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Krush Performance
by Jeff Krushell
Radio Influence - Digital Audio
Episodes
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Episode #7 of the KRUSH SUMMER SERIES for SPORT PARENTS & COACHES
SLEEP: THE #1 PERFORMANCE PRIORITY Sleep Aids, Caffeine & the Performance Trap If there’s one performance strategy every athlete needs, and every parent and coach needs to understand, it’s sleep. Sleep impacts learning, reaction time, recovery, mood, health and performance… But what happens when…
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Episode 20-38: Appearance and Performance-Enhancing Drugs: What Parents and Coaches Need to Know
What if one of the greatest dangers surrounding performance-enhancing drugs in sport isn’t simply cheating? What if it’s who is using them—and why? PEDs and banned substances aren’t just an elite‑sport problem. They’re a youth‑health, athlete‑safety, and education issue—and the fastest‑growing...
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Episode 20-37: Episode #5 of the KRUSH SUMMER SERIES for SPORT PARENTS & COACHES
The Art of Problem Solving: Helping Athletes Overcome Adversity With MLB’s Midsummer Classic fresh in mind, we’re using baseball as this week’s platform—but this episode is for every sport parent & coach. This week we’re joined by pitching coach and consultant Hector Barrios to unpack one of the...
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Episode 20-36: Episode #4 of the KRUSH SUMMER SERIES for SPORT PARENTS & COACHES
Rethinking Long-Term Athlete Development with Dr. Jean Côté What if one of the most widely accepted models in youth sport needs to evolve? For more than 20 years, Long-Term Athlete Development has helped coaches, parents, and organizations better understand how young athletes grow and develop.…
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Episode 20-35: KRUSH SUMMER SERIES for SPORT PARENTS & COACHES Creating | Coachable Players: Raising Coachable Athletes.
Episode 3: Mental Skills Every Parent, Teacher and Coach Should Master. What if the biggest obstacle to your athlete’s performance isn’t talent, training, effort, or even skill? What if it’s what they’re thinking? This week on the Krush Summer Series, we go back to Krush Favorite, Dr. Jacques...
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Episode 20-34: Episode #2 of the Krush Summer Series for Sport Parents & Coaches
We dive into The Most Misunderstood Currency in Sport – Talent. Is my athlete talented enough? Should they have made the elite team? Are they falling behind? Should they specialize? Did we miss the window? These questions shape youth sport every single day. But what if much of what we believe…
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THE KRUSH SUMMER SERIES: Creating Coachable Players. Raising Coachable Athletes™
A Summer Dedicated to Sport Parents and Coaches Sport has changed. Athletes are competing more. Seasons overlap. Expectations are higher. The pressure feels bigger than ever. And somehow, parents and coaches are expected to navigate it all—with more pressure and less clarity than ever before. How...
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The Season Between Seasons: Why Smart Transitions Create Better Performance
As baseball and summer sports ramp up, hockey and winter sports wind down, for athletes, coaches, and parents there’s one big question: What comes next? The truth? The season between seasons may be the most important season of all. Too often, athletes jump from one jersey to the next without...
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Breaking Limits: The Moments That Changed Sport Forever
The game keeps getting faster. Athletes are Stronger. Players are Better. But, are athletes actually better—or did we get better at building them? In this episode, we unpack the belief breaks and system upgrades that reset what’s possible. From Bannister’s 3:59.4 to the sub‑2 marathon era, from...
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Episode 20-30: Building Baseball: Building the Future of the Game
What does it take to grow a national game and protect athletes’ long term? Krush Favorite, Jason Dickson, CEO of Baseball Canada, joins me to break it down—candidly. We get into the Blue Jays’ unique role as Canada’s team and how their success drives youth registrations, what the WBC and Olympics...
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Episode 20-29: Prodigy- How Elite Performance Is Really Built
Why youth stars rarely become elite adults—and what coaches and parents should do instead. The jury’s in: early youth top performers rarely become top adult performers. This isn’t a talent problem—it’s a development problem. Jeff sits down with Dr. Arne Güllich to unpack his latest research on...
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Episode 20-28: Why Norway Wins | Lessons for Your Athletes + WBC & MLB Spring Storylines
What if the secret to producing great athletes wasn’t early specialization or year-round competition? Today we look at Norway’s Olympic success, why the World Baseball Classic is one of the best events in baseball, and a few early MLB spring training storylines. Norway’s dominance at the Winter...
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Episode 20-27: The Matrix of Sport Performance — Brain‑Based Training
The next era of player development will be shaped by the brain—how it actually works and how we communicate with it. This episode dives into shifting from more drills to smarter inputs the brain can use under pressure. We unpack the move from: · conscious analytics to subconscious recognition, ·...
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Episode 20-25: The New Talent Level—Pushing Human Performance to New Heights
I’ve been glued to the NFL playoffs—some of the best football ever. Same with the NHL Stanley Cup runs (EPIC!), last year’s MLB postseason + World Series (unreal baseball!), NBA, and college sports… Is elite talent hitting a new stratosphere? And what’s fueling it? We dive deep on this week’s…
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Episode 25-24: Krush the Challenge—Keys to Eliminating Worry & Becoming A Performance Warrior
Do you worry? What’s it costing your players + your performance? How do you Krush it and become a true Performance Warrior? Kicking off 2026 with Krush Hall of Famer Jim Fannin, the Coach of Champions. With 50+ years coaching top performers across 60+ industries—including elite athletes, coaches,...
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Episode 25-23: Ethos: The Hidden Force Driving Elite Performance in Sport, Business, and Life
Ethos, the fundamental virtues that drive organizational, team and athlete performance. In sport “Character” is as valued as skill, talent and in game performance. Add “Character” to skill, talent and execution…well now we have something special. So then, what is character? Where does it come…
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Episode 25-22: The Smart Bomb of Performance & Understanding the Nail of Mental Self-Sabotage
When it comes to mental performance, even the best performers face key Pressure Points: · Self-Doubt and Lack of Confidence · Anxiety in Competition and in Life · Distraction & the inability to focus properly How do you overcome these Pressure Points to consistently bring your A-Game? Control the...
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Episode 25-21: The User’s Guide to the Brain & Spark Dr. John Ratey
Is exercise the ultimate catalyst for brain development, learning, and performance? The evidence is clear: exercise and brain performance are intrinsically linked. From resistance training to aerobic workouts, exercise physically transforms our brains, enhances performance and serves as our...
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Episode 25-20: Navigating Your Off-Season Like a Pro
This week on Krush Performance, we dive into essential off-season strategies that every baseball coach, player and parent needs to know. Krusher lays out his step-by-step process so you can plan out the best possible program for your off-season. Off-Season Planning: Discover how to reverse…
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Episode 25-10: Court is in Session As Krusher Makes his Case for Course Correcting Sport
You are the Judge & Jury on this week’s episode of Krush Performance as Krusher Makes his case to course correct sport. With injury rates sky rocketing. Drop out rates at all time highs. Player development falling apart. Krush makes his case for what he believes needs to be done to course correct...
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Episode 25-9: The Greatest Ability in Sport Today
If you were to take a guess on what the greatest ability in sport is today, what would you say? Strength, speed, power? Game sense? Or a skill or a specific talent. Could it be Grit, commitment, determination or complete levels? There is one thing that above all else – one ability or trait that…
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Episode 25-8: Talent & Talent ID
This week, we breakdown the incredible complexity of athlete and talent development and talent ID. We are joined by Sport Scientist, Dr. Joe Baker. How do genetics and environment influence what we become…how good we become, and I ask the question: “Is Talent Real?” If we can get a clear idea of...
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Episode 25-7: Critical Recovery – The Anti Ice Movement
The Number One Priority in Maximizing Athlete and Player Performance is Recovery. Athlete and Player development is all about problem solving. Maximizing performance and future development relies on recovery. Yes, you need quality training, you need quality technical and tactical preparation you...
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Episode 25-6: High Performance Pathways: The Changing Landscape
The high-performance pathway is changing right before our eyes. Past players who had incredible careers might not even get a chance to play in todays sporting landscape. If you are an athlete/player with goals of playing at the highest level of your sport, what does your pathway to the big…
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Episode 25-5: Play Ball – Player Development & Organizational Performance
The timing of this conversation could not be better and if you are involved in the game of baseball in anyway you are going totally appreciate this episode of Krush Performance. Heck, if you are involved in any sport this is an important conversation with so many takeaways. With the Major Legue...
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Episode 25-4: The Pitch – Keeping Our Pitchers Safe
Staying injury-free might be the single most important thing baseball players can do to raise their value. Last year MLB teams paid over $1B to players who could not play. The majority of this was paid out to pitchers who could not throw due to injury. The injury rates are at historical highs at...
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Episode 25-3: Making It – Pathway to the Majors
What does it take to make the Big Leagues? If it were only this simple. There are countless variables, and the pathway may be different for each player but there are a couple of attributes that just might increase your odds of making it. GRIT, determination, hardiness, resilience, coachability,...
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Episode 25-2: The Effort of Elite Performance – Athlete Management & the NBA
In Sport, balancing training, practice and rest and recovery has quickly become one of the most powerful tools in maximizing sport performance. Day to day, week to week, month by month micro and macro programming has changed how we manage our athletes. However, at the developmental and youth…
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Episode 19-1: Ultimate Mental Performance – 2025 Kush Kick Off
Welcome to Season 19 of Krush Performance. This week we kick off 2025 with Krush Hall of Famer: The Zone Coach, Jim Fannin as we break down the Ultimate Mental Performance System. This will be the 12th consecutive year that we launch the New Year talking with Jim and for good reason Jim has spent...
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Episode 18-12: The Holy Grail(s) of Sport Performance
Success in sport starts with one thing…Planning. Athlete Development and Player Performance is exactly like planning a trip and like any trip you need to have a well though out plan. And, if you are going to create a World Class Plan you need to have World Class Information. This week on Krush...
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Episode 18-11: Valuing Talent in Sport
Sport is a commodities market and the #1 commodity in sport is Talent! Its like the Wild West, Guns for Hire and its BIG BUSINESS. You’ve probably hears all about it: The Largest Deal In Professional Sport History. Juan Soto, $765 Million over 15 years. With signing bonus and incentives, he will...
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Episode 18-10: Shut Down: Maximizing Your Off-Season
One of the most important questions in sport today, What to do over your off season? The off season for me is one of the most important periods in an athlete’s annual plan. This is where you train the athlete to be a more coachable player. Annual Planning, it’s a cycle of Athlete & Player […] The...
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Episode 18-9: Culture Trumps Strategy Every Time
Today, you can probably pick out the organizations with great cultures with great accuracy: Kansas City Chiefs – The LA Dodgers – Vegas Knights -Celtics Or Top Schools: Stanford, Penn State, University of California Storied football Franchises: Liverpool, Barcelona FC Real Madrid, Chelea They all...
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Episode 18-8: Attacking Performance: The Lifespan of the Athlete
Every athlete experiences doubt at some point. · Doubt about whether they are playing as well as they could be playing or · Whether they are progressing as fast as they feel they should be or · Whether they are going to be good enough to achieve their goals and objectives. The Good News – […] The...
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Episode 18-7: The Best of the Best & The Toughest of All Time
A Look at Elite & Professional Sport If you are working to compete at a higher level it is Critical that you understand what that higher level of competition looks like. You Have to Know What it Looks Like! This means much more than just watching a game on TV or attending a game or […] The post...
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Episode 18-6: From the Rink to the Boardroom: It’s Okay Not to be Okay
This week on Krush Performance an incredible journey of perseverance, survival, teamwork and problem solving all while performing at the highest levels of Sport and Business. The Outcome: An Incredible Program that I personally believe will change how we work with, support and develop athletes.…
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Episode 18-5: The Essence of Getting Better
What Does it Take to be Great This week on Krush Performance we are going to take a good hard look at talent, the development of talent and ultimately what it really takes to get better at something. It’s a massive discussion with multiple layers and many areas of grey so lets review what we […]...
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Episode 18-4: Creating Performance Environments: How Athletes are the Sum of Their Experiences
How Athletes are the Sum of Their Experiences You are a product of your Environment. Your athletes & players are products of their environments. So, what do we need to do to create a performance environment? Provide Meaningful Experiences! In essence you are the sum of your experiences. You are...
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Episode 18-3: Elite Culture = Elite Performance
What we can learn from Cirque du Soleil How do you survive 400+ performances a year? 400 elite, exacting, sometime dangerous, mindboggling performances a year! How do you not only survive 400+ performances a year but maintain or even improve performance all while staying injury free??? Well,...
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The Best of the Best: How do Great Athletes Happen?
What is happening in sports today? Incredible stuff that’s what. Have you ever wondered where great athletes come from or how they actually happen? What did they do that allowed them to go on to achieve greatness in sport? Coaches, Researchers, Scouts and GM’s have been trying to answer this...
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Power Play: Hockey Talk With The Edmonton Oilers
Welcome to Season 18 of Krush Performance Radio. As the hockey season gets underway and NHL camps open we kick off season 18 of Krush Performance talking hockey with the Medical and Performance Staff of the Edmonton Oilers. Hockey player development is a multifaceted process that requires…
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Episode 24-09: Play Ball – Solving Injuries in Baseball
Play Ball! The baseball season is upon us and as games kick off there is one thing that I can guarantee, Sport Medicine Clinics Coast to Coast will be Flooded with Elbow and Shoulder Injuries. One of the Greatest Issues in Sport Today, The Injury Trends In Baseball. And not just at the…
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Episode 24-08: Spring Break – Are You Ready?
Are you ready for the change? Are you prepared for new sports, the move from indoor to outdoor or transitioning from the snow & cold to the warm weather? With the spring comes a time of transition and you had better be prepared. Look at any of the major sports and you will see a […] The post...
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Episode 24-07: The Long Game
Just how long does it take to become a Top Performer? There is an Ebb and Flow to Athlete Development, its a Long Game and there are No Short Cuts! We know the process of athlete and player development operates on a timeline. Unfortunately, if the timeline becomes skewed and/or corrupt you have…
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Episode 24-06: Sleep Aids – The Dark Truth
“Over the Counter Sleep Aids are Useless for sleep…there is Limited evidence that any of them work…more concerning they are Sedating and Blunt Performance – That’s not what we are looking for in an Athlete..” In this episode, we go back into the Krush Archives to revisit an all important...
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Episode 24-05: Context: For Optimizing Athlete and Player Development
Context is defined as: “the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs.” I use the concept of context all the time in our performance programming and its very important for a number of reasons. When building programs for our athletes I call it Player Context. Player Context is a...
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Episode 24-04: Questions From the Krusher’s & The Greatest Show in Sport
It was predicted that over 110 million people were going to sit down to watch the Super Bowl LVIII. It’s a staggering number – and the very reason companies are willing to pay $7 million to air a 30 second commercial…. probably money well spent in the big picture. Today we dive back into the […]...
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Episode 24-03: The Recovery Game: Athlete Management
In sport there is a fine line between pushing the limits of performance and managing the risks of fatigue, burnout and injury. It’s a balancing act and one that requires short term adjustments and Long-Term planning. Its like a dance, moving smoothly between the rhythms of training and…
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Episode 24-02: Perception
The Krush Theme for 2024 is…Perception….. Perception and our understanding of perception may be the next critical step in pushing human performance forward. I think that perception might be the very fabric on which human performance is weaved. It has implications that go to the very roots of who…
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Episode 24-01: 2024 The Future Awaits
The Number one Challenge people face? When their Goals and Objectives, their Expectations don’t meet up with Reality. That is a BIG Challenge. Its frustrating, disheartening, discouraging…and TOTALLY AVOIDABLE! On this Episode of Krush Performance we usher in 2024 with Krush Hall of Famer: the...
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Radio Influence - Digital Audio
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