The "Secrets" To Athletic Development w/ Mike Robertson
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2018
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Brute Strength Podcast it is my honor to host an OG in the Strength & Conditioning community, Mike Robertson. Mike had a big influence early in my career as a Strength Coach at Southern Utah State University. Whether you're a coach, or an aspiring athlete, this one’s got something for you. In this episode we’ll be getting into program design, athletic development, and the right way to train your core. Enjoy the show.
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Topics of discussion:
05:05 - Social Media & Fitness
13:10 - Serial Batching
17:18 - Athlete buy-in
28:40 - Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE)
35:03 - Anti-Core training
40:08 - Spinal mobility
49:30 - Program design
Links:
Simple Strength Program - Phase 1, Phase 2
Books:
The Slight Edge - Olson
The Obstacle Is The Way - Holiday
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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 Cross-Tic Games Champ, Michael Kaju. |
| 0:19.0 | Mind, Body, Brute. |
| 0:24.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the brute strength podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | My name is Michael Kaju and my guest this week is Mike Robertson. |
| 0:31.0 | He's the owner of Robertson Training Systems, |
| 0:34.7 | as well as the Indianapolis Fitness and Sports Training Facility. |
| 0:38.8 | This one's a really special one to me |
| 0:40.2 | because I can vividly remember being in at my first strength and conditioning job at |
| 0:45.8 | Southern Utah University. |
| 0:48.1 | I worked really long hours and I didn't have a whole lot of friends. |
| 0:51.4 | So in the little bit of time that I did have, I |
| 0:55.1 | would just sit in my apartment and read articles online. And Mike Robertson |
| 1:00.6 | wrote a lot of those articles that I became obsessed with in my early days as a strength and conditioning coach. |
| 1:07.0 | And he along with guys like Eric Kressy and Pavl and Dan John were my early inspirations for being a |
| 1:16.3 | strength and conditioning coach. So it was a huge honor to get to interview this |
| 1:20.6 | guy. I think he's a he's one of the most technically sound coaches |
| 1:25.7 | in the entire world, but one of the things |
| 1:28.2 | that I was most interested in while interviewing him |
| 1:31.8 | was diving into the more intangible parts of coaching. |
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