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PODCAST

Move the Needle: The Human Performance Podcast

Mike Sullivan and Hunter Eisenhower

Move the Needle explores all areas of performance & coaching. Our goal - understand how to most effectively create positive change in athletic performance. Coaches & Professionals from around the industry are interviewed on their take on performance in every setting. Hosted by Mike Sullivan & Hunter Eisenhower, Move the Needle strives to provide a platform of education, curiosity, and actionable information for coaches and athletes.

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01:00:07

Collin Crane: Biohacking with Georgia Basketball

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2024/01/24

Collin Crane - Director of Basketball Performance at the University of Georgia - joins us for the 30th episode of MTN. On this episode, we dive into a handful of topics. Collin talks about the process of designing his own weight room for the basketball program at Georgia, some of the differences he has noticed within training a team that has many athletes who expect to play after college, and we jump down a biohacking rabbit hole. Collin's initiatives with the team at Georgia are thorough and well

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01:07:29

Devan McConnell: High Performance with the Arizona...

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2024/01/17

Devan McConnell - High Performance Director for the Arizona Coyotes - joins us for the 29th episode of MTN. On this episode of the show, Devan takes us down a number of different topics. Including, how he built the sports science department within the Coyotes from the ground up, how him and his staff have decided on what matters most from a monitoring standpoint, and we get into some of the training specifics at different times of the NHL calendar. Whether you work in hockey or not, the applications

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00:53:06

Chima Moneke: From Nigeria to the NBA and Beyond

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2024/01/10

Chima Moneke - Power Forward for Saska Baskonia of the Euroleauge - joins us for the 28th episode of MTN. As a podcast, we have pursued interviews with people (mostly coaches) who are seeking to root out the truths of high performance. However, in that pursuit, we want to also hear from those who are high performers (in this case, Chima) to understand performance from multiple angles. On today's episode, we talk through Chima's journey in basketball, playing for the Sacramento Kings and guarding his

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00:58:00

Tanner Care: Duality of Coaching in Pro & College Sports

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2024/01/03

Tanner Care - Head S&C at Simon Fraser & Director of Performance for the Vancouver Bandits - joins us for the 27th episode of MTN & our first episode of 2024. On this episode of the podcast, Tanner breaks down his unique role within performance - coaching at both the collegiate and professional levels at the same time. Afterwards, we go all over the map from athlete monitoring, to integrating practices & training, & we even get into a little track and field talk. Tanner's width and depth of

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00:56:44

Drake Berberet: Breaking Down the Curves

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2023/12/27

Drake Berberet - VP of Performance for Hawkins Dynamics - joins us for the 26th episode of MTN. This episode is a little different from ones we have done in the past. After going into some conversation around RSI v. CMJ rebound, gameday jumps for basketball, etc. We take a look at some force plate graphs and have Drake break them down for us. Head over to our social media on twitter or instagram @mtn_perform to see the graphs that we talk about. Graphs 1 & 2 are both CMJ. Graph 3 is a depth

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01:07:00

Tim Kelly: Navigating War, LTAD, & Performance

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2023/12/20

Tim Kelly - joins us for the 25th episode of MTN. Tim has coached in a variety of private sector positions including, Virginia High Performance, AIGA Sports Performance, and currently trains out of the Williamsburg Sports Complex in Williamsburg, VA. In this episode of the podcast we spend a little time talking about his experience working with combat veterans and military operatives at VHP, how he views LTAD, and his 9 principles of health & athleticism. Tim's thought process is refreshing and

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01:11:29

Jonas Dodoo: Sprinting as the Assessment & Intervention

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2023/12/13

Jonas Dodoo - Head Coach of Speedworks Training - joins us for the 24th episode of MTN. One of the episodes that we were most excited to record, we sit down with Jonas to cover the spectrum of speed development. We go from using sprint profiling as a movement assessment, using AI to aid in sprint analysis, understanding pillars of deceleration, and much more. Find Jonas on social media @eatsleeptrain_ Follow MTN on social media @mtn_perform and check back each Wednesday for a new episode Big

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01:01:33

Scott Kuehn: LSU Football Sports Science

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2023/12/06

Scott Kuehn - Manager of Applied Sports Science for LSU Football - joins us for the 23rd episode of MTN. On this episode, we dive into a handful of avenues within LSU Sports Science. Scott talks us through some of the evolution of the practices at LSU within sports science and how they consistently are evaluating and upgrading their team. Follow Scott on social media @scottkuehn88 Find MTN on social media @mtn_perform and check back every Wednesday for a new episode Big Thanks to our Sponsor,

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01:11:41

Connor Schoepp: Diving Deep into Return to Play

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2023/11/29

Connor Schoepp - Director of Applied Performance at Liberty University - joins us for the 22nd episode of MTN. On this episode of the podcast, we talk through injury in all aspects - assessment & asymmetry, progressing phases, establishing clear lines of communication, the neurological side of injury, and how to best break down an athlete's time & energy to put them in the best situation possible. Follow Connor on social media @connorschoepp Find MTN on social media @mtn_perform and check back

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01:16:59

Mike Sullivan & Hunter Eisenhower: Exploring the...

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2023/11/22

Today on the 21st episode of MTN, we sit down - just the two of us - and talk through a handful of ideas we have been throwing around privately the last few weeks. If you have seen anything that Hunter has been posting on social media recently, you've seen some of the thoughts that he has been talking through about his "Force System". Today, he expands more on that system and we also talk about Mike's evolution of how he views training in the weight room to create a wholesale speed development

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00:54:54

Jeremiah Welch: Las Vegas Aces Performance

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2023/11/15

Jeremiah Welch - Head Performance Coach for the Las Vegas Aces - joins us for the 20th episode of MTN. Coming off their WNBA championship, we talk to Jeremiah about the evolution of performance in the league, how he's created individualized programs for his team, and how the increased access to technology - through the support of ownership - has pushed the way he thinks and programs. Find Jeremiah on Instagram @jeremiahflys Find MTN on social media @mtn_perform and check back each Wednesday for

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01:09:27

Tommy Christian: 20+ Years of Speed Development

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2023/11/08

Tommy Christian - Owner/Founder of TCBOOST Sports Performance - joins us for the 19th episode of MTN. In this episode, we dive down the last two decades of training speed with Tommy. Few people have spent more time doing what he has and our conversation is wide-ranging around his time training athletes for the NFL Combine, navigating speed development for team sport athletes, turning speed into a physics equation, how he found himself on the side of a highway in India coaching speed, and much more

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01:31:05

Dan Taylor: Sports Science with the Charlotte Hornets

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2023/11/01

Dr. Dan Taylor - Director of Applied Sports Science for the Charlotte Hornets - joins us the for the 18th episode of MTN. In our conversation, Dr. Taylor talks to us about his five "big rocks" within performance monitoring & explains how he uses this foundation to understand the present and predict the future. In a conversation that was wide-ranging and full of in-depth tangents, Dr. Taylor eloquently presents concepts within the field that are easy to digest and actionable for any coach within the

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01:06:09

Joel Smith: Athlete Evaluation, Exploring the...

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2023/10/25

Joel Smith - Founder of Just Fly Sports - joins us for the 17th episode of MTN. In 2011, Joel began Just Fly Sports as a platform to promote information for athletes and coaches to reach their highest potential. In 2016, the first episode of his podcast "Just Fly Performance Podcast" was released. For the last seven years, Joel has been delivering the highest level of education in the performance field. In this conversation, we had so many questions we wanted to dive into. Enjoy a conversation

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01:39:08

Justin Ochoa: Integrating Performance Training &...

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2023/10/18

Justin Ochoa - Owner of PACE Fitness - joins us for the 16th episode of MTN. In this episode of the podcast, we spend a lot of time going down the rabbit hole of marrying sports skill work with performance training. Justin's unique background in basketball and training lends itself to such a conversation. We chat about the pros and cons of being able to do it all or use a more "specialist" model. Make sure to follow Justin on all social media @justinochoa317 Follow the MTN on social media

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01:01:04

Matt King: Building a Staff & Developing a System in...

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2023/10/11

Matt King - Director of Football S&C at UCONN - joins us for the 15th episode of MTN. In this episode, we dive into a conversation about Matt's transition from an Assistant position at the University of Washington to the Director at UCONN. We chat about having to build a staff + his own system at a school on the other side of the country, and we discuss some action steps that anyone can take stepping into a new role with a new team & head coach. Matt's diversity of experience has

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01:17:44

Shawn Sherman: Integrating Neurology & Performance

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2023/10/04

Shawn Sherman - Founder of the Square1System - joins us for the 14th episode of MTN. Shawn's career exploration in understanding the role of neurology and human function/performance has opened the doors for many people to upgrade their lifestyles. In this episode, we cover a lot... ranging from the process of "interviewing" the nervous system, understanding how individuals perceive threat, Shawn's daily practices (he deals with threat too!), and much more. If you haven't

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01:06:57

Blake Bender: Coaching as a Skill, Not an Identity

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2023/09/27

Blake Bender - Lumin Sports - joins us for the 13th episode of MTN. In this episode, we start with a brief conversation about his time at UC Berkeley and before, his approach to training basketball players, and a quick rabbit hole into nutrition. Blake's outlook on the field is unique and we wanted to make sure it was highlighted. We dive into the advice he would give coaches moving into different levels of the profession, the lessons learned from being a part of a staff turnover, and the

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01:13:06

Matt Tometz: Implementing Comprehensive Speed...

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2023/09/20

Matt Tometz - Assistant Director of Olympic Sports at Northwestern University - joins us for the 12th episode of MTN. In this episode, we jump into the the things that people tend to get wrong about speed development, understanding the ratio of mechanics and output as it relates to speed training for team sport athletes, and we go down a rabbit hole related to deceleration that probably could have kept on going. Matt's time spent and understanding of speed & agility make him a valuable

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01:03:29

Jesse Green: From the NBA to NHL, Applying Sports...

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2023/09/13

Jesse Green - Director of Performance & Sports Science for the Pittsburgh Penguins - joins us for the 11th episode of MTN. On today's episode of the podcast, we talk about Jesse's day-to-day experience working in the NBA and NHL, some of the most impactful projects he used (and still does) at both stops, the importance of creating a philosophy in performance unrelated to a specific sport, and we dive a bit deeper into his current role with the Pens. Listen, Like, and Leave us a Review

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