Episodes
Wednesday Sep 26, 2018
IGCT Episode #279: Simon Taylor & Steve Nightingale "Smile In The Face of Adversity"
Wednesday Sep 26, 2018
Wednesday Sep 26, 2018
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Simon Taylor – UK high performance tennis centre in London, moved to Canada in 2011. Lead S&C coach and Director of Education at Twist Performance in Vancouver for 5 years prior to China.
Then multiple national teams, primarily Table tennis and Weightlifting prior to Rio Olympics in 2016. Helped Ding Ning to gold and Shi Zhi Yong to gold. Then moved to figure skating for 2 seasons and helped Sui Wenjing ad Han Cong to Olympic silver, they narrowly missed out on gold by less than 0.5 points.
Currently Simon was chosen by the COC to head up the new division called Team China, which is the all of the foreign support staff working with Olympic national teams.
Steve Nightingale - Following his graduation from University of Bedfordshire in 2009, Steve started teaching in a college in the UK, whilst also working with a semi-professional rugby team, and running private training in an MMA gym. In 2012, following the completion of his Masters degree in Strength and Conditioning (at Middlesex University, London), he moved to South Essex College to continue teaching, and at the same time took on the role of Head of Strength and Conditioning for the English Ice Hockey Association. During this time, he published several papers in Journal of Strength and Conditioning, Strength and Conditioning Journal, and the UKSCA Professional Strength and Conditioning Journal, as well as providing S&C and sports science support to the professional ice hockey team Coventry Blaze.
In 2016, Steve was recruited by the Chinese Olympic Committee to work as the strength and conditioning coach for the female ice hockey program, and followed this with supporting the Chinese National Short Track Speed Skating team in the build up to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Following the Games, Steve was appointed as Assistant Director of Sports Performance Services of Team China, a Chinese Olympic Committee project designed to standardise and improve the provision of performance services to the Olympic sports teams. Steve is a council member on the NSCA Hockey Special Interest Group, and in 2018 he worked with Adam Douglas (York University/Hockey Canada) to contribute a chapter to the Routledge Handbook of Strength and Conditioning.
In This Episode We Discuss:
What experience in his journey impacted him the most, and Why.
Biggest mistake he has made and how he learned from it.
Misconceptions and truths about coaching in China.
Working within a different culture.
Program design for the Olympic Quad athlete.
Managing your ego when working with elite athletes and coaches.
Best piece of coaching advice he has ever received.
His favorite quote, Book/App/Website recommendation.
Wednesday Sep 19, 2018
IGCT Episode #278: Noel Durfey "Not Everyone Loves It As Much"
Wednesday Sep 19, 2018
Wednesday Sep 19, 2018
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Noel Durfey joined the Duke staff in January of 2008 and serves as Head Football Strength & Conditioning Coach. Durfey came to Duke after working the previous seven years at the University of Mississippi including the last three as the Rebels’ Coordinator of Strength & Conditioning.
With the Rebels, Durfey worked primarily with the football and baseball programs while helping direct the staff’s efforts with all 18 varsity sports. The Ole Miss baseball team made appearances in the NCAA Tournament in six of Durfey’s seven years in Oxford.
Prior to working at Ole Miss, Durfey served stints at Tennessee (1996-98), BYU (1998-99) and James Madison (2000). As a graduate assistant at Tennessee, he helped with the football program along with swimming and diving, basketball and track and field. At BYU, Durfey assisted with the football team while working with the baseball and men’s basketball squads. He worked with the baseball, women’s tennis and men’s swimming and diving programs during his one year at James Madison.
Durfey lettered two seasons in baseball at Lincoln Memorial University before graduating in 1988 with a degree in physical education. He later earned a master’s degree in sport administration from the University of Tennessee in 1998. A native of Lambertville, Mich.,
Durfey is married to the former Kelly Jones of Knoxville, Tenn., and the couple has two daughters, Savannah Beth and Olivia Grace.
In This Episode We Discuss:
What experience in his journey impacted him the most, and Why.
Biggest mistake he has made and how he learned from it.
Inseason training for College Football
Challenges of working at a prestigious academic school.
Staying connected to your athletes outside of the four walls of the weight room.
Best piece of coaching advice he has ever received.
His favorite quote, Book/App/Website recommendation.
Wednesday Sep 12, 2018
IGCT Episode #277: Pete McLean "No Quick Fixes"
Wednesday Sep 12, 2018
Wednesday Sep 12, 2018
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Pete has been coaching athletic performance and strength and conditioning for 30 yrs Masters degree in Clinical Exercise physiology (1984) Began playing Rugby in college and continued playing men's premier level club rugby for 25 years - instrumental in developing my curiosity in athletic performance Started career in the commercial fitness industry - Worked in numerous health and fitness clubs, this is where i began to develop my training philosophy Worked as performance director for 5 Star Basketball camps for 10 yrs Began developing and running speed camps for college and high school athletes in the early 90’s
Started Speed Wins in 1994 - a speed development program focused primarily on high school athletes. We traveled around the country directing 3 day speed camps for sports clubs and high school sports programs Began coaching Track at Ridgefield High School and soon after began coaching Football also.
In 2000 the coaches and booster club at Ridgefield High School cited a need to implement a full fledged strength program so we designed a facility, raised the funds to purchase the equipment and built the Tiger Hollow Strength and conditioning center. It has expanded twice over the last 17 years and we have upgraded our equipment a few times over our evolution. We started the program with about 10 football athletes, now we work with all of the varsity teams and coach about 300 kids per season.
Certs - NSCA CSCS, American College of Sports Medicine: Exercise Specialist, CPT w/ enhanced qualifications, USA Weightlifting: Club Coach USA Rugby, level 300, World Rugby Level 200 cert.
In This Episode We Discuss:
What experience in his journey impacted him the most, and Why.
Biggest mistake he has made and how he learned from it.
Long Term Athletic Development.
Speed and movement development for High School athletes.
How to help your athletes with the recruiting process.
Best piece of coaching advice he has ever received.
His favorite quote, Book/App/Website recommendation.
Wednesday Sep 05, 2018
IGCT Episode #276: Derek Hansen "Solve The Problem"
Wednesday Sep 05, 2018
Wednesday Sep 05, 2018
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Gym Aware - https://kinetic.com.au/gymaware.html
Woodway - http://www.woodway.com/
Versa Pulley - http://versaclimber.com/vp-versapulley/
Derek is an International Sport Performance Consultant that has been working with athletes all ages and abilities in speed, strength and power sports since 1988. His coaching career started in Track and Field, providing instruction to sprinters of all ages eventually working with collegiate sprinters, hurdlers and jumpers. His career evolved rapidly working closely with some of the top performers in the world as a coach and a consultant – including Olympic medalists, world record holders, Canadian National team athletes, and professional athletes from numerous sports. He worked as the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for Simon Fraser University for 14 years, the first non-US member of the NCAA. He also serves as a performance consultant to numerous professional teams in the NFL, NBA, MLS and NHL, as well as major NCAA Division 1 programs throughout North America, specializing in speed development, strategic performance planning, return-to-competition protocols and neuromuscular electrical stimulation programming. Derek is asked to speak on speed development and high performance training on a regular basis for major events around the world and has also authored a number of books, chapters and journal articles on these subjects.
In This Episode We Discuss:
What experience in his journey impacted him the most, and Why.
Biggest mistake he has made and how he learned from it.
Understanding Signal and Noise.
Role of a consultant, and how to not get thrown out of a room.
How and Why he has chosen to give back to the S&C community.
Best piece of coaching advice he has ever received.
His favorite quote, Book/App/Website recommendation.