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Joe DeFranco's Industrial Strength Show

#316 Sean Hayes on What It Takes To Be A Great Coach, Best Conditioning Drills for Pro Wrestlers & More!

Joe DeFranco's Industrial Strength Show

Joe DeFranco

Fitness, Muscle, Health, Sports, Health & Fitness, Lifting, Bodybuilding, Strength

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

This week Joe is joined by Sean Hayes - Director of Strength & Conditioning at the WWE Performance Center. Highlights from their conversation include: A message from "Stone Cold Steve Austin" to all personal trainers who don't like to "cite their work" lol; A lesson Sean learned from "Macho Man" Randy Savage [which was relayed to him from Shawn Michaels]; Sean reveals the most difficult part of his job; The main traits that Joe & Sean feel separate the GREAT coaches from the average coaches; How often does Sean test his athletes at the WWE PC; The 5 different training phases that make up NXT's yearly S&C plan; The benefits of [regularly] rotating exercises; How Sean balances "variety" with "consistency"; Best conditioning drills for pro wrestlers [besides in-ring work]; Joe reveals the "garage gym envy" he recently experienced; Triple H's new hypertrophy technique...and Much MORE! *For Show Notes & Timestamps visit: www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com

Transcript

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Hey guys, welcome to episode number three hundred and sixteen of the industrial strength show. I got an

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Infotainment pack show for you guys today

0:13.0

Making his third appearance on the industrial strength show is my man

0:19.0

WWE Performance Center head strength and conditioning coach

0:24.0

Sean Hayes returns and if you've heard him on previous episodes you know he is the man

0:33.0

One of the best coaches in the biz one of my favorite people to talk to

0:39.0

Entertaining informative we always have an amazing conversation and

0:45.0

This conversation was no different we we get right into it

0:50.0

The first half of our conversation we talk a lot about what it takes to be a great coach

0:57.0

More the the art of coaching and communication

1:02.0

Then that kind of just naturally leads into more of the technical aspect of training

1:10.0

Clients and athletes and Sean shares some of the programming that he provides for

1:16.0

WWE NXT superstars we get into testing how often you should test your strength

1:25.0

We discuss our favorite conditioning drills for professional wrestlers

1:31.0

And then at the end there's even a little bonus hypertrophy tip for you guys where

1:37.0

Sean kind of was watching triple H train at the performance center doing one of the workouts I sent him

1:47.0

And Sean called me out on something in the workout that he had never seen before

1:53.0

So I end up sharing that it was a little little sneaky hypertrophy technique that we share with you guys

2:01.0

So we have a little little extra bonus muscle building tip at the end of this show as well

2:07.0

So you get it's episode three sixteen so an honor of three sixteen

2:13.0

Sean does a

2:16.0

Phenomenal stone cold impersonation

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