The Robbie Bourke Podcast

Episode 144: Wil Fleming - Total Athletic Development

Nov 7, 2017

01:11:35

This episodes guests is Wil Fleming from Wilfleming.com, and Force Fitness and Performance. located in Bloomington, Indiana, in the US.

Wil Fleming is a sports performance coach and weightlifting who's expertise comes from years of training and coaching athletes in multiple sports. His athletes are routinely the most explosive, fastest, and strongest on the field.

As mentioned Wil is the owner of Force Fitness and Performance which has been open since 2008. Force boasts an impressive track record of success with 90 + athletes earning Division I scholarships and nearly 225 athletes moving on to compete at the NCAA level in Division I, II, III. Athletes from professional football, basketball, baseball, soccer and track and field have trained with Wil and his team of coaches at Force Fitness.

In addition to being a business owner, Wil has been an author of numerous books and training products for athletes and weightlifters alike including the Complete Olympic Lifting Handbook. Wil is the creator of the Certified Weightlifting Performance Coach Course, with nearly 1000 certified coaches around the world, using his teaching progressions. Wil has also contributed to publications like Men’s Health, Women’s Health, and T-Nation.

He lives in Bloomington, IN with his beautiful and supportive wife, Ashley, and their son Jack (and another one on the way).

On this episode Wil and I discussed:

Wil's background
Wil's personal and professional influences
The good and not so good things that Wil see's within the Physical Preparation Profession, and what solutions he would offer up for the not so good things that he is seeing
Wil discusses the importance of knowing the difference between principles and methods
Wil gives us an in depth breakdown of his training system
Wil's take on VBT training for Olympic lifting and their variations
Why Wil like's to utilize muscle cleans and snatches within his Olympic lifting prescriptions
Wil breaks down his technical model for teaching the Olympic Lifts
How Wil utilizes complexes within his prescription of the Olympic lift variations for increasing training volume, and also for correcting technique
Wil gives us his take on why he believes that Olympic lift variations are just one of many ways to develop power output and not the only way - Many roads lead to Rome
Wil discusses the difference in the programming and periodization schemes that he uses with this athletes vs his Olympic Lifters
Wil gives his top resources to all listeners
Wil gives his top advice to all listeners
And finally if Wil could invite 5 people to dinner dead of alive, who would he invite and why?