The Lion's Mane Podcast
by White Lion Performance
TLMP breaks down the science of winning in high performance sport - especially soccer. Expert guests join Julia - chief at White Lion Performance - to share stories and make complicated themes simple and adaptable for players and practitioners alike. Topics include neuroscience, sport psychology, rehabilitation and injury, strength and conditioning, coaching, personal development, and more. There are no secrets.English episodes release on Fridays.Folgen auf Deutsch werden einmal im Monat erscheinen.IG: @whitelionperformance
Episodes
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Developing Young Athletes for the Long Game w/ Britt Wiebe
Coach Britt Wiebe joins us today to school us about training with a long-term focus. She explains the developmental league system within American baseball, and we compare structures and training approaches between US Baseball and EU Soccer. For anyone who has ever worked, played, or wished...
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51. The Process w/ Vanessa Kara
Vanessa Kara is a professional soccer player for Racing Louisville FC in the NWSL. Today she shares her process, and why THAT was the purpose for her, not necessarily the outcome. Through multiple major injuries, playing at two D1 schools, her three shots at the NWSL, playing in Europe, and many...
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50. Swing Like You Mean It w/ Bill Miller
In this episode, Bill Miller coaches us up on the importance of training rotation in and out of the gym. But it is not just about the rotation itself; it's about intensity, velocity, energy running through the kinetic chain, and teaching some body parts to rotate together while others must remain...
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49. Working In Sport When You Aren't Straight, White, or Male w/ Lorena Sumser
Let's talk about sexism, homophobia, and racism in sport! Many people like to gesticulate toward America and believe that only they can be so blatantly discriminatory - that would never happen in Germany! Right...? Wrong! Let's talk about the "women's jobs" in pro sports, what coaches and…
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7.D Schwangerschaft, Muttersein & die Leistung w/ Paulina Ioannidou
Paulina ist Physiotherapeutin, Athletiktrainerin, Profi-Sportlerin und Mutter. Wir reden heute über die Entscheidungsprozess, Schwangerschaft, Mutterschaft, und warum es nicht nur 9 Monate dauert! Du kannst Paulina Online via Instagram und per Homepage finden.
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48. Stress, Drugs, & Food Being Delicious w/ Ashley Pardo
Ashley Pardo is NOT a dietician; she's a nutritional therapist with a life's worth of experience with food struggles, food's deliciousness, and food's freedom. She gives us the insider look at what is going on behind our societal and personal relationships with food, and how, by giving up our…
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47. Foot Stuff w/ Conor Harris
This is a foot-friendly podcast!!! For most of us, our feet play major roles in how we play our sport. So... how do we treat them like they are important? Luckily, Conor Harris is here to save the day (again) and share his expert movement science knowledge about the function of the feet, tips for...
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46. Load Management Is Not A Buzzword w/ Josh Mitise Smith
Josh Smith works as a strength & conditioning coach and, well, pretty much everything else to professional athletes in Adelaide, Australia. He is also a performance consultant for professional teams and owns all things Mitise Fitness & Health, his own training facility. Josh joins us today to…
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6.D. Belastungssteuerung & der weibliche Zyklus mit Jan Schröder
Let's talk about periods!!! Jan Schröder ist Physiotherapeut und Athletiktrainer bei TCP Concept und Team Canada Snowboarding. Dieses Gespräch geht um das Thema Belastungssteuerung und ob/wie Athlete Monitoring für weibliche Athletinnen anders und angepasst sein soll. My apologies for my terrible...
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45. Is It Science or Marketing? w/ Joe Aratari
Let's talk about Shiny New Object Syndrome and why we love that NEWNEW because it saves us time or energy. Coach Joe Aratari gives us some tips on how to detect what's real and what's just great marketing around an average idea (or service). Let's go! Follow Joe on Twitter and Instagram!
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44. Zooming Out To Zoom In w/ Josel Mateo
Today our key words are "specificity" and "transfer", and soccer strength coach Josel Mateo tells us exactly what those mean in training, in sport, and in life. This episode is packed with actionable steps to help you execute toward becoming a high performer - on the pitch and beyond. Follow…
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5.D. Mythen in der Physiotherapie mit Stefan Dall
Noch eine deutsche Folge! Ja, ich kann es auch nicht glauben, aber here we are. Heute kam Stefan Dall, Physiotherapeut und Athletiktrainer aus Göttingen, vorbei und zeigt uns, wieviel wir falsch verstanden haben! Es geht um das Thema Mythen in der Physiotherapie und Gesundheits-/Sportbranche. Was...
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43. Athlete Advocacy w/ Samuel Cook III
Samuel J. Cook III is a track coach, FitPro, Oly weightlifter, and extremely passionate about criminal justice reform. He joins us on the show today, rounding out 2020 with one last episode, to discuss how politics belongs in sports because athletes are people who do sports, and how to mirror our...
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42. Consistency, Recovery & Coach-Athlete Relationships w/ Alex Ng
This week, Alex Ng, CSCS joins us to talk about fatigue, true recovery, the balancing act of college sport, and how to develop trust in the coach-athlete relationship in a healthy and meaningful way. He is currently the assistant coach of Indiana's Women's Soccer program, as well as a club coach,...
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41. Nutrition Myth-Busting w/ Jaimee Cooper, RD
Today, registered dietician Jaimee Cooper joins us to bust all the nutrition myths we thought were real and actually hinder our performance. She helps soccer players fuel themselves properly, upgrade their confidence, and boost their performance and their lives through better relationships with...
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40. Speed & Energy System Development w/ Erskine Baker
Coach Erskine Baker joins us today from Essen, Germany to talk all things sprinting, endurance, and long-term athletic development. This is an episode that has been asked for by our community quite often, so get out your notebooks and pens! Erskine Online: Website Instagram
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39. Learning To Move (Better) w/ Michelle Cordero Cuevas
Move well! That's the topic of the day. Everything about movement: how to do it, when to do it, why we need to get better at it, why we maybe aren't as good at it as we think, how playing multiple sports and training in the gym can help us learn movement, and why movement professionals like to...
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38. Busting S&C Myths w/ Kendall Green
Welcome back! As Halloween is, like, tomorrow, let's do some bust some ghosts and myths of strength coaches passed... out with the old ideas and in with the new! Coach Kendall Green takes on some of the Fake News of strength and conditioning, from "lifting is bad" to "only lift heavy", to "do…
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4.D. "Schmerzen gehabt?" Neurowissenschaft + Reha w/ Pat Preilowski
Sportwissenschaft trifft Neurowissenschaft! Pat Preilowski ist SpoWi + Doktorand an der Universität zu Köln, auch selbständig mit OutOfTheBox unterwegs. Heute erklärt er uns, wie Schmerzen im Gehirn wirken und warum das Nervensystem für die Rehabilitation wichtig ist. Egal, ob du Athlet*in,...
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37. Recovery For Poor People w/ Arianna Hoffman
Let's talk about how to recover without paying tons of money for all of the massages and compression boots and therapy guns!! Do you really need needles in your neck? Do you really need that spiked roller? Arianna Hoffman clears up the basics of recovery for us in this episode and, she says, the...
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36. "How do we return to performance after lockdown?"
Guys! Most of us are post-lockdown, as gyms begin to open up and sport organizations make clear that competitions will start again now or soon. So how do we return to play? How should we train, after having literal months of limited workouts and resources? Let's discuss. Online Off-Season Camp...
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35. "What do we do about racism in sport?"
If you have been living under a rock or hesitating about "getting involved", remember that this is not a time for silence and indifference. For those of us involved in sport, we have been called to a unique table, to which we need to bring the issue of racial biases and the system of suppression....
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34. "How should athletes approach food?" w/ Bri Collette
How should athletes fuel themselves? We discuss this often in more critical terms, talking about "diets" and "food as fuel". But is nutrition supposed to be approached with the same "just-do-it", data-based attitude as training and performance? Bri Collette (IG: @nutritionist.bri) is a registered...
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33. "Can you bust some rehab myths for us?" w/ Dr. Rena Eleázar
What training and rehab myths do you believe? You might not even know - so you'd better listen! Dr. Rena Eleázar, a physical therapist based in New York, breaks down what things we "need to let go" and gives us the whole truth based in science. And then we talk about music! Find Rena: On…
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32. "How can we develop an Elite Mentality?"
Another solo podcast! Let's talk about neuroscience and sport psychology, and how we can build a toolbox full of mental skills, even in times of pandemic. Announcements mentioned in episode: - Mission:Off-Season Program:...
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3.D. Deload oder Detraining? mit Simon Gavanda
Nach Monaten gibt es endlich wieder eine Folge auf Deutsch! Heute erklärt Simon Gavanda (Doktorand an der DSHS Köln & IST Düsseldorf, IG: @Saimen93) warum Deloading wichtig ist, was ist Detraining, Erholung, wann und wie man Kraft und Schnelligkeit verliert und wie man Detraining vermeiden kann.
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31. "How should players train right now?"
Helloooo! It's Solo Episode Time!! Let's talk about how soccer players (and competitive athletes) should be training at home/in self-isolation right now in order to prepare for a (hopefully) post-Corona season. What should we do in the meantime? Let me lay it out for you.
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30. "What are the fitness needs of goalkeepers?" w/ Jesse Goleman
This week, goalkeeper coach Jesse Goleman (IG: @goleline) joins us to discuss the strength and conditioning qualities needed to be an elite keeper. We talk about what kind of conditioning is appropriate for keepers, how to train mobility, strength, and speed appropriately, when and how to get...
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29. "Do 'sport' and 'mental health' work together?" w/ Ramon Diaz
Today we are joined by Ramon Diaz, a soon-to-be clinical sport psychologist, to talk about mental health concerns (athlete identity, coping mechanisms, perfectionism, self-efficacy) in sport and the outlook of youth and collegiate sport in 10 years time. He also provides some valuable insight…
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28. "What's the big deal about concussions?" w/ Jessica Coenen
Let's talk about brain trauma. Jessica Coenen is a sport scientist and sports medicine doctoral candidate at the University of Paderborn, Germany, where she studies the neuroscience behind concussion. She tells us about concussions, CTE (not the same!), symptoms, protocols, returning to play, and...
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27. "How does injury Return-To-Play work?" Part Two w/ Nicole Surdyka
Dr. Nicole Surdyka (pronounced Surdih-kuh!, IG: @dr.nicolept) is a sports physical therapist based in Los Angeles area, California. She is what I call the queen of rehabbing knees & ankles! In Part Two of this episode, she breaks down the ins and outs of returning to play, from the moment an...
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26. "How does mindfulness improve performance?" w/ Paul Schlütter
Paul Schlütter (IG: @fundamentalkraft), powerlifting coach and sport psychologist from Leipzig, joins us to talk about mindfulness, meditation, acceptance, and attention, and how practicing those components contribute to improving sport performance AND life. Paul's Mindfulness eBook (German):...
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Mane Meditation #10: Your Breath
Welcome to Mane Meditation #9, a daily dose of guided mindfulness meditation to get us through the COVID-19 Quarantine period. I invite you to relax, sit back, and practice the skill of attention, non-judgement, and awareness with me for five minutes a day.
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Mane Meditation #8: Saying "Yes"
Welcome to Mane Meditation #8, a daily dose of guided mindfulness meditation to get us through the COVID-19 Quarantine period. I invite you to relax, sit back, and practice the skill of attention, non-judgement, and awareness with me for five minutes a day.
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Mane Meditation #7: Gratitude
Welcome to Mane Meditation #7, a daily dose of guided mindfulness meditation to get us through the COVID-19 Quarantine period. I invite you to relax, sit back, and practice the skill of attention, non-judgement, and awareness with me for five minutes a day.
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Mane Meditation #6: Wishing Peace For Others
Welcome to Mane Meditation #6, a daily dose of guided mindfulness meditation to get us through the COVID-19 Quarantine period. I invite you to relax, sit back, and practice the skill of attention, non-judgement, and awareness with me for five minutes a day.
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Mane Meditation #5: Anchoring Yourself
Welcome to Mane Meditation #5, a daily dose of guided mindfulness meditation to get us through the COVID-19 Quarantine period. I invite you to relax, sit back, and practice the skill of attention, non-judgement, and awareness with me for five minutes a day.
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Mane Meditation #4: Creating A Happy Place
Welcome to Mane Meditation #4, a daily dose of guided mindfulness meditation to get us through the COVID-19 Quarantine period. I invite you to relax, sit back, and practice the skill of attention, non-judgement, and awareness with me for five minutes a day.
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Mane Meditation #3: Releasing Body Tension
Welcome to Mane Meditation #3, a daily dose of guided mindfulness meditation to get us through the COVID-19 Quarantine period. I invite you to relax, sit back, and practice the skill of attention, non-judgement, and awareness with me for five minutes a day.
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25. "How do we create a great team culture?" w/ Colton Bryant
Coach Colton Bryant (Twitter: @CoachColton) is the program director and head coach of Columbia State Women's Soccer in Tennessee, and he joins us today to talk about team culture, individual values, questions to ask when you are being recruited, qualities that coaches/programs look for in…
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Mane Meditation #2: Focusing Inside & Out
Welcome to Mane Meditation #2, a daily dose of guided mindfulness meditation to get us through the COVID-19 Quarantine period. I invite you to relax, sit back, and practice the skill of attention, non-judgement, and awareness with me for five minutes a day.
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Mane Meditation #1: Breathing & Calmness
Welcome to Mane Meditation #1, a daily dose of guided mindfulness meditation to get us through the COVID-19 Quarantine period. I invite you to relax, sit back, and practice the skill of attention, non-judgement, and awareness with me for five minutes a day.
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24. "How does injury Return-To-Play work?" Part One w/ Nicole Surdyka
Dr. Nicole Surdyka (pronounced Surdih-kuh!, IG: @dr.nicolept) is a sports physical therapist based in Los Angeles area, California. She is what I call the queen of rehabbing knees & ankles! In this episode and the Part Two to follow, she breaks down the ins and outs of returning to play, from the...
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23. "How do the pros really train?" w/ Ivi Casagrande
Coach Ivi Casagrande of the Orlando Pride (NWSL, USA) joins us today to explain how the pros train. What is their annual schedule?What is it like to train half of the USWNT every day? How do they train in the off-season? What is the biggest difference between college and pro ball? What about…
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22. "How should we train youth soccer players?" Part Two w/ Dave Gleason & Erica Suter
Welcome back - Season 2 & the first TLMP episode of 2020! Today we wrap up our round-table with Part Two on youth soccer training. If you haven't heard that episode yet, go check it out (Ep 21). Coaches Dave Gleason (IG: @CoachDaveGleason) and Erica Suter (@FitSoccerQueen) hop on to lay out the...
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21. "How should we train youth soccer players?" Part One w/ Dave Gleason & Erica Suter
Today I am joined by two incredible coaches to break down the topic of youth soccer training, making this TLMP's first round-table episode! Coaches Dave Gleason (IG: @CoachDaveGleason) and Erica Suter (@FitSoccerQueen) hop on to lay out the blueprint for training youth athletes and answer some...
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20. "What's the brain got to do with performance?" w/ Gina Kappes
Gina Kappes (IG: @g.r.i.t._athletics) is a performance coach based out of Mannheim, Germany. She breaks down for us applied neurology and the integration of the brain and the nervous system into performance training, and why things like our eyes matter. As Gina says, "look beyond the ordinary"!
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19. "What are the habits of high performing athletes?" w/ Kaylan Marckese
Kaylan Marckese (IG: @kaylan_marckese) is a technical goalkeeping coaching at The Keeper Institute in NJ. Having played at the collegiate, professional, and youth national team levels, she shares with us in this episode how habits change as an athlete develops and climbs the competitive ladder…
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18. "What components make a faster player?" w/ Henry Delaney
Henry Delaney (IG: @trainnorthwest) is a strength and speed coach in Coos Bay, Oregon. He's the owner and head coach of Northwest Fitness, a sports performance facility that consults with NCAA athletes/programs, MLB & NFL teams, and more. He breaks down the components of speed in soccer…
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17. "How can we build a Mental Skills Toolbox?" w/ Christiana Ogunsami
Today we are joined by Christiana Ogunsami (IG: @ludacris32), a technical goalkeeper coach at The Keeper Institute, to talk about mental skills training. We dive into the psychology of fear and stress, the physiology of breathing and mindfulness, and practical tools for managing fear, stress,...
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TLMP breaks down the science of winning in high performance sport - especially soccer. Expert guests join Julia - chief at White Lion Performance - to share stories and make complicated themes simple and adaptable for players and practitioners alike. Topics include neuroscience, sport psychology, rehabilitation and injury, strength and conditioning, coaching, personal development, and more. There are no secrets.English episodes release on Fridays.Folgen auf Deutsch werden einmal im Monat erscheinen.IG: @whitelionperformance
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