Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.

We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.

Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach,

2012 and 2013 Prospect Games Champ, Michael Kaju.

Mind, Body, Brute. body brute.

What's up. Welcome back. My name is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast. This week's guest is Ryan Flaherty. Ryan is on the Nike

training team and he works with literally the biggest athletes on the planet like

Serena Williams, Russell Wilson, Kobe Bryant. He works with, I think he told me, 18 of the 32

quarterbacks in the NFL and he's one of the most sought-after combine coaches in the world.

He's known as the savant of speed and so obviously one of the biggest topics we go into on the show is how he builds speed and

athletes but we start out talking about some of the work that he's doing with the

founder of Headspace and how they're teaching NFL players how to focus more and

how to cultivate a better mindset.

We talk about a bet that he made with Johnny Manzel as he trained him for the combine.

We talk a lot about what he calls the force number

and how he can predict anyone's 40-yard dash,

concentric only training for speed development.

And we spend the majority of the show talking about how to, how he builds speed and

what makes his training programs a little bit different and whether or not you're

interested in building speed, the way that he thinks about programming is a paradigm shift

for most people who are very tactic or tool driven.

This will give you a really good perspective on how to change your programming or your coaching or both.

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