The Secret To Speed Development ft. Ryan Flaherty
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Flaherty works on Nike's training team with some of the biggest names in sports, including Serena Williams, Russell Wilson and Kobe Bryant. It's no shock that he is one of the most sought after combine coaches in the world.
In this episode, Flaherty discusses his role working with the HeadSpace app to teach NFL athletes about focus and achieving a better mindset on and off the field. He also gets into why he uses concentric training when developing speed, how to improve programming for your athletes and how to prevent injuries that are common with age.
Topics:
04:30 - Working with Nike & HeadSpace
17:34 - Speed development & force production
41:45 - Track workouts
46:15 - How to prevent injuries as you get older
49:05 - CrossFit talk
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.4 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, 2012 and 2013 CrossFit Games Channel, Michael Cajou. |
| 0:19.6 | Mind, Body, Brute. |
| 0:26.0 | What's up? |
| 0:26.9 | Welcome back. |
| 0:27.6 | My name is Mike Cashew, and you're listening to the Brute Strength podcast. |
| 0:31.3 | This week's guest is Ryan Flaherty. |
| 0:34.3 | Ryan is on the Nike training team, and he works with literally the biggest athletes on the planet |
| 0:41.0 | like Serena Williams, Russell Wilson, Kobe Bryant. He works with, I think he told me, |
| 0:47.6 | 18 of the 32 quarterbacks in the NFL and he's one of the most sought after combined coaches in the world. He's known as the |
| 0:57.7 | savant of speed. And so obviously one of the biggest topics we go into on the show is how he |
| 1:05.0 | build speed and athletes. But we start out talking about some of the work that he's doing with the founder of Headspace |
| 1:12.1 | and how they're teaching NFL players how to focus more and how to cultivate a better |
| 1:17.1 | mindset. |
| 1:17.9 | We talk about a bet that he made with Johnny Mansell as he trained him for the combine. |
| 1:24.2 | We talk a lot about what he calls the force number and how he can predict anyone's 40-yard |
| 1:30.4 | dash, concentric only training for speed development. |
| 1:34.7 | And we spend the majority of the show talking about how to, how he builds speed and what |
| 1:41.6 | makes his training programs a little bit different and whether or not you're |
| 1:45.8 | interested in building speed the way that he thinks about programming is a paradigm shift for |
| 1:52.3 | most people who are very tactic or tool driven this get this this this will give you a really |
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