Ep.4 - Kyle Rogers // Making an Impact as a Strength Coach
Strength Roots Podcast
English - March 02, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBFitness Health & Fitness Business Entrepreneurship mindset strength and conditioning entrepreneurship habits hyperthrive athletics personal development mental skills mental performance Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Kyle graduated from NCAA DII Belmont Abbey College in 2014 where he was a pitcher. He spent 3 years working as the Pitching and Strength Coordinator at Diamond Sports Training Center in Sumner, WA before taking a job as a Throwing and Strength Trainer at Driveline Baseball in February of 2017. In the Summer of 2017, he transitioned to a full time Strength Trainer and was named the Lead Strength Trainer in February of 2018. In 2019 he took the Director of Athletic Performance role at CSU Northridge, and recently transitioned back into the private sector.
Show Highlights:
— Kyle‘s journey to playing college baseball and how his desire to throw harder led him to the weightroom.
— How Kyle ended up in the strength and conditioning field after college.
— The study habits and hands on experience that led to Kyle’s early success in the field and the influences that helped shape his training philosophy.
— How Kyle ended up at Driveline baseball after previously despising them!
— The team of “rejects” that banded together to create the environment at Driveline, and how it’s currently transforming the game of baseball.
— Finding the approach and mentally to training that best suites you and not mimicking someone else.
— How to be effective coaching a wide variety of athletes with different personalities, and digging enough to understand each athlete’s true motivations.
— How healthy competition between coaches at Driveline fueled everyone to become better daily and ultimately set them up to get collegiate and MLB jobs.
— Surrounding yourself with people who challenge your thoughts and ideas to help you become better.
— The deeper impact you can make as a coach.
— How Kyle evaluates potential career changes.
— Kyle’s experience moving from the private sector to the collegiate setting.
— Building relationships.
— Kyle’s advice to his younger self.
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