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🗓️ 14 May 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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This week on the Brute Strength Podcast, I’m interviewing one of the all-time greats in strength and conditioning, Mike Boyle. Mike is regarded as one of the top experts in the area for sports performance training. He has made his mark in the industry over the past 30 years with an impressive following of professional athletes from the U.S. Women’s Olympic teams in soccer and ice hockey, the Boston Bruins and the Boston Red Sox. Mike has an incredible depth of knowledge and experience when it comes to improving athletic performance. In this episode we get into a lot of his training philosophies for athletes, chasing mastery and the importance of keeping it simple. There’s so much to take away from this episode, so be sure to follow the links below for more info. Enjoy the show!
Topics:
04:30 - Keeping an open mind as a strength coach
15:50 - Chasing mastery
20:50 - 25 years & 25 mistakes
25:33 - Keeping it simple (minimum effective dose)
34:05 - The joint-by-joint approach
43:55 - “If it’s important, do it everyday”
Links:
Joint by Joint Approach - Boyle (article)
Record, Rank & Publish - Holler (article)
Books:
Outliers - Gladwell
Recognizing and Treating Breathing Disorders - Chaitow
How to Win Friends & Influence People - Carnegie
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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 Prospect Games Champ, Michael Kaju. |
0:19.0 | Mind, Body, Brute. body brute. Hey and welcome back. |
0:26.0 | My name is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast. |
0:30.0 | This week's guest is Mike Boyle. |
0:32.0 | Mike is one of the all-time great in strength and conditioning up there with guys like |
0:36.1 | Dan John and Charles Pollacken. |
0:39.4 | Many of you have probably heard me tell the story of my days as a strength and |
0:44.2 | conditioning coach at Southern Utah University. I was working long hours, didn't have |
0:48.9 | many friends, and so when I would get home from work, all I would do was scour the internet for everything I could find on strength and conditioning, kinesiology, etc. |
0:59.0 | And Mike Boyle's articles were one of the things that really inspired me to continue coaching and to learn more |
1:06.2 | about how the body works and how we can train it. In this show we talk about his joint by joint approach this is something that was really a |
1:15.0 | paradigm shift for the way that I look about look at the body we talk about something that |
1:20.9 | he wrote a while back called 25 years, 25 mistakes, something that we can all learn from. |
1:27.2 | The importance of simplicity and how it relates to strength and conditioning. |
1:31.5 | We talk about a Dan John adage that we both love, which basically goes like, |
1:37.4 | if it's important, you should train it every day. And then we talk about what he's changed his mind on in the past couple years. |
1:44.4 | One of the things that I really, really admire about Mike is he's one of the best in the world |
1:49.0 | at what he does and he always takes a strong stance on what he teaches, but he, his ego is not so big that he won't change |
1:59.2 | his mind on something, and he's really well known for this. He'll write a book or make a DVD on something |
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