Leave Your Mark

This episode features Charlie Weingroff.  Charlie is a highly respected physical therapist, athletic trainer, and Strength and Conditioning Coach currently based out of several personal facilities in the New Your City area. Charlie is the Physical Performance Lead and Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Canadian Men’s National Basketball Team. Previously he held roles with Nike’s Executive Performance Council, the United States Marine Corps Special Operations Command, and acted as Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA. He was also Director of Athletic Development for the Roddick-Grunberg Tennis Academy. Charlie has consulted for teams in all major North American sports as well as Manchester United and Manchester City in the English Premier League. He often lectures overseas and his relationship with the Beijing Yanding Trading Company has brought him through mainland China for the last 5 years. Charlie’s Training = Rehab is considered to be a thought-leading m

This episode features Darren Burgess, Darren is currently the High-Performance Manager at the Melbourne Football Club. Prior to his current role, he served as the Director of High Performance at Arsenal Football Club between 2017 and 2019.  He was also previously the High-Performance Manager at Port Adelaide Football Club, and Head of Fitness and Conditioning at Liverpool Football Club. Between 2008 and 2010 Darren served as the Head of Sports Science for Football Federation Australia as well as acting as the Australian Soccer Team’s Fitness Coach which included an appearance at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Prior to 2010 he worked in a number of performance roles with several professional soccer and football organizations as well as being a lecturer in Exercise Science at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney.  He completed his Ph.D. in movement analysis in 2012. Darren has had multiple papers published in peer-review journals and has spoken at many international conferences. Above all of his ac

This episode features Ian Jeffreys.  Ian is an internationally renowned coach, educator, and author. An ex-professional rugby player, where he played at the highest level for 15 years, he is regarded as a world authority in the development of speed & agility and conditioning for team sports. His Gamespeed system of sport-specific speed and agility development, along with his RAMP warm-up protocols have revolutionized training in these areas and have been adopted by a wide range of coaches and organizations around the world. He is currently a Professor of strength and conditioning at the University of South Wales, where he coordinates all of the University’s strength and conditioning activities. He has also coached at the international level and consults extensively with several professional sports organizations around the world. Ian has worked with athletes, clubs, and sports organizations around the world inclusive of professional and national sports teams, sports governing bodies, and national sports as

In this episode, I chat with the gang at ALTIS.  ALTIS is an elite training environment for athletes and a global leader in the provision of education for sports performance. They bring people together from all over the world to learn from esteemed coaches, educators, Olympic medalists, and world champions who share their knowledge and experience to inspire the growth of others.  This conversation is all about their "Why". EnjoyIf you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on social channels IG @Kingopain, TW @BuiltbyScott, LI+FB Scott Livingston. You can find all things LYM at www.LYMLab.com, download your free Life Lab Starter Kit today and get busy living https://lymlab.com/free-lym-lab-starter/Please take the time to visit and connect with our sponsors, they are an essential part of our success:www.VALD.com www.ReconditioningHQ.com

This episode features a talented human performance researcher, Jean-Benoit Morin. JB as he is known is a professor in the Faculty of Sport Sciences at the Université Côte d’Azur, in Nice, France.  He is also a member of the Laboratory of Human Motor Function, Expertise Sport and Health. He serves as an associate researcher with the Sports Research Institute New-Zealand at Auckland University of Technology. JB obtained a Track & Field Coach National Diploma in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Human Locomotion and Performance in 2004. His field of research is mainly human locomotion and performance, with a specific interest in running biomechanics and maximal power movements. He has published many scientific articles, and he teaches locomotion and sports biomechanics. He is also a consultant for professional sports groups in soccer, basketball, rugby, sprinting, and other power-speed sports. He played soccer for 10 years, practiced and coached track and field (middle distance and 400m hurdles) for eight years, and he is

Episode #130 of Leave Your Mark is a special edition where Brett Bartholomew and I come together in a great conversation about how as performance professionals, we can be better versions of ourselves. Not how you run better programming or get better results, but how you might work to be a better you.  COVID has created a time gap where lots of personal contemplation and reflection is occurring in our industry.  How will things look on the other side, how do we pivot and perhaps see the opportunities in front of us or around the corner? Enjoy!If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on social channels IG @Kingopain, TW @BuiltbyScott, LI+FB Scott Livingston. You can find all things LYM at www.LYMLab.com, download your free Life Lab Starter Kit today and get busy living https://lymlab.com/free-lym-lab-starter/Please take the time to visit and connect with our sponsors, they are an essential part of our success:www.VALD.com www.ReconditioningHQ.com

This episode features a leader in human performance in Canada, Paul Gagne.  Paul is a posturologist, strength and conditioning consultant, and rehab specialist and has been in practice for over 35 years.  He is the Co-founder of the D.T.S. Desmotec Training Systems and also serves as a consultant for the Octagon sports agency. His expertise lies in training protocols for postural balance, neuro-muscular balance, and performance enhancement. He has developed a unique postural and functional evaluation and training system. During his career, he’s trained many elite athletes, Olympic, and professional athletes in various sports. He travels throughout the world teaching and sharing his knowledge.  He’s 31 years married and a father of one. Enjoy!If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on social channels IG @Kingopain, TW @BuiltbyScott, LI+FB Scott Livingston. You can find all things LYM at www.LYMLab.com, download your free Life Lab Starter Kit toda

In this episode 128, we invited CEO of ALTIS Stuart McMillan to chat in the Reconditioning community about the genesis and ideology of Performance Therapy.  Kindred spirits, Reconditioning and Performance Therapy are living representations of integrated practice models that promote, support and encourage healthy interaction and a mechanism for performance practitioners to work together to the benefit of the athlete and client. It's a powerful conversation, have a listen today!If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on social channels IG @Kingopain, TW @BuiltbyScott, LI+FB Scott Livingston. You can find all things LYM at www.LYMLab.com, download your free Life Lab Starter Kit today and get busy living https://lymlab.com/free-lym-lab-starter/Please take the time to visit and connect with our sponsors, they are an essential part of our success:www.VALD.com www.ReconditioningHQ.com

This episode features Mike Prebeg who is an innovative practitioner, specializing in performance enhancement, career longevity, and injury recovery. Mike provides unparalleled treatments through his unique combination of soft tissue techniques, with Neurofunctional Acupuncture and joint manipulation to optimize Neurofunctional movement availability and adaptability.  Years of academic and hands-on experience have catapulted his expertise to the front of his field, making him the go-to practitioner for some of the most complicated cases among athletes. His success with these patients has earned him the position of consulting chiropractor with the National Hockey League Players Association and the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team. Mike maintains a clinical practice at Mount Sinai Hospital, one of Canada’s pre-eminent patient care, research and academic health science centers, and Athlete’s Care Sports Medicine Clinic.  Mike is also a Senior Instructor and Lecturer in the Contemporary Medical Acupuncture Program

This episode features Jas Randhawa who is the Lead Performance Therapist at ALTIS, where he oversees the Performance Therapy Staff in addition to providing this service to elite Track & Field athletes from around the globe. Prior to his role with ALTIS, Jas was a member of the high-performance staff for Canada Basketball. He is also a co-founding member of Rehab 2 Performance, an organization that strives to bring together leaders in the field of rehabilitation, physical medicine, and performance. Jas regularly presents at universities, strength and conditioning and medical facilities across Canada, USA, and the UK. If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on social channels IG @Kingopain, TW @BuiltbyScott, LI+FB Scott Livingston. You can find all things LYM at www.LYMLab.com, download your free Life Lab Starter Kit today and get busy living https://lymlab.com/free-lym-lab-starter/Please take the time to visit and connect with our sponsors, t

This special episode of Leave Your Mark is another in the series of Legendary Performance Conversations with a taste of some of the world's best performance practitioners representing Australia and the UK; David Joyce, Lachlan Wilmot, Ian McKeown, Daniel Lewindon, Chris Gaviglio all join your host Scott Livingston and go deep on performance environments and philosophies!If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on social channels IG @Kingopain, TW @BuiltbyScott, LI+FB Scott Livingston. You can find all things LYM at www.LYMLab.com, download your free Life Lab Starter Kit today and get busy living https://lymlab.com/free-lym-lab-starter/Please take the time to visit and connect with our sponsors, they are an essential part of our success:www.VALD.com www.ReconditioningHQ.com

This episode features podcaster and performance coach Robert Pacey.  Rob is the host of the popular Pacey Performance podcast and a practicing strength and conditioning coach. On his successful podcast, Rob interviews performance professionals from all over the world who are influencing human performance on a daily basis.  He’s been at it for several years now and has over 280 interviews in the bank. A former professional footballer himself through the ranks of the Doncaster Rovers FC, in his post-career Rob was attracted to the world of sports science. He’s worked in and around the sports tech industry for the past six years with companies like Catapult and Vald Performance.If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on social channels IG @Kingopain, TW @BuiltbyScott, LI+FB Scott Livingston. You can find all things LYM at www.LYMLab.com, download your free Life Lab Starter Kit today and get busy living https://lymlab.com/free-lym-lab-starter/Please

Reconditioninghq.com has been hosting weekly Reconditionig Zoom Labs and talking about subject matter near and dear to our hearts and minds.  The first edition features Jeremy Sheppard who is the Director of Performance Solutions with the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific where he acts as the Head of Strength and Conditioning for the Slopestyle and Big Air teams and oversees the Sport Science-Sport Medicine of the 5 Olympic snowboard disciplines. Prior to his role at the CSIP, he spent a number of years as the Head of Strength and Conditioning and Sport Science for Surfing Australia. He has been fortunate to have worked with numerous national, world, and Olympic medalists, and consults with professional teams in the NRL, NFL, and AFL.  Jeremy is also the consummate marriage between sports scientist and practitioner who has contributed volumes of valuable research in the area of athlete performance to the sports science community at large. He is an avid sportsman and has worked with his board on the ocean and o

This episode features Matt Shearer who is the Senior Vice President/General Manager of Under Armour’s Canadian business. He has been with Under Armour since 2001 and has played a major role in elevating the brand on an international level. In 2003, he opened and established the brand’s Canadian subsidiary and in 2009 added the Americas region, including market responsibility in Mexico, South America, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2012, Matt relocated to Amsterdam to become Vice President of EMEA, where he was responsible for restructuring and managing Under Armour’s European business. He returned to Canada in 2014 to resume responsibility of the Canadian business, as well as oversee Under Armour’s Outdoor division.  In addition to his Canadian responsibilities, he has since been elevated to oversee UA’s North America Operations. As an athlete, Matt played professional lacrosse in both the National Lacrosse League and Major League Lacrosse, as well as playing for the Canadian National Lacrosse Team. If you li

This episode features world-renown researcher Stuart Phillips. Stuart is currently a full Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and School of Medicine at McMaster University. He is Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Skeletal Muscle Health. He is also the Director of the McMaster Centre for Nutrition, Exercise, and Health Research and the Physical Activity Centre of Excellence. Stuart was the inaugural recipient of the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology’s Mentorship award in 2017. In 2018 and 19, he was named to Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list as being in the top 1% of all cited researchers in nutrition and exercise research. Stuart is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Above all of his academic accomplishments, he’s been married for 23 years and is the father of three sons. Enjoy! If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on social channels IG @Kingopain, TW @BuiltbySc

This episode of Leave Your Mark features a true ambassador of athletic therapy in Canada, Glen Bergeron.  Glen is currently a faculty member of the Gupta Faculty of Kinesiology and Applied Health at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba.  He’s been a leader in the profession of Athletic Therapy throughout his career which started when he first certified back in 1975.  Since that time, he’s obtained his masters and Ph.D. and transferred his academic knowledge into Stewardship of the Athletic Therapy profession in Manitoba and throughout Canada. He is a founding member of the Manitoba Athletic Therapists Association and the Sports Medicine Council of Manitoba, and he established the Athletic Therapy program at the University of Winnipeg.He served as President of the Canadian Athletic Therapists for five years.  As well as serving on numerous committees for the association throughout his career.  He has worked at many national and international events including five Olympic games. Glen was most recently the Med

This episode features Anne Hartley who is a prominent Canadian Athletic Therapist, osteopathic manual practitioner, a retired teacher, and author. She served for 32 years in the Bachelor of Athletic Therapy Program at Sheridan College and has lectured extensively in both Canada and the United States. She is a female pioneer in the industry having been the first female Head therapist of a football team in Canada, the first female to attempt and pass the CATA Certification exam, the first female AT to serve on an Olympic Medical team at the Montreal Olympics among several firsts! Beyond these firsts, she has been a member of the Canadian medical teams for several Pan Am, Olympic, Paralympic and International games. She is a graduate of the Canadian College of Osteopathy with a diploma in Osteopathic Manual Practice and a diploma in the Science of Osteopathy. She specializes in many different kinds of therapy including sports medicine, fascial techniques, electrical modalities, acupuncture, cranial-sacral and vi

This episode of the Leave Your Mark podcast is another in our new series of Legendary Performance Conversations with some of hockey's great thought leaders; Mike Boyle, Stephen Norris, Lorne Goldenberg, Matt Nichol, Mike Potenza, Mark Fitzgerald, Matt Price, and the host, Scott Livingston talk all about performance issues in the sport of hockey.If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on social channels IG @Kingopain, TW @BuiltbyScott, LI+FB Scott Livingston. You can find all things LYM at www.LYMLab.com, download your free Life Lab Starter Kit today and get busy living https://lymlab.com/free-lym-lab-starter/Please take the time to visit and connect with our sponsors, they are an essential part of our success:www.VALD.com www.ReconditioningHQ.com

This episode features a leader in human performance in Canada, Darren Steeves.  Darren has come to realize that his life’s purpose is to help people. His purpose is expressed in many forms from supporting world champions, to building resilience in university students, and corporate employees finding innovative IT solutions. He loves the evidence process and attempts to keep a growth mindset every day. Through this purpose and his values of collaboration, innovation, trustworthiness and curiosity he has been led to Olympic games, international speaking engagements, publishing research, and collaborating with some of the world’s best people in sport science, coaching, resilience, and strength, and conditioning.  Darren lives in Halifax with his wife Julia and fur baby Rudy. You can meet Rudy on Darren’s TedTalk titled “Stuff I have learned from my dog”. You can still find Darren on the ice trying to relive the glory days, or out on a hike in some of the beautiful spots in NS with Julia.If you liked this EP, ple

Dexter is a legendary athletic therapist.  For many years Dexter served in various roles at Mount Royal College including instructing and acting as Chair of various academic committees and departments. He was a co-founder of the Canadian Pro-Rodeo sports medicine team on which he served for 25 years.  He was the founding president of the Alberta Athletic Therapists Association as well as the Alberta Sports Medicine Council.  He served as the President of the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association from 1984 to 1986, as well as having served on numerous committees within the organization throughout his career. In his later years in practice, he was an important part of the development of relationships between the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association and the National Athletic Trainers Association in the US and has served on several committees in this regard. He has been awarded numerous recognitions by various organizations representing athletic therapy and sports medicine, perhaps the most honorable of wh