Episodes
Wednesday Sep 24, 2014
IGCT Episode #71: Chip Smith - "Want Me To Love You, Love My Kids"
Wednesday Sep 24, 2014
Wednesday Sep 24, 2014
For Show Notes and Coach McKeefery's Website - http://www.RonMcKeefery.com
Now Available on iTunes http://bit.ly/1bPlMei
Strength On Demand - Archive of Strength and Conditioning Clinic Presentations http://www.Strength-OnDemand.com
Strength Coach Basic Training - Online Internship Program http://www.StrengthCoachBasicTraining.com
Founder of Chip Smith Performance Systems, Chip is recognized as one of the foremost speed and strength experts in the United States. Chip holds a BS in physical education from Liberty University. He did post-graduate work in speed and strength at the world-renowned Soviet Sports Institute in Moscow. He holds a masters of sports science certification from ISSA. Other certifications include: exercise specialist from Cooper’s Aerobic Institute. Chip also holds a Master's of Sports Performance certification from MORR. He also spent three years as the speed coach with Phil Niekro's Silver Bullets. Chip was one of only three Master Trainers in the U.S. for SPARQ and Nike and was a Nike coach for four years, a UnderArmour coach for eight years and sponsored by adidas for the past four years. Chip has trained over 300 NFL players currently on rosters, and has trained over 1400 players who have signed pro contracts. Chip does combine preparation for scores of players selected each year in the NFL Draft and has trained over 40 first round draft picks. Chip’s clients include four Heisman Trophy winners. Other award recipients under his tutelage include: Outland Trophy, 60 All-Americans, Bronko Nagurski, Doak Walker, four Biletnikoff award winners, three Dave Remington award winners, Johnny Unitas, Walter Payton, and Jim Thorpe award winners. Chip has trained over seventy Pro Bowl players, one NFL Comeback Player of the Year, two Defensive Rookies of the Year, and most recently, the 2005 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, Brian Urlacher, of the Chicago Bears, 2009 Defensive Player of the Year, James Harrison of the World Champion, Pittsburg Steelers and 2011 Defensive Player of the Year, Jared Allen of the Minnesota Vikings. Clients who have trained with Chip include: Jeff Franceour, Golden Glove Winner and right fielder with the San Francisco Giants and Michael Barrett, Silver Slugger Award Winner and catcher with the Toronto Blue Jays. Chip just finished a two year contract where he oversaw 14 Chinese Olympic Teams and most recently returned from Beijing where he trained 41 Olympic medalists including 21 Gold medalists from the 2008 summer Olympic games and 30 medalist including 20 Gold medalist from the 2012 London Olympics. Chip spent time in Liberia, Africa training their Olympic athletes and has been a consultant to other countries as well. He is a long time member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association, NFL Alumni Association, and trainer to many current NFL, NBA , Olympians, MLS and MLB stars. Chip was the Director of Athletics at the prestigious Atlanta Athletic Club for 12 years, during which time the club was 4 times voted the number one athletic club in America by Newsweek Magazine. Chip is an accomplished author who has been published in numerous trade periodicals. Recently published by McGraw-Hill was Chip’s book, Football Training Like the Pros. He is a frequent guest on syndicated and local radio and television sports programs, including ESPN, CNN, NFL, Sirius Radio, and CSS. He is a sought after speaker and a consultant to numerous sports teams. Chip has lectured around the word in China, Germany, Russia, Africa, East Germany and around the US. Chip has developed a national Sports Performance certification called the M.O.R.R. Certification. An accomplished athlete in his own right, Chip was a former collegiate two-sport athlete, playing football and baseball. He was a four time offensive MVP in football and, after 30 years, still holds numerous university rushing and scoring records. Chip was inducted into Liberty University's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2010.
In this episode we discuss:
His journey into the Strength and Conditioning field.
How he blazed his own trail in the Sports Performance business.
What he has learned working with International Athletes.
How he has balanced the family, faith, and profession.
His favorite quote, Book/App/Website recommendation
Wednesday Sep 17, 2014
IGCT Episode #70: Shawn Myszka - The Movement Miyagi
Wednesday Sep 17, 2014
Wednesday Sep 17, 2014
For Show Notes and Coach McKeefery's Website - http://www.RonMcKeefery.com
Now Available on iTunes http://bit.ly/1bPlMei
Strength On Demand - Archive of Strength and Conditioning Clinic Presentations http://www.Strength-OnDemand.com
Strength Coach Basic Training - Online Internship Program http://www.StrengthCoachBasicTraining.com
Shawn Myszka is the Pro Performance Director of Explosive Edge Athletics in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he is entrusted with the personal consulting of countless NFL players who seek him out to take their performance to the limits of their potential. Shawn is a former National-level competitive bodybuilder who has become a sought-after clinician and leader in the field of sport-specific power development, the transfer of training to sport performance, and developing mastery in the movement of athletes at all levels of qualification. At the beginning of 2014, Shawn introduced a new brand into the industry, Movement Mastery (www.optimizemovement.com), which has the purpose of helping training professionals of all kinds to more fully understand the process involved in attaining more optimal movement for athletes in all sporting disciplines. He also runs a football-specific movement blog, Football Beyond the Stats (www.footballbeyondthestats.wordpress.com), in which he breaks down the movement patterns & mechanics of the top performers in the sport plus offers insight regarding training principles for football performance.
In This Episode We Discuss:
His journey into the Strength and Conditioning field.
Objectives and Responsibilities of a Movement Coach.
What a Pre Game Warm Up should look like.
Common movement compensations by elite athletes.
What a typical training session looks like.
The recovery methods he uses with his athletes.
Best piece of coaching advice.
His favorite quote, Book/App/Website recommendation.
Wednesday Sep 10, 2014
IGCT Episode #69: Greg Werner - Champions are Built, Not Born!
Wednesday Sep 10, 2014
Wednesday Sep 10, 2014
For Show Notes and Coach McKeefery's Website - http://www.RonMcKeefery.com
Now Available on iTunes http://bit.ly/1bPlMei
Strength On Demand - Archive of Strength and Conditioning Clinic Presentations http://www.Strength-OnDemand.com
Strength Coach Basic Training - Online Internship Program http://www.StrengthCoachBasicTraining.com
Greg Werner became the Director/Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at James Madison University in 1995 after working as an assistant in the program the previous three years. In addition to coaching at JMU, Werner has been the faculty instructor for the department of Kinesiology's Concepts of Strength & Conditioning course for the past twelve years.
In the past twenty one years at JMU, Werner has helped grow the strength program from one assistant coach with two weight rooms to the current program, which has a director of football strength and conditioning, five assistant coaches, and several interns, with five weight rooms and three multi-purpose/cardio rooms, totaling over 20,000 square feet.
Before JMU, Werner was an assistant and taught classes for one year at the University of The Pacific. Werner received his MS in Exercise Science from JMU, and his BS in Human Performance from Austin Peay State University. Outside of the collegiate ranks, Coach Werner has worked with several NFL, Major League Baseball, Pro Basketball, and Olympic athletes. In 1999, Werner was selected the NSCA, Colonial Athletic Association Professional of the Year. Coach Werner has served as the Strength & Conditioning specialist for the US Olympic Field Hockey team and as the NSCA Virginia State Director. He has also been an active speaker at the CSCCa National Conference, NSCA National Conference and Sport Specific Training Conference, the CSCS Symposium, as well as several other conferences, coach's clinics and camps.
In 2005, Coach Werner received the NSCA's highest distinction of Coach Practitioner. In addition to his coaching and teaching, Werner has published over 24 strength and conditioning articles in various coaching journals and magazines and is the webmaster for the JMU Strength & Conditioning website. Werner is Strength & Conditioning Coach Certified through the CSCCa, is an NSCA CSCS, an ACSM Certified Health/Fitness Instructor, as well as an ISMA Certified Sports Nutrition Consultant.
On top of his dedicated leadership at James Madison University, Coach Werner owns and operates AthElite Strength & Conditioning Academy where he and his staff coach athletes ranging from 7th graders to Pro athletes. Werner is proud of the fact that over twenty of his previous assistants have gone on to become Head strength coaches or top assistants at other institutions.
In this episode we discuss:
His journey into the Strength and Conditioning field.
How he has been able to stay in one place for so long.
Protocols he uses to develop his coaches.
What he thinks it takes to become successful in the field.
His favorite quote, Book/App/Website recommendation
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