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Listen to this new approach to practice and how athletes need to take control of their development. I also talk to 14 year veteran of professional hockey, Nathan Dempsey, we discuss getting ready for the hockey season, the roll of sport/hockey academies in player development and how understanding the game, deliberate practice and playing multiple sports are critical to top end performance.

For some teams in Major League Baseball the long and hot dog days of summer are setting in & for others the push for the play-offs is on and the trade deadline is going to be critical for a number of teams this year. It is going to be interesting as the threshold for the luxury tax is set at $189mil this year.

And we’ll get a rare look into one of the games top developmental systems as we talk with Dave Turgeon Co-ordinator of Instruction for the Pittsburgh Pirates about the culture they have built inside of their organization and they are boasting one of the lowest injury rates – top to bottom – in all of baseball.

We revisit some of our favorite interviews from the winter and spring season.
We revisit our conversation with Dr. Jacques Dallaire of performance prime about the performance mindset and helping kids perform. He is an author, speaker and host of the new TV hit Crowd Control which airs on The National Geographic Channel about the MASSIVE mismatch between what science knows about Motivation and what Business and Sport actually does.

Nutrition… it’s our #2 priority when we look at athlete development & this week we revisit two great interviews we had with Dr. Yoni Freedhoff about his book “The Diet Fix” and the cold hard facts on weight management and weight loss – In North America alone the weight-loss industry rakes in about $60Billion/yr yet the obesity rates are skyrocketing
And on the performance side we talk with Brian St. Peirre from Precision Nutrition about what performance nutrition is all about.

We wrap up the FIFA Women’s World Cup talking player development with Kelly Hodgson from United Cycle and we look at a very innovative injury prevention program for knees & knee health as we talk with Doug Gilmore of the KneeFit program

We are joined by NHL Agent Manny Schmidt and U of A head coach Serge Lajoie
We discuss the tough decision young players have to make at draft time – go pro or take the College route. Also, there is a big difference between a hockey coach and a skills coach are you getting what you need this off-season and in order to really get good at something you MUST understand exactly what it is you are doing – this applies to the game of hockey and virtually anywhere there is skill development.

NHL Hockey Draft Week
What mistakes are being made in player development & off season training. What is the difference between hockey training and skills training. How can you improve your stride and what is the biggest performance issue?
Find out the answers to these questions and much more when we talk hockey with Pat Elynuik, former NHL player and skills coach, and Brian Shackel from Making Stridz.

In the aftermath of the FIFA scandals we talk with Declan Hill Journalist and Author of “The Fix: Soccer & Organized Crime” to discuss exactly how deep – or how high – the corruption goes and it sounds like it goes right to the top!

And Author Dan Pink joins us to talk Motivation – there is a massive mismatch between what science knows and what business and sport does. Find out the right way to motivate your team, your kids or your employees and discover the power of focusing less on how and more on WHY.

Believe it or not it is happening. Have we gone to far???
On this episode of Krush Performance we are joined by Dr. Joe Baker professor in the school of Kinesiology and Health Sciences at York University.  We discuss the dangers of trying to predict future success and what good talent ID looks like, the changing role of parents in development & sport also relative age and what it means in terms of development.

What is deliberate practice and the roll it plays in development and what people should be thinking when it comes to competition and their practice time.
Interesting Excerpt: – when parents and coaches try to identify talent at a young age what they’re doing is looking for obvious characteristics: like speed, strength, power. Those are much more related to growth than they are to talent and so when they think they’re seeing talent, they’re actually seeing growth

In this episode of Krush Performance we discuss how adults are causing the children they interact with to mentally sabotage their own performance. Not intentionally, for the most part, but through our words and actions could we be corrupting the mindset of our children resulting in lack of confidence, problems with self -esteem, worry and the inability to focus….?
When you peel away the layers what is at the root of the problem… Worry – it’s a learned human trait that we adopt early in life because of the people and the environment around us.
My guest Dr. Jacques Dallaire of Performance Prime talks about his new book “Helping Kids Perform – Mental Skills That Every Parent, Teacher, and Coach Should Master”
We outline the issues and look at the solutions to help kids perform effectively and with less anxiety – sport, school, music, relationships you name it!