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The Sam Portland Podcast — 132 episodes

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1

What Actually Makes Athletes Faster? | Speed Training 101

2

Conditioning vs Speed: Why You Can't Have Both the Way You Train

3

You're Training Speed Wrong (The Speed Age Rule)

4

From Soccer Player to Pro American Football Kicker at 36 | Dean Faithful’s Story

5

7 Off-Season Mistakes Rugby Players Make (That Keep Them Slow)

6

Stop Selling Sessions (Why Coaches Stay Broke & Stuck)

7

Most Coaches are Underpaid (Here's why)

8

Jeff Moyer on Yessis, Play and the Future of Strength Coaching

9

Why Most Private Coaches Plateau at £2K–£4K Months

10

The ACL Prevention Lie Coaches Keep Pushing with Erica Mulholland

11

How to Progress Speed Exercises Without Breaking Athletes

12

Why 90% of Coaches Are Trapped Trading Time for Money

13

How to Use Overspeed Training Without Breaking Your Athletes

14

Why Great Coaches Leave Pro Sport (And Don’t Look Back) with Andy McKenzie

15

Why Pro Footballers Hire Coaches Outside the Club (And What They’re Not Getting In-House)

16

The Soviet Method Still Winning in Speed Training (Conjugate Sequencing)

17

The Most Misunderstood Principle in Speed Training (Specificity vs General Work)

18

From Ranger Regiment to Speed Coach: Judd Linhard on Strength, Skill and Real Performance

19

Stop Trying to Be an S&C Hero — Build a Coaching Business That Actually Works

20

Dorothy Hummel Reveals the Neurogenetics Secret Elite Performers Don't Talk About

21

Rewiring Your Coaching Brain: Neuroscience, Business & Legacy with Chris Mattice

22

How to Coach Transfer: Key Movements, RFD & Drill Stacking (In-Season & Off-Season)

23

From Pro Rugby to 700K Followers: How Ben John Built The Rugby Trainer

24

Most Coaches Charge Too Little — And It’s Killing You | The Psychology of Pricing for Coaches

25

How to Apply The Sports Speed System Daily | In-Season Programming for Team Sport Athletes

26

From Rugby to Netflix to Business School | Dave Birtwistle on Reinvention, Ego Death & Growth

27

This Isn’t a Career — It’s a Conveyor Belt | The Harsh Truth About Strength & Conditioning

28

How to Coach Non-Linear Sprinting | Learn Load Execute Framework for Change of Direction Speed

29

The Truth About Strength & Conditioning | Why Most S&C Coaches Get It Wrong – with Matt Vickery

30

Most Coaches Burn Out Before They Break Through | The Truth About Coaching, Money & Freedom

31

Supercharge your Max Speed with Learn Load Execute

32

Building a Personal Brand as a Coach | With Alex Preece

33

Clients Don’t Fall From the Sky: How to Actually Get Athletes Outside Pro Sport

34

Accelerate your first steps with this framework

35

Life vs Coaching Coaching: Nate’s Story of Strength, Family & Finding Purpose

36

Cert Inflation Is Costing S&C Coaches | Build Skills That Pay

37

How to Program Speed Training Across a Week

38

Why Howard Packman Fights Coaching Rigidity: A Pro’s Bold Take

39

Stop Chasing Jobs: How S&C Coaches Can Build a Side Hustle That Pays

40

From Football Pitches to Motorsport Tracks: Rory Winters’ Search for Growth

41

I was brain washed by my therapist

42

The Things I HATE most S&C Coaches Do!!!

43

Jared Wallace did this to get a job...would you?

44

No BS Rehab Advice with Joe VDM

45

Playing Rugby in South Africa is Better than England - Ed Coulsen

46

Chris Duffin: Rise to S&C Stardom, writing a book and the cost of it!

47

Wasps Paid for my Gym and they didn't know - Positives of Pro Sport

48

How to EXIT Pro Sport and Get PAID!!!!

49

Mike West: Work Full Time with Athletes but not in pro sport!

50

Hamstring Return to Speed Process

51

Adaptation is your Job! DO IT!

52

SAM PORTLAND IS BACK!!!!

53

Scott Livingston THE KING OF PAIN!!!

54

Legacy Retreat Round Table Podcast

55

Molly Wheeler - How to use your experience to drive your future and Open a GYM!!!

56

Max Honigsbaum's - The jewgler who is dominating high performance rowing!!!

57

Robin Arkell - Running a high performance program at 23, winning an Olympic Medal and dealing with "Whats Next"?

58

Coach Mike Boyle - Make the most with what you've got...a masterclass in efficiency!!!

59

How 2 broken legs and 2 ruptured ACL's Built an amazing training system - James Crichton

60

Do you put your athletes first? Conal Duffy does...we can learn alot from this man.

61

The guy thats changing Crossfit for the better and it applies to you...

62

Lewis Parry - From Lidl to Coaching International Athletes!!!

63

How to become a successful Coach! My intention for the podcast!!!!

64

Adam Lubbock - Building a gym business and living a great life - PART 2

65

Adam Lubbock - Building a gym business and living a great life - PART 1

66

My Story Part 2!!! How I got my job at Wasps!!!

67

Peter Wright of Petey Performance - A journey of coaching and mental health!

68

My Story Part 1 - How it all started and why the name change....

69

Why you should be using Long Accelerations to create easy speed gains with your athletes.

70

How to ensure your wall drills are having the impact they should be...

71

Aleks Salkin - Fundamental Movement Neurology, 80s Action Movies and Picking up Chicks as a teenager

72

My Current training splits and how i've overcome some really bad injuries!!!

73

Will the S&C industry ever prioritize self care? Instagram Q&A Solo Cast

74

My thoughts on Worcester Rugby and a message for all the staff.

75

England and Great Britain 7's Star Emma Uren talks us through her journey!!!

76

How to train max velocity sprinting in team sports. You've probably never thought of this...

77

Mike Kurkowski on the forgotten art of Kettlebell Training, mindset and spirituality

78

The Legacy Retreat Round Table

79

The journey to professional golfer and now Strength and Conditioning Coach with Miles Collins

80

How to reverse engineer movement in sport

81

Don't Be like this S&C Coach

82

When I first started coaching speed I didn't have a clue....

83

Why drawing on sprinting videos is a waste of time

84

Louie Simmons...We don't know what we just lost.

85

Don't Let your clients suffer because you don't put yourself first.

86

S&C Culture...He had everything he wanted and wasn't happy!!!

87

Acceleration KPI's - How to make a difference in the field!!!

88

Acceleration curves will change the way you coach speed forever!!!

89

Why fitness testing is Dumb...Stack your metrics instead!!!

90

Speed Gate Golf: Origin Story

91

Conditioning for Speed Part 2: What do we do with 80% work?

92

What I learned from NFL Player Alex Gray

93

How my mentorship program started and what it has transformed into...

94

Lateral Speed Essentials... MUST LISTEN

95

What Netflix and Training have in Common

96

Good Coaches make you feel something...Here is my story!!!

97

Conditioning for Speed Part 1.

98

Why you should have an out of office on Whats App

99

The number one mental barrier you need to break with your speed training!

100

How to Start Coaching Speed

101

Episode 30: Oli Reading - The challenges of being a coach. Private Sector Vs Pro Sport and not wanting to live in london...

102

Episode 32: Owen Satterley - Corporate wellbeing and high performance coach.

103

Episode 31: Louis Flynn - Rugby Player (Super Sevens and Cyprus) & Rugby Coach

104

Episode 29: Josh Fletcher - Career Periodisation

105

Episode 28: Danny Speirs

106

Episode 27 – Hewitt Tomlin Co-CEO TeamBuildr

107

Episode #26 Dr Phil Price

108

Episode #25 Derek Hansen

109

Episode #24: Joe Warwick

110

Episode 23# Christian Woodford

111

Episode 23# Warren Abrahams

112

Episode 22# Dr Bryan Mann

113

Episode 21# Matt Van Dyke

114

Episode 20# TK Too Smooth!!!

115

Episode #18 Lance Brooks – The Sports Science Guy

116

Episode #17 – Will Wayland of Powering Through

117

Episode #16 – Coach Sportland Update

118

Episode #15 Joanne Batten

119

Episode 14# Jeff Moyer

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Episode #13: Buddy Morris – 38 years in the game!

121

Episode #12: Zach Even-esh THE UNDERGROUND STRENGTH COACH

122

Episode #11 – Ian Taplin

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Episode #10 Zoran Dubiac – 10 year Gym Owner

124

Episode #9: Brett Bartholomew

125

Episode #8 Dash Bunjter

126

Episode #7 Mike Guadango

127

Episode #6 Jack Leaning

128

Episode #5: Jenifer Hewson

129

Episode #4 Jack Green

130

Episode #3: Tom Farrow

131

Episode #2: Marc Stevenson

132

Episode 1: Keir Wenham Flatt