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Episode 21 :

Coach Lansky and Coach Parker welcome Coach Kaz Kazadi to the podcast to discuss his coaching philosophy, his experiences, and the various challenges he has experienced over his athletic and coaching career. Some of the topics covered include the importance of culture, accountability, expectations, standards, creating relationships and developing athlete autonomy.

The common theme across each topic is how an authentic coaching approach can be implemented.

Coach Kaz and Coach Lansky also comment on the influence that Coach Parker has had on each of their coaching practices.

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Coach Parker and Coach Lansky are back with another Quick Hitter: offering practical tips for authentic coaches to implement in specific situations. In this short episode, the coaches share their thoughts and suggestions with respect to helping athletes prepare for new athletic challenges. Whether it’s attempting a new max in the squat, racing in the 100 meter final, or pushing your athlete to achieve something that have not previously tried…an authentic coach can balance confidence, focus, enthusiasm, motivation, seriousness and encouragement to help their athletes achieve something new.

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Coach Lansky and Coach Parker shift gears to share a brief, but valuable discussion related to helping athletes recover from a rough performance. Whether it be a missed lift, a dropped pass, blown coverage, slipping out of the start blocks or losing a wrestling match…..these sudden shifts in expected performance can have negative effects on the athlete in terms of the next play, the next attempt or the rest of the competition. The coaches draw on experiences from the last 4-5 decades to share some insight, offer some advice and hopefully get you thinking of ways that you can help your athletes recover and get their head back in the game while you still remain an authentic coach.

This is the first QUICK HITTER that the coaches will share, offering practical advice from an authentic coaching perspective when dealing with a specific challenge.

Each session will be no more than 10-15 minutes in length, focusing on real- world coaching issues.

We hope you enjoy.

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Coach Parker and Coach Lansky engage in a discussion related to motivation, both for the athlete and the coach himself or herself.

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Coach Parker and Coach Lansky offer their own opinions on the NIL, Transfers at the College and High School Level and the challenges these issues present for an authentic coach trying to create and maintain a successful team culture.

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Coach Parker and Coach Lansky discuss the challenges of delivering authentic coaching from an online platform.

They offer their opinions on the question of whether you can be an effective coach from a distance? How do the pros and cons balance in such a situation?

The coaches also offer insight into the influence of other types of technology on strength and conditioning and the benefits and limitations of sport analytics.

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Coach Parker and Coach Lansky are joined by Coach Duane Carlisle. Coach Carlisle has been the head strength and conditioning coach for the San Francisco 49ers and Purdue University. He has also coached with the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL and worked as a strength and conditioning coach and/ or Track Coach at Penn State, La Salle, and Stanford. The coaches discuss a myriad of topics, including coaching influences, establishing relationships with athletes and fellow coaches, and the similar and different challenges associated with private clients compared to collegiate and professional team sport athletes. Coach stresses the importance of being a servant as well as a mentor when coaching as well as the importance of creating and maintaining alignment between coach and athlete throughout the training process. We hope you enjoy this week’s episode of Relationships Over Reps.

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Parker and Lansky delve into the potentially challenging situation where a coach makes a move from being the head coach to an assistant on someone else’s staff.

Roles and responsibilities change as coaches move from being the head guy or girl at a high school to an assistant at a college, or moving from college to the pros or the opposite situation where coaches move from college to high school. Sometimes changes in ownership or leadership result in a head coach moving to a former opponent’s staff as an assistant.

Adapting from being the decision-maker to the coach offering opinions and suggestions can take some time and effort to adjust.

Parker and Lansky discuss how an authentic coaching mindset can impact your ability to adjust, adapt and thrive in new situations. Knowing your role and embracing new challenges is impacted by being able to put your ego aside, opening up to new ideas and concepts, demonstrating loyalty and adopting a spirit of humility so you can excel at what you do best: helping your athletes to improve and grow and achieve their dreams.