Sam Wuest's guest appearances

Sam Wuest

Just Fly Performance Podcast

Jochum Strength Podcast

Alex Lee

Jake Tuura

Brady Volmering

Joel Smith

Jeremy Frisch

Mike Boyle

Kyle Dobbs

Nick Winkelman

Paul Cater

Nick DiMarco

Erik Korem

Adarian Barr

Bobby Whyte

Angus Bradley

Rob Assise

OwlTail

On this episode of the podcast we have Sam Wuest – Sam is a master of Acupuncture – tai Chi and A Certified strength coach – On this episode of the podcast we talk about how Sam Ties in all of these diverse backgrounds in to a holistic program – how sometimes our goal is not to do more but to learn how to calm down and recover and he asks the simple but profound question of “Can we do better’ – Sam is a beautiful example of how Range in fields can give you just that outside approach you were looking for to really see things for how they are – I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I do! Keep Chopping Wood--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/austin-jochum/support

On this episode of the podcast we have Sam Wuest – Sam is a master of Acupuncture – tai Chi and A Certified strength coach – On this episode of the podcast we talk about how Sam Ties in all of these diverse backgrounds in to a holistic program – how sometimes our goal is not to do more but to learn how to calm down and recover and he asks the simple but profound question of “Can we do better’ – Sam is a beautiful example of how Range in fields can give you just that outside approach you were looking for to really see things for how they are – I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I do! Keep Chopping Wood--- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/austin-jochum/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/austin-jochum/support</a>

Episode 104 - Sam Wuest - Acupuncture, Meditation and Stillness In Sports Performance 

Today’s show is with Sam Wuest.  Sam is the head coach and manager of Intention Athletic Club based out of South Florida.  A licensed acupuncturist and former collegiate track &amp; field coach specializing in the jumping events, Sam owes much of his unique perspective to apprenticeships with Ukrainian Olympic Hurdle Coach Olex Ponomarenko and several master acupuncturists as well as his continued education within Daoist Gate’s martial arts and meditation programs.Sam has been a writer of some of the most popular articles on Just Fly Sports, on the importance of rotation in sprinting, jumping and sport jumping movements, such as dunking a basketball.  Sam is a holistic, outside the box thinker who has been able to blend several unique worlds of thought into his own process of training integrated athleticism.So much of our modern thought on sports performance comes from “Western thought”, which focuses largely on forces, muscles, and things that can be easily quantified in training.  You’ll often hear things like “producing the most force in the least time” or “maximal stiffness” as common pursuits in athlete training.  It’s not that these ideas aren’t important, but what we don’t consider is the other “side” of training that involves things that are harder to quantify, such as timing, fluidity, connectedness of the body and mental-emotional factors.On today’s show, Sam gets into the fine points of posture and expanding joint positions, what it means to train an athlete from a “fascial” perspective, and how his influences from the martial arts have made a major impact on how he goes about training athletes.  He also closes with a bit on how to balance a training program from a philosophical perspective of “yin and yang”.Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster and Lost Empire Herbs.  For 15% off your Lost Empire Herbs order, head to www.lostempireherbs.com/justflyView more podcast episodes at the podcast homepage.Timestamps and Main Points5:42 - What can martial arts teach us about movement quality?10:39 - Why we talk about fascia &amp; What “fascia” means from a performance perspective13:55 - Why focus on postural cues in athletes?17:34 - The role of contractile elements in the body &amp; The importance of timing in jumping21:21 - Posture, the long spine, &amp; The Alexander Technique in relation to athletic performance31:53 - Fascial stretching &amp; coming back from an injury38:03 - Engaging the anterior of the body &amp; Internal vs. External cueing42:04 - Martial arts drills, mobility exercises, and mindfulness techniques Sam uses to expand the long spine and the tensegrity system58:29 - The yin and yang of a training cycle: What a week of training for Sam’s athletes looks like1:10:02 - Why you should finish your day with a parasympathetic cool-down“All these different movement styles, martial art styles… especially the ones that say they’re internal, you’ll see that they’ll use the body in a different way because they’re not trying to use them in the same way as an external martial art… because you’re using different sections of your body in a particular way and you might be mobilizing different things that I think, in strength and conditioning, we don’t often assume can or should move.”“When we talk about the fascia, it’s adjusting one area of the body to check the tissue length in the other area of the body. So when we talk about tendon strength versus maybe muscle strength, we’re talking about adjusting big muscle strength in the gym, usually if you see a body builder… their biceps are not big all the way through the upper arm.... Whereas someone who has more of a tendon or even elastic structure… you’ll often see that the muscle is almost more spread out because the tendons and the connective tissue at the joint level has also developed.”“A lot of the little postural adjustments are to adjust the tensegrity...

Today’s show is with Sam Wuest.  Sam is the head coach and manager of Intention Athletic Club based out of South Florida.  A licensed acupuncturist and former collegiate track &amp; field coach specializing in the jumping events, Sam owes much of his unique perspective to apprenticeships with Ukrainian Olympic Hurdle Coach Olex Ponomarenko and several master acupuncturists as well as his continued education within Daoist Gate’s martial arts and meditation programs. Sam has been a writer of some of the most popular articles on Just Fly Sports, on the importance of rotation in sprinting, jumping and sport jumping movements, such as dunking a basketball.  Sam is a holistic, outside the box thinker who has been able to blend several unique worlds of thought into his own process of training integrated athleticism. So much of our modern thought on sports performance comes from “Western thought”, which focuses largely on forces, muscles, and things that can be easily quantified in training.  You’ll often hear things like “producing the most force in the least time” or “maximal stiffness” as common pursuits in athlete training.  It’s not that these ideas aren’t important, but what we don’t consider is the other “side” of training that involves things that are harder to quantify, such as timing, fluidity, connectedness of the body and mental-emotional factors. On today’s show, Sam gets into the fine points of posture and expanding joint positions, what it means to train an athlete from a “fascial” perspective, and how his influences from the martial arts have made a major impact on how he goes about training athletes.  He also closes with a bit on how to balance a training program from a philosophical perspective of “yin and yang”. Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster and Lost Empire Herbs.  For 15% off your Lost Empire Herbs order, head to <a href="http://www.lostempireherbs.com/justfly" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.lostempireherbs.com/justfly</a> View more podcast episodes at the podcast homepage. Timestamps and Main Points 5:42 - What can martial arts teach us about movement quality? 10:39 - Why we talk about fascia &amp; What “fascia” means from a performance perspective 13:55 - Why focus on postural cues in athletes? 17:34 - The role of contractile elements in the body &amp; The importance of timing in jumping 21:21 - Posture, the long spine, &amp; The Alexander Technique in relation to athletic performance 31:53 - Fascial stretching &amp; coming back from an injury 38:03 - Engaging the anterior of the body &amp; Internal vs. External cueing 42:04 - Martial arts drills, mobility exercises, and mindfulness techniques Sam uses to expand the long spine and the tensegrity system 58:29 - The yin and yang of a training cycle: What a week of training for Sam’s athletes looks like 1:10:02 - Why you should finish your day with a parasympathetic cool-down “All these different movement styles, martial art styles… especially the ones that say they’re internal, you’ll see that they’ll use the body in a different way because they’re not trying to use them in the same way as an external martial art… because you’re using different sections of your body in a particular way and you might be mobilizing different things that I think, in strength and conditioning, we don’t often assume can or should move.” “When we talk about the fascia, it’s adjusting one area of the body to check the tissue length in the other area of the body. So when we talk about tendon strength versus maybe muscle strength, we’re talking about adjusting big muscle strength in the gym, usually if you see a body builder… their biceps are not big all the way through the upper arm.... Whereas someone who has more of a tendon or even elastic structure… you’ll often see that the muscle is almost more spread out because the tendons and the connective tissue at the joint level has also developed.” “A lot of the little postural adjustments are to adjust the tensegrity...

Sam Wuest on Fascial Dynamics, Martial Arts, and Posture in Elastic Athletic Performance

Today’s episode features track coach and acupuncture student, Sam Wuest.  Sam is finishing his acupuncture degree at New England School of Acupuncture and is a track and field coach at Tufts University.Sam is a former NCAA DI athlete, and holds multiple certifications in strength and conditioning and track and field.  Sam has worked with a diverse array of athletes and has also studied under Ukranian Olympic coach, Alex Ponomarenko.  He coached the recent NCAA DIII high jump champion in the 2018 indoor season, Stefan Duvivier who jumped 2.20m.Sam has blended Western sport performance with Eastern practices, such as acupuncture, Chinese medicine, Zen Meditation, qi gong and tai chi.  When it comes to Sam’s coaching philosophy, as well as this podcast in general, the goal is always to find a blend of ideas from different ends of the spectrum, from the quantitative, data-based realms, to the qualitative and intuitive end.  To this end, this episode is largely about Sam’s outside the box thinking in coaching and recovery.  From his incorporation of multiple planes into basic track and field drills, to feel-based integration of Frans Bosch style stick drills, to avoiding the visual bias in athlete feedback via iPhones and iPads, Sam has a coaching style that is holistic and effective.Sam also has connected training with common concepts in Chinese medicine, including his thoughts on recovery modalities, as well as linking of the seasons and human response into our own models and thoughts on training organization (noting the similarities observed in the practices of Dr. Yuri Verkhoshansky).  Another coach who has done just this was the late Charles Poliquin, an absolute legend in this field.  We’ll get into these topics and more on a show today that is certain to expand your perspective on training athletes.Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more.View more podcast episodes at the podcast homepage.Key Points 	Ways to incorporate and create awareness of rotational mechanics in sport movement 	The faults of a “brace” oriented core movement model in athletics 	Sam’s utilization of various sensory feedback drills in sprinting 	How Sam utilizes rhythm and timing in his programming and why we tend to be “over-visual” in how we train and coach athletes 	Sam’s utilization of recovery modalities 	Things Chinese medicine has taught Sam about training and recovery 	Ideas on periodization and training organization based off of seasonal effects on athletes from a holistic perspective“If you watch the best sprinters in the world, they are not going straight forward and back, there is a rotational element”“There are a whole lot of extensions going on when you push off the ground, and one of them is that lateral plane, and if you aren’t not getting that, you are operating with shorter legs than you need to”“The same still frames that you got from USATF level whatever back in the 90’s is still true, you have to make sure that what happens in between (tri-planar actions) we really optimize”“There are only so many KPI’s that you can show statically.  There are other KPI’s that are going on that you can’t show (on a single frame) because they are dynamic, they are a motion”“If you are holding a stick on your shoulders, you know where your shoulders are, you know where their hips are”“Sometimes in order to get an athlete to change what they need to do, you need to put them in an environment where that bad habit no longer works, and they have to feel that”“I almost never do stick (on the back) drills, and (finish) on a stick drill….. I’ll have the kids drop halfway through”“If your timing is off, there is no chance you are going to hit (the position you want)”“If you are not hitting a rhythm when you jump, your position will be off”

Today’s episode features track coach and acupuncture student, Sam Wuest.  Sam is finishing his acupuncture degree at New England School of Acupuncture and is a track and field coach at Tufts University. Sam is a former NCAA DI athlete, and holds multiple certifications in strength and conditioning and track and field.  Sam has worked with a diverse array of athletes and has also studied under Ukranian Olympic coach, Alex Ponomarenko.  He coached the recent NCAA DIII high jump champion in the 2018 indoor season, Stefan Duvivier who jumped 2.20m. Sam has blended Western sport performance with Eastern practices, such as acupuncture, Chinese medicine, Zen Meditation, qi gong and tai chi.  When it comes to Sam’s coaching philosophy, as well as this podcast in general, the goal is always to find a blend of ideas from different ends of the spectrum, from the quantitative, data-based realms, to the qualitative and intuitive end.  To this end, this episode is largely about Sam’s outside the box thinking in coaching and recovery.  From his incorporation of multiple planes into basic track and field drills, to feel-based integration of Frans Bosch style stick drills, to avoiding the visual bias in athlete feedback via iPhones and iPads, Sam has a coaching style that is holistic and effective. Sam also has connected training with common concepts in Chinese medicine, including his thoughts on recovery modalities, as well as linking of the seasons and human response into our own models and thoughts on training organization (noting the similarities observed in the practices of Dr. Yuri Verkhoshansky).  Another coach who has done just this was the late Charles Poliquin, an absolute legend in this field.  We’ll get into these topics and more on a show today that is certain to expand your perspective on training athletes. Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more. View more podcast episodes at the podcast homepage. Key Points 	Ways to incorporate and create awareness of rotational mechanics in sport movement 	The faults of a “brace” oriented core movement model in athletics 	Sam’s utilization of various sensory feedback drills in sprinting 	How Sam utilizes rhythm and timing in his programming and why we tend to be “over-visual” in how we train and coach athletes 	Sam’s utilization of recovery modalities 	Things Chinese medicine has taught Sam about training and recovery 	Ideas on periodization and training organization based off of seasonal effects on athletes from a holistic perspective “If you watch the best sprinters in the world, they are not going straight forward and back, there is a rotational element” “There are a whole lot of extensions going on when you push off the ground, and one of them is that lateral plane, and if you aren’t not getting that, you are operating with shorter legs than you need to” “The same still frames that you got from USATF level whatever back in the 90’s is still true, you have to make sure that what happens in between (tri-planar actions) we really optimize” “There are only so many KPI’s that you can show statically.  There are other KPI’s that are going on that you can’t show (on a single frame) because they are dynamic, they are a motion” “If you are holding a stick on your shoulders, you know where your shoulders are, you know where their hips are” “Sometimes in order to get an athlete to change what they need to do, you need to put them in an environment where that bad habit no longer works, and they have to feel that” “I almost never do stick (on the back) drills, and (finish) on a stick drill….. I’ll have the kids drop halfway through” “If your timing is off, there is no chance you are going to hit (the position you want)” “If you are not hitting a rhythm when you jump, your position will be off”