Coach Travis Mash talks with industry experts about all things concerning strength - from coaching to programming to technique... from weightlifting to powerlifting to athletic performance.
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Explosive Output Podcasts
The Just Fly Performance Podcast is dedicated to all aspects of athletic performance training, with an emphasis on speed and power development. Featured on the show are coaches and experts in the spectrum of sport performance, ranging from strength and conditioning, to track and field, to sport psychology. Hosted by Joel Smith, the Just Fly Performance Podcast brings you some of the best information on modern athletic performance available.
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494: Quintin Torres on Reactive Strength and Applied Power Development
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Today’s guest is Quintin Torres, a strength and performance coach specializing in Marinovich/Heus inspired training methods. With a background in martial arts, Quintin focuses on movement quality, coordination, and individualized methods that help athletes build strength that truly transfers to sport.So often in athletic development, it is only the…
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493: Joel Smith on 10 Keys to Athletic Longevity and Peak Performance
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Today’s podcast is a solo episode on keys to athletic longevity and ability. This isn’t just a “stay strong as you age” show, but rather, speaks to principles of comprehensive embodiment of the movement and strength training process.Here I break down 10 core principles for true athletic longevity; physically, mentally, and creatively. Drawing from …
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492: Jarod Burton on Simplified Neurology and the Dance of Power Output
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Today’s guest is Dr. Jarod Burton. Jarod is a chiropractor and sports performance coach focused on neurology-driven movement. He blends manual therapy, strength modailities, and nervous system training to unlock better mechanics and athletic output. His work centers on identifying and clearing the neural limits that hold athletes back.In training, …
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491: Reinis Krēgers on Play-Based Athleticism and Elastic Power Development
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Today’s guest is Reinis Krēgers, a former champion decathlete turned track and physical education coach. Reinis is dedicated to building complete movers: fast, coordinated, confident athletes who understand their bodies. His training blends classical sprint development with exploratory tasks, helping athletes develop physical literacy and long-term…
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490: Austin Jochum on Engineering an Elite Training Stimulus
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Today’s guest is Austin Jochum. Austin Jochum is the founder of Jochum Strength, a former All-Conference safety turned performance coach known for playful, movement-rich training. He blends strength, speed, and adaptability to help athletes build real-world capability and enjoy the process.So often, coaches inadvertently play by the formal “rules” …
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489: Bill Smart on Isometrics, Flywheels, and Elastic Power Development
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Today’s guest is Bill Smart. Bill is a sport scientist and physical preparation coach specializing in elite fight-sports performance. As the founder of Smarter Performance and the Strength & Conditioning lead for the CORE MMA team, Bill integrates cutting-edge evidence with real-world high-performance systems to enable combat athletes to show up on…
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488: Sam Elsner on Rewiring Athletic Performance and Movement Learning
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Today’s guest is Sam Elsner. Sam is a former NCAA Division III national champion thrower turned motor learning writer and educator. He’s the author of The Play Advantage and creator of the Substack CALIBRATE, where he explores how humans learn movement through play, perception, and environment design. Sam brings a rare blend of elite athletic exper…
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Progressive Overload; What the Latest Research Really Says
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Progressive overload isn’t just “add weight every week.” It’s the systematic increase of training stress across multiple levers—load, reps, sets (weekly volume), range of motion, frequency, and even targeted fatigue—so tissues keep adapting without tipping into non-functional fatigue. 1) You can “overload” by load or reps—and both work A controlled…
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487: Ben Simons on Speed Training and the Art of Explosive Longevity
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Today’s guest is Ben Simons. Ben is a British performance coach and two-time Olympic bobsledder with a background in sprinting and sports science. A former World Cup gold medallist, he’s now focused on helping athletes develop speed, power, and coordination through evidence-based, real-world training methods. Ben blends biomechanics, motor learning…
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486: Cody Hughes on Principles of Athlete Centered Power Development
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Today’s guest is Cody Hughes. Cody is a strength and performance coach at Farm & Forge in Nashville, blending over a decade of collegiate and private-sector experience into a practical, athlete-centered approach. His work bridges foundational movement with modern tools like VBT and GPS tracking, always anchored by the belief that health drives perf…
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Power or Explosive Strength; Which is the Better Term
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"Strong isn’t enough — here’s how to turn strength into POWER." Coach Travis Mash dives into the Power-3 Framework: Jumping, Acceleration, Change of Direction, and Rotation. What Physiological components help to improve each? How to test and monitor? Learn how Verkhoshansky’s principles, Physiological Components like Reactive Properties (Titin prot…
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485: James de Lacey on Rhythm, Reactivity, and the Art of Athletic Power
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Today’s guest is James de Lacey. James is a professional strength and conditioning coach and the founder of Sweet Science of Fighting, a leading platform for combat sports performance. He has coached in professional rugby leagues across New Zealand, Europe, and the United States, and has trained athletes in MMA, boxing, Muay Thai, and BJJ. Through …
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Today’s guest is Manuel Buitrago. Manuel is a PhD, along with being the founder and director of MaStrength, a global education brand dedicated to authentic Chinese weightlifting. Since launching MaStrength in 2014, he’s taught 100+ seminars worldwide, authored Chinese Weightlifting: A Visual Guide to Technique and Chinese Weightlifting: Technical M…
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483: Jack Barry on Confidence and the Art of Instinctive Athleticism
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Today’s guest is Jack Barry. Jack is the founder of JB Performance and a former ABCA DIII All-American (York College, 2021) who played at Salisbury University. After college, he worked at Tread Athletics, then built a remote+in-person coaching model. Jack has coached athletes from high school to pro levels, appeared on Baseball America’s 90th Perce…
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Today’s guest is Romain Tourillon. Romain is a sports physiotherapist and researcher specializing in the foot–ankle complex, with clinical leadership at the Swiss Olympic Medical Center, La Tour Hospital (Geneva). His PhD at Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne examined foot muscle strength and sport performance.It’s important to train the lower le…
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481: Sam Portland on An Evolution of Sport Speed and Movement Training
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Today’s guest is Sam Portland. Sam is a UK-based athletic performance coach and creator of Speed Gate Golf and the Sports Speed System. After a career in professional sport, he now consults with athletes and teams while mentoring coaches toward healthier and more sustainable careers. Sam has worked with athletes from Premiership Rugby, American foo…
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480: Phil Nash on The Infinite Game of Athletic Performance
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Today’s guest is Phil Nash. Phil is a Manager of Coach Education at EXOS. He is a seasoned strength and conditioning professional who leads EXOS’s efforts to develop and educate coaches worldwide. Phil specializes in bringing practical, science-based training methods—like plyometrics and medicine-ball work—into performance systems, and regularly sh…
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479: Tim Shieff on Exploring Fluidity, Coordination, and Sustainable Performance
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Today’s guest is Tim Shieff. Tim is a former world champion freerunner and Ninja Warrior competitor, and the founder of Way of the Rope. After years of high-level competition, he discovered Rope Flow as a way to restore rhythm, coordination, and resilience in movement. Today, he shares this practice worldwide, blending athletic creativity with a si…
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478: Michael Schofield on Tendons, Fascia and Elastic Recoil in Athletic Movement
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Today’s guest is Dr. Michael Schofield. Mike is a New Zealand sports scientist and track and field coach with a PhD in biomechanics and strength and conditioning. He has coached athletes to Olympic, World Championship, and Commonwealth Games finals in the throws, while also developing national-level sprinters and weightlifters. His strength and con…
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477: Boo Schexnayder on General Strength and the Art of Comprehensive Athletic Development
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Today’s guest is Boo Schexnayder. Irving “Boo” Schexnayder is a world-class coach and consultant with over 44 years of experience in track and field. Renowned for producing 26 NCAA Champions and 8 Olympic/World Championship medalists, he co-founded Schexnayder Athletic Consulting and founded the Track and Field Academy. A former LSU coach and USA T…
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Episode 1 What's Missing from Athletic Performance Programs
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Introduction: Today’s topic: What’s missing from athletic performance programs across the country (high school, private sector, and college). Goal: Build a systematic approach to help athletes maximize performance beyond just lifting weights. Reminder: Champions are made by mastering the little things — not just training hard. The 7-Part Framework:…
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476: Kathy Sierra on Movement Mastery in Horses, Humans, and Robots
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Today’s guest is Kathy Sierra. Kathy Sierra is a computer scientist, author, and horse-movement innovator who bridges neuroscience, learning psychology, and equine training. Co-creator of the award-winning Head First programming series and founder of the JavaRanch community, she later turned her expertise in intrinsic motivation toward her lifelong…
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475: Tim Riley on Intuitive Speed and Strength Training Concepts
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Today’s guest is Tim Riley. Tim Riley is the Director of Sports Performance at Kollective in Austin, where he leads one of the nation’s top NFL off‑season training programs and works with elite athletes across the NFL, NBA, PLL, and AVP. He also serves as a Lead Performance Coach with C4 Energy and Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Unive…
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474: Joel Smith on 12 Reasons Athletes Plateau in a Performance Program
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Joel Smith speaks on 12 reasons why athletes and coaches may hit a plateau in their performance programs. These include:1. Lack of stimulation in the training environment2. Too much stimulation in the training environment3. Not enough creativity or novelty4. Lack of a clear plan5. Too much weightlifting6. Not enough weightlifting7. Monotony from fa…
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473: Michael Zweifel on Athletic Artistry and Movement Intelligence
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Today’s guest is Michael Zweifel. Michael is the Defensive Coordinator and Defensive Backs Coach at UW–La Crosse, now in his fourth season with the program. He previously founded Building Better Athletes (BBA Performance) in Dubuque, Iowa, training athletes from youth to pro levels. Michael also coached at Clarke College and the University of Dubuq…
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472: Will Ratelle on Giant Sets and the Art of Adaptive Training
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Today’s guest is Will “Hoss” Ratelle — former All-Big Sky linebacker turned strength and conditioning coach, with experience at the University of North Dakota, the NFL, and the CFL. Known for his intense, results-driven training style, Hoss blends his pro football background with evidence-based methods to build size, speed, and resilience in athlet…
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471: Cameron Josse and Joel Reinhardt on Movement, Speed, and Capacity Building in Football Performance
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Today’s guests are Cameron Josse and Joel Reinhardt. Cameron Josse is an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach with the Detroit Lions. He’s previously led training at DeFranco’s and worked in college football at Auburn and Indiana, training athletes across the NFL, NHL, UFC, and WWE. Joel Reinhardt is the Director of Football Performance at Lafay…
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