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** In Dedication to the entire community of Humboldt, Saskatchewan and the families and friends of the Humboldt Broncos Junior Hockey Organization, who tragically lost 14 young players and team members in a terrible accident on April 6th.

Our Thoughts and Hearts are with you all. **

This week on Krush Performance, we ask the question, “If you are looking to watch and learn from the best in sport, which team would you watch?” The Houston Astros, New England Patriots, Pittsburgh Penguins, Golden State Warriors, or is there another organization you would consider? Also, we discuss what can we learn from these top performing teams and organizations.

Then, we visit with one of the most successful independently owned & operated sporting goods stores in North America. If you want to learn from a top organization you need to take a good look at a 4th generation store celebrating their 90th birthday. What can we learn from United Sport & Cycle out of Edmonton, Canada, a lot and what does the future of sport look like…we’ll find out.

And finally we get to our text & twitter question of the week, “If you were going to add a sport to the Olympics, what would it be?” Krusher shares his top four new sport ideas for the Olympics and we hear from our listeners. There are some seriously great ideas the IOC should consider.
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Major League Baseball is back and today we are joined by one of my best baseball buddies Allan Mitchell, AKA @Lowetide, as we lay out the 2018 MLB season. We discuss which teams we are watching, what players to follow, and we’ll cover the top story lines for the 2018 season:

– Free Agency
– Salaries & Payroll
– Home Runs & the Ball
– New Rules
– Teams Tanking?
– First Time Managers
– Pace of Play Rules – do you like them
– Roy Halladay’s number retired and his son pitching for Team Canada Junior team vs Blue Jays Big League Roster

We’ll share some of our favorite baseball stories as we work towards laying out our predictions for this years World Series. Will we see a repeat Champion?
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Alarming new research is showing a significant increase in severe obesity among children age 2–5 years. I always say if you want to solve a problem you need to clearly understand the problem and when it comes to the health issues associated with obesity and overweight we had better move quickly because we are losing ground bite by bite! In this episode, we talk with Dr. Asheley Skinner of Duke University about the new data from her research on the “Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity in Children.”

We discuss some of the alarming trends Dr. Skinner and her team have uncovered and what we should be paying attention to if we hope to turn this epidemic around before its too late!

Also to kick off our 2018 War on Sugar campaign, I wanted to go back to one our conversation with Dr. Yoni Freedhoff as we discussed his book, “The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work.” From sport to business to school, there is little else that has the potential to impact your performance or your health like your daily diet.

Whether you are eating to lose weight, improve performance, gain muscle, or simply feel better, there are tricks of the trade that can increase your odds of success and Dr. Freedhoff will out line his research, the book and a 10 day plan to get the best out of any diet.

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Why do Kids Play? To have fun is the hands down, number one reason kids get out there to participate in sports. Why then are we seeing a 70% drop out rate in organized youth sports in those early teen years? It’s an important question that needs to be answered. In this episode, we are talking Kids in Sport.

We talk with George Washington University’s Dr. Amanda Visekabout their breakthrough Fun Maps, a system of identifying why kids play, so we can understand how to better create programs & environments that will help keep kids in sport. You can also follow Dr. Visek’s on Twitter!

Then, later in the show, I have an e-mail from a Krush Performance listener who just had an incident with a coach & now his son is no longer playing Hockey! Listen, coaches should be keeping kids involved not causing them to drop out! It may be one of the biggest crimes!!

I wanted to know more. Could it be the kid? Could it be the parents or is it really the coach??
I touched base with the parent and it is a story I wanted to share and it is also the inspiration behind this episode of Krush Performance.

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Testing in sport – can it possibly predict future performance? Does the Combine predict NFL performance? In this episode, we are going to have a look at what is maybe the highest profile / most intense job interview possible…the NFL Combine.

We are going to get a look behind the scenes of not just one but two incredible performance cultures…. The 2013 Super Bowl Championship Seattle Seahawks and this Year’s Philadelphia Eagles. We talk with Chris Maragos, safety & special teams captain for the Eagles.

Chris was an undrafted free agent when he signed his first NFL Contract & worked his way to an outstanding NFL career and to become one of the most respected players in the game today.

I asked the question: “Knowing what we know about head injuries related to football – should we go to flag football at the developmental levels?” We received some heated responses on both sides of this issue and we’ll share some of them with you.

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What is the most important factor in organizational performance? In sport, we know injury prevention is right up there and today, we talk about the impact of volume and intensity on player performance and injury prevention. The Player-Coach Relationship is also vital to success!

Organizational behavior has been pigeonholed in the business world but the implications in the world of sport are tremendous. What is organizational behavior all about?

We talk with Jonathan Armold, a pitching coach in the Texas Rangers Organization, ex-player, and ex-college coach, who received his Masters Degree in Organizational Behaviour.

A powerful combination as you will hear in this conversation.

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Baseball is back baby, technology and our ability to train the mind are about to change the game.

And my first book, “The Performance Plan: Strategies for Top Performance in Sport, Business, Coaching and Life,” is out! It is a quick read and I really wanted to get you thinking of what I feel are some of the key points for setting you up to attack your goals & performance in general.
If you get a chance to check it out on Amazon I’d love to hear your thoughts and get your feedback.

Pushing Performance – We’ve been saying it for years now, “The two big areas of opportunity for pushing human performance forward are technology and understanding & training the mind!” Now, baseball is right at the forefront of both.

Today, I talk with Tim Nicely, President and founder of V-Flex Technologies, Inc., about a new training system that has the potential to change how we train baseball players on the mound and in the batters box. Now, there is Major League proof to back it up.
Also, I’m in Olympic withdrawal already! Is there a way to get your Olympic sport fix every summer & winter?
Should we be paying more attention to the annual World Cup Circuits? I definitely think so.

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How can watching the Olympics make you better? If you know what to look for, there is a lot to learn from watching top performers in action. In this episode of Krush Performance, we talk the Olympic mindset with the host of the Jim Fannin Show and “Coach of Champions” Jim Fannin and strategies you can use to help push you to the top of your game.

Also, NUMBERS! Data analytics have officially hit the world stage as Olympic teams are now crunching numbers to get every possible advantage. I talk with data analyst Mike Heenan to find out just how powerful the numbers are and how athletes, coaches, and trainers are using them to get an edge.

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The Greatest Show on Earth is well underway as we enter the first week of competition at the 23rd Winter Olympics in Peyongchang. It’s one of my absolute favorite sporting events. The Olympic Games are special in a number of ways.

We’ll break the 2018 Winter Olympic Games down by the numbers and we ask the question, “Are you encouraged by what has happened with the Russian doping ban or has the realization of what has been going on in the dark shadows of turned you off of sport?”

I talk with former Olympian and Ice Skating Gold Medalist Jamie Salé to get her thoughts on the Russian scandal and ask her about the very different experience she had with the Russian Olympic Program. (Hints – judge bribery, match fixing, and mafia!)

If you get a chance, share the Krush Podcast with your fellow coaches, teammates, and family members.Thanks for joining us and LONG LIVE SPORT!

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The biggest threat to sport is organized crime, the Director General of the World Anti Doping Agency stated in 2014.

Money Laundering – Gambling – Match Fixing – Doping – Organized Crime – Corruption & Human Trafficking
The integrity of sport and fair play are at a tipping point and we went to find out just how close we are to going over the edge.

Today, you don’t usually think human rights when talking sport but you need to. There is a dark world of forced labor, human trafficking, the sex trade and even child athlete exploitation all directly connected to sport.
We feel talking about it and raising awareness is the first powerful step to attacking the issues of human rights in sport.

In this episode I talk with Minky Worden, the Director of Global Initiatives for Human Rights Watch. Minky sheds light on some of the most atrocious happenings in the world of sport including human trafficking, the sex trade, forced labor and child rights issues. The human side of sport corruption is often over looked but thanks to the efforts of organizations like the Human Rights Watch over $8 million dollars in unpaid wages from the construction of the Sochi Olympics finally reached the workers who labuored in brutal conditions to meet the unreasonable timelines.
I wanted to wind up this series with a conversation with former mob boss Michael Franzese. Unfortunately, despite great efforts made by Michael and myself, we were not able to connect before the airing of this episode.

I wanted to talk with Michael about how organized crime operates their sport schemes, how they infiltrate sport and what the main objectives are: gambling, money laundering or just being part of the action. As soon as we are able to connect with Michael, we will let you know.
For now, we are going to replay a powerful conversation we had with Michael a few years back. If you have not heard it before, you will want to listen to this and even if you have, it is worth hearing again as Michael takes us inside the world of organized crime and describes how they operate and how he gets out alive.
For now this is the final episode of our Special Krush Performance Investigative Report: Sport Under Fire as we talk about the alarming issues of Human Rights in sport with Minky Worden and Organized Crime and sport with Michael Franzese.
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