Coaches Donnie Maib and Mike Hanson received the privilege to pick the brain of one of the best innovators in sport performance, Coach Dan Fichter. Dan sheds light on his unique approach to training, how he trains the nervous system to improve motor control, strength, and performance. Tune in as he litters this episode with thought-provoking training gems and great pieces of advice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dan Fichter owns and operates Wannagetfast Power\/Speed Training, a performance training business in the upstate New York area that offers training to elite athletes. Additionally he travels the country speaking to numerous coaches on speed training, strength training, and nervous system development and how to pull these elements into a comprehensive package that can substantially elevate an athlete\u2019s speed and strength. Uniquely, Fichter’s system attacks the athlete at the individual specific level (SBN-Specific body needs) unlike most programs that offer a more standard approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coaches Donnie Maib and Mike Hanson received the privilege to pick the brain of one of the best innovators in sport performance, Coach Dan Fichter. Dan sheds light on his unique approach to training, how he trains the nervous system to improve motor control, strength, and performance. Tune in as he litters this episode with […]","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-team-behind-the-team\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2020\/07\/2020-07-01_The-Team-Behind-The-Team_Episode-9.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"57.95M","filesize_raw":"60762002","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":""},"tags":[27,6,29,31,28,5,30],"series":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-45","1":"podcast","2":"type-podcast","3":"status-publish","5":"tag-athlete","6":"tag-conditioning","7":"tag-dan-fichter","8":"tag-elite","9":"tag-sport-performance","10":"tag-strength","11":"tag-wannagetfast","12":"series-the-team-behind-the-team","13":"entry"},"acf":{"related_episodes":"","hosts":[{"ID":113,"post_author":"38","post_date":"2020-11-04 17:27:54","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-04 22:27:54","post_content":"\n
Donnie Maib is the Head Coach for Athletic Performance for Olympic Sports since 2011.\u00a0 Maib oversees all aspects of athletic performance efforts for all sports at the University of Texas with the exception of Men\u2019s\/Women\u2019s Basketball and Football. He directly works with women\u2019s volleyball and men\u2019s tennis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He came to the University of Texas after four years at the University of Colorado at Boulder where he worked as an assistant with all varsity sports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
From 1998-2007 Maib was an assistant coach at the University of Texas working primarily with football and various other Olympic sports \u2013 Women\u2019s Track & Field, Women\u2019s Golf, Men\u2019s Golf, Men\u2019s Tennis, Soccer, & Volleyball. In 2007 He was promoted to Associate Coach for Football. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maib is certified by the Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coaches Association. He was honored at 8th Annual National Conference of the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association in May 2008 with the certification of Master Strength and Conditioning Coach (MSCC), the highest honor for a coach in the strength and conditioning field.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Donnie Maib","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"donnie-maib","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-11-04 17:27:55","post_modified_gmt":"2020-11-04 22:27:55","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-team-behind-the-team\/?post_type=speaker&p=113","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":137,"post_author":"38","post_date":"2020-11-05 10:30:58","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-05 15:30:58","post_content":"\n
Michael Hanson has served as an Assistant Athletic Performance Coach at The University of Texas since February of 2018, working with Men's and Women's Track and Field and Rowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prior to Texas, Hanson interned at the University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan, and the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California, having the privilege of coaching All-Americans, world champions, and Olympic medalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While earning his M.Ed. at the University of Minnesota, Hanson coached professional and collegiate hockey players in the greater Twin Cities area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coach Hanson graduated from Century High School in Rochester, Minnesota.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Mike Hanson","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"mike-hanson","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-11-05 10:30:59","post_modified_gmt":"2020-11-05 15:30:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/the-team-behind-the-team\/?post_type=speaker&p=137","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"guests":[{"ID":51,"post_author":"38","post_date":"2020-07-06 18:47:03","post_date_gmt":"2020-07-06 18:47:03","post_content":"\n
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Welcome to the team behind the teen podcast. I am your host, Donny, mate. This is the monthly
\n\ue5d4
\nshow Focus on building conversations around the teen based model approach to ethnic performance.
\nStrength. Conditioning. Sports Medicine. Sports Science. Mental health and wellness. And
\nSports nutrition.
\nHello, everybody, and welcome back to the team behind the team podcast. I’m your host,
\nDonny mate, and today’s special guest will be wears multiple
\nhats, as you’ll hear in a moment. But before we get to our guest, I do have a co-host helped me
\ntoday to do this interview, coach Mike Hansen, who works at the University of Texas. He trains
\nour women’s swim team and our women’s crew rowing team. Mike, say a lot, everybody today. Hello,
\neverybody. So, Mike, good to have you in here to help with the interview. Mike and Dan have
\na a relationship through coach Cal Dietz and just through following
\nDan Victor Victor on different things you’ve done. So
\nwithout further ado, let’s welcome our guest host, Dan Victor to my center right college center right
\ntoday. Welcome to the show. Say hello to everybody. Hello, everybody. It’s great to be here. And he got in late
\nlast night. Dan is here speaking at our clinic this weekend. It’s his January. And you got
\nin from New York, right, coach? So he’s a little sleep deprived, deprived in. But he’s here if you had to barbecue.
\nYeah, coach, I have not. So we have failed him. We’ll get. We’ll get
\nhim. We’ll get him. We’ve got to get him Tex-Mex. And we’ve got to get him barbecue. So a little
\nbit about Dan and we’ll turn over to you, Mike. But Dan is the owner of Want
\nto Get Fast. It’s a sports performance business in Rochester, New York. And the head football
\ncoach at say it again for his coach, Randy Quaid. High school. I cannot say that yet. I need to work on it. But
\nhe’s a head high school coach. He’s one of the most innovative and educated coaches in our
\nfield. And I would attest to that. You spoke to our staff today, and it was just it was absolutely
\nphenomenal. Dan’s knowledge of the neurological aspects of training
\nis on another level. He travels around the country speaking on speed training, strength training,
\nand how developing the nervous system can dramatically increase performance. So it’s
\na little bit about Dan. Coach Hansen, take it from here and lead us into it. Yeah. Thanks
\nfor joining us, Stan. First, we just want you, if you can, to introduce yourself
\nto our listeners. How did you become a high school head football coach? Always that path like
\nin how did you become an owner of a private training facility?
\nIronically, I went to AROUNDA to quit high school. High school senior played football,
\nran track. I wanted to compete in three sports, played basketball,
\nsays multi-sport athlete in high school decided I wanted to play football, although basketball was my
\nfavorite sport. But I’m vertically challenged so that wasn’t going to happen. So I kept up with the football.
\nAnd these two of us and played football collegiately at Brockport
\nState Division Three School in upstate New York had an opportunity to play in the Arena Football League for a few years
\nand Canada. So with that quest of trying to play
\nprofessional football, I delved into the strength training and the speed training, and
\nit just absolutely intrigued every part of me to figure out how
\npeople run so fast and are so strong. From there, I
\ngot my degree from Brockport and I started to teach. So I was a high school physics teacher for
\neleven years. And in that time period, I was running my gym and
\npro about halfway through opening my gym. I was like, I got to do
\nthis full time to be able to commit to it. So I love teaching left teaching for about five years
\nto open up two businesses, one in Rochester, New York, and one in Tampa, Florida.
\nAnd all that time, I was an assistant football coach.
\nSo then the head football coaching job came open at the high school and I went to and I’m like, I have
\nto do that. That’s something that, you know, you just feel like it’s it’s your
\ncalling. And so I closed the gym in Tampa and I said, I’ll have one gym here.
\nI’ll go back to teaching and I’ll be there. Head high school football coach. And I’ve loved every second
\nof that change and just the ability to meet new people and coming out here. It’s been
\na blast. Laughs That’s awesome. Your your approach to training is
\nunique in that you use a variety of methods that aren’t too commonly used
\nto influence the neuromuscular system in order to maximize performance. So can you talk about
\nwhy the nervous system is so important for performance and then maybe dove into a few brain based
\nmethods that you do use? Well, I think the nervous system is important because most
\npeople talk about training the central nervous system when they’re training. I take a little bit more
\nphilosophy about brain based stuff. Are we really addressing right hemisphere? Left hemisphere?
\nAre we talking about cerebellum stuff? I mean, these are the things that get down to actual movement patterns.
\nAnd to be honest, we are strength coaches where our conditioning coaches, but we’re movement coaches. We have to help
\nathletes move better if we don’t don’t care how strong you are, don’t care how fast you are. If you don’t move
\ncorrectly, you’re either going to get hurt or your performance is going to be terrible.
\nSo that question, you know, you talk about there’s a lot of different philosophies rolled into
\nwhat I do because I’ve learned from so many great people. I tell you, if there’s anything that
\nI would brag about, it’d be the opportunity that I’ve had to study with different people and the great mentors I’ve had.
\nAnd I’ve been out with Mel Siff from Super Training. I’ve had an opportunity to sit
\ndown with some really phenomenal strength and conditioning coaches and just learn from people
\nand continue to learn. And then from there, you develop what you do. Mm
\nhmm. Coach, you kind of you kind of talked about it today with our staff, but
\nwhat are some things you do to assess your athletes nervous system readiness? You know, today, amigo,
\nthey got a lot of technology. But I mean, really, the coach’s eye still is pride one of the best
\ntools. Would you agree? Yeah. I really believe that. And so
\nwhat I do is I take a look at three or four different systems in the body to see how we can impact
\nmovement. One of those system is the vestibular system. So I’ll talk about that tomorrow. When I speak
\nto in that seminar is how do we evaluate the vestibular system?
\nWe’ll also talk about the AIS and the power, the power behind the eyes, not just from
\nlifting heavy weights, but how it can impact our human gait, which is what
\nwe’re all chasing. And as much as we all like to lift weights and do these things,
\nyour gait pattern is so responsible for the success that you have in athletics that
\nyou have to address it. In training, you have to. So we’ll address the appropriate septic
\nsystem, the vestibular system, the visual system. And we try to we try to pack
\nthat all into what we’re normally going to do in a workout. And if I can
\nget that involved in a weight room session without kids knowing I’m doing
\nit, that’s the way I like the game. Yeah, that’s key. Yeah. Because then they’re they’re asking questions like what?
\nWhy this? Why that? And their job is to get better. And if they’re getting stronger while
\nI’m implementing these techniques, that’s all that matters. Q
\nDo you have a few examples of as far as how you address whether being a warm up or during your
\nyour session, whether it’s the vestibular system or the ocular system, whatever
\nit may be. So today we’ve talked a little bit about AI dominance. You’re right, dominant left AI dominance
\nand we showed examples of how that can create strength or how can it can actually limit
\nyou. So if you know that that’s a strength or, you know, it’s a weakness
\ntraining, it is going to help it. Right. So I don’t think many people
\ntrain their weak guy in a gym. The gyms that I’ve gone and talked
\nto people, they don’t understand those concepts. So but it’s pretty powerful and it gets
\ninstantaneous results. So we address that. The vestibular system can
\nbe added to anything as a potentiation because it’s responsible
\nfor your extensor muscles. So spinning, enrolling and tumbling, all these things
\nactivate your vestibular system, which in turn kicks in same side extensor as
\nif I can do that. I’m going to enhance performance. So it’s kind of like a no brainer that I want to get these
\ninvolved right away before we workout and even after to recover because
\nthe vestibular system is responsible for your parasympathetic nervous system. If we can get those kicked
\nin as we’re done training and I can get back to that normal heart rate, I can get back to our rest
\nand digest. I’m ahead of the game recovering faster. Yeah, I really
\nlike the example you gave us earlier today. If you’re a right tackle
\nand maybe your right eye is not so dominant, not as dominant, your left eye on
\nthat can be a weakness if you have an end coming off the edge to your right side. Yeah. Learning from a lot of great football
\ncoaches that you have to have an answer. You always have to have an answer for something they won’t want to know. Right.
\nSo, I mean, as a football coach, I’m not quite sure I have an answer why my right tackle
\ncan’t kick slide. And every time that Lufthansa coming in, he’s can’t
\nblock them. While he might not be able to do it because he’s left dominant in his right visual
\nfield is weaker. All right. So knowing how to train that can make you a better football player.
\nThat’s really good. What about if we were to go into your weight room? Coach, what kind of if you were to give us a
\nlittle bit of a snapshot, what kind of exercises methods you would be
\nusing to enhance performance? Well, the two guys who run my gym now, Nick Marino and
\nDonato Clemente, they made the trip up here with me. What you would see from them are two guys
\nthat have been through the system before that are as explosive as anybody
\nI’ve ever coached in the gym. And both have over 40 inch vertical jump and can bench press to the corner
\nuntil you tell them to stop. But what you’ll see is force absorption. Can
\nyour body absorb force and can it absorb force in the proper position? And once that
\nhappens, good thing starts to happen. But those are two coaches that can demo everything.
\nYeah, they’re pretty good. I can’t do that anymore. They’re pretty good. I’m right there with the
\ninterns. We try to recruit to all of demonstrating for us.
\nWe’ve kind of already addressed this a little bit, but we can maybe dove a little bit further. And that’s
\nin your observation or in your opinion. Are there any key variables or even pieces to performance that get
\nswept over in our field? Maybe our underutilized. Whether it be isometrics
\nor whatever other methods, anything that’s largely unexplored. Yeah, I’ll say two things.
\nOne is the relationships you have with the kids that you’re training. I think it’s important for for them to
\ntrust you and to have faith in you as you’re starting to, especially in a
\nprogram like mine where things are different. It doesn’t look like a normal weight room. All right. So they have to build that
\ntrust. You have to show them that you care about them in order for them to care and for them to get better.
\nSo they’ll be number one. Number two is definitely the use of isometrics, isometrics in various
\npositions. Isometrics as it relates to recovery, as it relates to a potentiation
\nin all phases. And then addressing the gate, the human gate.
\nIf you’re not addressing it, I think you’re really minimizing the results you’re going
\nto get. Yeah, we talked a little bit again about it today with long-duration Isometrics
\nor whatever name that you do have for those. But holding a position typically seen as like a yielding
\nisometric. Yeah. One that you’re not pushing against the immovable object. What are some
\nadaptations that you seek when you utilize those, how you coach them? Yeah. Well I think
\nJay Shroder is the guy who who claimed that and started that. But Isometrics had
\nbeen around for a long time with the Russians about joint specific isometrics and all that stuff. And we know that
\nit works and we know it’s a real powerful way to get strong. What we didn’t realize up
\nuntil recently is that when you do things in a split squat stance and you’re working symmetrically, there
\nyou are actually the brain will actually complete the process for you. So if you
\nare in a split squat lunge, you are actually working on your sprinting gait
\nand your brain believes that it’s operating at full speed. So now you’re minimizing
\nthe impact forces. You’re going to minimize injuries in your gym and your body
\nis going through those patterns, whether it be reflex arcs, whether it be
\nfrom muscle recruitment of how you are getting into the isometric positions. So it
\ndoes a lot in terms of fixing the way we run when people come
\nto my gym. They always say, well, your name, your company is want to get fast? Are you’re going to teach my son or daughter
\nhow to run with your knees up on the balls of your feet. I’m like known people don’t run on the balls of their feet around
\ntheir heels on purpose. They run because they are they have something from a neurological standpoint
\nwhere they’re deflecting force, where they cannot absorb force. So we have to find that in the weight room
\nand we have to fix it. I’m curious through. I got a little interesting question here.
\nSome have fought orders and been
\nseeing them come up through high school athletics. And I’m really I’ve watched the club.
\nWe have my daughters play club volleyball, a lot of soccer. You’re talking about a little bit about
\nyou’re working with younger athletes. What have you seen as far as
\nearly sport specialization in some of your training? And what have you done
\nto help maybe offset some of the negative effects of that? What are your thoughts on that? Coach, I think
\nwe are playing so much game stuff, basketball, volleyball
\naround you’re around that. I think what happens is your skill
\nis better than your physiology. Yeah, that’s a good that’s because when you start doing
\nso. So you can’t if your skill level is higher than your physiology,
\nyou’re going to break at some point. So we have to back it up a little bit and readdress that physiology
\npart. And a lot of people don’t do that. I think isometrics is the best way to do
\nthat with kids who are that active. Right. Because parents will come in and say, well, we have volleyball
\non Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and then soccer on Thursday. And then we. And I’m like. And
\nyou want to train? Save your money. Because we have I mean, just the
\nmy daughter playing volleyball. They’ll be in a tournament two days in a row.
\nThey’ll play five or more matches in one day. We don’t ask
\nour high level athletes to do that, but we’re asking our young athletes to do that now if they’re not playing
\nit with the same impact and force and it’s not at the speed. Right. But still, it’s
\nand it’s on top of concrete. Yeah, it’s sport caught on concrete. The thing to say.
\nYeah, there’s a gap there and it’s really big missing though. I think we have to start addressing it again.
\nIt’s when when I look at my son, I watch him do things with the basketball at 9
\nyears old, I’m like, boy, I couldn’t do this. But he wants to do a.
\nBut his body’s not ready to do it. So he’s gonna get the B result and that’s not good. So,
\nyeah, I’m growing up in Minnesota playing hockey and Ryan working with hockey players. It’s
\nprobably the equivalent of Texas football and you see extreme side of that. Sure. So we’re at the gym.
\nHockey players come off the ice where they got up early, 6:00 a.m., 7:30 or 9 hour.
\nExcuse me. We’ll come right up to the weight room. Roll out, warm up, lift. It’s been an hour and a half, so
\nI’ve spent the first three to three and a half hours of their day training. They’ll come back
\nlater in the day, in the afternoon to some steak handling, shooting behind them on dry land
\nshoes. It never ends, right. Because then you had your tournament teams in the summer that you need to
\nmake for scouts to see you or whatever it may be. And before you know it, you’re back right into
\nthe regular season of hockey. So it got to a point in the summer when I was training some high level hockey players where I’d
\nwatch them run. And I’m like, stop, stop. We’re not doing that because you’re going to hurt yourself. Fish
\nout of water. We got to figure out something else for you to do because you never learn that skill.
\nYou were on the ice and that’s OK. And making millions of dollars now. So I guess it paid off
\nfor them. But what about all the other people who aren’t? I didn’t develop all those skills. No, I tried to teach tumbling
\nto a bunch of hockey players did not go well. Simple, tumbling. Just roll. Do all properly
\nto you. So, you know, there’s going to be a cost to that. There’s gonna
\nbe a cost to that. Speaking of movement, what strategies or methods have you use to improve
\nmotor learning? Coach? Well, some of the systems that we’re working with
\nnow are addressing motor control restoration, which I don’t
\nthink anybody’s utilizing that stuff right now. Guy out of Chicago created the system and it’s
\njust it’s unbelievable how simple
\nbrain communication with joint actions that are intolerant of load can change
\nthe way you move and the way you can learn new patterns. I think everybody is into,
\nyou know, the motor learning part of rehearsing things and practicing. We got that down pretty good.
\nBut from a standpoint of trying to increase your capacity to learn it
\nand absorb those forces from it in multiple joint plains of motion, I
\nthink that’s that’s where our industry is going. Good stuff.
\nCan I take you back to isometrics a little? Sure. So I know he kind of talked about long-duration ISO’s.
\nDo you use anything that short duration use overcoming ISO’s? You know, what types do you use?
\nCal talked a lot about the feet. We use all those foot isometrics. Big believer
\nin that. We use a lot of short five-second isometric hold to fix. Like we’re
\ntalking about the motor control issues. So in order to restore that motor control,
\nthose certain types of isometric exercises allow the brain to communicate better with the brain,
\nwith the joints. So once you have that implementing of any other training
\nsystem is going to make it that much better. So isometrics play a role from the start
\nto the finish. Right. And I know it can be a little bit unique depending
\non how you coach or who you are and where you learned. But I’ve heard before, whether
\nit’s a heavy ISO or something, that you’re going to hold very long duration
\nto be constantly pulling yourself into position. Is that something that you do? Yeah, we do. Pulling ourselves
\ninto position and the intent of what? What is the intent of the movement? Meaning if you’re doing
\na split squat, lunge is your thought process on running. So now we’re
\ngonna get more mortar unit activation based off of that gate cycle or that sprint cycle.
\nA lot of people just hold it just to hold it right. So. They’re wiping their nose or doing all kinds of other things.
\nI want the athlete invested in exactly what they’re doing at that moment versus
\npassively. Can’t exactly sit in the opposition. You know how. I’m curious, how frequently would you use ISO’s?
\nOh, we use it all the time. Every day in every workout. Every workout. They’re doing some
\ntype of isometric work. Yeah. Yeah, we build it in interest set where they’re
\ndoing ISO dynamic, where they’re holding it on their chest and then wrapping out after that, we’ll do it at the bottom of a squat
\nto multiple reps of squats. We will do it just in an a bar ISIL
\nhold for a long duration. We’ll do a wall squat. We’ll do a lunge. Like
\nI said, our warm up is joint specific isometrics. So we use it in all
\nareas of our training in the biggest return on the ISO’s. What’s what’s good? First of all, it’s
\nit’s the force absorption issue that you need to be able to absorb force. But
\nif you’re constantly absorbing force in the wrong position, you’re gonna get hurt. Yeah. So I
\nthink it keeps your injuries down in the weight room. Yeah. The way I mean, I’ve started experimenting
\nwith some of them and I really like them. I I’ll know personally I’ve I’ve done some myself.
\nIt doesn’t beat me up now. And that’s what I think. You know, I don’t feel like my muscles
\nare they feel strong still. Yeah. But I’m not walking around. I kind of like, oh man. I
\njust went through a tough session right there, you know? Yeah. You’re still getting that neuro stimulation from it
\nwithout having to put your muscles through the work of it. So because if you think about like a yielding
\nisometric or something where you’re pushing against something that’s not moving. Right. You’re going to rip
\napart all of that. That’s pretty intense workout when you’re pulling yourself into position
\nand holding and ranges of motion is a completely different animal to the brain.
\nAnd then while we’re in those positions, I’ll begin to add other neurological stacking call.
\nSo whether it’s eye exercises, vestibular exercises, vestibular colic, reflex
\nstuff, all look like weird tricks, but
\nthey’re just sensory input that’s making the motor pattern that we’re creating and that isometric even
\nmore powerful. You make me think we just took a course recently and I don’t know if you’ve
\nlooked into it yet, but it’s called stic mobility. And we’ve got the sticks
\nand the GM, it’s fairly new. It’s not that new, but it’s just a system built around ISO’s.
\nYeah. When you get when you get right down to it, if you want increased mobility of a joint, you’ve got to you’re going to have
\nthese ISO’s and there’s varying degrees. They don’t use isometrics. They use. I think if you’re an irritation,
\nis their terminology a little different? And I use it a lot for priming, for doing some of the bigger
\nlifts. But also, again, I think just from taking the course, it opened up my
\neyes of just the importance and power of just holding positions with tension.
\nAnd that opens it up. So you look at kids position now, it’s terrible. We
\nhave to go back and re teach kids how to get in the proper position for anything. Right.
\nAnd I think we we go from A to Z so fast because their skill level is taking
\noff so much that they think when they come in the weight room, this is going to be easy. You’ve got to go back and get to those
\nrudimentary, right? Yeah. What the what? The tissue reeducation.
\nSo our rowing our rowers tried that this year for our GPP, the second year in a row. We’ve done it,
\nbut we threw them into a long duration. ISEF So two minutes, three minutes we went up to four
\nminutes. You can see the difference that comes back to the coach’s eyes in the warm up. You can kind
\nof see when they stand with our rowers, they do. Thousands of strokes a day where they don’t get to
\nfull hip extension. And that’s on top of sitting in class for two hours a week there and observation, right.
\nSo we’ll do those split lungi cells where we put them in that position in their cued to pull
\nthemselves down to just above the ground. And whether it works or not, I don’t know. But from the
\neye test, it’s like they stand up after that and they’re sore, but they just they stand taller without even being
\ntold. And they’re ready to do it again. You can recover at the same time. That’s right. That’s kind of neat
\nwhen you’re when you’re talking about brain stuff. It’s also reflex driven. So if you are training something,
\nyou should be recovering at near the same time. Right. So the other the other part
\nwith with ISO’s that that will do is a lot of times will control their breathing.
\nRight. So I’m a big we put water in their mouth and it forces
\nnasal breathing. When you start to manipulate that, the performance gains
\nare incredible. Yeah, I’ve heard of the military has been using that for a long ways to tape their mouth
\nshut. But then some of the administrators say it doesn’t look so good. Ministration walked in and saw.
\nNo. And I’m like, why keep him quiet? They don’t talk when they’re training. But you know, the
\nbook, The Oxygen Advantage, you know, if you ever read that book, I have not seen coaching.
\nPatrick McKeever is isn’t my. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It’s good. Yeah. Yeah. It’s designed to breathe through
\nbreathe through our nose and our mouth. Ever diaphragmatic breathing. IBNR don’t know if
\nI pronounce his name right. He is. Have you heard of Evan? I have not. So he.
\nHe’s big and I think he’s a chiropractor or he’s more of an APB out. Yeah. Yeah.
\nBut you know, he talks about nasal breathing and diaphragmatic breathing and in quite a few of his books, so
\nknow. Oh yeah. Page which echoes the same thing is oxygen advantage. Yeah. So what. So instead of taping
\nwe’ll put, you know, water in the mouth and it does the same trick as the same trick. And that’s
\nalmost the concept of stacking. You’re working on one thing while at the same time working on another. Absolutely.
\nWhich you can add. I’ve heard you do. Is it Eissa KADES? Yeah, I isakhan. We do all different
\ntypes of eye exercises and we’ll test to see which ones kids respond to. So when they’re doing their isometrics,
\nthey know what eye positions they’re gonna get into. And then we do some stuff with cerebellum
\npositions that will allow you to get into a deeper lunge because as you look
\na certain way, it activates certain parts, certain muscles. But it also
\nrelaxes certain muscles. So it’s a great way to lengthen a stride. It’s a great way to get into
\ndifferent positions, which all this just kind of reinforces that everything just comes back to the brain. It
\ndoes. It’s not really does. Well, I’ve heard that I’ve heard both you and
\nCarl speak about the influence that bilateral and unilateral exercises have on
\nthe nervous system. We talked a little bit about it earlier today. It seems that the bilateral versus
\nunilateral exercise has been kind of a continuous debate amongst coaches in our field,
\nwhether one’s better ones were Swann’s good ones not. And while they’re
\nmerits of both depending on one’s circumstances or what they have to work with. Can you weigh
\nin on how those patterns of both bilateral or unilateral exercises influence
\nthe nervous system? I don’t have a preference on either one. I think both have merit and both can
\ncan help an athlete. What I do think you have to realize and I explain this today is that there
\nis a negative consequence to lifting weights bilaterally. There just is. I mean, it will
\ntemporarily paralyze your nervous system to where you don’t have strength.
\nAnd I’ve shown that hundreds of times at various clinics. Now, it doesn’t mean you lose your strength
\nforever. It simply means that you need to respond with something that is of a cross crawl
\nconcept. And most unilateral stuff is cross crawl. So, you know, do I like
\nunilateral trade? Absolutely. I think it’s great if the athlete is prepared to be on one leg. That’s awesome.
\nBut I think it’s more of a brain issue. And to be honest, I don’t think it’s debatable because I think
\nbilateral training is fine. There’s anything wrong with it. Right? It’s just you better have the answer
\nwhen it shuts off, because if you look at power lifters, they’re not the best movers.
\nAnd again, our business, we get paid to make people move. Right. One of the sorry coach,
\none of the things you said there that stuck out was, was there’s a consequence to it. And it’s
\nnot only just bilateral, but really anything we do in the weight room, whether it’s nice, symmetric or breathing
\nor it seems like there’s, of course, a pro to it or there should be a reason that why we’re doing it. But there’s also always
\nconsequences. Absolutely. And I think that’s something just from my limited experience in the field
\nthat sometimes gets overlooked amongst coaches is whatever you are doing, it’s, you know, not
\nthe end of it. It’s not that the answer always. Right. There’s a consequence to what you’re doing. And you got to evaluate
\nwhat are you giving and what are you taking. But the stuff that I’ve studied in
\nthe last three years, it just confirms that I know very little about the human body
\nbecause I’ve spent a lot of years doing things that. I thought were this is the best
\nand I’ve completely changed my philosophy, so you have to in this business, I think you
\nhave to be willing to, you know, stick your neck out and go, what else is out there? Because I can’t have
\nall the answers and we don’t have all the answers. Yeah, I think that’s that’s a good
\npoint. I think going back to the unilateral sport by nature
\nis is imbalanced. And you get. I mean, just I think
\nI really like what you said that, you know, bilaterals great and everything. But there are some consequences
\nto that. And it seems like with the unilateral training, you can kind of
\nyou can address compensation’s, which you talked a little bit about today. And though
\nyou’ll see you can you can evaluate, engage, maybe where there is a conversation, a weakness
\nthat if you don’t if you’re doing it with the bilat or move, you just maybe increase that.
\nYeah. Well, I think the brain likes two things. I think it likes targets,
\nnumber one, and complex movements. Number two. So if we’re not doing either one of those
\nthings, I don’t think we are getting the most out of what our brain can give us back
\nfor sports performance. And what I mean by a target is and I tell people is if you’re a
\npower clean person, if that’s your philosophy, when we power
\nclean, there’s not an end game. It’s a technique. It’s a skill. But if I
\npicked my foot up and put it in a certain area, that’s a skill and a target
\nthat I have to get to. So now the brain’s gone. Mm hmm. I’m a little bit more interested in the
\nend product here. So if my foot ends up on a wall where there’s an X
\nin my hips are in the right position, that it would look like when I was running. Now that becomes
\na little bit more specific to the brain. It has a target. And now from a motor learning
\nstandpoint, if I learn how to do that, I’ve also put my hips in the right position to be
\na better runner. So so targets are one complex movements or another.
\nWe have to be able to give our brain complex movements something new, something novel,
\na new stimulus, or else it becomes lazy, becomes lazy. And we’ve seen
\nfriends, Bosch, you know, address the targets. Right. Even if you’re going to utilize a power going absolutely
\nnuts. That’s not too new. Kind of like you were saying, coach, but certainly
\nit feels like we’re progressing in that manner, kind of like you said and circling back to the beginning.
\nThat’s just the way things are starting to trend. You know, I hear friends talk about
\nCoke, contractions of the spine. I’ll wind it back even deeper, saying that when
\nyou when you stimulate the vestibular system, you’re forcing those poor spinal
\nmuscles of the spine to turn on. So now you’re actually doing brain training. I don’t think he explains
\nit that way. He’s more into the motor learning aspect of it and the targets fight. But that’s still
\nbrain activation because your brain has to be able to turn those spinal
\nspinal muscles on to create stability before it’s going to let go. Any force in your lower back, right.
\nRight. And that’s the brain essentially limiting our outputs, right. Based
\non what it thinks is safer threats. It’s all about threats. Yeah.
\nOne thing I’m Shargel with with the bilateral training versus unilateral is I work
\nwith sport like rowing where it’s kind of bilateral in nature. Inside
\nyou fight with myself as far as well. OK. They’re gonna do this many bilateral or hip extensions every single
\nday. How much unilateral training should I do? What offsets the brain isn’t even
\neven worth putting time in to do that because I don’t know. You know, exactly what I’m doing is right. Exactly.
\nHelping, but. Well, I think one of the things you can do is test it. Muscle test it. All right. So
\nif they’re if they’re rowing in your muscle testing and again, it’s not just a muscle test to see how strong
\nyou are, it’s more of a neural response of. Are they engaging? Are they locking out?
\nSo if you just reverse the hands, that might, you know, in some of the let’s
\nsay of the five minutes you’re rowing, a minute of it is reversed hands. That might be enough.
\nWe build into our football program where the kids come in for recovery. They take their shoes
\noff. They’re walking in grass. And I tell them purposeful walking where they’re going to leave their heel on
\nthe ground as long as they possibly can in their gait cycle to lengthen those hip flexors out
\nthat we’ve had. SHORTEN Well, they’re sitting in school. So we’re killing two birds with one stone. We’re gaining electrons
\nfrom the ground by grounding, strengthening our feet. And we’re walking with a purpose
\nbecause now if I’m taking a thousand steps, that’s 1000 steps of a longer
\nhip flexor and I tricked him. That’s big time.
\nYeah, I kind of wanted to I’m just out of curiosity, I want to change gears this for a second
\nbecause I want to circle back to some things he said earlier. When you’re introducing yourself,
\nyou’re a hit coach. And that in you own your own business.
\nI do. You said you opened up to did so
\njust as as a professional. When I heard you say that that was just
\na daunting task. When you just being hit coach and then having your own any you travel and speak.
\nCan you just talk a little bit? What’s it like being a head coach? And then obviously you’re not to
\nBernero, you know, get this kind of side to you. I think a lot of coaches have this side to him.
\nHow do you do that? What kind of would it come from? Well, I I’m I’m blessed because the first for two different
\nreasons. Number one, I have great people all around me. I’ve had the opportunity to hire
\nsome great people like my staff. And the football program is it’s got to be tops in New York State. I mean,
\nI’ve got guys that have won state championships, two young coaches who have that fire.
\nSo when you in order to be a great leader, I think it’s it’s servant
\nleadership makes you a leader. And so you have to be able to give back to the people that are helping you.
\nAnd I’ve I’ve been blessed with that. The second part of that, in terms of running, running the businesses,
\nI’ve been blessed because I don’t I’m not a business man. I love to train. I love
\nto watch people get stronger and faster. It’s been a passion. And when it started, all it did was
\nfund my research. Now, if I’m lucky enough, where I can bring in a little bit of an income,
\nbut it’s nowhere near where it should be. But just because I’ll be see
\nif I can do it. It’s like cheating. I love it. You don’t have to pay me to do it. I love it.
\nAnd the two guys that are running it now are just as vested. And it’s awesome
\nto see any plan to write a book in the future or do anything like that. Yeah, I think Carl and I are
\ngoing to write a book. Well, well, we got do we have that on record and we got it recorded if
\nwe’re gonna hold you to it. Yeah. I’ve I’ve always thought I’m
\nnot a good writer. I’m a doer. Like I want to I want to be in the weight room. I want
\nI want to be involved in it. But I always wanted someone that maybe
\njust kind of jot down things as I’m talking, because as it comes out, sometimes I don’t even understand what I’m saying.
\nIt just comes out. But let’s go. That’s pretty, pretty amazing. He’s the head coach
\nand does. That’s crazy. You know, you’re not bored. Yeah, no. And the other part about it, too, is
\na lot of times in coaching, you sacrifice a lot of family stuff. I’m able to have my son with me. A lot
\nof times during that coaching. And that’s a really big deal for me. Like he can come to practice. He comes
\nto the games. He’s getting involved in the training part of it. And like coming
\nout here, he was so excited that I was coming out here because of
\nColt McCoy. And I just couldn’t tell you what take over. That’s
\nright. The eyes of Texas are upon. Always. Coach, always. One
\ncool thing about why we brought you down here is, again, we talked about it like it’s your
\nown unique approach to training. Right. It’s understanding neurology. It’s understanding how the brain,
\nat the end of the day, ultimately affects performance. And so I only say that to say we’re
\nexcited and we’re keep our years to the ground, if you do start writing a book, whether it be with Calor or
\nMatt Van [INAUDIBLE]. But I think. I mean, we’ve talked about it like that’s that’s kind of the
\nway or the realm that our field is trending. Yeah. Is a brain based. I mean,
\nit is, you know, really. And like I said, I’ve been lucky enough to be able to, you know.
\nSit with a lot of great minds. I mean, I look at a guy like Hal Dietz, I mean, he’s
\noff the charts. I think he’s one of the best in the business. And it’s
\nit’s awesome to hear people speak like I’m looking forward to listening to the speakers tomorrow.
\nIt was wonderful to come into your weight room today and watch your staff go to work. I mean,
\nyou can learn something everywhere you go and learn something everywhere you go. Absolutely.
\nWell, just here you offer your well, read any. So
\nthere’s some bookworms, I’m sure, listening research junk out there. Professional development.
\nCan you give us anything? Books, courses? What would you recommend? Kind of
\none of the courses that I that I took that I think is a game changer is is John Imes
\nand his primal reflex release technique. It basically deals with Sherrington
\nlove or supercool inhibition. And it’s pretty powerful how we can use it
\nin the weight room and the therapy table. It’s that was profound. And tomorrow,
\nin part of my my seminar speech, I’ll talk about the five things that really impacted
\nme as a coach. One of them was being able to sit down with Dr. Peter, weigh in
\nand listen to his research on human locomotion and
\nhaving an opportunity to speak with some of these great minds that aren’t necessarily in, quote
\nunquote, the strength and conditioning field. I used to think
\nwhen I was younger. Oh, therapy. You know, they’re gonna balance on a Swiss ball. I can’t
\nmake that happen in my weight room. So I shut it off to not listening.
\nAnd then I started thinking, you know what? Let me listen and see if I can gain something to help
\nwhat I do. And lo and behold, it’s all about a filter. Yeah. David EPSTEIN, if you’ve heard of that
\nauthor, he just finished a book that came out called Range. He says, basically,
\nthe book you just said in a nutshell that if you want to find answers to whatever you’re doing,
\nyour field or whatever, don’t stay in your don’t stay in that one. You got to broaden
\nthat range. You have to find creative solutions and answers to problems.
\nDid you have within your contact? Right. I’ve had medical doctors come in
\nand we’ll do some reflex stuff and they’re like, this is simple. And like, you’re
\na medical doctor. How did you not know that I have this? And they’re like, well, that’s not what we do. What we do is we
\nhave gone mainstream. So instead, like and then it but if you
\ntake a look at some of the people who created some of these systems, they’re so brilliant and so passionate
\nthat they come off and people look at you and go, oh, I’m not doing that. That’s crazy.
\nBut they have something good. I can’t tell how many times I was at a lecture and people would walk out. Strength coaches
\nwill walk right out of a lecture because somebody said something that was so unbelievably
\nblowing people away and different that that can’t be true and walk out. Well, they missed the last part
\nof it because the last part was the best part. I’m not going to use the first part. I use the last part. So there’s
\nalways something to learn. Whether you hate something or not. You can learn.
\nYeah. I mean, here at Texas, we have like you say, we have athletic trainers, behavior, health, nutritionist,
\nstrength, conditioning coaches, sports science. And while we may all have our jobs within
\nthose platforms, I think all of us kind of owe it to ourselves and each other and the athletes
\nwe serve. And that’s our jobs blend kind of in each of those. No question.
\nAren’t Barela covers all five of those. And so, you know, you may specialize in just one of them, but
\nwhatever you are doing, it affects the other four. You know, however you end up dividing it, even in
\nthe medical community, like if you’re talking about anatomy trains the book. Right. They’ll be
\nphysicians who will say, OK. This is fash. Yes. Somebody will say,
\nwell, there’s a bio electric charge around that fascist somebody else. Well, that’s a Meridien. Well, somebody
\nwill say that’s a reflex. It’s all the sense of. Yeah, but somebody is explaining it differently.
\nSomebody from Eastern Europe is going to talk differently about a Meridien Chinese mooradian than the
\nactual Chinese acupuncturists. Right. So it’s not wrong. It’s
\njust a different way they explain it. And if it gets a result, that’s what you gotta worry about.
\nThat’s what you gotta think about. And that’s what you’ve got to try to make fit into what you do. Yeah. Nothing, too.
\nYou know, technology is such a it’s such a that’s the buzz. Now I have buy cell
\nin every gadget under the sun. And so I think one of the from what I’ve
\nseen, the positive, you can quantify everything now, sleep, hydration,
\nyour fatigues or you can quantify everything, forced production absorption. So now
\nwhen you can you can look at all that on a piece of paper of what’s improving, what’s not. Now you’re gonna
\nsearch for different answers because. The old methods that this
\nis what’s always worked often is not getting the results that we want, so it’s cause I feel like it’s causing
\npeople to go a little deeper and be more open minded to different solutions. That’s outside the box again,
\nbecause you have to have answers. You have to be able to explain what’s happening physiologically. And,
\nyou know, sometimes people have a hard time understanding how can an isometric lunge
\nwhen you’ve never run before? Make you faster? Well, if the reflex arcs are correct and you are in
\nthe right position, you will get faster. Means
\nbroadening your horizons, right? It’s getting out of that tunnel vision is one thing, as you can
\nsee with interns. I know I saw it myself as a young coaches. You grow up under one system or
\none philosophy. You think, oh, that’s the way you go to a new experience, you know, shoot. No, that’s the
\nway. And you soon learn usually the hard way that, again, everything is
\nconnected. And there’s something you can take from each experience, from each person who’s presenting on something,
\nfrom each person and their expertise. It’s just all about your filter. Yeah. I tell people the story all
\nthe time. When I spent some time with Mel MSF before he passed. I go into his basement
\nprobably in my middle 20s, thought I knew it all. And he’s
\ntalking. I’m listening and he’s he’s brilliant. I mean, he could speak and make your head spin.
\nSo he said, well, what’s your passion? What’s your interest in making people fast and get him really strong? Is it okay?
\nGreat. He goes, do you do any aerobics work? I’m like, non-believing.
\nHe goes, okay. He goes, I want you to look at my library of books I have. So you going to his basement
\nand it was this vast. He had books from everywhere. So he goes each side
\nof the wall, had a different philosophy on the court, whereas all the speed stuff he goes that’s
\non that wall right over there, all the Russian research, all the stuff. My God, that’s awesome. You can go on over there. You’re
\ngoing over here. I go everywhere. So I pull out the first book. And it was a cross country book.
\nAnd I’m like, that’s great. I don’t want to do this. He’s like, I don’t care what you want to do. You’re going to understand
\nwhy you don’t like that right before you tell me everything that’s bad about it.
\nAnd I’m like. Then he started saying, you could do this in your relationships in the middle of an argument.
\nSwitch sides and argue for the other person and then see what happens. And I’m like,
\nboy, that’s empathy right there. Put yourself in someone else’s shoes. Just seeing the argument or
\ndiscussion from a different person. Then he goes, How are you truly going to master knowing anything about power and speed if
\nyou don’t know everything about why you don’t do the other stuff? Good point.
\nSo I sat in that basement and studied for a while. What a great lesson.
\nGreat story. What would you say to young coaches coming up today? That advice
\nwould you give, you know, your history and just because the field is changing. Don’t think that the guys
\nwho started stuff and have great ideas and back in the day go spend some time
\nwith them because you’ll learn a lot about what’s coming around now like we’re talking about. Isometrics
\nright now. All right. The Russians were talking about that in the early 60s.
\nAnd now all of a sudden people are going isometrics are. Well, the Russians come back around. It’ll come back around. So
\nso go after the people that have been in the business for a while and just listen to him, even though you might not have the same
\nphilosophy because you just got out of school and you know everything. Listen to them. They will.
\nEnlighten you. Yeah. One thing one common question I get from interns is when they read all of our staff
\nbios, they’ll see that I interned in her kallaugher. Seven, eight months and, you know, talk to me
\nabout eccentrics and isometrics. And I always try to stop them and say, look, Kelp did an
\namazing job popularising you nice metrics, but they’ve been around forever. Right.
\nSo I’m like, you want to start anywhere? There’s plenty of stuff that the Russians were doing 50 years ago.
\nEven volume control of how we how we self-regulate in how
\nmany sets of reps we do based off the performance. I still use the stuff. I don’t
\nknow if you guys have it in for him. Yeah. I mean, I still use that stuff
\nwith my tracting. Like how can you manage volume? How do I know for a 10th grade kid
\ncan run 20 sprints and the senior can run five sprints? Well their time tells me when they can’t run
\nfast anymore, they’re done. Could be five sets, could be 20. I don’t know. I’m not that smart to figure that out.
\nSo we will we will control volume that way. Still, that’s years old. Yeah. And
\nthe best part of that, I think, is that there wasn’t all the new fancy technology when it was discovered he was a stop
\nwatching and then Karl was talking about it today. Yeah, right. So I mean, you
\nknow, Listento who’s like Louis Simmons. I learned so much from him. I don’t do a lot of the
\nstuff that he does, but I certainly learned a lot from him. Yeah, I learned about the grind.
\nThat guy does a miss days of lifting. He just doesn’t. He does the same thing every day.
\nI respect that. Yeah. Why? So barbell posted the other day on Instagram, the recovery day. And
\nI was looking at it like, man, I’d be shot doing that. Yeah, it was basically no lift. Yeah.
\nYeah, it was. It was a big bodybuilding lift. Yeah, he that’s a different breed.
\nBut again, you can learn something from everybody. Absolutely. Coach, what kind of.
\nI know you, Debbie. Relighting books you’ve been reading lately. Any recommendations? It’s
\nnot more. It’s not as much about books as it is about people I study. Like the guy that’s intriguing
\nme now is Dr. Jack Cruz. I don’t know if you guys have heard of Dr. Jack Cruz. Look him like
\nhe’s that he’s more on the nutritional side. He’s a brain neurosurgeon,
\nbut he’s kind of figured out the whole diet thing. And he’s got some pretty profound
\nideas and he’s off the charts. Brilliant to the point, again, where those
\ntypes of people make a lot of people angry because it challenges their belief systems. But
\nlove listening to him talk and read his stuff. So that’s kind of where I go. And then you
\nwork your way back. The guy’s a neurosurgeon, so he knows certain things about the brain. What
\nhappens when you eat certain foods? Chemicals. And here we go.
\nAnd now we trace it all back to performance. And if a person can get in and out of a car pain free
\nor a person is trying to jump forty three inches, there’s no difference to me. To me, it’s it’s about performance.
\nVery true, true, Jack. Cruz, that was his name. Yeah. Dr. Jack Cruz. Look at me. He’s the
\nman. He’s the man. Anything else? Chance in the day?
\nI feel like we could talk for hours, but that’s all I got right now. Coach, I appreciate your time coming to visit
\nwith us today. Been awesome. So if any of our listeners do want to connect with you
\nor reach out to you. Do you have any contact information and you would be willing to share? Yeah, they
\ncan. They can hang up on our Instagram page. I think it’s WJF one.
\nWe have a Facebook page. I have a personal Facebook. So we’re we’re all over the Internet.
\nNever been a big marketing guy. No. You know, my rule was when I started training and athletes
\nwas if the father or mother calls me three times, leaves me a message three times,
\nthen I’ll call him back, because I know that they’re that serious about training. They call me once
\nand they never call back. They never wanted to train anyways through. You got to. Yeah, you do. Got to be persistent
\nfor sure. We’ll call Coach Dan. It has been a absolute pleasure
\ndoing this podcast today. Interview with you. And thank you for making time. Coach Heinsohn, thank you for
\nmaking the connection. Yes, sir. You are the man. So, yes, sir. I heard Callon in podcasts. Drop
\nyour name. Anytime. Cal does that. I’ve learned over the years that it’s probably pretty important
\nresource. So it took me a little bit to find. Yeah. Awesome. When I first asked Matt VanDyke
\nand Sandino Dan Victor Azeez like I have no idea who that is. A few weeks later, after going to the
\nwhat is the TFSA? Oh, yeah, yeah. The Shikaki came back niggaz. I know who Dan Victor is and
\nhe’s going to come visit. And we’re just glad that you made the trip to Austin. So thanks for the invite. It’s been awesome.
\nSo we’re gonna get you some Tex Mex tonight. I think I think that’s accurate. And we got get him bargaining, but we’re
\ngetting out of here. But can you do it one time for can you do a hook him for his coat. Hook him hook a Muslim
\ntelcom coaches, a Longhorn fan. And we definitely that that’s even more special to have you here.
\nSo we thank you for your support of our programs here at Texas Inn. It’s been real. Co-chairperson,
\nthank you for joining us today. And that’s it from the team behind the team podcast. We
\nwill catch you on the next episode. Hook them horns.
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