E9 | Matt Bertsch: Why We Need to Quit Overlooking High-School Strength & Conditioning

The Art Of Coaching

Brett Bartholomew

Health & Fitness, Business, Education

5 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 9 of the Art of Coaching Podcast, I sit down with a guy who has one of the best jobs in all of strength & conditioning. Matt Bertsch is the Performance Director for Lincoln Public Schools in Lincoln Nebraska where he overseas the strength and conditioning for 6 area high schools and more than 3,500 athletes. Too often, coaches chase big name jobs whole overlooking other opportunities for growth. My hope in bringing Matt on is that I can help us as a profession quit overlooking high-school strength & conditioning and potentially get some people to open their minds to other jobs out there. If you like this episode, or want to learn more from Matt make sure to follow him on Twitter @matt_bertsch. Also make sure you let us know what you think of the podcast via an iTunes review! Topics covered on the show Matt's Story Moving from the floor to administration Getting buy in as administrator How to get your resume viewed How to properly use video Preparing for an interview: going beyond wearing a suit and showing up What are you weakest in now and what are you going to do about it Things Matt learned from Coach Venable How does Matt defines who is a good coach Links from the showNHSSCA.usNCSA.comTo join Matt's network of High School strength coaches follow @matt_bertsch @coachvenable & @coachbrokaw on Twitter

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0:00.0	World class athletes great coaches
0:04.5	What do they do when they're at their best?
0:10.5	We don't take no for an answer
0:12.5	We don't take no for an answer
0:14.5	We don't take no for an answer
0:18.5	Leave no doubt tonight
0:20.5	Leave no doubt tonight
0:24.5	No doubt We're gonna get him on the run boys Tonight! Leave NO DOWN Tonight! NO
0:25.0	DOWN!
0:26.0	We're gonna get him on the run, boy!
0:28.0	Once we get him on the run, we're gonna keep him on the run!
0:30.0	And then we're gonna go, go, go, go, go!
0:32.0	And when I can stop until we get a punch that cold line!
0:38.0	Now, you kids are probably seeing to yourselves, hey, I going to go out and I'm going to get the world by the tail and wrap it around and pull it down and put it in my pocket.
0:48.3	Hey, what's going on, everybody? Welcome to another episode of the Art of Coaching
0:59.6	podcast. Got a good one for you today. A couple of points before we get started though.
1:05.8	So the tickets for the private event, discussing careers in coaching, kind of navigating different
1:12.5	challenges within strength and conditioning from a professional standpoint, whether that's
1:16.0	getting the job, keeping the job, creating options for yourself beyond the job.
1:20.4	They are sold out, but on the newsletter, we are actually going to be recording this event. We're going to be making it available to everybody. We'll make it available to the public. It's going to come out
1:30.1	We're thinking spring 2019 and if you want to be notified
1:36.2	As when that comes out how you can get it. It's going to include
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