Ep 628: Finding Stability in the S&C World w/ Zach Dechant
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Power Athlete
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Zach Dechant, Assistant Athletic Director of Human Performance at TCU has been with his baseball team for almost 15 years, an anomaly in the collegiate coaching world. Zach knows the importance of building a solid foundation for training that empowers athletes for life. He shares his experience of what it takes to find stability as a career coach and how to navigate the now choppy waters of transfer portals and NIL deals at the college level.
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| 0:00.0 | You have to have that it factor a little bit. |
| 0:02.7 | I can teach you the X's nose, but that's one of the things that I didn't realize as a young strength coach. |
| 0:06.9 | I thought I needed to read, you know, the latest Soviet research and find what Yuri Warkashanski was doing with Olympic athletes in 1967. |
| 0:14.7 | And that stuff, it's not about that. |
| 0:17.1 | It's about building trust and relationships. |
| 0:22.4 | Hey, Power Athlete Nation. We have an amazing podcast in store for you. And what's cool is this |
| 0:27.5 | one lines up with All-Star Weekend and baseball. And we have TCU's Zach Deschant. And Tex |
| 0:33.7 | will give you his exact title son on Bush Group. We got an amazing episode with the Assistant Athletic Director for Human Performance at Texas Christian University, TCU, in Fort Worth, and the author of Movement Over Maxis. |
| 0:47.0 | Wow. |
| 0:47.5 | I mean, I can hear the giddiness in your voice when you say it. |
| 0:50.2 | You're so excited because we're talking about movement and function and the ability to seamlessly |
| 0:57.2 | and effortlessly apply force, lift weights, travel through full ranges of motion, we're using |
| 1:03.3 | external resistance, and how you do it, not necessarily how much you do. Yes, and we got a lot |
| 1:09.3 | to this episode. |
| 1:11.7 | We have coach development because Zach takes a lot of interns and develops a lot of coaches |
| 1:15.3 | out there. |
| 1:15.7 | We got athlete development. |
| 1:17.4 | So his athlete development model. |
| 1:19.7 | And then, you know, baseball specific strength conditioning and a lot more. |
| 1:23.4 | I mean, that's just the tease. |
| 1:24.2 | What I really appreciated was a little bit of a hero's journey with him being a football player, |
| 1:29.3 | getting into strength conditioning coach and strength conditioning because he loved lifting weights. |
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