Ep 687: How to Teach Speed w/ Les Spellman
Power Athlete Radio
Power Athlete
4.8 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Strap yourselves in for a podcast all about speed, hot, nasty bad-ass speed! The Crew explores one of America's elite speed performance coaches, Les Spellman's experience training Olympians, NFL, NCAA, and USA rugby, as well as his experience taking a large percentage of youth athletes to college scholarships.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Power Athlete Radio, a podcast dedicated to empowering your performance every damn day. |
| 0:08.0 | Join former NFL Pro and Power Athlete founder John Wellborn as he dissects the greatest minds in strength, conditioning, and more. |
| 0:16.0 | Joining him is everyone's favorite coach and hair model, Chris, aka Tex McQuilkin, |
| 0:22.3 | Power Athletes Director of Performance. |
| 0:24.8 | So whether your goal is to be the hammer, destroy mediocrity, or simply move the dirt, |
| 0:30.6 | you've come to the right place. |
| 0:32.3 | Now with the warm-up done, let the gains begin. |
| 0:35.7 | Power Athlete Nation, today we welcome Les Spellman, one of America's elite speed |
| 0:40.5 | performance coaches and founder of Spellman performance, former walk-on at Temple, and he's trained |
| 0:46.8 | several Olympians as well as athletes in the NFL NCAA USA Rug, and guided a large number of youth athletes to college scholarships. |
| 0:57.0 | Welcome to Power Athlete Radio, Les. |
| 1:00.0 | Thanks for having me. Thanks for having. This is awesome. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, man, I'm excited. I had the opportunity to scan some of your interviews and one of our coaches, Darren Hansen. He connected us. So he gave me a little bit of |
| 1:12.6 | bigger background and I'm excited to share it, man. So I want to, I want to kick off with your |
| 1:17.3 | journey into coaching and that started way back when you were an athlete and then led to |
| 1:22.6 | eventually a walk on at Temple University's track team. Yeah, for sure. |
| 1:27.8 | Well, I wouldn't call myself much of an athlete in the way that I see these guys |
| 1:32.7 | and how athletic they are now. |
| 1:35.5 | Like, I was very mediocre as an athlete growing up. |
| 1:39.0 | Never really stood out. |
| 1:39.9 | I was always like average, middle of the pack. |
| 1:43.0 | I had okay athleticism. Never was really skilled enough on the technical side for any sport. |
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