001: How PJF was Created, Paul Meeting James Harden, Top 3 Overrated Exercises for Vertical Jump, Zion's Weight and Flexibility for Vertical Jump/Speed
The PJF Podcast: Elite Sports Performance
Paul Fabritz
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2019
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 1 of The PJF Podcast, we dive into Paul's story of going from player to trainer. Paul tells the story of how he become James Hardens off season trainer. We dissect Zion Williamson and how we would train him, and discuss the pros and cons of flexibility in relation to explosiveness and how much flexibility we need.
- How PJF was created.
- Paul meeting and becoming James Harden's off season trainer.
- Does Zion need to lose weight? How would we train him?
- Top 3 overrated exercises for vertical jump.
- Flexibility for vertical jump/speed. Does more flexibility lead to more bounce?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the PJF podcast, a show dedicated to decoding elite sports performance and fitness. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Paul Fabrets and I'm an NBA Strength and Conditioning and Performance Trainer. |
| 0:11.2 | If you want to become superhuman, take your fitness and take your sports performance to the next level. |
| 0:16.8 | This is the podcast for you. Let's do it. |
| 0:22.2 | What's up, guys? |
| 0:23.2 | Welcome to episode one of the PJF podcast. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm here with our co-host, Skyler Hood. |
| 0:29.6 | So for those of you guys who don't know Skylar, he's been working with PJF performance |
| 0:34.5 | since we first moved to California, which was, what, four years ago? |
| 0:39.1 | And so Skyler has a foot in the door of strength and conditioning and also as a basketball |
| 0:44.6 | head coach. So he's a great person for this podcast because he asks really good questions. |
| 0:51.1 | And we've always had really good conversations, and we've always talked about |
| 0:54.9 | if we just recorded these conversations, we feel like a lot of coaches, a lot of athletes, a lot of |
| 1:00.0 | everyday people could really benefit from this podcast. So I'll turn it over to Skyler. |
| 1:06.4 | Hey, what's up, guys? I'm happy to be here. You know, I think this is going to be a lot of fun here |
| 1:10.2 | with Paul Favorites of PJ Performance. Like you he said we've had a lot of good interesting |
| 1:15.0 | conversations over the years so we're happy to bring those here to you guys so we're |
| 1:19.1 | gonna get right into it and just start off with with you Paul what why a podcast now |
| 1:23.1 | yeah so it's really just by popular demand I've always always done short form content, so Instagram is a minute, and now we can do a little bit longer with IGTV. |
| 1:34.0 | But people have always wanted more. |
| 1:35.9 | They've always wanted to go more in depth. |
| 1:38.3 | Like I always say, it's more verticals, less horizontal. |
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