How do you become a Pro-level Strength and Conditioning Coach? (Or the best coach you can be?) w/Dr. Ramsey Nijem

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Jim McDonald

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🗓️ 18 September 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

If you’re strength and conditioning coach, you probably want to work with athletes. If you can, you probably want to work with professional athletes. How do those opportunities come about? And will striving to get there make you an all-around better coach? We asked Dr Ramsey Nijem, who a few year ago became probably the youngest every head strength coach in the NBA, to break it down for us. Here are some of our thoughts: What are the degree requirements? Which certifications are really necessary? How do you learn to handle professional athletes? How much is programing and how much is psychology? What do you have to do to prove yourself to management? Is there a clear career path? Dr. Nijem earned his Doctorate of Science in Human and Sport Performance as well as Health Promotion and Wellness in 2018. He has published research in top scientific journals in strength and conditioning and is currently investigating injury risk in NBA athletes. He earned his B.S. from UC Santa Barbara and M.S. from Cal State Fullerton’s Center for Sport Performance (where he studied with Dr. Andy Galpin). After several years as head Performance and Strength Coach for the Sacramento Kings NBA franchise, he recently became the Men’s Basketball Director of Sport Performance for the University of Kansas (KU Jayhawks), one of the top Division 1 college basketball programs. Support for this episode comes from Gainful.com! Gainful is a subscription protein service that helps you find the best blend for your goals…and provides a registered dietician to help you meet those goals. We really want you to get your own personalized protein powder from Gainful, so we’ve arranged a Special Offer for our listeners. Get $15 OFF your first month of personalized protein ONLY when you go to gainful.com/facts Hosted by Mike Farr (@silentmikke) and Jim McDonald (@thejimmcd). Produced by Jim McDonald Production assistance by Connor O’Neal. Theme by Aaron Moore. Branding by Joseph Manzo.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Jim. We recorded these episodes with Dr. Ramsey Nijam months ago back during
0:04.9	the NBA season. He was working for the Sacramento Kings at the time. And we had to go through
0:09.5	a process to get these episodes approved. We needed to make them all more family friendly
0:14.1	so you know some bleeping and stuff. And there's been some edits just to kind of keep it
0:18.6	like family friendly, like I said. Anyway, in the meantime, very, very recently, Ram has
0:24.3	taken a new job. He is the men's basketball director of sport performance for University
0:30.0	of Kansas, the KU J-Hawks, one of the most prestigious basketball division one basketball
0:35.1	programs in the country. So congratulations to him on that job. We're going to be rolling
0:39.1	these episodes out over the next few weeks. We hope you enjoy them. It's been very difficult
0:44.0	for me personally to keep these under wraps because they are very good episodes. He did a
0:48.4	fantastic job. We're so great guests. So anyway, enjoy as we are plunging headlong into NBA
0:53.7	training camps, believe it or not.
0:55.7	You're listening to 50% facts to show where we're building a health and fitness resource
1:08.2	by trying to answer a single question every week, just based on what we already know.
1:12.9	Or maybe what we think we know. Then we bring in the world's leading expert to tell us
1:16.7	what we got right and what we got wrong. I'm Jim McDonald and I'm Mike Farf. Welcome
1:21.0	to our show.
1:22.0	Okay.
1:24.0	Killer Mike, who maybe I don't want to insult anybody out there, but maybe a bee list rapper.
1:34.2	When you say Killer Mike, I think Killer Croc for whatever reason. Let's Killer Croc.
1:39.0	Beer? No, I think I could be totally wrong. I think isn't it the character in suicide
1:44.7	squad? The guy that looks like a lizard? Oh, maybe. I don't know. I just saw the end of
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