic background of Psychology, Chris is doing work that I have admired for a [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #46: Yessis, Bosch, Dietz and the NCAA with Chris McCormick appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

Tony Holler is a high school chemistry teacher and coach at Plainfield North High School in Illinois, USA. A coach for nearly four decades, Tony specialises in the preparation of [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #45: New school ideas for old school coaches with Tony Holler appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

Brett Bartholomew is a strength coach, author and consultant from Nebraska, USA. Brett made is name as a high performance coach at EXOS (Athletes Performance), where he was responsible for [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #44: Buy-in, conflict, and why a happily married strength coach in his 40s is a myth with Brett Bartholomew appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

Cameron Josse is Head of Performance for the world famous DeFranco’s Training in New Jersey USA. Over the course of a decade, Cameron has worked his way up from being [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #43: DeFranco’s Head of Performance Cameron Josse appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

Introducing the Rugby Strength Coach podcast inbetweenisodes: short pieces where I will tackle any questions I get from readers, athletes or clients, or any other topics which I would like [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast Inbetweenisode: How to train if your time is extremely limited appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

Chris Korfist is a teacher, coach and business owner from Chicago, Illinois. His coaching credentials include producing numerous 10.5 high school 100m sprinters, regular 40 inch verticals and working with [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #42: 40 inch verticals, no Squats, no Olympic lifting with Chris Korfist appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

Tim DiFrancesco, PT, DPT, ATC, CSCS spent 6 seasons as the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach of the Los Angeles Lakers and is the founder of TD Athletes Edge.  He is [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #41: Training Kobe and the Lakers by Tim DiFrancesco appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

Michael Macri is a sport scientist best known for his work with 2014 NRL Champions South Sydney Rabbitohs. In this episode Michael and I discussed his background as an athlete, [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #40: Winning the NRL with Sport Scientist Michael Macri appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

Bob Alejo is the Assistant Athletic Director and Director of Strength and Conditioning at NC State University, one of the most prestigious sporting Universities in the USA. Bob has been [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #39: Oakland A’s “Moneyball” Strength Coach, Bob Alejo appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

Daniel Martinez is a strength coach, consultant and researcher from San Antonio, Texas. Daniel coaches at Trinity University, Texas, where he specialises in physical preparation for volleyball. This also forms [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #38: Navigating the Cynefin Framework with Daniel Martinez appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

Mladen Jovanovic is a strength coach, sport scientist and Phd candidate. He has worked in a variety of elite level sports in countries including Serbia, Sweden, Qatar, Turkey, Australia and [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #37: Sport science, stats & skin in the game with Mladen Jovanovic appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

James Smith is a USA Navy Veteran and SEALs trialist. He has worked alongside Buddy Morris at the University of Pittsburgh Football, as Performance Director of Portugal Rugby, and as [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #36: Mental Toughness is an illusion by James Smith appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

Steve Tashjian is the high performance director of Columbus Crew, the Ohio Major League Soccer franchise. His previous role was as Head of Sport Science for Everton Football Club in [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #35: Creating cultural change in Premiership football with Steve Tashjian appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

Dr Timothy Hewett is a world leader in ACL research. As head of ACL research for the famous Mayo Clinic, he is responsible for furthering knowledge of the mechanisms of [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #34: ACL research specialist Dr. Timothy Hewett appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

Dr JB Morin is one of the world’s leading researchers on sprinting and speed development. In this episode we discuss the topics he investigated when studying for his PhD, notably [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #33: World leading sprinting and speed development researcher, Dr JB Morin appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..

Ryan Horn is a Director of Athletic Performance at Wake Forest University basketball, one of the most prestigious basketball programmes in the NCAA. Ryan has experience of working in multiple [...] CONTINUE READING The post Podcast #32: Learning how to “fill the gaps” with NCAA Div 1 coach Ryan Horn appeared first on The web’s #1 provider of rugby strength and conditioning information..