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The Max Schmarzo Podcast — 95 episodes

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The end of experts. Why and what it means

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Cortisol Response in training: Why it matters

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How to actually “get in shape”

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Real advice: How average people like me can be more than average

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How to organize your skills training (long term)

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How to keep your job while building into a better one

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The hard work myth

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How to get better at your sport: Do you actually want to play against the best?

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Leading a team, setting standards and being one of the most unique head coaches in the nation…Jordan Delp

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5 ways to make your social media more effective

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Winner takes all! Playing for a million dollars!! The masterminds behind Eberlein Drive

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What’s next for my basketball career?

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What’s the best social media platform?

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The World of Clip Culture and The Future of Media

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What I learned from competing with pros for a million dollars

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Professional Slam Ball Player Ryan Johnson Shares All Things Slam Ball and His Unique Journey

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Is the Internet dead as we know it??

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Meeting New People: Grant Jones Former Infantry Officer and Executive Officer turned Author

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Live podcast: Adaptation theory, training under fatigue and a guest from India!

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Blaine McConell Super athlete and exercise draft

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Athletes mentality, Hoopin With Mitch, AJ Green NBA player and More!

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Live podcast - ankle rehab, nutrition for explosive athletes, in season soccer and more!

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The football hype machine and what we can learn from it as social media people

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Why do we act this way?

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Adaptation made simple and does lifting make you a worse athlete

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EP 70: Movements or Muscles? Let's get an answer

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69. Jordan Poole's G1 Shot, Social Media Accountability

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68. Will Levis Drama, Streaming Taking Over Live Sports

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EP 67: Is Artificial Intelligence Going To Take Your Strength Coach Job? A Sit-down interview with AI (ChatGPT3.5)

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EP 66: March Madness Preview, Sleep Quality and Dieting

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EP 65: Effective Training With Minimal Time and Top 5 Cereals

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EP 64: Why Have We Given Up On Thinking... The difference between "facts" and "meaning"

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EP 63: Seeking Comfort With Uncertainty, Group Think and Outer Banks

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EP 62: Speed Ladders For Faster Feet, Training and Strength Coach Echo Chambers

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EP 61: Training Day Breakdown and Other Stuff

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EP 60: UFOs, Frisbees and the great return

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EP 59: Halloween Candy, Evidence for being right and much more

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EP 58: Dealing with injuries and what it means to be creative

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EP 57: Athletic Bulking and TikTok

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EP 56: Updates, Basketball Shape, Joe DeFranco, Tiktok Lives

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EP 55: Joe DeFranco Industrial Strength Podcast

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EP 54: George Boulos Director of Basketball Performance JMU

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EP 53: Gaining fat and athleticism

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EP 52: Alex Auerbach, Sr. Director of Wellness and Development of The Toronto Raptors

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EP 51: The Right Way To Run A Professional Organization...The General Manger of Value Creation

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EP 50: Tom Kokosinksi (Founder of UEN), talking business, social media, coaching and more

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EP 49: Conditioning For Your Sport, What Does That Really Mean?

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EP 48: Getting back in shape and what I have learned

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EP 47: Talking With Joey Guarascio, FAU Head Strength and Conditioning Coach

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EP 46: The Process of Making Change (Adaptation)

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EP 45: Are you soft? What is motivation

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EP 44: Book Review - Creative Confidence

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Episode 43: Is Learning On Social Media Possible?

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EP 42: The Big Lie... How People Fool You On Social Media

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EP 41: Programming Assumption Mistakes and Social Media Gameplan

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EP 40: Thinking Smarter... This Changed How I Think

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EP 39: What I Learned From Training Professional Athletes... This Changed Everything For Me

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EP 38: Are you wasting time???

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Episode 37: Professional Basketball Player Training Day Breakdown And Major Takeaways

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Episode 36: Structing Your Power Training and Movement Age

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EP 35: PF Flyers, Flow State and Catching Your Moment

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EP 34: What People Need To Know About Specific vs General Aspects of Fitness

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EP 33: Most Underrated Pieces of Equipment... We go to Strength Coach Twitter To Find Out

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EP 32: Running to lose weight... Is that really a good idea?

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EP 31: Talking About Research and TikTok With Adam Bradley

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EP 30: Are You Wasting Your Time With These Exercises? (3 I don't Like)

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EP 29: Fixing The Professional Training Model (Main 3 Reasons Someone Trains)

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EP 28: Live Question and Answer

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EP 27: Why The Training World Is Doomed For Chaos Unless We Stop It

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EP 26: Why Professional Teams Do It All Wrong And How To Fix It

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Episode 25: Movement Is Learning and how that influences our assessments

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EP 24: Diets I Have Tried and Finding Social Media Accounts You Can Learn From

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Episode 23: How To Train Everyday and The Best Dieting Idea Ever?

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EP 22: People Screw Up The Significance of Correlations and How To Perfect The Primer Before A Game

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EP 21: Las Vegas and Plyometric Surfaces (Soft, Hard, Elastic)

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EP 20: Hard Work Is A Lazy Excuse...

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EP 19: Becoming More Explosive! The Power Training Hack?

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Episode 18: Motivation Is Misunderstood... Don't Let Your Mind Play Tricks On You

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Episode 17: Midwest Gas Stations and Gatekeepers of Information

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Episode 16: Thinking Smarter and Problem Solving, With The Dean of Big Data

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Episode 15: How To Make Training Progress - Principles of Creating Change "Adaptation"

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Episode 14: My Identity Struggles As A Strength Coach (Struggling To Be Me)

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Episode 13: How To Pick The Right Exercise and Using Social Media To Make You Smarter?

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Episode 12: Strength Qualities Explained and What People Get Wrong

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Episode 11: The Best Burger, Making Training Competitive and Leaning Out Lies To You

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Episode 10: The Discovery of Math and Programming Heavy Singles

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Episode 9: What Just Crashed Into The Moon? Common Plyometric Mistakes

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Episode 8: The Infinite Problem, Problem (are you actually being effective?)

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Episode 7: Dieting and performance, power leveraging (social media), negative comments

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Episode 6: The two most important concepts in all of training and building your own social media presence

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Episode 5: Tackling Bigfoot... Let's have some fun here

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Episode 4: Guest Show With NBA Prospect AJ Green

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Episode 3: Top Gun 2 Review, Avocado Conspiracy, Skills Matter, Workout Structure, Tiktok

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Episode 2: Top Gun, Vanilla Ice Cream, New Equipment, New Client, Motivation

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Episode 1: Homemade equipment, machines, and training outside