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 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, Brhew. Mind, body, brute. |
| 0:23.6 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the Brute Strength Podcast. My name is Michael Cashew, and my guest this week is Mike Robertson. He's the owner of Robertson training systems, as well as the Indianapolis fitness and sports training facility. |
| 0:38.6 | This one's a really special one to me because I can vividly remember being in at my first |
| 0:44.3 | strength and conditioning job at Southern Utah University. |
| 0:47.7 | I worked really long hours and I didn't have a whole lot of friends. |
| 0:51.5 | So in the little bit of time that I did have, I would just |
| 0:55.3 | sit in my apartment and read articles online. And Mike Robertson wrote a lot of those articles |
| 1:02.5 | that I became obsessed with in my early days as a strength and conditioning coach. And he, |
| 1:08.5 | along with guys like Eric Cressy and Pavel and Dan John, were my early |
| 1:14.6 | inspirations for being a strength and conditioning coach. So it was a huge honor to get to interview |
| 1:20.4 | this guy. I think he's one of the most technically sound coaches in the entire world. |
| 1:26.9 | But one of the things that I was most |
| 1:28.7 | interested in while interviewing him was diving into the more intangible parts of coaching. |
| 1:35.4 | So we talked about how to prevent distractions and so you can do actually productive work. |
| 1:42.3 | We talked about the importance of having the right personality and specifically |
| 1:47.8 | being able to connect with clients so that you can get buy-in and you can get them to actually |
| 1:53.7 | follow through and stay on the program that you write for them. And I usually don't go much into |
| 2:00.3 | the technical side of training, but because this guy was |
| 2:04.2 | such a huge influence early on in my life, I brought up a couple of the old articles, the old |
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