#372 NFL Coach: Stop Training Athletes Like Powerlifters | Cameron Josse

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Dave Tate

Fitness, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 167 minutes

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In 2020, Cameron transitioned into the collegiate ranks, serving as Associate Director of Football Performance at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte before moving to Indiana University as an Athletic Performance Coach for football, where he remained through 2023. From there, he joined Auburn University as an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach, working with one of the most competitive programs in the SEC. Today, Cameron continues that trajectory at the highest level of the game as an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Detroit Lions.

A former defensive back at the University of Rhode Island, Cameron holds a bachelor's degree in kinesiology, a master's in exercise science from William Paterson University, and is currently a PhD candidate at Jean Monnet University in Saint-Etienne, France. His academic pursuits, paired with years of practical experience, shape a coaching philosophy that balances evidence-based performance science with the demands of real-world competition.

Cameron's ability to adapt programming across sports and athlete needs has made him a trusted resource in the world of strength and conditioning. Whether building a foundation for young athletes or optimizing peak performance for professionals on game day, his long-term approach centers on developing strength, speed, resilience, and durability that lasts throughout an athlete's career.

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0:00.0	My job as a strength conditioning coach is to remove as many physical limitations as I can.
0:05.0	Once you enter the door of the weight room, it's all supportive, where the field is the thing.
0:09.0	If you are a football player, you're training for football. I don't care what anybody says.
0:12.0	Like, you're not training for squatting, you're not training for sprinting, you're training for football.
0:16.0	You're training for football. It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit.
0:29.3	Welcome to Table Talk.
0:31.6	All right, guys, we're back with another episode of Table Talk.
0:33.9	Today, my guest is Josh, or Cameron Josh. I told you I was going to screw I always this
0:39.6	was one of my things you've been in the strength and conditioning industry for over two decades
0:47.3	right no not over two decades uh about a little over a decade so I graduated 2013. Yes. So about 12 years now I've been
0:57.5	working in the industry. Okay. When you're you started off was the internship first or is DeFranco's first?
1:05.6	So it was really an internship at DeFranco's was pretty much the very first thing I ever did. And so I think... Well, wait, let's back up real quick because it's going to... We're going to need context here. Yeah. So you played college ball, right? But you trained at DeFranco's when you were in high school. Yeah. Right? So that was probably where I was getting my timeline a little yeah yeah right why did you decide to train at DeFrancos because if I understand
1:34.7	correctly you were working at a donut shop or something like that you know to
1:38.8	pay for the training sessions at DeFranco so that's right with every high school
1:42.5	athlete there's there's a pivotal point, right,
1:45.8	especially if you want to go on to play at another level where you have to make a cognitive
1:50.3	decision. This is what you want to do. So I assume that's what happened as to why you want to
1:57.4	Joe's. But what happened before that to be the catalyst to be able to make that decision?
2:03.3	Yeah.
2:03.6	So it's, that's hilarious that you found that tidbit because that's something that Joe always,
2:10.6	it was like I was an example athlete that he would use to say, look, this guy's just finding
2:16.2	a way to come in here.
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