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Joe DeFranco's Industrial Strength Show

#417 Strength & Conditioning in the XFL, FrEaKiEsT Athletes in the WWE & More w/ Sean Hayes!

Joe DeFranco's Industrial Strength Show

Joe DeFranco

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

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

This week's show starts off with a few important announcements followed by Sean Hayes' 4th Industrial Strength Show appearance. Sean - who is currently the Director of Player Performance for the XFL - discusses a variety of topics during today's show. Highlights include: The mixed emotions Sean felt when he left the WWE Performance Center for the XFL; The biggest difference between working w/ pro wrestlers vs pro football players; The new training technology that was used to evaluate all incoming XFL players; The specific tests & performance indicators that were measured during the evaluation process; In-season training; Potential development of a "Football Combine version 2.0"; Freakiest athletes in the WWE; Macho Man, Stone Cold & Ric Flair impersonations...And More! *For a full list of Show Notes + Timestamps visit www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, guys, welcome to episode number 417 of the industrial

0:03.5

strength show as you probably have already seen in the title of

0:10.0

today's show. My man, Sean Hayes returns for his third, I was

0:18.8

gonna say third, but I think this might be his fourth appearance

0:23.1

on the podcast. Yeah, I think it's his fourth appearance on the

0:27.4

podcast, but regardless, this is the first time he's appearing as

0:32.4

the director of player performance for the XFL and not the

0:37.9

director of strength and conditioning at the WWE Performance

0:41.3

Center. For those of you who weren't aware, Sean took a position

0:47.2

with the XFL a couple of months ago or close to a year ago at

0:52.4

this point, so he's had a new company, he's got a new role, but

0:58.3

the one thing that remains the same is the fact that whenever

1:04.0

Sean is on the podcast, it is freaking fire as the kids say.

1:09.8

And this appearance is no exception. I think this conversation,

1:15.7

it's it's a nice mix, a little something for everyone, I think

1:20.8

whether you are in the industry as a strength and conditioning

1:26.0

coach at a university or at the professional level, or you know,

1:29.8

if you're a personal trainer in the private sector or you work at a

1:32.9

gym or you're just someone who's into training and you listen to

1:37.9

the podcast more for entertainment purposes, this conversation's

1:42.0

got a little something for all of you, you know, from the mixed

1:47.2

emotions that Sean went through when he got offered the job with

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