What’s up everyone and welcome back to the Hot Takes Performance podcast. On today’s episode I am joined by Javi Miller-Estrada. Javi is the owner of Ignite Performance, which is based out of Arizona and is a partner in emergence, which is a company that provides resources for coaching within an ecological framework. I was really excited to record this conversation with Javi because he was one of my first influences in training in ecological methodology. We connected about 3...

On today’s show, we have Alex Sarama. Alex is a basketball coach and the founder of Transforming Basketball, which is a company that specializes in coaching education and providing practical applications for sports coaches to implement sports training ecologically. Transforming Basketball is also the name of Alex’s new book, which was released earlier this year and is an absolute must-read for anyone trying to take on an ecological approach to their training environment. In the sh...

What’s going on everyone and welcome back to the Hot Takes Performance Podcast. I’m your host Rob Nelson, and we have Dr. Kevin Becker on the show today. Dr. Becker is an associate professor at the University of Tennessee in the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences. Dr. Becker graduated from the University of Tennessee, obtaining his PhD in Kinesiology and Sport Studies – Sports Psychology and Motor Behavior. In addition to his formal education background, ...

What’s up everyone and welcome back to another episode of the Hot Takes Performance Podcast. In this episode, I am joined by Andy Bass. Andy is a Mental Skills Coach for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Andy is a former professional baseball player, playing for multiple professional baseball organizations. He also has multiple degrees including a PhD and he specializes in all things sport psychology and motor learning. Andy and I met after we both were featured on a...

What’s up everyone and welcome back to the hot takes performance podcast. For all of the baseball fans out there, we have a great guest on the show today. Joining me on the podcast today is Tyler Anzmann. Tyler is the owner of Tyler Anzmann Performance which is based out of Baltimore Maryland. I was introduced to Tyler by a few of my baseball athletes as well as by Rob Rowland who was a previous guest on the podcast. On the show today we talk all things baseball but in particular ...

My guest on the show today is John Mayer. John is the Head Women's Beach Volleyball Coach at Loyola Marymount University as well as a Co-Host on one of my favorite podcasts, the Coach Your Brains Out Podcast. John and I had an awesome conversation where we talked about his playing career, how he got into coaching, how he's using an ecological design within his program, his inspirations outside of coaching, as well as many other topics. I enjoyed the episode with John and if you ha...

My guest for this episode is Rob Rowland. I’ve enjoyed working with Rob for just under 2 years here at UMBC. Rob is an assistant professor and sports physical therapist at the University of Maryland. He splits his time as a PT between the University of Maryland at College Park and at UMBC. Rob has an incredible ability to connect with the athletes he works with but also has an extremely impressive knowledge base that he will use as part of his job in the teaching setting.&nb...

In this episode Joe and I discuss a variety of hot topics including the role of the strength and conditioning/sports performance coach, motivation, sport-specific exercises, how social media has influenced our field, and new ways to approach return-to-play protocols. To get in contact with Joe you can find him at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coach_jalexander/ Johns Hopkins Athletic Performance https://hopkinssports.com/staff-directory/joe-alexander/411 If you liked the show give ...