"How I Became The First Female Strength Coach in MLB" ft. Rachel Balkovec - Ep. 57

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Balkovec (@rachel.balkovec), the first female Strength Coach in the MLB is on the show this week. Rachel is the opposite of an overnight success, and a great example of what happens when you believe in yourself, know your purpose and never give up on your dreams. As you will hear in this episode, getting a team to hire her for a role normally occupied by men was no easy feat, but nonetheless, Rachel is in a league of her own and she continues to break down barriers with the Astros Latin American conditioning program. In this episode, we get into coaching mentality and leading by example, working with new athletes, and why you should constantly be going outside of your comfort zone.

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Topics of discussion:

[2:19] Working at LSU

[5:08] Leadership & Coaching mentality

[10:05] How Rachel became the 1st female Strength Coach in the MLB

[17:24] Being a female in a masculine industry & stepping outside of your comfort zone

[32:10] Coaching goals, working with new athletes, and mental skills development

[39:29] Leading by example/ lifting heavy as a Strength Coach

[47:55] Differences & common characteristics in “good, better, and best” athletes

[49:45] The dichotomy of quitting

[52:38] Thoughts on CrossFit

[1:00:35] Training females vs. males

[1:03:22] Books/ recommended resources

Relentless by Tim Grover
Mindset by Carol Dweck
The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? This is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast.
0:04.0	This week I interviewed the very first female strength and conditioning coach in Major League Baseball, Rachel Balkovic.
0:11.8	We obviously talk about how it how she came to become the first
0:16.7	female strength and conditioning coach in in baseball. We talk about some
0:22.2	technicalities of training baseball players as well as what separates the good, the better, and the best.
0:29.0	Rachel is what I would call an elite strength and conditioning coach because of her mindset as well as her work ethic when it comes to her career.
0:39.0	This girl is an absolute badass and it was a pleasure getting to learn from her.
0:45.0	So I just know you're going to love this show.
0:47.0	Before we get started, if you've got time and you've been listening to our podcast for a while, please take the time to go to iTunes
0:55.7	and leave me a five-star review. I would really appreciate that.
0:58.6	What's up guys? I'm here with former LSU Tiger and the first female
1:05.6	strength coach in the Major League Baseball Association. I don't know if I said
1:09.6	that right in the MLB she is a complete badass and your affiliation with LSU just lets me know that
1:17.1	you're a great person in general and I'm going to love talking to you. Thank you so much for having me on this.
1:25.0	I really am like, I'm flattered and I also kind of feel bad for your listeners because I mean,
1:30.0	you just look at the guests you have on and I'm like why do they want to talk to me?
1:32.8	I don't know what they want to listen to for me because I love listening to the
1:36.8	podcast and I think you have some great guests on here so I'm honored to be a guest and
1:41.1	glad to help it anyway I can.
1:43.0	Well, thank you.
1:43.6	And I truly believe that you are up there
1:46.6	with the best of the best that I've had.
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