
Upside Strength Podcast
[FR] Bienvenu sur le Podcast Upside Strength, ta ressource #1 pour développer tes compétences dans le sport et optimiser ta santé. Nos interviews s'appuyent sur des sportifs, coachs, nutritionistes, chercheurs et bien d'autre qui ont tous leur pièce à apporter pour construir ton puzzle de connaissances.
[EN] Welcome to the Upside Strength Podcast, your #1 resource for developing your skills in sports and how to optimize your health. Our interviews feature athletes, coaches, nutritionists, researchers, and many others who each bring a piece to help build your puzzle of knowledge.
Latest episodes

Jul 31, 2020 • 1h 28min
Kevin Ferreira, Confinement, Sense Commun, Entrainement Fonctionnel, CrossFit || Episode #39 [FR]
Kevin Ferreira (aka KSwiss) est un coach sportif et préparateur physique basé à Genève en Suisse.
Kevin Online:
Site Web: http://www.move-365.com
Kevin sur Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kswiss_fit/
Sujets:
0:00 - Start
0:45 - Intro
1:20 - Penser en anglais et en français
5:26 - La réaction au confinement
16:13 - Développement personnel pendant le lockdown
24:58 - Le FR system
29:17 - Système de pensée (autour du coaching)
33:13 - Les trous à combler dans ton système de pensée
41:29 - Sense commun: Definitions des termes utilisés et principes fondamentaux
47:07 - Entrainement fonctionnel
1:12:24 - CrossFit
1:22:03 - Choses positives dans le monde du fitness
1:26:53 - Kevin sur les réseaux
Interview Video Complet: https://youtu.be/ZNUKLLV2oXg

Jul 29, 2020 • 1h 11min
Justin Kuehn, Wrestling, Power Development, Sleep, Repeat Sprint Ability || Episode #38 [EN]
Justin Kuehn is a collegiate S&C coach at North Dakota State University.
Justin's primary team responsibilities include Wrestlers and Throwers. He has experience at both the collegiate level and in the private sector and is in the final year of obtaining his Master's degree in Leadership in Physical Education and Sport at NDSU.
Justin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j.c.kuehn/
Justin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JCKuehn
Justin’s Power Hour documents: http://ge.tt/3iq9nS53
Topics:
0:00 - Intro
0:58 - What sports did you play growing up?
4:19 - S&C for Wrestling
12:30 - Power Hour - how did it start?
17:52 - Most interesting findings on power
20:30 - Most interesting findings on sleep
22:30 - Most interesting findings on RSA
35:44 - VO2 max and RSA
39:32 - Max speed and RSA
42:49 - Most surprising finding for power
46:03 - Most surprising finding for sleep
50:08 - Most surprising finding for RSA
53:30 - Further research needed in each category
1:07:14 - Next Power Hour topic?
1:09:57 - Where can people find out more about you?
Full Video Interview: https://youtu.be/DIgFhJnvlHI

Jul 25, 2020 • 1h 32min
Will Janssens, Recherche Clinique, Nutrition, Responsabilité Individuelle || Episode #37 [FR]
Will Janssens est un coach, éducateur et auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur des sujets tels que la prise de masse, la sèche et les mensonges du fitness.
Biographie:
“Plongé dans le monde du sport dès mon plus jeune âge, j’en pratique toute une panoplie – tout particulièrement le badminton (pendant 15 ans) jusqu’au niveau national.
Je participe également à Musclemania à Paris en 2014 en catégorie modèle, puis aux championnats suisses de force athlétique en 2015 (DC 110 kg/ S 180 / SdT 220).
Je débute mon cursus académique par un Bachelor en Sciences du Sport, puis poursuis mes études en Angleterre où j’obtiens un diplôme post grade en Sciences sociales du sport à l’Université de Bath.
De retour en Suisse, je termine un master en entraînement et performance – où j’intègre une équipe de recherche du département de physiologie de Lausanne pour compléter mon mémoire (sur une année et demie).
Sur le plan professionnel :
– Coach avant tout (exerce principalement en ligne). Je suis des personnes aux profils variés.
– Co-fondateur de Beyond Fitness, un service de coaching en ligne hautement personnalisable
– Co-fondateur du projet Ambroisie, un service proposant des solutions concrètes à des problèmes de santé.
– Conférencier et formateur entre la Suisse, la France & la Belgique pour différentes écoles de formation (Eficiencia, Fitspro ) et salles de sport.
– Auteur des livres « Les Secrets de la Sèche » et « Les Secrets de la Prise de Muscle », écrits avec Christophe Bonnefont et du livre « Les mensonges du Fitness » écrit avec Tristan Defeuillet-Vang”
Will sur internet:
Site web: https://willjanssens.ch/
Will sur Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/will_coach_u/
Will sur Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtKzXPzPJVOJAwuLl6H8X_g
Sujets:
- Intro
- Parcours professionnel
- Recherche clinique et Peer review
- Glycogène
- Individualisation de la nutrition
- Prise de responsabilité individuelle
- Partage d’information
- Réseaux sociaux et polarisation de certaines pratiques/macros/courants de pensée
- Intolerances et comportement
- Mythes fitness préférés
- Jeux vidéos préférés
- Livres préférés
- Will sur les réseaux
Interview Vidéo: https://youtu.be/4_fBKdBWFnI

Jul 23, 2020 • 1h 3min
Dan Sanzo, Models, Mobility, Breathing, Gait || Episode #36 [EN]
Dan Sanzo is a personal trainer and a strength and conditioning coach based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dan is owner of Strategic Fitness Training LLC and is the Associate Director of Sports Performance at Northeastern University.
He has over a decade of strength and conditioning experience in Division I College Athletics. Prior to his career in the collegiate setting, he was a full time Athletic Trainer.
Find Dan online:
Website: http://strategicfitnesstraining.com
Dan on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StrategicFitnessTraining
Dan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Strategic_Fitness_Training/
Dan in Twitter: https://twitter.com/SFitTraining
Topics:
0:24 - Intro
1:24 - What was your favourite sport as a kid?
5:02 - Compression/expansion model
14:20 - What is movement variability/potential?
29:58 - Breathing and movement
32:03 - How does the gait cycle impact exercise selection?
37:19 - Biggest influences as a coach?
43:00 - What are some of the things that you changed your mind about since you started coaching?
54:58 - What you’re hoping to see more of in the next year?
57:46 - Personal curiosity to dos
59:35 - Advice for young coaches
1:02:12 - Where can we find out more about you?
Full Video Interview: https://youtu.be/i1uSwXazEfA

Jul 20, 2020 • 1h 20min
Keir Wenham-Flatt, Education, Decision Making, Communication, Family || Episode #35 [EN]
Keir Wenham-Flatt is the founder of rugbystrengthcoach.com and strengthcoachnetwork.com
Keir is a Performance Coach with a decade of experience in elite and professional rugby in the UK, Australia, Japan and Argentina. He now works as The coordinator of football performance at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Topics:
0:35 - Intro
2:10 - Stating with you in your early carreer, what questions or principles oriented your decision making back then? How has your decision making process changed or evolved since then?
19:19 - The current coaches education system - what is missing?
27:48 - Making connections in the industry - what are some practical steps that can be taken right now?
32:37 - How to make the most of an internship?
35:31 - What’s the hardest thing to put in place while working with a team sport as S&C 1) as a assistant 2) as the head strength coach?
42:04 - How long should you stay in a club as a coach? Is there an expiry date?
50:04 - The paradox of amateur sports
53:04 - How should a club/organization go about establishing its core values?
1:00:35 - Communication skills for coaches
1:04:13 - Coaching and family: how do you make it work?
1:08:06 - Advice to your younger self when starting out as a coach?
1:09:23 - Advice to yourself now for the next decade?
1:12:03 - Q&A on the gram: favourite and most hated questions?
1:15:20 - What are most young coaches doing wrong when starting out?
1:14:42 - If you weren’t coaching, what would you do for a living?
1:17:22 - What is your biggest regret in your professional career so far?
1:17:48 - What is Strength Coach Network?
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Strength Coach Network is the only place that provides Strength Coaches with the tools, information and support they need to transform their career. They offer a huge range of educational video lectures, presented by in-the-trenches, elite level practitioners. Their lecture library currently stands at several (sleepless) days worth of information, and is growing all the time.
Learn more about Strength Coach Network: https://bit.ly/SCNlearnmore
Get 50% off your first month membership: https://bit.ly/SCN50off
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Full Video Interview: https://youtu.be/y1cVXa7hTpg

Jul 15, 2020 • 1h 6min
Evan Peikon, Busting Energy System Training Myths || Episode #34 [EN]
Evan Peikon is a coach, a translational sports scientist, and an educator at the Training Think Tank HQ in Atlanta, GA.
Evan Peikon on Episode #14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svBYe_h61ok
Evan Peikon on Episode #23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkazRXWLbhU
Evan Peikon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evan_peikon/
Emergent Performance Lab: https://www.emergentperformancelab.net/
The Science & Practice of Performance Enhancement with NIRS: https://moxy-academy.teachable.com/
Topics:
0:18 - Intro
1:03 - When did you first start learning about energy systems?
4:13 - When did you figure out that the old model of energy systems was wrong?
7:00 - NIRS technology
10:50 - Oxygen as the driver
17:52 - Glycogen
22:32 - What can we keep?
27:24 - How to use the scientific method in coaching
36:13 - Trainable systems
44:45 - Occlusion trends & cardiac output
49:13 - Repeat Sprint Ability & physiology
52:54 - Training by feel
59:23 - Respiratory training mistakes
1:03:43 - Moxy Academy Energy System Course
1:05:30 - Evan on Instagram
Full Video Interview: https://youtu.be/L-kU7o0PrzY

Jul 6, 2020 • 1h 22min
Derek Hansen, Charlie Francis Influence, Speed Training, Sports & Pandemic || Episode #33 [EN]
Derek Hansen is an International Sport Performance Consultant that has been working with athletes of all ages and abilities in speed, strength and power sports since 1988. He serves as a performance consultant to numerous professional teams in the NFL, NBA, MLS and NHL, as well as major NCAA Division 1 programs throughout North America, specializing in speed development, strategic performance planning, return-to-competition protocols and neuromuscular electrical stimulation programming.
Website: https://www.runningmechanics.com/
Website: http://sprintcoach.com/
Running Mechanics on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/runningmechanics/
Derek Hansen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/derekmhansen/
Topics:
0:38 - Intro
1:18 - Background
5:11 - When did you know you wanted to become a coach?
9:20 - What have been some of the most important moments in your career so far?
14:25 - Working with Charlie Francis
21:15 - What are some of the things you changed your mind about throughout your career?
31:06 - What is speed reserve and why is it important?
40:27 - Special speed considerations for field sport athletes?
46:08 - Biggest mistake you see in speed coaching for field sports?
52:13 - Training with no equipment & the COVID lockdown
1:05:53 - How to maintain a sporting culture during a prolonged lockdown?
1:11:21 - What are some of the positive effects of the lockdown on the speed/performance field?
1:15:41 - Advice for coaches who want to better teach and coach speed to their athletes?
1:17:57 - Where can people find out more about you?
Full Video Interview: https://youtu.be/6Ccb_fq3x9g

Jul 6, 2020 • 1h 19min
Andy Ryland, Running VS Contact Demands, Grappling for Rugby, Tackling Technique || Episode #32 [EN]
Andrew Ryland is the senior manager of education and training at USA Football.
Andrew has consulted with programs at every level of competition and is widely recognized as a foremost expert on tackling.
He is a former Penn State linebacker and member of the U.S. Men’s Rugby team and is currently working on a manual titled "Prep for Contact". This manual will be part of USA Football’s Development Model and will help coaches prepare athletes for the contact aspect of sports through a variety of drills, games and activities.
Andy : USAfootball.com
Strength Coach Network webinar: https://strengthcoachnetwork.com/members/threads/webinar-54-grappling-for-team-sports-by-andy-ryland.729/
Andy on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/usafootballmt/
Topics:
0:23 - Intro
1:15 - Background
6:38 - Coaching influences
10:28 - Running VS contact, impact, combat efforts
17:56 - Distinction between prep, contact, impact
24:01 - Grappling games VS gym training
31:50 - How to develop stiffness for impact
37:40 - Tackling skill (C)
49:47 - Most common mistakes in tackling
56:17 - Advice for players who struggle with contact/tackling
1:01:12- Coaching staff cooperation around contact work (C)
1:12:06 - Things that you don’t like in the performance field
1:14:35 - Things you do like in the performance field
1:17:11 - Where can we find out more about you?
Full Video Interview: https://youtu.be/WAQN65v011A

Jul 2, 2020 • 1h 8min
Michael Zweifel, Agility Training, Coaching Speed, Warm Ups, The Other 23 || Episode #31 [EN]
Michael Zweifel is the owner of Building Better Athletes, a performance gym located in Dubuque, Iowa.
Topics:
0:28 - Intro
0:45 - Who are you and what do you do?
2:36 - How did you get into coaching?
4:20 - Philosophy of physical preparation
14:03 - What is agility? What are the common mistakes?
26:17 - How do you create environments that allow for the athlete to solve their own problems?
36:03 - How do you teach speed to youth athletes?
44:51 - Transitional Speed - What is it?
46:55 - How to build an effective warm up?
53:30 - "The other 23”
59:30 - Coaching influences?
1:02:56 - Game book - what is it and who is it for?
1:07:49 - Where can people find out more about you?
BBA online: https://www.building-better-athlete.com/
BBA Game Book: https://www.building-better-athlete.com/game-book.html
BBA on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bbaperformance/
Full Video Interview: https://youtu.be/5NwWG8sqPdU

Jun 28, 2020 • 1h 6min
René Scavington, Finding Parkour, Physical Preparation, Competitions, Culture || Episode #30 [EN]
René Scavington is a parkour coach and the founder of Origins Parkour in Vancouver, BC.
René has been immersed in the parkour and performance world for over a decade. He is based out of Vancouver, Canada, where he runs the day to day operations at his facility, Origins Parkour where he also coaches beginner to advanced athletes.
René continues to hone in on his own training practice to contribute to and make improvements in this fast growing sport. He also co-founded a start up company called Sport Parkour League (SPL) that continues to pave the way with competition events all around North America.
René on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/resorigins/
Origins Parkour website: http://originsparkour.com/
Sport Parkour League on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sportparkour/
Topics:
0:50 - Intro
2:35 - How did you find out about parkour?
5:29 - What is Origins Parkour?
11:32 - Physical preparation for Parkour
13:17 - How to organize training for a parkour athlète?
22:37 - What should parkour athletes track in the gym?
28:38 - Aerobic training for parkour
35:50 - Most common mistakes parkour athletes make in physical prep
37:13 - Parkour Events and Competitions
48:38 - What is Parkour?
56:25 - The future of parkour
1:02:55 - Advice for aspiring parkour athletes
1:04:19 - Where can people find you on social media?
Full Video Interview: https://youtu.be/J0p5DTQVBEE