High-Performance Coaching ft. Dean Somerset

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Stretching is bullshit.

At least, according to renowned strength and conditioning coach Dean Somerset, it is. You might recognize his name from his many contributions to popular fitness platforms including Men’s Health and Bodybuilding.com, but today, he’s adding to the list with a guest appearance on this week’s Brute Podcast.

In this episode, Dean admits that from the start, becoming a strength and conditioning coach was rough. Listen as he dives into his early career, shares advice for building habits, the implications of artificial intelligence in the fitness industry and ultimately, why he thinks stretching is utter bullshit.

Topics:

09:46 – Starting in strength & conditioning

25:52 – Empathy as a skill

35:30 – Building clientele as a trainer

42:00 – Having broad interests

45:20 – Resilience & habits

54:30 – Stretching is not beneficial

58:30 – AI & the fitness industry

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.
0:08.0	We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.
0:12.0	Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach,
0:15.0	2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ,
0:18.0	Michael Kaju.
0:19.0	Mind, Body, Brute. body brute.
0:30.0	Hey, before you start this show, I want to let you know about something I'm super pumped about right now, which is that I started a second podcast.
0:32.0	It's called The WAG Podcast, and I do it with my wife. which is that I started a second podcast.
0:32.6	It's called the WAG Podcast, and I do it with my wife
0:35.0	a D-Kazu.
0:36.3	And the reason that we started this second show
0:38.9	is because over the past few years,
0:41.4	I've had the opportunity to interview some of the best and brightest
0:44.7	in the health and fitness base from New York Times best-selling authors to Olympians and Cross
0:51.2	Fit Games athletes to
1:02.0	support psychologist you name it a lot of the best in the brightest and I have also interviewed my wife a D six or seven times and without fail the the
1:06.5	episodes that get the most engagement in terms of direct messages or
1:10.9	mentions on social media or emails are all the ones that I do with her.
1:16.1	And I think it has something to do with the authenticity of the conversations, the fact that we
1:21.8	know each other a little bit better and can pull stories out of the other.
1:25.0	And so we decided that we're going to start a second show and the format is each episode is 20 to 30 minutes on a single topic with actionable steps after each.
1:38.0	We talk about nutrition, personal development, mindset, and fitness.
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