Performance: A Lifetime Pursuit with Buddy Morris

The High Performance Hockey Podcast

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

What makes an effective, skilled coach for effective, skilled players.

The importance of learning and evolution for coaches.

Preparation for athletes in elite level sports outside of ice hockey.

Technical, tactical mastery in strength and conditioning.

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Show Notes:

What does maximum optimization look like in elite level sports outside of ice hockey? Today, we will have an in depth conversation about preparation for high performance sports with the current head strength and conditioning coach for the Arizona Cardinals, Buddy Morris. Buddy has worked with 13 first round NFL draft picks and 15 first team All Americans during his career, and recently won the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year award in 2021.

In this episode, we will cover his experience in the NFL and how he trains and prepares his skilled athletes. We dive into the physiology of velocity and speed, preparation and programming for advanced athletes, assessing and correcting asymmetries, and much more. Most of all, we’ll discuss the importance of learning, growing, and improving as coaches for the benefit of the game and the players. Find out what it means to be an effective coach in the high performance sport world at large!

0:00:00 Meet the head strength and conditioning coach for the Arizona Cardinals, Buddy Morris, to learn how coaches prepare their athletes in other elite level sports!

0:02:10 What can you learn from preparation coaches from other sports?

0:09:25 Why do simple programs work for both beginner and advanced athletes in different ways?

0:14:35 What do you think causes more injuries in track and field?

0:18:20 How we view speed and velocity.

0:22:10 Who do you learn from?

0:26:15 Why do coaches need to learn first in order for their athletes to learn?

0:30:10 What cannot be measured that an athlete needs to have?

0:31:45 What is the importance of technical mastery for strength and conditioning?

0:35:40 How do you bridge the gap?

0:38:00 What qualities do you work on in season in the NFL?

0:40:30 How do subtle nuances affect your in season menus?

0:43:10 What does force of max velocity look like in elite athletics?

0:47:20 What distances do you set for your skilled athletes?

0:50:50 How do you correct asymmetries?

0:53:25 Which assets have helped you with directing training?

0:56:10 Why is abruptly stopping detrimental to systems?

0:58:35 How should coaches approach assessments?

1:00:25 The limitations of corrective exercises.

1:04:10 Why do coaches need to learn, change, and think in their jobs?

1:08:30 What will be the day that you retire?

1:11:25 Why is the brain the next step for optimization?