Just Kickin' It Pod

In a little bit different of an episode, today we chat with the "A Mind for Adventure" team, which includes Ian Pitchfor, Keith Ovenden, and Thomas Ovenden. We speak about coaching language, player learning, development, and getting the most out of your players. They can be found at http://www.amind4adventure.com/

Robin Russell is the CEO and Founder of SportsPath, an e-learning business focused on coach education. He left the English FA in 2005 to work for UEFA as a Football Development Consultant. He founded the LMA School of Football Management in 2010 which has involved over 3,000 coaches in 50 countries. He is an adjunct professor at Ohio University and can be found on twitter @Sportspath

Robbie Russell is a former Professional Soccer Player that spent 7 seasons in Major League Soccer and a few seasons in Europe prior to his retirement in 2013 to start Medical School at George Washington University. Robbie can be found on Twitter @RobbieRussell03

Jed Davies is an oppositions analyst for the Estonia National Football Team and has a variety of coaching roles throughout the United Kingdom and North America. He has written two books, "Coaching the Tiki-Taka Style of Play" and "The Philosophy of Football: In The Shadows of Marcelo Bielsa". You can find Jed on Twitter @TPiMBW and purchase his books at RocketBirdLondon.com

Nick Winkelman is the Head of Athletic Performance & Science for Ireland Rugby. We speak with Nick about the communication mediums coaches use with their athletes including implicit learning vs explicit learning, external stimuli, external vs internal cueing, and how to use constraints to improve the environment of training your team and athletes are exposed to. You can find Nick on Twitter @NickWinkelman

Enda King is the Lead performance Rehabilitation Physiotherapist at the Sports Surgery Clinic in Dublin, Ireland. Working on his PhD in 3D Biomechanics in Return to Play decision making after ACL reconstruction, Enda joins us to chat about athletic groin pain, ACL injury and return to play protocol, and much more related to soccer performance and injury prevention. He can be found on Twitter @Enda_King and at the Sports Surgery Clinic website (www.sportsurgeryclinic.com). He also contributed a chapter on the athletic hip and groin in the great book "Sports Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation" by David Joyce. You can buy it here - http://www.amazon.com/Sports-Injury-Prevention-Rehabilitation-Integrating/dp/0415815061

Bart Caubergh is the fitness coach for FC Krylia Sovetov Samara in the Russian Football Premier League. He joins us today to chat about better training instead of more training. He can be found on Twitter @BartCaubergh

Darcy Norman is the Director of Performance for AS Roma of the Italian Serie A. He helped serve on the performance team of the DFB German National Soccer Team during the 2014 World Cup Run. Darcy speaks with us about how the Germans won the world cup and how he is changing a culture and developing athletic qualities in world class players at AS Roma. He can be found on twitter @DarcyNorman

Ian McKeown is the head of athletic development at Port Adelaide FC of the Australian Football League (AFL). We speak with him about athletic movement, assessment, and training your athletes to be more than just strong. Ian can be found on Twitter @IanMackers

Allistair McCaw is an internationally recognized leader in athletic performance enhancement. He is the founder of the McCaw Method (themccawmethod.com) and has been coaching world class athletes and coaches with cutting edge training techniques and strategies for over 20 years. He can be found on Twitter (@AllistairMccaw) and on Facebook (McCaw Method). Enjoy!

Jay Entlich is the head women's soccer coach at Columbus State Cougars. The Lady Cougars lost in the NCAA D2 National Championship Game to Grand Valley State after a 22-3-1 season. Jay is also an USSF "A" licensed coach and a US Soccer instructor. He is also a former professional coach with the Carolina Courage of the WUSA.

Raymond Verheijen joins us to talk about "better training instead of more training."

Erica (Walsh) Dambach is the Head Women's Soccer Coach at Penn State University. She has led Penn State to a 115-43-8 record over 9 seasons and led her team to the 2015 NCAA College Cup where they won the 2015 National Championship. You can find out more about Erica and Penn State at http://www.gopsusports.com/sports/w-soccer/mtt/walsh_erica00.html

Professor Tim Noakes is a retired Professor of Exercise and Sports Science at the University of Cape Town in 2014 and is now an Emeritus Professor at UCT. He speaks with us about the Low Carb Healthy Fat diet and why Carbohydrate intake leads to Insulin Resistance, which is responsible for metabolic diseases such as Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity, Dimensia, and Cancer. He can be found on Twitter @ProfTimNoakes

Dave Harper is the new Athletic Director at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA which competes in the Atlantic 10 Conference. Dave joins us to chat about Leadership and Culture. For more information on Dave go to www.goduquesne.com

Christian is the Executive Vice President of US Club Soccer. Lavers has an extensive background in coaching, including time in youth soccer, college soccer, professional soccer, and with U.S. Soccer’s youth national teams. His teams have reached national final fours at five different levels, and he has developed players for youth national teams and professional soccer. Lavers is also the President of the Elite Clubs National League and an assistant with the Chicago Red Stars in the NWSL. Prior to working at US Club Soccer, Lavers was a corporate attorney specializing in negotiations, commercial transactions and intellectual property. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a focus in finance and marketing, and a law and MBA degree from the University of Wisconsin. A USSF National “A” License and NSCSAA Premier Diploma holder, Lavers has also published numerous articles in a variety of professional publications and journals and teaches the US Club

Andy Thomson is first team assistant coach for San Antonio FC in the USL.

Aaron is a Doctor of Physical Therapy at Boost Sports Performance and Physical Therapy in Kansas City, a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, and founder of Squat University. Show Notes: 1:03 – 3:52: Aaron’s background and how he got interested in strength and conditioning and his journey to becoming a doctor of physical therapy and strength coach at Boost Physical Performance. 4:35 – 6:08: The rise of physical therapists that are also strength coaches and why being able to do both is so important. 6:58 – 10:10: Aaron’s philosophy on athletic development and how being a physical therapist and strength coach influences his performance pyramid – Movement, Performance, & then Skill. 10:45 – 12:56: The physical requirements needed for soccer players to be able to move, compete, and perform at the highest level and what soccer players need to focus on to remain injury free. 13:54 – 17:50: What Aaron looks for from a movement standpoint from his athletes before he starts to advance their programming.

Dr. Dominic “Dom” D’Agostino (@DominicDAgosti2) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of South Florida - Morsani College of Medicine, and a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). Show Notes: Dom D’Agostino Show Notes: 1:04 – 6:30: Dom’s background in nutrition and how he got involved in his research in ketogenic diets and their benefit in the body’s response to extreme environments and conditions such as epilepsy and oxygen toxicity seizures. 7:34 – 14:24: Why, how, and when Dom started experimenting with low carb diets and more specifically the ketogenic diet in his own life. And being resourceful in his workouts by using his fiancé as resistance for squats and push ups 14:51 – 18:40: Why you need to be aware of how much protein you are ingesting while on a ketogenic diet as gluconeogenesis through too much protein intake can take you out of a state of ketosis. 18:58 – 22:43: How to measure your milim

Raffaele Pilla was a research scientist that worked at the University of South Florida looking at Ketogenic Diets and their therapeutic effects. He is currently a Pharmacist and Research Scientist in Italy. You can find him on Facebook and his e-mail address is raf.pilla@gmail.com Show Notes: 1:16 - 4:04: How he met Dom D'Agostino and the beginnings of his research career looking at compressed gases in Navy SEALs 4:30 - 4:58: How a hyperbaric chamber mimics a real Navy SEAL dive 5:15 - 6:25: The beginning origins of why Navy SEAL divers had to dive deeper into waters and how they began to have seizures due to compressed oxygen 6:49 - 8:17: Atmospheric pressures in a deep dive Navy SEAL compared to walking on dry land 9:13 - 15:50: Discovery of 1921 John's Hopkins Hospital study that showed the ketogenic diet as a cure for epileptic seizures. Story of friend Mike who got off medications for seizures and cured his epilepsy through ketogenic diet. 16:15 - 16:45: Raffaele's favorite soccer team and how many times