Coach Em Up Podcast

Check out Lance on socials! @LanceBrooks_PhD Use code "coachemup10" for 10% off EVERYTHING at https://eleiko.com/coachemupHead over to https://ovrperformance.com/coachemup and get $25 offGrab a Subscriber tee at https://www.dripthatdelivers.comDr. Lance Brooks breaks down sprint mechanics and biomechanics of sprinting at a level most coaches never reach. Tim Riley sits down with the coach, researcher, and founder of Brooks Performance Methods to dig into first principles of sprinting, sarcomere function, quasi isometric contractions, and why the elastic vs force dominant sprinters debate is built on a false premise.Lance's path is wild: bodybuilding forums to personal training at 24 Hour Fitness and Gold's Gym, then D1 strength and conditioning internships, a master's under Dr. Ken Clark, a doctorate, and postdoctoral work in a Harvard comparative biology lab implanting crystals into rats and running guinea fowl on treadmills. All of it in service of understanding how muscles actually produce force during locomotion.The conversation covers acceleration vs max velocity mechanics, impulse momentum sprinting, vertical impulse top speed sprinting, horizontal impulse acceleration sprinting, and what Newton's Second Law actually demands from a coach's programming. Lance also dismantles the lazy "science lags behind practice" talking point and explains why mastering basic first principles of sprinting will always outperform chasing hyper-specific applied studies.Subscribe to the channel to never miss another podcast!Produced byQ6 Mediahttps://q6.media00:00:00 - Introduction00:04:09 - Lance's Background and Career Path00:15:30 - Early Coaching Lessons and Internship Blunders00:22:34 - Bridging Research and the Field00:32:14 - Comparative Biology, Animal Models, and Muscle Testing01:04:30 - First Principles of Sprinting and Biomechanics01:21:40 - Quasi-Isometric Muscle Mechanics and the Elastic vs Force Myth01:36:00 - Sprinting/Research Q&A#SprintMechanics #Biomechanics #CoachEmUpPodcast #LanceBrooks #SpeedDevelopment #StrengthAndConditioning #ForcePlate,#SprintTraining #ExercisePhysiology #Podcast

Check out Zack on socials! @zack_zillnerUse code "coachemup10" for 10% off EVERYTHING at https://eleiko.com/coachemupHead over to https://ovrperformance.com/coachemup and get $25 offGrab a Subscriber tee at https://www.dripthatdelivers.comTim Riley and Zack Zillner are back in the Austin studio for a full Q&A episode covering strength and conditioning coach salary debates, NCAA 20-hour rule logistics, shin splints, eccentric quasi-isometrics, AI in programming, NIL culture, and whether Tim could survive a bear fight.Zack breaks down the operational reality of the NCAA 8-hour off-season rule and the full 20-hour in-season window, and explains why sport skill execution will always beat weight room numbers when practice time is limited. Tim reflects on private sector coaching ethics: when an athlete is already buried under school practices, an extra meal often does more than another squat session.Q&A covers how to build work capacity, why eccentric quasi-isometrics are mostly social media noise, meathead hypertrophy as connective tissue insurance, sleep tracking anxiety and its effect on athletic performance, in-person coaching requirements before going online, AI tools like Relay for programming templates, NIL and transfer portal impact on athlete work ethic, low-tech athlete monitoring tools, and bucket list podcast guests.Don't forget to subscribe! Produced byQ6 Mediahttps://q6.media00:00:00 - Bear Fight Cold Open00:00:32 - Happy Birthday Zack!00:03:14 - NCAA 20-Hour Rule Breakdown00:07:29 - Weight Room vs. Court Time Tug-of-War00:14:05 - Private Sector Coaching00:18:05 - Strength and Conditioning Coach Salary Debate00:37:52 - In-Person Coaching Before Online Coaching00:44:30 - Managing Shin Splints in Sprint Training00:47:16 - Debunking Eccentric Quasi-Isometrics00:51:10 - Meathead Hypertrophy vs. Sport-Specific Training00:53:37 - How to Find Your Coaching Style00:57:00 - How to Build Work Capacity00:58:19 - Sleep Tracking Anxiety and Athletic Performance01:02:20 - Bucket List Podcast Guests01:08:04 - Advice for International Coaches Interning in the U.S.01:09:42 - Biggest Challenges in Basketball Strength and Conditioning01:12:43 - AI for Strength and Conditioning Programming01:17:36 - NIL and Transfer Portal Impact on Athlete Work Ethic01:23:08 - Low-Tech Athlete Monitoring Tools01:27:07 - Bear Fight Simulation#CoachEmUp #StrengthAndConditioningCoach #StrengthCoachPodcast #AthleticPerformance #CollegiateStrengthCoach #NILAthletes #SportScience #StrengthCoaching #Podcast #ZachEvenEsh

Check out Alec on socials! @alecblenis Use code "coachemup10" for 10% off EVERYTHING at https://eleiko.com/coachemupHead over to https://ovrperformance.com/coachemup and get $25 offGrab a Subscriber tee at https://www.dripthatdelivers.comHybrid athlete and coach Alec Blenis is back for his SIXTH appearance on Coach Em Up! Alec breaks down his pursuit of a sub-2:30 marathon while holding serious muscle, training alongside Paris Olympian Yaseen Abdalla, and surviving sodium bicarbonate's most brutal side effects.Alec Blenis is a hybrid athlete who has been chasing the sub-2:30 marathon while maintaining elite-level strength. In this episode he lays out exactly how he got there: doubling weekly running volume to 75 miles, outsourcing his programming to coach John Davis to kill decision fatigue, and training on treadmills next to a guy who ran a 2:11 in Paris. The interference effect is real, but Alec explains how adaptation eventually brought strength back online. He also speaks on his unorthodox fueling, drinking a liter of OJ a day and over 400 grams of sugar total to maintain his training.From there, things get weird in the best way. Tim and Alec break down backyard ultramarathon psychology through Mark Dowdle's 5-day performance in Germany, dissect trainer Joel Seedman's Instagram content connecting 90-degree squats to theology, and then unload a stacked Q&A covering high-carb marathon fueling strategy, unilateral vs bilateral training, hybrid athlete training split design, HRV usefulness for athletes, endurance training for heavy runners, treadmill stiffness vs road running, and whether mental toughness drills are actually overrated.If you are running a marathon while lifting heavy, training concurrently, or just trying to understand the interference effect without losing your mind, this episode has you covered.Produced byQ6 Mediahttps://q6.mediaTimestamps:00:00:00 - Introduciton00:01:41 - Alec's Running Background and Sub-2:30 Marathon Goal00:07:04 - Marathon Benchmarks, Coaching Value, and the Interference Effect00:12:48 - Training with Yaseen Abdalla and Mitch Ammons00:18:23 - High-Carb Fueling: OJ, Sugar, and Surviving Austin Heat00:27:18 - Backyard Ultras and Mark Dowdle's Psychological Warfare00:35:36 - Joel Seedman's Eccentric Isometrics and Theological Squats00:46:14 - Tim's Best and Worst Qualities00:50:06 - Unilateral vs Bilateral Training00:52:11 - Session Flow vs Exercise Ordering00:53:30 - Building Muscle Under High Endurance Fatigue00:55:04 - Smartwatch Metrics and HRV Skepticism00:59:01 - Structuring a Hybrid Training Split01:00:45 - Sodium Bicarbonate Side Effects01:06:33 - Weekly OJ Totals and Apex Australia Plans01:09:16 - Single High-Volume Run vs Spreading Weekly Mileage01:10:06 - Endurance Training for Heavy Athletes01:15:02 - Heat Acclimatization and Overrated Mental Toughness Drills01:20:07 - Treadmill Stiffness vs Road Running#HybridAthlete #ConcurrentTraining #AlecBlenis #CoachEmUpPodcast #MarathonTraining #InterferenceEffect #RunningAndLifting #EnduranceTraining #Podcast #StrengthAndConditioning