Movement Podcast Creating a Performance Culture with Bob Alejo
Oct 30, 2025
In this engaging discussion, Bob Alejo, a strength and conditioning expert with over 40 years in MLB, Olympic, and collegiate athletics, explores the complexities of building a performance culture. He highlights the critical balance of collaboration across disciplines and the challenges of data-driven decisions in coaching. Alejo offers insight into effective mentorship, urging young coaches to seek wisdom over trends, and emphasizes the importance of context in metrics. His final advice? Foster cross-discipline knowledge to elevate leadership in high-performance environments.
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Transdisciplinary Teams Beat Silos
- A transdisciplinary high-performance team acts as one unified team rather than separate specialties.
- Bob Alejo argues this unity removes bias and targets what works best for the athlete.
Set Minimums, Not Ideals
- Require each discipline to argue for a practical "minimum good enough" for their domain before granting participation.
- Gray Cook says this clarifies gaps and prevents perpetual optimization debates.
Numbers Need Human Context
- Objective metrics only matter with human context and a conductor who digs deeper.
- Bob Alejo warns numbers have "heartbeats" and miss life factors like family stress.
