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The EP is a great performance conversation instigated within the program of the International Hockey Performance Summit in 2022.  I facilitate a discussion about the ins and outs of bringing athletes back from injury and returning them to the highest level of performance with some really bright and experienced performance practitioners, like Mike Potenza of the San Jose Sharks, Matt Price of the LA Kings, Reg Grant formerly with the NY Rangers, and Peter Friesen formerly of the Carolina Hurricanes, it's a powerful chat. 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

Dan is a high-performance coach, with a career spanning over 15 years of work in elite sports, both in the UK and the US. Dan is a Certified Strength & Conditioning coach and has worked with:·       Olympic and Paralympic Programmes·       The US and GB Ski Teams·       The English Institute of Sport·       Wasps Rugby Club·       England Rugby 7s·       Team GB Rugby 7s (2016 and 2020)·       And the Houston Astros of MLB ClubAs well as focusing on creating impact and success within performance sports organizations, Dan is passionate about creating real-world learning opportunities for developing coaches and practitioners. Coaching coaches is something he is heavily invested in. Dan is married and has two sausage dogs as well as a successful Sausage Dog Hotel business. I’m pleased to have him on the show today, welcome Dan.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

The EP is a Hot Stove discussion with a group of HP pros at the International Hockey Performance Summit in June of 2022. The discussion centers around the future of athlete development in Hockey and how we can all contribute to making the experience better for your young athletes.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 week's EP features Sam Robertson.  Sam is a sports performance researcher, innovator, and consultant. He leads the sports research program at Victoria University in Melbourne Australia, working on decision-making, analytics, technology standards, and applications of complex systems.  He has published over 140 scientific papers and worked with a range of sporting organizations including FIFA, the San Antonio Spurs, the Australian Football League, Kansas City Royals, Barca Innovation Hub, the Western Bulldogs, and Tennis Australia. Sam is married to his wife Adriana and above all else is a father of three kids, Emily, William, and Anna. We had a great chat about his life and his passions including an early love of music that still transcends 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 St

This EP features Scott Howitt. Scott is a Chiropractor with a big bend in sports science, sports medicine, and performance. Scott was a member of the core medical team for the 2015 Canadian Pan Am games and works with various amateur and professional athletes including the Men’s National Soccer team.  Scott is an active sports chiropractic and exercise researcher and is a lecturer for undergraduate and post-graduate sports medicine, rehabilitation, nutrition, and fitness. He is the President of the RCCSS(C), on the National Advisory Council of EIMC, and a member of the editorial board of the JCCA. He’s an avid sportsman, married to his wife Lisa, and father of two girls. 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 tak

This week's EP features Sean Muldoon. Sean is currently the VP of Performance for the Seattle Sounders of the MLS. Sean joined the Seattle Sounders performance staff during the 2016 season as an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach/Sports Scientist, then spent three and a half years as the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach before being promoted to his current role. In addition to his day-to-day responsibilities, Sean organizes the annual Sounders Sports Science Seminar. The 2020 Virtual Sports Science Seminar raised over $45,000 for the Sounders COVID-19 Relief Fund. It featured speakers from the US Men's National Team, Borussia Dortmund, Rangers FC, Everton FC, LA Clippers, Seattle Seahawks, and Seattle Kraken. Prior to joining the Sounders, Sean spent three years with the Charlotte 49ers Men’s Soccer program as the Sports Performance Coach and one year with the Miami Hurricanes Men’s Basketball team as the Strength & Conditioning Coach. A native of Chicago, IL, Muldoon currently re

This EP is a performance conversation with three of Canada's leading performance nutrition practitioners.  Dana Lis is located in Lake Tahoe now and does a great deal of work with the Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors and elite tour cycling in Europe. Jen Sygo is in Toronto and has consulted with the Toronto Maple Leafs and was a part of the championship season with the Raptors, both are registered dieticians and sports performance nutrition practitioners. Trent Stellingwerff is an exercise physiologist with a bend in performance nutrition and has been a performance lead at the Pacific Institute of Sport for many years now.  All three represent the best in the world of human performance and this is a great conversation around the current beliefs and controversies in performance nutrition today. 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

Nick is currently the Programs Director for ALTIS.  ALTIS is an elite training environment for athletes and a global leader in the provision of education for sports performance.  Nick is in charge of building education and training resources that share ALTIS experiences and extend their processes to the performance community at large. The complexity of managing both the Performance and health of athletes is at the heart of the ALTIS approach.  Nick has a substantial and diverse resume having worked in teaching environments, and multiple performance environments, as well as having been a competitive athlete himself. He’s been in the world of human performance professionally since the early 90’s emigrating to Canada on several occasions for work in sports performance and returning to the UK where he is originally born, to take on roles with GB Paralympic skiing, the Sheffield Eagles Rugby League team, UK’s Talent Athlete Scholarship Scheme as well as building the first regional and national strength and conditi

In this EP I speak with Hannah Roediger-Day a business owner/entrepreneur in the health & neuro space. Hannah takes foundational health & high-performance protocols and combines them with applied neurology, positive psychology, emotion code, yoga, human design, and behavioral science to create personal freedom for her clients - physically, emotionally, and mentally. Her own story of injury, healing, and self-discovery is the foundation for her work and her drive to help other people through difficult times. Hannah is a self-described introvert, outdoor enthusiast, trail runner, foody, and interested in all things human health and experience. She has never accepted general answers because she believes everyone deserves more than a one-size-fits-all approach to life and health. Her coaching programs and online courses reflect that kind of individuality. As a teenager & young adult. Hannah was struggling with chronic pain, emotional instability, and exhaustion. She decided to find ways to thrive thro

In this EP I talk with Ivi Casagrande. Ivi is a high-performance consultant currently serving as a Technical Expert Consultant for FIFA and UEFA. Ivi is also part of the Human Performance Council for Under Armour.  Ivi started her coaching career as a Performance Coach for the Women’s Soccer program at Bowling Green State University, before joining Redline Athletics as their Director of Sports Performance and a Network Sports Scientist with US Youth National Teams. In 2019, she was the Lead S&C Coach for the NWSL team Orlando Pride, and her latest role was as a Sports Scientist for Brighton and Hove Albion Women’s & Girls team. Ivi is married to her wife Jieke Stroobant and has a beautiful dog called Marley. Her entire family is back in Brazil, where she is originally from. Currently moved countries and now resides in Brighton, UK after spending the last 10 years in the United States. If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on social cha

This week's EP features an NHL Veteran Therapist, Curtis Bell. Curtis is currently the Director of Sports Performance for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League. He began his career in hockey with the Flint Generals of the Colonial Hockey League and then went on to work for the Lightning, Devils, and Panthers until 2008.  He took a sabbatical of sorts from the league working in an ortho clinic, and then for the Edge School in Calgary, Alberta. In 2012 he returned to the NHL with the Penguins and has been there ever since, winning two Stanley Cups in the process.  He is Athletic Trainer, has a master’s in clinical nutrition, and graduated from Chiropractic College in 2017, all this after starting by dropping out of high school and joining the US Navy. Lots of great takeaways in this 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 th

This EP features an innovative performance practitioner, Chris Gaviglio. Chris has been involved with Elite sport for over 20 years working across multiple Winter and Summer Olympic sports and professional football codes in both the northern hemisphere with Bath Rugby, and the southern hemisphere with Queensland "Maroons" Rugby League team, the Wallabies of the Australian National Rugby Union, and the Gold Coast SUNS of the AFL Aussie rules football league.  Chris still does train several winter and summer Olympic athletes, and currently consults with the Brisbane Broncos. During his time in the UK Chris was involved with UK Sport in multiple applied sports science projects. Chris has several papers already published as a result of this work and other collaborative work with other applied sports scientists. He is also an entrepreneur and enjoys designing training products that complement his strength and conditioning passion. The first two products he produced were back mobilization tools, the Thera

EP 261 is the fourth anniversary EP of LYM. We are proud of what we have accomplished at the podcast, and we've learned a lot from our guests over these past four years.  In this episode, I share with you six of the key learnings I've acquired through all the listening I've done these past four years. It's been an amazing ride, and I can't wait for four more! Check out our LYM Caps at www.LYMlab.com today and you can also DL a FREE Life Lab Starter kit with a few powerful learning modules to help you make a change in your life today! All the best, ScottyIf 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:ww

Rhonda is a physiotherapist and athletic therapist currently working in private practice with Craven Sports Services in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She has been the therapist of the Canadian Women’s National Basketball team and the Head Therapist for the University of Saskatchewan Huskies for 21 years.  She has been in high-level Canadian sports for much of her career and has been a mentor and educator to countless young performance professionals throughout her career. She is married to her husband Ryan of 30 years. 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 EP features Phil Poirier who is a bit of a living legend in my neck of the woods. He was a part of bringing the freestyle life to skiing. Growing up watching the snowboard revolution, he and a group of other locals began to play in the snowpark against all odds, adopted twin tip skis, and created a new genre of skiing.  His story is rich and full and I wanted more than just local peeps to hear it.  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

EP 258 out tomorrow is a comebacker with one of my good friends and peers, Doctor Matt Jordan!  The good doctor and I talk about life, growth, navigating change, how to balance science with practice, and a whole bunch of other stuff.  These are the conversations I put on repeat because there are always new nuggets to glean from each time I listen.  It's what I love about podcasting, it's what I love doing. I hope you get some powerful takeaways as well.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

In this EP Mike Potenza, the President of the Strength and Conditioning Coaches of Professional Hockey (SCAPH) and Lead of Performance for the San Jose Sharks and I chat about all things professional development.  Our experiences, formal, informal, conferences, mentorship, and life.  It's a great conversation to preface the work we are doing this year to bring the community of hockey performance people together in one place to explore the game we love.  It's a great conversation with a man of much experience.  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 EP features Justin Roethlingshoefer.  Justin has worked with many professional athletes and leaders in the world of business. He is an Amazon best-selling author for his books: Intent, Blueprint, and the Own It Manual. They focused on peak performance, human optimization, and applying data and testing to create personalized blueprints. After completing his MS in Sports Performance and Human Biology, Justin sought out post-graduate work in functional medicine. He has worked as a Performance Coach in the NHL & NCAA and founded a private camp for professional hockey players focusing on healing them from the inside out.  Justin has a knack for making the complex simple. He takes the latest research on nutrition, training, and recovery, packages it into digestible, systematic, and applicable steps, and delivers it with the Outer Energy team within his business Own It Coaching. Justin has always been self-motivated to improve, developing the discipline and work ethic necessary to excel. At 13 years old his

EP 255 of the LYM podcast is a combo session with my friend and colleague Mark Fitzgerald.  Mark is one of Canada's leaders in the field of athletic performance.  He has a special affinity to hockey, having trained many developmental and elite players, and having served as the Lead of Performance for the Anaheim Ducks. This conversation sets the table for his workshop at this year's IHPS where he will dive deep into how to develop younger hockey athletes, a subject for which he has a great passion.  His business ETS turns 10 years old this year, and it has been a lighthouse for how young athletes of any sport should prepare for success. Come join us in Mont Tremblant, June 10-12 for an amazing event that will bring the best in hockey performance together in a beautiful place, check it all out at www.reconditioninghq.com todayIf 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 Livingst

This EP features a FIFA World Cup football referee, and the Director & Lead Facilitator of Holistic Leadership and Development Consultancy, Matt Conger. Pre-pandemic, Matt refereed full-time between the Chinese Super League, Saudi MBS Pro League, ISPS Handa Premiership (NZ), and OFC and FIFA competitions. Alongside active refereeing, he is passionate about developing the holistic capability of referees from the grassroots to the elite level.  In 2018 Matthew refereed at the FIFA World Cup Finals in Russia, taking the whistle in the Iceland v Nigeria group stage match, 4th Official on the Round of 16 matches between England and Colombia, and was one of a select few referees to stay through to the Final. Matthew moved to New Zealand with his wife, Sharon, in 2001 and formally immigrated to NZ in 2006 where he completed his Bachelor of Education worked for eight years as a full-time primary school teacher while also pursuing a refereeing career as a New Zealand Football National Referee and a FIFA Referee. M