#320: How to Be Jacked & Athletic with WWE Strength Coach, Sean Hayes
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
As the WWE Performance Center's Strength & Conditioning Coach, Sean Hayes is helping shape the physiques of NXT recruits and some of pro wrestling’s most recognizable superstars.
The Harvard Grad, former linebacker, and former NFL Strength coach knows what it takes to get people jacked, strong and ready to perform in any arena.
If you’ve ever wondered how pro wrestlers build such amazing bodies, and more importantly how you can build one of your own, listen as we discuss:
- His journey into strength and conditioning and how it transformed into a career. [5:02]
- Sean’s thoughts on his time spent working for Penn State. [9:18]
- What was it like coaching in the NFL? [17:28]
- How his training systems have evolved at each level. [20:42]
- How the psychology of collegiate athletes compares to the pros in the NFL. [26:47]
- How he became the head S&C Coach of the WWE Performance Center. [31:29]
- The moving parts involved in training a WWE superstar. [43:12]
- What does a day and week of training look like when you’re coached by Sean? [50:51]
- Coaches listen up - understanding when to check your ego at the door. [57:02]
- What training template would he recommend for a 45-year-old stockbroker? [1:01:38]
- The recovery tools required for the average Joe. [1:04:45]
- The lost art of programming for what your body needs. [1:11:17]
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| 0:00.0 | What is up my friends? Thank you for once again hitting that download button and |
| 0:16.6 | tuning into another episode of Renegade radio. I am Jay Farugia. I hope you |
| 0:20.9 | have enjoyed 2019. I hope you're enjoying your holiday season. Hope things |
| 0:25.1 | are going great for you and you're ready to enter the New Year's strong. We're going to |
| 0:29.2 | wrap up the year with a great podcast. My friend and guest is Sean Hayes he is the |
| 0:35.6 | NXT coach he was previously at Penn State he was with the Houston Texans |
| 0:41.4 | and now he is down there at |
| 0:42.6 | NXT if you don't know what NXT is that is |
| 0:46.0 | uh you know I don't even know now if it's offensive to call it the minor leagues of |
| 0:50.0 | w w w w w w w e because it's kind of its old, its own brand. |
| 0:53.2 | It's where usually most of the wrestlers will start |
| 0:56.8 | in NXT, which is down in Orlando. |
| 0:59.6 | And they have a great performance center down there. |
| 1:01.1 | That is where Sean and I recorded this podcast and so a lot of the guys will start there if guys are coming back from a long layoff rehab injury whatever they will go down there they'll train the work with Sean the work with all the staff down there. |
| 1:13.7 | They have an amazing team facility. |
| 1:16.6 | Really cool, I got to spend the day there with Sean. |
| 1:19.9 | And Sean's a great dude, great strength coach, |
| 1:23.3 | follows a lot of the same principles |
| 1:24.6 | that we talk about here that I've used |
| 1:26.6 | in the Renegade method for years. |
| 1:28.2 | A lot of conjugate principles, |
| 1:30.2 | similar stuff to myself, the Joe DeFranco, to Matt Wenning, some of the other guys you've heard on the show, |
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