Episodes

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-345/ Today’s guest is Nick DiMarco. Nick has been the director of sports performance at Elon University since 2018, and is a leader in the realms of high-performance ideology. He is both a former professional athlete (NY Jets and Baltimore Ravens outside linebacker in 2014), and has a Ph.D in Health and Human Performance. In addition to being well versed in the intuitive aspects of athleticism, Nick is skilled at applying logical models ...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-344/ Today’s podcast features Henk Kraaijenhof. Henk has several decades of experience as a performance coach in a broad array of sports. His coaching credentials include working track athletes such as Nelli Cooman (former 60m dash world record holder), Merlene Ottey, and Troy Douglas as well as elite team sport competitors. His specialties are physical and mental coaching, stress and stress management, technology, and the methodology or...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-343/ Today’s podcast features movement focused strength and performance coach Julien Pineau. Julien is the founder of Strongfit, which started as a gym, and is now a full educational program for coaches and fitness/movement enthusiasts. Sports have been a part of Julien’s life since he was young, and he has athletic backgrounds in a variety of areas from competitive swimming, to mixed martial arts, strongman, and more. In 1993, Julien be...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-342/ Today’s podcast features Seth Lintz, a pitching performance coach, based out of Scottsdale, Arizona. Seth was a second-round pick in the 2008 MLB draft, carrying a maximal fastball speed of 104mph. Known as the “Pitching Doctor” on his social media accounts, Seth has trained over a dozen individuals to break the 100mph barrier in the past 2 years, using a progressive training system that combines a priority on neuro-muscular efficie...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-341/ Today’s podcast features strength coach, Zach Even Esh. Zach is the founder of the Underground Strength Gym, and has been a leading figure in creative and adaptive strength training means. He is also the host of the Strong Life podcast and the creator of many educational resources in the realm of human strength and performance. As the world moves forward, the world of training has become an interesting place, accelerated by the chan...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-340/ Today’s podcast features coach Michael Zweifel. Michael is the special teams coordinator, defensive backs coach and co-defensive coordinator for the UW-La Crosse football team. He is the former owner of the “Building Better Athletes” performance center in Dubuque, Iowa. Michael was the all-time NCAA leading receiver with 463 receptions in his playing days at University of Dubuque. He is also a team member of the movement education g...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-339/ Today’s episode features strength and performance coach DJ Murakami. DJ has over 15 years of experience in the coaching realm, and has a wide history of movement practice which includes work in bodybuilding, Olympic lifting, rock lifting, movement culture (such as Ido Portal), rock climbing and more. DJ has created training courses such as Chi Torque, the Predator Protocol, and others, and mentors coaches and fitness enthusiasts thr...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-338/ Today’s episode features Kyle Waugh. Kyle is the owner of Waugh Personal Training and hosts the podcast “Waughfit Radio”. He started in fitness and rehab as a track and cross-country athlete and transitioned in his early 20s to a gym rat riddled with injuries. Kyle worked through his injuries, and after being told to never lift again and get surgery, he is now robust and pain free through the process of good training and movement. K...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-337/ Today’s episode features Dan Back. Dan is the founder of “Jump Science”, as well as the creator of the popular “Speed.Science0” page on Instagram. Dan coaches at Xceleration sports performance in Austin, Texas. He works with team sport athletes, as well as “pure output” sports, such as track and field, and dunk training. Dan reached an elite level in his own vertical jump and dunking ability, and has been helping athletes run faster...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-336/ Today’s episode features Tony Holler. Tony is the track coach at Plainfield North High School with 39 years of coaching experience in football, basketball, and track. He is the originator of the “Feed the Cats” training system that has not only found immense popularity in the track and field world, but the team sport coaching world as well. Tony is the co-director of the Track Football Consortium along with Chris Korfist, and has be...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-335/ Today’s episode features Danny Foley. Danny is a performance coach and Co-founder of Rude Rock Strength and Conditioning. He is well known for his investigation into fascial training concepts, and is the creator of the “Fascia Chronicles”. Danny has spent the previous six years as the head strength and conditioning coach at Virginia High Performance, where he specialized in working with Special Operations Command (Naval Special Warf...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-334/ Today’s episode features Christian Thibaudeau. Christian has been a strength coach for 2 decades, is a prolific writer and author, and has worked with athletes from nearly 30 sports. Christian has been a multi-time guest on this podcast, and is the originator of educational systems such as neuro-typing, as well as the omni-contraction training. I am unaware of another strength coach with the extensive knowledge of training methods t...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-333/ Today’s episode features strength coaches Kyle Dobbs and Matt Domney. Kyle Dobbs is the owner and founder of Compound Performance, has trained 15,000+ sessions, and has experienced substantial success as a coach and educator. Kyle has an extensive biomechanics and human movement background which he integrates into his gym prescriptions to help athletes achieve their fullest movement, and transferable strength potential. Matt Domney ...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-332/ Today’s episode is a Q&A with Joel Smith. Joel Smith is the founder of Just Fly Sports and is a sports performance/track coach in Cincinnati, Ohio. Joel hosts the Just Fly Performance Podcast, has authored several books on athletic performance, and in 2021, released the integrative training course, “Elastic Essentials”. Questions for this podcast revolved around maximal strength training needs in jumping and sprinting, testing proto...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-331/ Today’s episode features Lee Taft. Lee is one of the most highly respected sport speed coaches in the world. His methods come from wisdom accumulated not just in sports performance, but also in physical education, sport coaching, as well as observing changes in athletes between the 1990s, into the modern day. Lee has been a three-time guest on the podcast, a mentor to many high-level coaches, and has incredible wisdom on the level o...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-330/ Today’s episode features Rett Larson. Rett is a physical preparation coach with an extensive and diverse background. He has worked internationally with the national volleyball teams of Germany, Netherlands and China. Rett has also worked with professionals, down to athletes of all ages, having prior experience as Velocity Sports Performance’s director of coaching in California. Rett is a student of movement, having studied not only ...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-329/ Today’s episode features John Kiely. John is a senior lecturer in Performance and Innovation at the University of Limerick. In addition to his current work with doctoral and Ph.D. candidates, John is a frequent keynote speaker, and has extensive athletic performance training and consultation experience. His coaching, consulting and advisory work includes numerous sports such as rugby, soccer/football, track and Paralympics. In his t...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-328/ Today’s episode features Jamie Smith, founder and head sport preparation coach of The U of Strength. Jamie is a passionate coach and learner, who strives to help athletes incorporate the fullness of perceptual, social and emotional, elements in the course of training. Jamie has been a multi-time guest on this show, speaking on his approach to training that meets the demands of the game, and settling for nothing less. The further I g...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-327/ Today’s episode features sports performance coach and sport scientist, Joel Reinhardt. Joel joined Stanford Football’s staff as the assistant sports performance coach and applied sports science coordinator in 2022. Prior to Stanford, has spent time at UMass and Nicholls State working in sports performance and sports science roles. One of the great things about the sports performance/strength & conditioning field is that it is interd...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-326/ Today’s episode features movement coach, inventor and innovator, Adarian Barr. Adarian has been one of the absolute biggest influences on me in my coaching, as well as my own personal movement and training practices. You will be hard pressed to find an individual who sees movement in the detail that Adarian does, while also having the experiential and coaching knowledge to back it up. One of the biggest things I’ve learned from work...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-325/ Today’s episode features biomechanics specialist, David Grey. David is the founder of David Grey Rehab, where he works with clients from all walks of life. David’s specialty is assessing his clients gait cycle in depth to develop a plan to help restore the movement or movements they struggle to perform. David has learned under a number of great mentors in the world of human movement, athletic development, gymnastics, Chinese martial...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-324/ Today’s episode features Jarod Burton. Jarod is a human performance specialist, chiropractic student, and health coach. He got his coaching start working with Brady Volmering of DAC baseball, and has spent recent years coaching, consulting and running educational courses in the private sector. Jarod focuses on engaging all aspects of an athlete’s being, providing the knowledge for the individual to thrive in their domain. In the wor...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-323/ Today’s episode features performance coach and breathing specialist, Leo Ryan. Leo is the founder of Innate-Strength.com. Leo has studied from many elite personal training, physical therapy and breathing schools including Dip. Buteyko Method, Wim Hof, Oxygen Advantage Master Instructor, Fascial Stretch Therapist, Strength and Conditioning Specialist and Pilates. Leo previously appeared on episode 219 speaking on many elements of bre...

More show notes at https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-322/ Today’s episode features strength and track coach, John Garrish. John is the director of athletic development at North Broward Preparatory School in Coconut Creek, Florida, and the school’s head track coach. John was recently voted the 2022 National High School Strength Coach of the Year by the National High School Strength Coach’s Association. John appeared previously on the show discussing his speed training approach in episode 18...