The Lion's Mane Podcast

Coach Britt Wiebe joins us today to school us about training with a long-term focus. She explains the developmental league system within American baseball, and we compare structures and training approaches between US Baseball and EU Soccer. For anyone who has ever worked, played, or wished work/play in one of those leagues, this episode is well worth your time! We talk all things long-term development, what is important in S&C for young adult athletes, and how the Houston Astros structure their Latin American teams and trainings.

Vanessa Kara is a professional soccer player for Racing Louisville FC in the NWSL. Today she shares her process, and why THAT was the purpose for her, not necessarily the outcome. Through multiple major injuries, playing at two D1 schools, her three shots at the NWSL, playing in Europe, and many other hurdles, Vanessa found her way home: to herself. Whether you are an athletes looking to "make it" or just a human trying to develop in this life, sit back, grab a notebook, and get ready for this authentic, open conversation about the process.

In this episode, Bill Miller coaches us up on the importance of training rotation in and out of the gym. But it is not just about the rotation itself; it's about intensity, velocity, energy running through the kinetic chain, and teaching some body parts to rotate together while others must remain stiff for maximal power... don't know what any of that means? Cool. Listen to Bill break it down simply in this episode!

Let's talk about sexism, homophobia, and racism in sport! Many people like to gesticulate toward America and believe that only they can be so blatantly discriminatory - that would never happen in Germany! Right...?

Wrong! Let's talk about the "women's jobs" in pro sports, what coaches and athletes can do to support more women working in their teams or clubs, experiences of homophobia and outings, and what our responsibility is as white people to amplify BIPOC platforms, voices, and people into positions of influence in a white-washed industry that profits from athlete bodies.

Disclaimer: This episode is unedited. Even though I talk about anti-racism on my platform a lot, I am learning a ton and I want it to be clear that I fumble the language, that not all the work is done. Keep going!!

Paulina ist Physiotherapeutin, Athletiktrainerin, Profi-Sportlerin und Mutter. Wir reden heute über die Entscheidungsprozess, Schwangerschaft, Mutterschaft, und warum es nicht nur 9 Monate dauert!

Ashley Pardo is NOT a dietician; she's a nutritional therapist with a life's worth of experience with food struggles, food's deliciousness, and food's freedom. She gives us the insider look at what is going on behind our societal and personal relationships with food, and how, by giving up our need for control with our substance of choice (food, drugs, alcohol, pain, training, etc.), we actually gain control.

This is a foot-friendly podcast!!! For most of us, our feet play major roles in how we play our sport. So... how do we treat them like they are important?

Luckily, Conor Harris is here to save the day (again) and share his expert movement science knowledge about the function of the feet, tips for training them, picking the right shoes, common issues, and the role of the foot in sprinting, weightlifting, and ball striking. Come get some brain candy; you won't regret it!

Josh Smith works as a strength & conditioning coach and, well, pretty much everything else to professional athletes in Adelaide, Australia. He is also a performance consultant for professional teams and owns all things Mitise Fitness & Health, his own training facility. Josh joins us today to talk load management: what it is, why it is a vital part of planning, how to measure it, the menstrual cycle's role in load management, and how to communicate better, whether as a coach with your athletes or as an athlete with your coaching staff - for YOUR benefit!

Let's talk about periods!!! Jan Schröder ist Physiotherapeut und Athletiktrainer bei TCP Concept und Team Canada Snowboarding. Dieses Gespräch geht um das Thema Belastungssteuerung und ob/wie Athlete Monitoring für weibliche Athletinnen anders und angepasst sein soll.  My apologies for my terrible audio!

Let's talk about Shiny New Object Syndrome and why we love that NEWNEW because it saves us time or energy. Coach Joe Aratari gives us some tips on how to detect what's real and what's just great marketing around an average idea (or service). Let's go!

Today our key words are "specificity" and "transfer", and soccer strength coach Josel Mateo tells us exactly what those mean in training, in sport, and in life. This episode is packed with actionable steps to help you execute toward becoming a high performer - on the pitch and beyond.

Noch eine deutsche Folge! Ja, ich kann es auch nicht glauben, aber here we are. Heute kam Stefan Dall, Physiotherapeut und Athletiktrainer aus Göttingen, vorbei und zeigt uns, wieviel wir falsch verstanden haben! Es geht um das Thema Mythen in der Physiotherapie und Gesundheits-/Sportbranche. Was ist die Wahrheit??

Samuel J. Cook III is a track coach, FitPro, Oly weightlifter, and extremely passionate about criminal justice reform. He joins us on the show today, rounding out 2020 with one last episode, to discuss how politics belongs in sports because athletes are people who do sports, and how to mirror our values and use our voices on our platforms for what we believe in. This episode is bomb, so grab your pen and paper, because you'll need it!

This week, Alex Ng, CSCS joins us to talk about fatigue, true recovery, the balancing act of college sport, and how to develop trust in the coach-athlete relationship in a healthy and meaningful way. He is currently the assistant coach of Indiana's Women's Soccer program, as well as a club coach, strength and conditioning coach, and council member of the NSCA Soccer SIG on the side.

Today, registered dietician Jaimee Cooper joins us to bust all the nutrition myths we thought were real and actually hinder our performance. She helps soccer players fuel themselves properly, upgrade their confidence, and boost their performance and their lives through better relationships with food. This is such a good episode - grab a pen and get ready!

Coach Erskine Baker joins us today from Essen, Germany to talk all things sprinting, endurance, and long-term athletic development. This is an episode that has been asked for by our community quite often, so get out your notebooks and pens!

Move well! That's the topic of the day. Everything about movement: how to do it, when to do it, why we need to get better at it, why we maybe aren't as good at it as we think, how playing multiple sports and training in the gym can help us learn movement, and why movement professionals like to fight with each other. Michelle is an athletic trainer in Florida and breaks it all down for us.

Welcome back! As Halloween is, like, tomorrow, let's do some bust some ghosts and myths of strength coaches passed... out with the old ideas and in with the new! Coach Kendall Green takes on some of the Fake News of strength and conditioning, from "lifting is bad" to "only lift heavy", to "do more conditioning to get faster" to "no days off squad". Tune in and enjoy some Fact Checking!

Sportwissenschaft trifft Neurowissenschaft! Pat Preilowski ist SpoWi + Doktorand an der Universität zu Köln, auch selbständig mit OutOfTheBox unterwegs. Heute erklärt er uns, wie Schmerzen im Gehirn wirken und warum das Nervensystem für die Rehabilitation wichtig ist. Egal, ob du Athlet*in, Trainer*in oder Physio bist - zuhören!

Let's talk about how to recover without paying tons of money for all of the massages and compression boots and therapy guns!! Do you really need needles in your neck? Do you really need that spiked roller? Arianna Hoffman clears up the basics of recovery for us in this episode and, she says, the best things in recovery and life are F R E E! Let's get into it.

Guys! Most of us are post-lockdown, as gyms begin to open up and sport organizations make clear that competitions will start again now or soon. So how do we return to play? How should we train, after having literal months of limited workouts and resources? Let's discuss.

If you have been living under a rock or hesitating about "getting involved", remember that this is not a time for silence and indifference. For those of us involved in sport, we have been called to a unique table, to which we need to bring the issue of racial biases and the system of suppression. Anti-racism does not happen overnight, and it requires White people to listen to Black people, learn, begin dismantling whiteness, and advocating loudly for equality, safety, and the end of white supremacy and privilege.

Please note: this episode is addressing White people involved in sport as coaches, practitioners, and management specifically. This episode originated as a blog article (linked below) and is a summary taken from the many action steps from Black activists and educators (listed below) who have already provided these resources to the public. I simply apply them to the sport context.

How should athletes fuel themselves? We discuss this often in more critical terms, talking about "diets" and "food as fuel". But is nutrition supposed to be approached with the same "just-do-it", data-based attitude as training and performance? Bri Collette (IG: @nutritionist.bri) is a registered dietician and volleyball player. She walks us through how athletes can introduce intuitive eating that benefits the psyche and performance in this really mind-blowing, action-oriented episode.

What training and rehab myths do you believe? You might not even know - so you'd better listen!

Dr. Rena Eleázar, a physical therapist based in New York, breaks down what things we "need to let go" and gives us the whole truth based in science. And then we talk about music!

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Another solo podcast! Let's talk about neuroscience and sport psychology, and how we can build a toolbox full of mental skills, even in times of pandemic.

Dr. Nicole Surdyka (pronounced Surdih-kuh!, IG: @dr.nicolept) is a sports physical therapist based in Los Angeles area, California. She is what I call the queen of rehabbing knees & ankles! In Part Two of this episode, she breaks down the ins and outs of returning to play, from the moment an athlete gets injured until they step back into a match again. If you are curious about rehab and returning to sport, or in the process of doing it yourself, this episode is for you!

If you haven't listened to Part One with Dr. Nicole, make sure to catch that episode as well.

Paul Schlütter (IG: @fundamentalkraft), powerlifting coach and sport psychologist from Leipzig, joins us to talk about mindfulness, meditation, acceptance, and attention, and how practicing those components contribute to improving sport performance AND life.

Dr. Nicole Surdyka (pronounced Surdih-kuh!, IG: @dr.nicolept) is a sports physical therapist based in Los Angeles area, California. She is what I call the queen of rehabbing knees & ankles! In this episode and the Part Two to follow, she breaks down the ins and outs of returning to play, from the moment an athlete gets injured until they step back into a match again. If you are curious about rehab and returning to sport, or in the process of doing it yourself, this episode is for you!

Welcome back - Season 2 & the first TLMP episode of 2020!

Today we wrap up our round-table with Part Two on youth soccer training. If you haven't heard that episode yet, go check it out (Ep 21). 

Coaches Dave Gleason (IG: @CoachDaveGleason) and Erica Suter (@FitSoccerQueen) hop on to lay out the blueprint for training youth athletes and answer some burning questions about early specialization, soccer burnout, parents, commoditization of young players, strength and conditioning, speed, coordination, and more. Stay tuned for Part Two!

If you haven't listened to Erica or Dave's earlier episodes, those are good places to start.

Today I am joined by two incredible coaches to break down the topic of youth soccer training, making this TLMP's first round-table episode! Coaches Dave Gleason (IG: @CoachDaveGleason) and Erica Suter (@FitSoccerQueen) hop on to lay out the blueprint for training youth athletes and answer some burning questions about early specialization, soccer burnout, parents, commoditization of young players, strength and conditioning, speed, coordination, and more. Stay tuned for Part Two!

If you haven't listened to Erica or Dave's earlier episodes, those are good places to start.