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Iron Culture

Ep. 42 - Strength & Conditioning (Ft. Ian Pyka)

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8827 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Coach Ian Pyka has more history than fits in an episode. While currently an instructor of kinesiology, biomechanics and strength and conditioning at Florida Atlantic University, Coach Pyka has done it all. He was a 3 time NCAA All American Shot Putter and made the 1980 Olympic team as an alternate. He completed his MS in Ex Phys at The University of Tennessee in 1984 and got his CSCS in 1986. Since then, he’s worked at all levels as an S&C coach. As the former head S&C of the University of Massachusetts, Tulane University, the New England Patriots, the Florida Panthers, and in his own S&C company, he‘s accumulated an incredible depth of experience that we were privileged to discuss on Iron Culture.

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0:00.0

S and C, strength and conditioning.

0:05.2

Now, here's the thing, Eric, there's a lot of people on the internet that are, in quotation,

0:10.5

strength coaches, which means self-appointed, which means that they maybe have found love

0:16.2

in powerlifting, decided to do it, found that maybe some of the things that they do are

0:21.0

slightly repeatable and have developed due to their following and due to their lifts,

0:25.1

a coaching team, and so they have individuals that they coach.

0:28.2

But that doesn't make you a strength and conditioning coach.

0:31.1

It's an entirely different thing.

0:34.2

Absolutely.

0:35.0

And especially when you're thinking about being a professional strength conditioning coach

0:39.4

at, say, a Division I university for multi-sports or maybe even working for a professional NFL or NHL team.

0:49.5

Man, like you can imagine if someone had done all of that and maybe also been an Olympic caliber shot putter, like they might have some good perspective on what S&C really is.

1:01.7

Introducing our everyone needs to, I think we explore with iron culture, the science, the history, the culture lifting.

1:08.8

And oftentimes it's an amalgam.

1:10.2

It's a combination of those three things. And our guest today, Y history, the culture lifting. And oftentimes it's an amalgam. It's a combination of those three things.

1:12.6

And our guest today, Jan Picka, his ability, first off, as an athlete, as a lifter, someone

1:18.9

that's passionate, someone who's been a strength and conditioning coach for longer than we've

1:23.0

been alive, who's lived the damn thing, breeded it.

1:26.2

And he's also open, we had this discussion before where sometimes you have some of

1:30.0

those old school either lifters, coaches, where they're pretty, they can become more

1:35.2

dogmatic or resilient where it's their way or the highway.

1:38.7

But what's super cool also about Yon is not only the respect for the history and the culture,

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