FFF 026: Training NFL Athletes, Coaching & The Benefits Of Single Leg Training - with Nick Winkelman
The Food For Fitness Podcast | Nutrition | Training | Lifestyle | Healthy Living
Scott Baptie
4.8 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Nick Winkelman is the Director of Education at EXOS where he oversees all mentorship education courses and is a full-time strength and conditioning coach. He also lectures nationally and internationally on all topics pertaining to exercise science, strength & conditioning and personal training.
In this episode of the Food For Fitness podcast, Nick chats all about coaching cues. What are they and you’ll learn the difference between internal and external cues and when they’re best used. Nick explains how someone’s physiological makeup can affect their ability to perform certain exercises and how he allows for this when designing workout routines.
We’ll cover Nick’s favourite cues for teaching the deadlift, squat and the hip hinge. He shares why single leg or unilateral work is so badass and why more people should be doing it, his thoughts on sprint training for the general public and why he thinks it’s perhaps too dangerous. He talks about why group training is so effective and his thoughts on Crossfit.
Whether you are a recreational lifter who wants to improve your technique or a personal trainer who wants to develop how to coach your own clients, you’re going to love this episode! .
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| 0:27.4 | podcast. We're on episode 26 of the Food for Fitness podcast, brought to you by foodfor Fitness.co. |
| 0:41.0 | This week, my guest, Nick Winkleman, is coming from Phoenix, Arizona, where he is the director of performance education at Exos. |
| 0:49.7 | Now, Exos is a phenomenal facility where they are working with elite level athletes throughout a host of different sports. |
| 0:57.0 | They're working with NFL stars, basketball stars, baseball players and just a host of different people performing at the very top level. |
| 1:05.0 | Now next renowned for his coaching cues or his ability to teach people complicated lifts like the deadlift and |
| 1:12.5 | squat so he'll be looking at how he does it how does he get people to improve in their big lifts |
| 1:17.8 | we'll also be talking at why nick thinks we should be doing more single leg and single armwork in |
| 1:23.5 | the gym what he thinks of sprint training for the general public, how he helps people |
| 1:28.6 | get faster and stronger. Now this podcast is going to be amazing for you if you are currently |
| 1:35.3 | working out in the gym using weights, performing the big lifts. It's also going to be an absolute |
| 1:41.7 | gem for personal trainers who want to learn how Nick coaches elite level athletes so you can take some of those tips and teach your own clients how to get better. |
| 1:52.5 | So here we go. |
| 1:53.6 | Episode 26 of the Food for Fitness podcast with Nick Winkleman of Exxoss Performance. |
| 2:00.1 | Hey Nick, welcome to the show. I'm so glad to be on. Thanks for having me. Oh, it's my pleasure. So Nick, give us a bit more background info about you. Who are you, what you do, how did it all begin and why are you so awesome at it? I hope you have a long enough time for me to answer that, so I'll try to give you kind of the elevator pitch on that one. So I've been in the industry roughly 15 years. |
| 2:20.8 | In fact, my very first job when I was 15 years old was working in a gym. |
| 2:25.8 | So I've really known nothing else but this industry. |
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