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Decoding Excellence — 84 episodes

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Data Without Dogma: Rethinking Wearables, Workloads, and Return-to-Play

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Season First Tip, NordBord Testing Insights, Creatine Research, Carb Cycling, and OxeFit Integration

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Legacy, Load, and Lean Gains: Lessons on Coaching, Grit, and Growth

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Building Stronger Women’s Basketball Athletes & Beating Travel Fatigue in College Hoops

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Building Trust, Rethinking Recovery, and the Future of Tech in S&C

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The Blueprint, Preseason Training & Lessons from the Weight Room | Cardio Series

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Pre-Season Conditioning Tests: Aerobic vs. Anaerobic | Cardio Talk

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Why the Beyond Power VOLTRA1 Is My Go-To Tool for Strength, Rehab, and Travel Training

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Behind the Scenes of CU Basketball Summer Training | Cardio Chats

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Hiring the Right Leader in Collegiate Sport Performance: Lessons Learned

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Deep Sleep, Blue Light, and TikTok Regret: A Cardio Talk on Recovery That Actually Works

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Introducing: The Cardio Chats (Unfiltered)

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4 Mindset Shifts Every Former Athlete Needs to Hear

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What I’m Reading, Watching, Buying, Doing, and Listening To

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Optimizing Basketball Performance: Workload Monitoring, Travel Training, and Adaptability

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The Turbulent Times in Collegiate Athletics & Building the Former Athlete Society

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Advice I’d Love to Give Myself 15 Years Ago

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10 Hard Truths for Strength and Conditioning Coaches

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Workload Monitoring Strategies for Basketball

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Isometrics within Athlete Evaluations & Performance Training

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Mini-Episode: Updates from Colorful Colorado

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Science of Sport Vs. Artistry of Coaching

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Sport Science != Smoke and Mirrors: Using Data Within Coaching

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Jim Garofalo - KINEXON Spotlight

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Dan Howells - High Performance Coaching

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Pratik Patel - The Man on Fire

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Leadership Lessons: Business Hallways to the Weight Room Floor

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Velocity Based Training & Performance Application

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sRPE, ACWRs, and EWMAs within Applied Performance Sciences

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Vehicle Version: Personal Improvement During this Challenging Era

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Vehicle Version: Strategies Behind Agile Organizations

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Matthew Johnson

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Monday Minutes: Discussing Strategies to Bring Out Your BEST Self

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Making Sense of Sleep Duration Monitoring

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Performance Titles: Do We Even Have a Clue?

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Fascinating Podcasts, New Communication Tools, and Using Project Management Software

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Readiness Testing, Strength Diagnostics, and Markerless Motion Capture Biomechanical Screening

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Paid vs. Unpaid Internships Within the Strength and Conditioning Industry

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Monday Minutes: Concerns Surrounding Non-deidentified Biometric Data & Regulation Implications

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Monday Minutes: Which Subjective Measures are Ideal for Assessing State of Readiness?

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Monday Minutes: The Most Over-Rated Metric/KPI Collected Right Now

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Monday Minutes: Communicating Testing and Reporting Results with Coaches

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Volleyball Roundtable with RJ Abella and Eduardo Fiallos

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Monday Minutes: Answering Audience Submitted Question on Force Plates

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Monday Minutes: The Biggest Challenge with Performance Technologies

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Monday Minutes: Force Plate Utilization Deep Dive

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Monday Minutes: Summer Reads and Training Changes

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Intangible Qualities of Exceptional Coach Leaders

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Combating Technological Dependencies

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Five Lessons of Effective Leadership

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Supporting A Coach: The True "Strength" in the Home

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Lessons from Introverts and Extroverts

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Leadership Challenges

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Productivity Applications

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Sport & Data Science Communication

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Eduardo Fiallos

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My Favorite Questions (Answered)

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Lessons of a Public Speaker

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Advice I Wish I Knew in the Beginning

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The Return of the Show

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Ethan Owens

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20 Lessons Learned through Coaching

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Dr. Ben Jones

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Dr. Joe Eisenmann

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Tyler Friedrich

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Mark Watts (Part 1)

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Mini-Episode Q&A

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Mini-Episode Advice

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Michael Minnis

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Katie Mark (Part 2)

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Katie Mark (Part 1)

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Michael Mullin

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Ryan Horn

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Jorge Carvajal

75

Hamish Munro

76

Nick Littlehales

77

Greg Adamson

78

Dr. John Sullivan

79

Henry Barrera

80

Derek Salvador

81

Dr. Mike Sonne

82

Vernon Griffith

83

Brett Bartholomew

84

Matt Shadeed