The University of Kentucky Strength and Conditioning podcast.

In the months of February and March, our staff put speed and agility at the forefront of our staff development plan completing an advanced program between testing protocols - specifically to refresh our staff as well as teach our young strength coaches our speed and agility philosophy. This episode features the full-time staff sitting down and our reflections on the matter as well as what we learned. 

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Episode 31 - Speed and Agility Recap

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Coach Spurlock talks about finding his own organizational structure in the world of strength and conditioning as well as how to add your own style into your life. 

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Episode 33 - Organization 101

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Coach Spurlock talks about the leadership books we cover as an Olympic Strength & Conditioning staff. The books are:
True North, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Energy Bus, Extreme Ownership, and Chop Wood Carry Water.

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Episode 34: Leadership Books

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Coach Spurlock talks through the performance tests he does with the Kentucky Volleyball team.

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Episode 37: Performance Testing for Kentucky Volleyball

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Coach DeVriendt talks through Kentucky Softball’s performance tests. Many of the performance tests have been consistent for 10+ years, but he has added several assessments after completing the OnBaseU certification.
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Episode 39: Performance Testing for Kentucky Softball

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Coach Spurlock goes over a list he made in 2017 of the things he was thankful for, and why he is thankful for each member of the Kentucky Strength & Conditioning staff.
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BONUS! Episode 40: Thanksgiving 2021

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In this episode, Coach Spurlock talks through the Cpl. Nicholas Dieruf Memorial Workout. This workout is meant to honor Nich, while also raising money and awareness for USA Cares.

To donate, please click here: https://gofund.me/c5123a31

Please consider participating on April 8th. If you do, please post a photo or video on social media and tag Coach Spurlock (@spur.to.the.lock on Instagram) or the Kentucky Strength & Conditioning staff (@UK_OLY_Strength on Instagram & Twitter).
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Episode 45: Cpl. Nicholas Dieruf Memorial Workout

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In this episode, Coach Spurlock talks through a document named “Who We Are.” This document breaks down what it means to be a Kentucky Strength & Conditioning Coach.
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Episode 56: Who We Are

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In this episode, Coach Spurlock talks through the 2nd Annual Mock Weightlifting Competition that the strength staff participated in early this week. 
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Episode 62: 2nd Mock Weightlifting Competition

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In this episode, Coach Spurlock sits down with Coach DeVriendt, Coach Jones and Coach Strobis. The topic of the discussion is “How do you make an impact on your team(s) during their in-season?”
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Episode 66: How to Make an Impact During the In-season

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In this episode, Coach Spurlock discusses the development system of our young strength & conditioning coaches. 
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Episode 67: Development of our Young Strength Coaches

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In this episode, Coach Spurlock sits down with Coach Steven Strobis to talk through his new position on staff. 
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Episode 68: Steven Strobis

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In this episode, the full-time strength staff sits down to talk through what it means to be “mentally tough.” 
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Episode 69: Mental Toughness Part 1

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In this episode, Coach Spurlock sits down with Steven Strobis to discuss the early off-season training program for UK tennis teams. 
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Episode 80: Early Off-season Tennis Training with Steven Strobis

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In this episode, Coach Spurlock talks with Xaymara Gonzalez Adams. Xaymara is the RD that works with the UK volleyball team and basketball programs
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Episode 85: Xaymara Gonzalez Adams

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In this episode, Coach Spurlock talks with Azhani Tealer about how the weight room impacted her performance while she played volleyball at Kentucky. 
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Episode 90: Azhani Tealer

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In this episode, Coach DeVriendt talks with Rob Slowik, Assistant Athletic Trainer who works with Kentucky Gymnastics. 
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Episode 92: Athlete Profiling - Kentucky Gymnastics

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In this episode, Coach Steven Strobis sits down with Charity Hufnagel, a current member of the UK Track & Field program. 
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Episode 93: Charity Hufnagel with Steven Strobis

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In this episode, Coach Spurlock discussing his definition of success.
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Episode 94: Defining Success

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In this episode, Coach Spurlock talks with Connor Gibson, Associate Director of Strength and Conditioning at Carthage College. 
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Episode 95: Connor Gibson - Carthage College

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In this episode, Coach Spurlock talks with Aram Kumar, Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at UK.
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Episode 96: Aram Kumar

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In this episode, Coach Spurlock talks with the coaching assistants. 
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Episode 97: Coaching Assistants

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In this episode, Coach Spurlock talks with Emily Guimond, Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for Athletes Unlimited. 
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Episode 98: Emily Guimond, Athletes Unlimited

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In this episode, Coach Spurlock talks with Erick Orizaba, Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at Southwestern College.
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Episode 99: Erick Orizaba

Coach Spurlock records a quick episode to breakdown "Synergy."

Episode 99.5 - Synergy

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In this episode, Coach Spurlock talks with Steven Strobis, Director of Track & Field  Strength & Conditioning Coach at the University of Arkansas.
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Episode 100: Steven Strobis (Arkansas)

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In this episode, Coach Spurlock talks through his thoughts on ‘maturity.’
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Episode 101: Maturity

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In this episode: Coach Spurlock invites University of Kentucky Senior Athletic Trainer, Katy Poole on to the show. Working with Volleyball and the women’s golf teams, Katy explains her path and why she has chosen to stay at the University of Kentucky. Along with that: the difficulties of being an athletic trainer while being way from your athletes on break and what she finds is the best part of her career in collegiate athletic training. 

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Episode Six - Senior Athletic Trainer Katy Poole

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In this episode: Coach Spurlock sits down with The University of Kentucky Internship Coordinator and Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning Ryan DeVriendt, Former Coaching Assistant Ethan Quarles,  Current Coach Assistant Steven Strobis, and Current GA Strength Coach Ken Knox to speak on their time at Kentucky. Topics include the development throughout the academic year and how we here at Kentucky prepare out interns to Succeed and Proceed. 

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Episode 13 - UK Olympic Strength Internship: Ryan DeVriendt, Ethan Quarles, Steven Strobis, Ken Knox

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In this episode: Coach Spurlock invites Sport and Exercise Psychology director and proud (French) Canadian onto the podcast to dive into the mental edge of sport and how we here at Kentucky are working into that field for our student-athletes. 

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Episode 16 - Marc Cormier

The University of Kentucky Strength and Conditioning podcast.

In this episode: We bring back Dr. Cormier to speak on the performance psychology piece of our athletic development and performance unit, how a strength coach uses this school of thought to better their athletes and continue to dive into the relationship between Strength and Conditioning’s GA positions and Dr. Cormier’s master's program. 

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Episode 19 - Performance Psychology: Marc Cormier, Alycia Carrillo, Ken Knox.

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In this special episode: Coach Spurlock along with the majority of the University of Kentucky’s Olympic Strength Staff sit down for our regularly scheduled after-action review reflecting on our very unexpected but well-executed virtual summer internship. This summer we hosted and invited 7 interns to our virtual internship off-campus from our regular summer program to learn and develop the same way we have in the past. The Strength staff takes this time to talk the good bad and (not that much) ugly of this process in today's episode. 

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