How to Program for Competitive athletes w/ Nick Fowler - Ep. 40

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2016

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Brute Strength’s very own programming guru and Director of Strength & Conditioning, Nick Fowler is interviewed on the show this week. In this epi, ode we’re lifting the hood so you can really get a feel for Brute’s training methodologies, and a look into how we’re getting athletes ready for The Crossfit Games. Whether you’re an aspiring Games athlete or a coach looking to take your athletes to the next level, this episode is for you. We’ll be getting into athlete assessments, creating a program, training for strength vs. training for endurance, and a couple of things to avoid along the way – so get ready!

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Topics of discussion:

[1:00] How Nick Fowler got started with human physiology and programming

[6:04] Educational sources/ recommended books

“Supertraining” – Dr. MInstel Siff (book)
“Tip of the Day” – Charles Poliquin (blog)
“Gym Jones” – Mark Twight (blog)
Max El-Hag (mentor)
Lyle McDonald (mentor)

[11:00] Programming for athletes

[11:55] Assessing an athlete

[15:58] Creating a programming/ Figuring out what you’re training for

[17:15] How building your aerobics base will increase muscle endurance

[18:50] Endurance Pyramid

[19:58] Advice for athletes looking to get stronger

Slow strength work
Structural strength

[24:10] “Can you get stronger with metcons?”

[27:14] The RIGHT way too lift heavy

The 4-hour rule

[32:40] Concurrent signals – avoid this!

[36:30] How to gain strength without sacrificing endurance

[44:33] Building a strong gymnastics foundation

[51:43] What you need in order to become a Games athlete

Mobility
Hormonal health
Sleep/ recovery
Lifestyle/ stress
Nutrition

[1:07:05] Quick advice for all coaches

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Transcript

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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 Nick Fowler, who is the director of Strength and conditioning at brute strength.
0:08.9	We brought him on board because he is a programming guru so I thought it would be
0:14.7	interesting for a lot of you who are coaches and athletes to hear us talking about
0:20.6	the way that we program the way that we program, the way that we assess athletes, the way that we get
0:25.3	people ready for the Open Regionals and Cross Fit Games.
0:29.0	So we talk about a lot of different things, technical, general, etc.
0:34.6	Stick around for the end because we're giving away something huge for free that all of you
0:39.9	can cash in on. Before we get started, if you would please go to iTunes, leave
0:46.2	me a review or you can go to brute strength training.com slash podcast
0:51.0	slash reviews. Enjoy the show. What's up Nick? Thanks for doing this man. Yeah,
0:57.7	excited to be here. As am I, dude. Let's start off. I think there are a lot of people out there that don't really know you.
1:05.0	Let's start out off by talking about your background a little bit, how you got into coaching and programming for cross fit athletes?
1:14.0	Yeah, that's a great question.
1:17.0	Let's see.
1:19.0	I guess, you know, start with a little bit of my own you know athletic background I you know I
1:28.5	played lacrosse kind of football growing up, East Coast, you know, played a little bit at the college level.
1:39.2	And then, you know, just like everyone else, you know, after college kind of sports team sports kind of goes away and at that time I got introduced to to
1:48.9	you know rock climbing kind of alpine climbing in, you know, the big technical mountains, you know, the Himalayas and, you know, the French Alps and
2:00.6	spending a lot of time in Yosemite climbing and that was really the first time where I really kind of started to get interest
2:08.3	interested in you know how to make myself better, a better athlete,
2:13.5	starting to take a little bit more scientific approach.
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