John Sinclair

A skater squat is a great exercise to build single leg strength. It can be done by starting with the rear knee on the ground and standing up with one foot off the ground. Other upper body exercises that can be used include the trap bar deadlift.
 
Transcript: "A great answer. Love that one. My favorite is the skater squat. So the way we do the skater squat, is you start on the ground. So your rear knee is touching the ground and then you pick your foot up off the ground and then have to stand up from that. We used to do that at hockey practice, so you could skate for the entire hockey practice and then do 50 skater squats per leg. So that was a beautiful way of building some single leg strength. So, great answered, love that one. If you were going, NG back and forth between a couple different ones. What were other than trap bar deadlift, what's an upper body one that you would use?"

Yes, I do! My go-to Mobility exercise for athletes is a foam roller routine to target your major muscle groups. This can include rolling out your quads and hamstrings, lats, and glutes. You can also use a lacrosse ball or tennis ball to target specific areas that feel tight or tense.
 
Transcript: "Hi Hayley. Do you have a go-to Mobility exercise that you think every athlete should use?"

A chop is an action of accelerating from a higher position to a lower position, while a lift is the opposite, accelerating from a lower to a higher position. Chops are typically linear, while lifts can be either linear or rotational.
 
Transcript: "Hey Haley, thanks for your answer. That was brilliant for me. A chop is anything that's moving an object from higher position to that of a lower position. So if we think of a traditional wood shop, as I'm coming from high to low, that action of accelerating down with the speed of gravity is what I would consider a chop in the vertical plane. So we call that a linear chop or would fall under our linear loaded training, environment or quadrants and then If I'm thinking of a rotational chops, the same action. The intent is to come from higher to lower while accelerating and so that would be a rotational chop. So I keep it a little bit, simple simpler than creating an arc. The Arc can be can be delivered, but it's still happening that I'm coming from high to low. A rotational lift, is where we go from low to high. So the lift still satisfies, the the spectrum of us creating Rotation or pardon me, S going from a lower position to a higher position. But because I'm rotating that I throw the, yeah, we're doing a rotational lift here today. And then if I'm doing a vertical lift, like a overhead granny throw, right, then, that would be our vertical lift or any pull that we do or any movement that we do with a particular Implement. So that's how I decide between and the vernacular that I use with chops and lips, hope that Helps."

You did a great job explaining the squat and demonstrated two different starting positions - the prone Squat and the sideline Squat - to show that you don't always have to be standing to perform a squat.
 
Transcript: "Haley my friend. This is exactly why we ask these questions so that we can get brilliant answers. Like you just delivered for me a squat is folding the body simple as that and I love that you demonstrated a different starting position with a folding of the body. So the the prone Squat and the sideline Squad is some of my favorite ways to show people that you don't always have to be squatting in a standing position, great job, but"

Coaches like us have more to offer than just teaching exercises, and it is our responsibility to show that we are coaches first and foremost. We need to be on the same playing field as head coaches and prove that we build the blueprint and engineer the entire experience for the athletes, which goes way beyond just the strategic and tactical part of training.
 
Transcript: "Hi, Tim, I love that answer. I agree with you. I think that, you know, coaches such as yourselves and people that have been in this industry for a long time like we have have a high degree of tutelage to share and in fact we're probably more experienced and have a greater Acumen when it comes to coaching that even the head coaches themselves and so we have more to offer than just teaching exercise. Is we are coaches first, so I don't believe in the hierarchy of the way in which they build out the, you know, head coach assistant coaches, physical therapist, all that, and then strength coaches down towards the bottom, like you're saying, I think there's that stigma, but I think it's, you know, it's our responsibility to work within that team and to show them that we are coaches. First and foremost. And so we need to be on the same playing field as the head coach. So if not higher, because we do as you said, build the blueprint and engineer the entire experience for the athletes. That's we go Way Beyond just the Strategic and tactical part of training."

I had a memorable experience teaching all over the world, including in China where I taught eight hours of battle ropes every day for seven days. It was an exhausting experience and it took me a year before I touched a battle rope again.
 
Transcript: "Hey buddy. I've had lots of memorable experiences teaching all throughout the world, obviously teaching with you, in Belgium, as run. Some workshops for iom, we've run mentorships all over for iom. I've got to do some stuff for PTA Global but this one time I did, what was it? Five cities in China and seven days teaching eight hours of battle ropes every day. So that one was very memorable because I, the travel was crazy, getting to see all those neat cities in China traveling by, you know, Planes Trains. And Automobiles, it was pretty cool, but just memorable of how tired I was afterwards. Not only just from the I will but all those damn battle rope drills for that many days that that damn near killed me and I've probably gone. About a year year to before I ever touched a battle rope after that. So so that was pretty memorable."