#63 Agile Strength & Enhancing Athletic Styles with John Sinclair

This week's podcast episode features John Sinclair!

John has 20+ years of coaching all levels of sport and holds comprehensive knowledge and experience in the aspects and management of all training dynamics (technical-tactical, physical, mental, recovery/regeneration). He has developed a very specific programming algorithm to organize and enhance biological systems for the purpose of creating resiliency. He believes that variability is the key to health and with careful and specific individualized programming we can significantly increase performance and drastically decrease the potential for overuse and injury.

A few of John's accolades include 15 certificates in coaching, science, nutrition, post-rehabilitation therapy, and sports performance, he is a master coach and educator for 7 different companies in the fitness industry, and he coaches athletes in professional, semi-professional and Olympic and Paralympic games including, NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL, NLL, MLS, WTA, AHL, WHL.

 

In this podcast we discuss:

• 00:00 - Intro
• 01:01 - Attacking vs. absorbing ground force
• 06:14 - Advancing motor programming with environmental variance
• 09:10 - Genetics in relation to the quality of connective tissues and subsequent training
• 11:12 - A trainer's approach to athlete variance: Stiff vs subluxed
• 14:48 - Looking for answers in a silo
• 17:23 - The art of coaching: Creating on demand
• 18:49 - Brain-based movement prescriptions
• 24:40 - Modern vs classic hockey goalies
• 28:43 - Enhancing athletic styles
• 33:49 - Assisting motor patterns in youth athletes
• 38:04 - Training high school athletics and professionals
• 40:39 - Training with too much specificity at a younger age
• 44:13 - Programming for the single-sport athlete
• 44:38 - Paralympics: Goalball

More from John:

https://www.instagram.com/authentichealthcoach/

https://www.authentichealthcoaching.com