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We have pioneering strength and conditioning coach Rachel Balkovec this week. She’s the first ever female S&C coach to work for a professional baseball team – the Houston Astros organization, currently as Latin American coordinator. While still in the early stages of her career, Rachel has already paid quite a lot of dues, working previously […]

Mental toughness; athlete psychological skills Sports psychologist Professor Dave Collins is this week’s guest. He’s an expert on high-performance and specifically what makes a Super Champion versus an ordinary Champion and an “Almost.” He’s the lead researcher on a recent study into this matter, which we’ve featured on the blog. Dave’s current affiliations are with […]

Ironman coach, over-training expert One of our favorite guests is back for a third time: Endurance training and holistic health supremo Doctor Phil Maffetone. Well-known for working with six-time Ironman triathlon world champion Mark Allen, renaissance man Dr. Phil has been just about everywhere and done just about everything including helping musicians like James Taylor, […]

NBA scout, shooting coach, free throw expert Basketball’s in focus this week, and also skill development. We have perhaps the world’s leading expert on the free-throw, also known as the foul shot: Adam Filippi. Adam is also Director of Global Scouting for the Charlotte Hornets in the NBA and author of the books Shoot like […]

Coaching skills, talent development We’re talking about plucking low hanging fruit and preventing mission critical failures this week with tennis coach Ash Smith. Based in southern England, Ash has particular expertise in wheelchair tennis and has coached numerous World Champions and Paralympic medal winners. You can check out his insightful blog at www.superhumanperformance.org. Excerpts from […]

Endurance running, Kenyan marathoners UK-based journalist Ed Caesar has written an excellent book taking us deep inside the world of professional marathon runners. It’s called Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon, and thanks to his meticulous, on-the-ground research, it tells you everything you’d ever want to know about running 26.2 miles at […]

Michael Johnson, Jeremy Wariner, Sanya Richards-Ross (re-broadcast) A living legend of track and field coaching. And not just living – still working and still helping win Olympic gold medals and World Championships. Sports Coach Radio is a weekly in-depth insight to the people and passion behind winning performances. It’s hosted by Sports Psychologist Glenn Whitney and […]

Mental fitness, over-training; sports nutrition This week’s guest is Brad Stulberg, one of those eclectic sports thinkers we like to have on the show for wide-ranging conversations. Brad covers health and human performance for Outside Magazine, Runner’s World and Competitor Magazine, among others. We cover some of the articles he’s written  recently, including How to […]

Speed and agility in high-contact sports are the focus with our guest the Melbourne-based Dean Benton. Dean is one of the world’s most experienced strength and conditioning coaches and high-performance experts in the worlds of rugby, Australian Rules Football and track sprinting. Among the numerous groups Dean has worked for are: the Australian National Rugby […]

Speed endurance, high intensity training, NFL Combine preparation (Rebroadcast) For track and field aficionados and followers of Olympic sports in general, the legendary sprinter Michael Johnson needs little introduction. But I’ll say a few words anyway as reminders: Michael is still holder of the 400 meter world record and a former holder of the 200 […]

Holistic Fitness for Athletes Number-one Primal Blueprint lieutenant Brad Kearns is this week’s guest. A former world-class triathlete, Brad has over the past 10 years focused on holistic health and helping endurance athletes as well as the average Joe or Jane avoid over-training syndrome, chronic injuries and worse. Brad is co-author with Mark Sisson of […]

Crossfit Mobility WOD Physical therapist and Mobility WOD supremo Kelly Starrett is back. If you’ve heard either of the two previous interviews you’ll know that any that with Kelly is going to be wide-ranging and high-energy. This time around we take quite a deep dive into the topic of whether Strength and Conditioning coaches are […]

Coaching Philosophy; Continuous Learning This week have one of the most discerning yet approachable coaches out there. Dr. Mike Davenport is the author of the newly published Sinister Truths of Coaching. He also writes the inspiring blog Coaching Sports Today. Mike is the head coach and director of the rowing program at Washington College in Maryland […]

We had Harry Marra on the show a few weeks ago for the third time, so it’s only fair to pair him with Coach Vern Gambetta, Harry’s long-time friend and colleague and also one of Sports Coach  Radio’s favorite guests. Coach Gambetta heads up the Gambetta Athletic Improvement Network or GAIN,  which you can find on gambetta.com. […]

Resilience, mental toughness, pain inhibition How bad do you want it? That’s the provocative question posed by a new book, with the subtitle: The Psychology of Mind Over Muscle. This week we talk to its author Matt Fitzgerald. Matt is one of the world’s leading writers on endurance sports. Some of his best known books […]

Performance enhancing vegetables, caffeine, creatine @AndyBeetroot as he is known on Twitter is this week’s guest. More properly speaking, we are joined by Andrew Jones, PhD, Professor of Applied Physiology at the University of Exeter in the U.K., head of Sport and Health Sciences there and leader of its Bioenergetics and Human Performance Research Group. Andy […]

Meghan Klingenberg, USA Women’s Soccer, Mental Toughness Sports Pyschologist Dr. Tiff Jones works with 2015 World Cup winning soccer player Meghan Klingenberg and numerous other elite, college-level and high school athletes from all sort of sports. Her primary background is in soccer, both as a national-level player and college coach, but she now regularly consults […]

Anti-doping; science of running, training innovations We’re all about courage and innovation on this show and for this week’s guest we’ve got a great example – running coach Steve Magness. Steve is currently Head Cross Country Coach at the University of Houston and writer of the provocative book and blog, both called The Science of […]

Sprinting, Jamaicans, Cycling, Doping This week we’ve got one of the best sports journalists out there, especially if you’re into cycling and/or track and field. Richard Moore’s latest book is The Bolt Supremacy, Inside Jamaica’s Sprint Factory. We talk a lot about training methods, winning mindsets, doping and lots of colorful characters, from Lance Armstrong, […]

Optimal training; cardio-vascular system; oxygen intake, blood-oxygen transportation Our favorite renaissance sportsman is back to talk about lots of interesting things – training adaptation, doping and other forms of cheating, cardiovascular health, oxygen intake, optimal nutrition, and lots more. Dr. Michael Joyner is based at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, researching among many topics […]