Coach Em Up Podcast

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Tim Riley sits down with physical therapist and strength coach Q Willey to break down change of direction training, deceleration, and how to actually bridge the gap between the weight room and the field. Q brings his 4 level COD programming framework and zero patience for coaches running circus tricks with reaction lights.

Q is a former UNC lacrosse national champion, exercise physiologist, and Doctor of Physical Therapy who now coaches out of Austin and collaborates with Dr. Katie Dabrowski on the Confusingly Jacked program and a comprehensive COD Program Guide. In this episode, Q draws a hard line between pre-planned change of direction training and true open field reactive agility, explains why deceleration ground reaction forces run 2 to 3 times higher than acceleration, and lays out exactly how to move athletes through Return to Participation, Return to Play, and Return to Performance phases without blowing them up.

Q also torches the coaching mistake of substituting circus tricks like reaction light games for real cognitive perceptual training, walks through the model for deceleration kinematics, and breaks down how to calculate a COD deficit using the 5-10-5 drill. If you work with athletes and you are still debating whether COD work belongs in your programming, this one settles it.

Topics include change of direction vs agility, reactive agility drills, biomechanics of deceleration, eccentric deceleration drills, return to performance continuum rehab, microdosing change of direction, the 4 level COD programming framework, and catastrophizers vs confronters in physical therapy.

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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:45 - Q's Background, Adult Lacrosse at 35
00:10:31 - Change of Direction vs Agility
00:13:56 - Bridge Between the Weight Room and the Field
00:17:01 - Reactivity Spectrum and the Reverse Marilyn Monroe Principle
00:25:43 - Circus Tricks vs Real Cognitive Perceptual Training
00:32:01 - Deceleration Biomechanics
00:46:25 - COD Testing and COD Deficit Calculations
00:54:06 - Return to Participation, Play, and Performance
01:00:15 - The 4-Level COD Programming Framework
01:15:36 - Microdosing COD Work Into Your Weekly Routine
01:21:15 - Confusingly Jacked Program with Katie Dabrowski
01:29:21 - Non-PT Coaches, Confronters vs Catastrophizers, Pain Management
01:38:11 - Why Novel Exercises Cause Soreness, PT School Reality
02:03:17 - Clamshells and OVR Force Plates
02:10:33 - Heat Shock Protein Sauna Myth Busted

#CoachEmUpPodcast #ChangeOfDirectionTraining #DecelerationTraining #ReactiveAgilityDrills #SportsPhysicalTherapy #StrengthCoach #ReturnToPerformance #QuentinWilley #AgilityTraining #PhysicalTherapyPodcast

Check out Brian on socials! @briankula @kulasportsperformance

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Brian Kula has spent 27 years turning athletes into weapons, from high school track kids to NFL Offensive Player of the Year Christian McCaffrey. On this episode of the Coach Em Up Podcast, Tim Riley sits down with Brian to break down sports performance philosophy, the biggest mistakes coaches make in speed training, and how to safely bring sprinting to the general population. Plus, Brian gets candid about coaching elite pros, building ETS Performance, and why relationships matter more than any X's and O's.

Brian Kula is one of the most decorated performance coaches in the game. A third-generation coach and former decathlete, Brian built Kula Sports Performance from the ground up, including a pivot during the 2020 pandemic that helped him scale his private training business.

This episode covers the full spectrum: why coaches keep making the same speed training mistakes, what vertical integration speed training actually looks like in practice, how to coach sprinting mechanics for athletes without destroying your general population clients, and what Brian learned from his elite mentors. Brian also opens up about the realities of coaching pro athletes, his work with ETS Performance to build career tracks for young coaches, and why plyometrics for speed development are criminally underrated.

If you are chasing faster athletes, a smarter program, or a coaching career worth building, this one is packed.

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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:20 - Brian's background and coaching legacy
00:06:40 - Athlete to coach transition and developing patience
00:11:12 - Coaching youth athletes vs. coaching pros
00:18:33 - Evolution of training philosophy and mentors
00:27:10 - Learning from coaching mistakes and pivoting your program
00:32:04 - Top mistakes in speed training
00:34:40 - Sprinting for general pop and the Fast Forever protocol
00:45:12 - Assessing and coaching elite pros
00:49:18 - Pros and cons of coaching professional athletes
00:55:25 - Mentorship, ETS Performance, and building careers
01:11:34 - The power of relationships
01:14:37 - Listener Q&A with Brian Kula
01:29:37 - Three Things, Rant and Rave, and Unsolicited Advice

#CoachEmUpPodcast #BrianKula #KulaSportsPerformance #SpeedTraining #StrengthAndConditioningPodcast #SprintingMechanics #PerformanceCoach #ETSPerformance #SpeedDevelopment #Plyometrics

Check out Jon on socials! @what_the_heck71 @HammerAndChiselPerformance

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"If you're going to go down this road, you better be prepared to be on it for life."

Tim Riley sits down with elite strength coach and former D1 football player Jon Heck to break down the real science behind PEDs, covering anabolic and androgenic steroids, TRT, growth hormone, insulin, fat burners, and peptides. John Heck gives a no-BS, medically grounded take on who actually uses this stuff, what it does to your body long-term, and why PEDs in sports performance are wildly misunderstood.

This episode covers why pro athletes actually don't use steroids (99% of users are recreational gym bros), how side effects of oral vs injectable steroids differ drastically, why kidney health is the silent killer, and the terrifying reality of insulin risks in bodybuilding and DNP fat burner dangers. Jon also walks through growth hormone hyperplasia bodybuilding, the peptide recovery benefits debate, gray market loopholes, and why steroids ruining athletic performance is especially true for team sport athletes relying on connective tissue elasticity.

The Q&A at the end gets practical fast: reverse dieting, budget nutrition, potassium targets, and phasic diets laid out step by step.

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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:04:00 - PEDs in Sports Performance
00:07:50 - Who Actually Uses Steroids? Pro Athlete Misconceptions
00:10:45 - Anabolic vs Androgenic Steroids
00:22:20 - Jon's First Testosterone Cycle
00:29:45 - Lifetime Commitment, Fertility Risks, and the Endocrine Shutdown
00:35:55 - Estrogen Management, Gyno, and Kidney Health
00:44:00 - Roid Rage Myth, Side Effects of Oral vs Injectable Steroids, Health Timelines
00:54:35 - TREN: Origin and Side Effects
00:59:20 - Diminishing Returns, Counterfeit Gear, and Infection Risks
01:07:00 - Youth Steroid Use in High School Football
01:11:30 - Growth Hormone Hyperplasia Bodybuilding
01:17:20 - Insulin Risks in Bodybuilding
01:21:05 - DNP Fat Burner Dangers, Clenbuterol explained
01:25:30 - Peptide Recovery Benefits and Risks
01:32:10 - Reverse Dieting and Budget Nutrition
01:45:05 - Jon's Phasic Dieting Protocol
01:48:00 - TRT vs Anabolic Steroids for Real Life
01:51:15 - Nutrition Travel Hack

#CoachEmUpPodcast #PEDsInSports #AnabolicSteroids #TRTvsAnabolicSteroids #JohnHeck #StrengthCoach #BodybuildingPodcast #SportsPerformance #Peptides #DNPDangers

Check out Erica and Ashley on socials! @ericalowreystrength @ashleykowalewski

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Erica Lowrey and Ashley Kowalewski join Tim Riley on the coach em up podcast to break down how to increase vertical jump, fix jumper's knee, and survive the grind of collegiate athletics. The group goes deep on patellar tendinopathy in volleyball players, isometric exercises for tendon stiffness, eccentric overloading, and strength training for female volleyball players. They also tackle the real conversation around female athlete body composition coaching. And if you are a strength and conditioning intern or a young coach figuring out how to navigate your first role, the Q&A and intern advice segments in this episode are required listening.

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:26 - Erica's Volleyball Background
00:09:24 - Liberty University & Exercise Science
00:12:08 - Pillars for Strength and Conditioning Internship Success
00:20:08 - Eccentrics and Isometrics for Tissue Longevity
00:23:20 - Recap of the Coach Em Up Conference
00:26:26 - Tackling Body Composition in Female Athletes
00:32:02 - Ashley's Road Back from 98 Pounds
00:37:58 - Body Image Talks with Female Athletes
00:44:44 - Erica's Coaching Journey and USA Bobsled Recruitment
00:52:20 - Ashley's Academic Background and Mentorship Path to LSU
00:59:33 - The Mental Demands of Strength Coaching
01:16:04 - Assessing Incoming Freshman Athletes
01:21:24 - Tendon Stiffness and How to Fix Jumper's Knee
01:31:00 - Overcoming Dumb Athlete Beliefs and Building Exercise Systems
01:33:40 - How to Increase Vertical Jump, Shoulder Stability, and Coaching Autonomy
01:46:01 - Most Impressive Female Athletic Feats and Handling Difficult Sport Coaches
01:58:03 - Overrated vs. Underrated in Athletic Performance
02:02:06 - Final Advice for Interns

#CoachEmUpPodcas #StrengthCoachPodcast #EccentriOverload #JumpersKnee #FemaleStrengthCoach #VerticalJumpTraining #TriphasicTraining #CollegiateStrengthCoaching #EricaLowrey #AshleyKowalewski

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Dr. Ben House returns to the internet to drop some hard truths: baseline testosterone does not predict hypertrophy, the TRT industry is largely built on noise, and your environment matters more than your willpower. Tim Riley and Zack Zillner dig into Ben's wild journey — from MCAT prep and Teach for America, to building a volcano compound in Costa Rica, farming through COVID, and working in the NBA — before landing on his new venture, Biomolecular Athlete. In this episode, he dismantles some of the most pervasive myths in the performance world — testosterone optimization, biohacking culture, and the obsession with chasing biological mechanisms over real output.

Ben breaks down why obesity is the number one driver of low testosterone, why androgen receptor sensitivity matters far more than serum testosterone levels, and why women can build comparable relative muscle mass to men despite having a fraction of the hormone. He also shares his evolution from authoritarian coach to 'Sherpa', how Self-Determination Theory explains the gap between knowledge and action, and why the best coaching often means doing less.

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:41 - How Dr. Ben House Changed Tim's Coaching Career
00:07:00 - Ben's Origin Story: Sports, MCAT & Hating Clinical Medicine
00:10:45 - Teach for America, Austin, and Finding the Fitness World
00:16:19 - Biohacking Skepticism & What Actually Drives Adaptation
00:19:10 - The Costa Rica Volcano Compound & Farming Through COVID
00:30:00 - Memphis Grizzlies Tenure & Leaving the Internet
00:42:25 - Coaching Philosophy Evolution
00:49:22 - Sobriety, Obsession & the Gap Between Knowledge and Action
00:56:50 - Building Ecosystems Over Willpower
01:12:56 - Testosterone & TRT Reality Check
01:21:57 - Obesity, Leptin Resistance & Why Your Testicles Are Inflamed
01:30:42 - Sleep Myths & Why Women Can Match Men's Gains
01:44:41 - Chasing Mechanisms
01:50:35 - Unsolicited Advice

#CoachEmUpPodcast #DrBenHouse #TestosteroneMyths #Hypertrophy #StrengthCoaching #NutritionalScience #BiomolecularAthlete #AndyGalpin #FunctionalMedicine #Podcast