Toes On The Line Podcast

Coach Kristina Jeffries puts her Toes on the Line, and we are talking a lot about Hockey strength and conditioning.  Hockey is such a unique sport for the fact that players are skating on ice while twisting, turning, and accelerating.  Coach Jeffries talks about key KPIs in the sport of hockey, how she addresses those KPIs in training, and the training process itself.  

Hockey...

Coach Jarwarski Beckhum, Director of Speed Training with the University or Oregon puts his toes on the line.  Coach Beckhum has a similar history to myself, being that he started his coaching career at a speed training facility, Velocity Sports Performance.  He took what he has learned from there throughout his coaching journey and has been able to establish sound conditioning and sprint programs where he has coached.

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Coach Tim Campbell puts his toes on the line in todays episode.  Coach Campbell is the Director of Strength & Conditioning with the University of Akron.

Coach Campbell has been at Akron for over a decade now and has worked with every sport program there, and currently oversees the Men Soccer & Softball programs.

Today's episode we take a deep dive into Coach Campbells time at Akron, how he got to his current roll, and how the Men S...

In this episode, I take a small dive into Rate of Force Development and its severe importance in sport.  As strength coaches, we can always get caught up in the "numbers" of how much is on the barbell (I was guilty of that at one point in my career), however when we look at the context of sports it is all about who can produced the most amount of force in as little time as possible.

To not upset anyone, there is a time and place fo...

Monmouth University Head Strength and Conditioning Coach Tim Rehm puts his Toes on the Line, and he's talking about how we have been success in training the fastest FCS team in the nation during the 2022 football year.

Coach Rehm shares his philosophy on what it takes to efficiently develop speed as well as his personal background being a track and football athlete. Tim talks about his time with the New York Giants and legendary Co...

In this episode I talk about a newly coined term "Hamstring Vaccine". I speak mostly about my personal work, research, and data reviews on how we have been able to stay hamstring injury free over the course of the 2022 Football Season here at Monmouth University.  

I cover:

My top 4 hamstring injury risks

3 technological platforms that can help identify risk factors

How to take data and apply it in a practical setting

My top 3 "ham...

Season 3 is back, and we are kicking things off with Seton Hall University Strength and Conditioning Coach Angelo Gingerellli. A Strength coach, NSCA State Director, Author, sneaker head, hip hop enthusiast, Angelo is the premier guy to kick off Toes on the Line, Season 3!

Angelo has been at Seton Hall University for over a decade and shares his experiences, as well as how he has been able to sustain a long career as a strength coa...

Bri Rubino puts her Toes on the Line today and she literally brought the heat from the Jersey shore on this episode. Coach Rubino is the Associate Director of Strength and Conditioning at Monmouth University and has been utilizing sports technology throughout her time there. She oversee's Polar HR data for women basketball, M/W lacrosse.  

Throughout this episode, we chat about how Bri has evolved with sports technology, and how sh...

Coach Steve Georgio joins me today and puts his toes on the line, and we talk about how to develop an internship curriculum as well developing a great culture for interns to thrive off of.  Steve and I both coaches together at Fordham University where he interned for me back in 2019. His work ethic was unmatched and he was promoted to a full-time member of the staff and has ever since helped grow the internship program at Fordham I...

Coach Autumn Lockwood, from the University of Houston, puts her Toes on the Line in today’s episode.  Coach Lockwood talks about her Three-Tier Athlete Self-Accountability Model System, and how she helps develop her athletes’ qualities in: Self-Awareness, Self-Assessment, and Self-Leadership. She explains how she attacks the psychological aspect of her athletes’ development, and how she develops their se...

Coach Scott Leech, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at the University of Rhode Island puts his Toes on the Line!

Coach Leech talks about his Football ‘Contact Prep’ conditioning work that he has installed with his team. Contact prep is basically preparing the athletes body for the contact they will face once the pads come on.  Players will face a physical cost for collidin...

Coach Brian Johnson, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Cal University has spent much of his career analyzing the demands of the game of football both at the collegiate and professional levels.  In today's episode, Brian shares his process of how he and his staff objectively utilize the information they receive from their GPS monitors in practice.

I have personally spent the past year studying the demands of the game both in p...

Jason Wooding comes back onto the podcast and shares his coaching techniques and knowledge on speed development. Coach Wooding talks about how he has transformed his sprint coaching techniques based on his testing and feedback he gets from utilizing the 1080 sprint.  Whether its about starting position, foot placement, angular positioning, Coach Wooding understands how to correct inefficient movement patterns to develop a more robu...

Coach Don Day joins the show today and he shares his coaching journey, teams he’s coached, and how he has found his passion in coaching athletes. Talk about a guy that really loves what he does, Don Day is just that guy.

Don Day is also an author of the book The Servant: Correcting a Flawed System, which he shares his coaching journey, as well as ups and downs, and personal battles he has faced while in the profession.  Don shares ...

Rodney Hill is back on the Toes on the Line podcast, and today we are chopping it up about our personal findings on dealing with force plates. Rodney and I both utilize two different force plate companies with our athletes, and over the past year have compared the data with each other.

This episode is solely based on our personal findings and opinions on how to utilize force plates and what metrics we should analyze, track, and wor...

This is an episode you won't want to miss ... this is literally and insider's edition of the types of conversations we would have back in the office. We touched on A LOT of topics in this episode, because quite frankly, why not? Coach Joe Gilfedder is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY.  He and I had worked together for 4 years from 2018 to the summer of 2021.  Coach Gilfedder and I have...