Episode #16: Jessica Isaacs | Sports Dietitian (Formerly LA Clippers, UCLA Men's/Women's Basketball) | Performance Nutrition for Athletes

We welcomed Dr. Lachlan James and Dr. Steven Duhig onto the All Things Speed & Strength Podcast. This episode was guest co-hosted by Dr. Patrick Holmberg. Lachlan James is a Senior Lecturer, Sport Scientist, and Course Coordinator of the Master of Strength and Conditioning degree at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He received his PhD in Sport Science in 2017 and has published over 40 peer reviewed articles, including 25 as first or senior author. He currently supervises 7 PhD students with research projects in the AFL, Super Rugby, Queensland Academy of Sport, the A-League and with VALD Performance. Prior to entering academia, he spent 10 years in professional practice as a strength and conditioning coach and applied sport scientist.  https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/lpjames/publications Steven Duhig is a Lecturer in Exercise Science at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He received his PhD in 2017 with a research focus on hamstring strain injuries. Since then, he has broadened his research interests to include identifying determinants of athletic performance and personalising training programs to optimise sports performance. His current research involves exploring the connections between muscle architecture and injury risk, as well as performance enhancement and injury prevention in various sports, including Australian rules football, soccer, rugby league, swimming, track and field, and surfing. He is also interested in developing technologies to improve musculoskeletal imaging and function. https://experts.griffith.edu.au/9460-steven-duhig The episode is available on all platforms, including YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. About your hosts: The All Things Speed & Strength Podcast is hosted by Lucas Quinn and Jared Wilson. Lucas owns a Training Facility in Westlake Village, California, and works with athletes from the youth to the professional level. Jared is an NBA strength coach and also owns a Training Facility in Ventura, California. Lucas' online speed training digital platform for athletes: www.SpeedUnleashedLQ.com and www.LQSportsPerformance.com Instagram: @LQ_StrengthCoach / @JaredWilson.Performance / @Speed_Strength.Podcast Twitter: @LQStrengthCoach / @_JaredWilson / @SpeedStrPodcast

Jessica Isaacs is a Registered Dietitian and specializes in Performance Nutrition for athletes. She has worked most recently with the Los Angeles Clippers (NBA), as well as with both the Men's and Women's Basketball teams at UCLA. We touched on several different topics in this conversation, including practical applications for youth and female athletes, as well as supplementation, common misconceptions regarding performance nutrition, and other topics. Jessica has a passion for performance nutrition, and has several resources available on her website (https://www.jessicathesportsrd.com). She has been featured in Sports Illustrated and offers nutrition coaching for athletes as well as teams. She offers 1-on-1 Nutrition Coaching, Group Education, Content Development, Seminars, Career Coaching, Media/PR for Brands, and more. Her contact information is as follows: Email: [email protected] Instagram: @jessicathesportsrd The episode is available on all platforms, including YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. About your hosts: The All Things Speed & Strength Podcast is hosted by Lucas Quinn and Jared Wilson. Lucas owns a Training Facility in Westlake Village, California, and works with athletes from the youth to the professional level. Jared is an NBA strength coach and also owns a Training Facility in Ventura, California. Lucas' online speed training digital platform for athletes:www.SpeedUnleashedLQ.com and www.LQSportsPerformance.com Instagram: @LQ_StrengthCoach / @JaredWilson.Performance / @Speed_Strength.Podcast Twitter: @LQStrengthCoach / @_JaredWilson / @SpeedStrPodcast

Coming from Mike's hotel room in Beverly Hills, California, Lucas & Jared are excited to bring Mike onto the Podcast for a conversation regarding some unique topics. We discussed the administrative side of running a private facility and how Mike Boyle Strength & Conditioning was started, and we also touched on what Mike considers when hiring coaches, interns, and overall coach development. Mike answers questions on how to scale your training facility, how to think long-term about your finances as a coach, the importance of relationships with your clients and athletes, and more. The episode is available on all platforms, including YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. About your hosts:The All Things Speed & Strength Podcast is hosted by Lucas Quinn and Jared Wilson. Lucas owns a Training Facility in Westlake Village, California, and works with athletes from the youth to the professional level. Jared is an NBA strength coach and also owns a Training Facility in Ventura, California. Lucas' online speed training digital platform for athletes:www.SpeedUnleashedLQ.com and www.LQSportsPerformance.com Instagram: @LQ_StrengthCoach / @JaredWilson.Performance / @Speed_Strength.Podcast Twitter: @LQStrengthCoach / @_JaredWilson / @SpeedStrPodcast

We welcomed Drake Berberet onto the All Things Speed & Strength Podcast to discuss Force Plate technology and how to practically utilize it in either the team setting or in the private setting. Drake is the VP of Performance for Hawkin Dynamics, a software company specializing in provide force plate technology for measuring neuromuscular performance in a variety of ways. Drake also does brand marketing for Hawkin Dynamics. We discussed how strength coaches, physios, and physical therapists alike can implement force plate technology with their populations, and he breaks down the basic tenants of how to make it useful, practical, and valuable for your athletes and/or business. Find Drake on Instagram (@strength2.speed), Twitter (@dberb23), and LinkedIn. The episode is available on all platforms, including YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. About your hosts: The All Things Speed & Strength Podcast is hosted by Lucas Quinn and Jared Wilson. Lucas owns a Training Facility in Westlake Village, California, and works with athletes from the youth to the professional level. Jared is an NBA strength coach and also owns a Training Facility in Ventura, California. Lucas' online speed training digital platform for athletes:www.SpeedUnleashedLQ.com and www.LQSportsPerformance.com Instagram: @LQ_StrengthCoach / @JaredWilson.Performance / @Speed_Strength.Podcast Twitter: @LQStrengthCoach / @_JaredWilson / @SpeedStrPodcast

Episode #13 features Fred Duncan, who is a performance coach based out of New York. Fred Duncan brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, and practical application in the field of coaching and performance. Our discussion was packed with his insights, thoughts, and considerations regarding athlete preparation, energy system development and how that is often misunderstood, how to train team sport athletes for speed, common fads that coaches get caught up in, and how to best program for desired training outcomes based on the context of your athlete. We thank Fred for being generous with his time and coming onto the Podcast to talk shop! The episode is available on all platforms, including YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. About your hosts: The All Things Speed & Strength Podcast is hosted by Lucas Quinn and Jared Wilson. Lucas owns a Training Facility in Westlake Village, California, and works with athletes from the youth to the professional level. Jared is an NBA strength coach and also owns a Training Facility in Ventura, California. Lucas' online speed training digital platform for athletes: www.SpeedUnleashedLQ.com and www.LQSportsPerformance.com Instagram: @LQ_StrengthCoach / @JaredWilson.Performance / @Speed_Strength.Podcast

Episode 11 features Max Schmarzo, who is a Performance Coach/Trainer to many high level athletes, including NBA athletes, and more. He also is the Co-Founder of Upper Echelon Nutrition, an all-natural, research-based supplement company for athletes. Additionally, he is a co-creator and contributor to The EdgeU, which is an educational platform for coaches, trainers, therapists, and athletes.   This episode highlights some of Max's thought processes when he is tasked with designing a training plan for a basketball player. He touched on how he views movement, the weight room, and how he likes to approach setting up a training day with an athlete. Further, we discussed what he thinks is an appropriate viewpoint on merging skill development with a training program for a basketball player based on that player's true needs and how to optimize that player's role and performance. We also touched on the business side of things, and some advice he has to trainers looking to create an online presence, diversify their potential income, and other key tips that he wished he knew when starting out.   This episode is available on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.    You can find Max on Instagram (@strong_by_science) and on Twitter (@strong_science). Subscribe to his Newsletter by visiting the link on his Instagram or Twitter, or going to his website at https://strongbyscience.net. Join his education platform called EdgeU (www.theedgeu.com), and check out some of his supplements from Upper Echelon Nutrition (www.uenutrition.com). He also has the "Always an Athlete" training program, of which we discussed at the end of this Podcast. Check it out using the link in his Instagram bio.   About your hosts:    The All Things Speed & Strength Podcast is hosted by Lucas Quinn and Jared Wilson. Lucas owns a Training Facility in Westlake Village, California, and works with athletes from the youth to the professional level. Jared is an NBA strength coach and also owns a Training Facility in Ventura, California.    Lucas' online speed training digital platform for athletes:    www.SpeedUnleashedLQ.com and www.LQSportsPerformance.com   Instagram: @LQ_StrengthCoach / @JaredWilson.Performance / @Speed_Strength.Podcast   Twitter: @LQStrengthCoach / @_JaredWilson / @SpeedStrPodcast

Episode 9 features Bill Miller, who brings a very unique but practical approach to training for rotational athletes, particularly baseball players. He is based out of the Chicago area, and we are excited to bring you some great insights into what he does on a day-to-day basis for his athletes! We discussed several aspects of his training philosophy and how that manifests into programming for the rotational athlete and training for improving throwing velocity and hitting power. He touches on his 2022 journey of attempting to get 1,000 timed sprints and what he learned from doing that; we primarily discussed how he uses force-velocity profiling to determine areas of deficiency to drive loading and exercise selection, utilizing different modalities to train for power (including Medicine Balls, the Proteus, and Strength Training). We also got into how he uses a crane scale to measure strength in more unique positions, and how he can use that for performance testing as well as readiness for a pitcher and monitoring fatigue in specific positions.  We also discussed "core" training, and what that means to Bill, and how he approaches training the trunk to accelerate and decelerate and how that relates to throwing and hitting performance.  If you don't already, follow Bill on Instagram (@billmillertraining) and make sure to check out some of his online resources, including his two books on Amazon (Swing Fast & Throw Fast).  The episode is available on all platforms, including YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. About your hosts: The All Things Speed & Strength Podcast is hosted by Lucas Quinn and Jared Wilson. Lucas owns a Training Facility in Westlake Village, California, and works with athletes from the youth to the professional level. Jared is an NBA strength coach and also owns a Training Facility in Ventura, California. Lucas' online speed training digital platform for athletes: www.SpeedUnleashedLQ.com and www.LQSportsPerformance.com Instagram: @LQ_StrengthCoach / @JaredWilson.Performance / @Speed_Strength.Podcast Twitter: @LQStrengthCoach / @_JaredWilson / @SpeedStrPodcast

Episode #7 features Dr. Patrick Holmberg, a former collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coach, who is currently doing research at Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Dr. Holmberg brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, and expertise in the field of strength and conditioning, coaching, and performance. Our discussion was packed with his insights, thoughts, and considerations regarding programming and periodization, workload “management” in consideration of sport demands and how to best apply appropriate stressors, speed development in the context of an overall training plan, hamstring injury reduction strategies, a discussion around microdosing and in-season planning, and more. We thank Dr. Holmberg for being gracious with his time and coming onto the Podcast to talk shop! The episode is available on all platforms, including YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. About your hosts: The All Things Speed & Strength Podcast is hosted by Lucas Quinn and Jared Wilson. Lucas owns a Training Facility in Westlake Village, California, and works with athletes from the youth to the professional level. Jared is an NBA strength coach and also owns a Training Facility in Ventura, California. Lucas' online speed training digital platform for athletes: www.SpeedUnleashedLQ.com and www.LQSportsPerformance.com Instagram: @LQ_StrengthCoach / @JaredWilson.Performance / @Speed_Strength.Podcast Twitter: @LQStrengthCoach / @_JaredWilson / @SpeedStrPodcast

Episode 6 features Joel Canacoo, a MiLB Strength & Conditioning coach for the Cincinnati Reds. Coach Joel Canacoo drops some wisdom on several aspects of what he does and how he does it with his guys in the Reds organization, as well as dropped some key knowledge from his vast experience in the soccer realm as well. We touched on building training programs for athletes, using data to inform the training process, the importance of strength for athlete health and performance, medicine ball training, strategies for soccer athletes and deceleration, speed development, long term athletic development as it pertains to the youth soccer model, and ACL injury risk for female soccer athletes. Be sure to check out the Podcast Practical that we did with Joel, where we covered how he performs Hip, Ankle, and Shoulder CARS with his athletes.

Slight audio issue at the 11:49 mark, but it normalizes, so keep listening. Episode #5 features Dr. Tyler Lesher (ATC/CSCS), the current Head Athletic Trainer for UCLA Men's Basketball. He has worked previously in the NBA with both the Hornets and the Cavs, and now currently with UCLA basketball & golf. Tyler brings a wealth of knowledge to the podcast, as we discussed many different aspects of athlete health and performance. We had an insightful conversation regarding strategies for hoopers to learn to move better, how he has changed the mindset of athletes and how they see the athletic training room, how he sees movement and injury reduction strategies that relate to basketball players specifically, corrective exercises, and more. Be sure to go to YouTube to check out the Podcast Practical that we did with Tyler, where he takes an athlete step-by-step through several different movement and mobility patterns, and talks us through how he sees movements, compensations, and how to select exercises for a given athlete.   Find more information about Tyler Lesher here: Instagram: @dr.tlesh Website: www.tlesher.com Slight audio issue at the 11:49 mark, but it normalizes, so keep listening.  About your hosts:  The All Things Speed & Strength Podcast is hosted by Lucas Quinn and Jared Wilson. Lucas owns a Training Facility in Westlake Village, California, and works with athletes from the youth to the professional level. Jared is an NBA strength coach and also owns a Training Facility in Ventura, California.  Lucas' online speed training digital platform for athletes:  www.SpeedUnleashedLQ.com and www.LQSportsPerformance.com Instagram: @LQ_StrengthCoach / @JaredWilson.Performance / @Speed_Strength.Podcast Twitter: @LQStrengthCoach / @_JaredWilson / @SpeedStrPodcast