The By Any Means Coaches Podcast

Gabe Macias is a basketball skills trainer and gym owner in San Diego, California. He's the owner of Gametimeelitetraining, and he brought so much value to the show and for you guys.Gabe gives such great insight on how he built up his clientele by training a couple kids at the park and starting as an AAU coach, then leveraging being a coach to his advantage. He goes into some methods of utilizing AAU programs to build your clientele as well as utilizing referral programs in order to grow your clientele.We talk about how Gabe found his gym and then the best part of the podcast in my opinion is how he's built the culture in his gym, and he goes into a lot of detail. He mentions something he gives his athletes called an accountability journal which he has his athletes reflect in, do homework in and so much moreMake sure to tune in to the whole episode, you don't wanna miss any of it.Gabe's social media:IG - https://www.instagram.com/gametimeelitetraining/Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfyk9fwHemsNq3d_C6pG8tgWebsite for links - https://gametimeelitebasketballtraining.com/links

I heard Joerik speak at the Mastery Hoops Player Development Conference this month and was taken away by his expertise and approach to player development, I'm ecstatic to get him on.He and I talk about his gym in Belgium and his story to get where he is now, he's a trailblazer in Europe and continuously improving the culture where he is. He brings a unique philosophy by utilizing small-sided games to train one of the most important qualities in basketball: decision-making. Joerik takes his role extremely seriously as a role model to the athletes he works with, he provides an experience at his gym that helps teach life habits as well as basketball skills. Not every athlete will go play pro and make millions of dollars, but even so they shouldn't feel like they're stuck now or unprepared because all they've done is play basketball - Joerik's philosophy is to train both life skills and basketball skills at the same time. Make sure to check out Joerik's instagram and his online coaching platform below:IG: https://www.instagram.com/joerik/Platform: https://eliteathletes.be/events/elite-athletes-coaches-development-weekend/ 

Early off-season training needs to be as general as possible, stay away from any sport specific movement patterns. We just got through with a vigorous 7 month competitive season where all our body did was sport specific movements, a lot of players experienced other injuries throughout the season as well - jumper's knee, sprained ankle, pulled groined, and so much moreThis is our opportunity to rebuild our foundation from the ground up and focus on individual weaknesses, movement quality, and recover from the season. If we stay specific to our sport we'll only burn out and inevitably get injured

Contrary to common belief and what actual real doctors say, "rest and ice" doesn't help patellar tendinopathy. It's actually making it worse which I dive into in this weeks episode, in order to actually get better we have to load the tendon. Few big concepts in the episode:1. LOAD the tendon2. Manage your workload - spikes in your workload aggravate tendons immensely 3. Train the feet and soleus to help protect the knee and hip 4. Take a look at your nutrition - the saying "you are what you eat" rings true, we can't recover a degenerated tendon if you're putting McDonalds and sprite into your system5. Practice proper mechanics - we land in precarious and often harmful positions post jump, so who's to say how much value snap downs actually have? I do think there may be at least a little value in training proper mechanics through the kinetic chain (ankle, knee, hip) and to try and properly distribute the force we absorb through all three joints. Altitude drops and a plethora of other deceleration type work has their place and prove to be extremely important Some notable names and people you should look up if you wanna learn more:Jill Cook Keith BarrJake Tuura: YT - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGi0IxcAiCyOGmvTjVqAHiw Podcast - https://jackedathlete.libsyn.com/Paul FabritzMike G

This past weekend I traveled to LA for the second Mastery Hoops Player Development Conference, and it was absolutely incredible. I wanted to use it as leverage to talk about why going to these types of events is so important.Here's what I think going to these events do:1. Build meaningful relationships2. Travel and see new cultures, try new cuisine, site see, get new perspective which all help you become a better HUMAN3. Gain invaluable knowledge and experience 4. Incredible for business (immediate & for the future)5. Improve your own craft and every around youListen to the whole thing to hear me digress some more on all those topics.

Season 2 episode 1 was a great one!! Cristian is an awesome human being, everything about him just screams genuine. He puts so much into his craft and it's so easy to see that even just through his words alone. I'm a big believer that you can learn so much from others stories and others journeys, we spend a good amount of time going over Cristians background and then the importance of experience in this field and in general. Which brings us into the topic of his pro academy down in Austin, Texas. I ask Cristian if he uses a formal screening/assessment process, which he later talks about how it's not necessarily just about one assessment but how everyday he and his colleagues are reassessing their athletes. We talk about static stretching and if it really makes sense and Cristian has an interesting perspective on "static" stretching - not the traditional take. Mobility and flexibility aren't exactly the same, then once we gain adequate mobility do we keep driving for more?Lastly Cristian touches upon the foot & ankle complex and the importance of training it especially for hoopers.Cristians info:IG - https://www.instagram.com/cristiangplascencia/Durable Athlete - https://durableathlete.com/Texas Pro Academy - https://texasproacademy.com/

Preface: If you like static stretching and it works for you, keep doing it. This episode I breakdown if static stretching is really helping us, in my opinion as well as a lot of research says, it doesn't.  It doesn't improve performance, warm us up, reduce injury, improve/increase range of motion, etcIt's really good for cramps, but that's about it. I talk about why that is and use this article for reference:https://www.painscience.com/articles/stretching.php#sec_flexibility

Jess is an incredible person! This episode is packed with so much knowledge, from talking about the struggles women face in sport and this field and conversely what kind of mindset you need to have if you're a women in this field. Jess gave a lot of great incite on how to prepare the human body basketball, starting with the feet and moving up the body. How important reactive strength is for sport and especially a sport like basketball. We talked about how to create a culture that breeds progress as well as an environment that welcomes everyone in the weight room, this is a huge topic. Jess works super hard on creating the culture and environment she has in her gym as well as what comes with her when she trains anywhere.Make sure to check her out on IG and check out her app if you want to train with her!IG - https://www.instagram.com/coachjrperformance/App - https://my.playbookapp.io/jess-racz

We often times glorify the Kobe Bryant's and Michael Jordans for the shear amount of work they put in, early days and long nights, an obsessive dedication to the game. That's all well and good but they worked up to that point, as well as having great genetics, but also they prioritize their recovery just as much as their actual work. There's a reason Lebron James is the most durable athlete of all time, theres a reason he hasn't had a career ending/threatening injury or even season ending at that, there's a reason he spends $1.5 million on the likes of a sleep therapist, chef/nutritionists, strength and performance coaches that understand proper programming. It starts with the big rocks: sleep, nutrition, proper programming. If those things are impeccable than no thera-gun, normatec, cryotherapy or any other recovery modality will help you. Those just act as bandaids over a massive wound, once your sleep is good, nutrition is solid and your programming is there THEN you can play around with the sexy and cool recovery modalities. I talk about the importance of all those above and some ways to improve the three big rocks and further optimize them.

I briefly met Danny in October last year for the PDC in Miami, since then I've been following him on Instagram and youtube and he's a great follow. He's a great trainer, entrepreneur and person. Danny is the owner and founder of "Danny Cooper Basketball" which has grown a solid name for itself, he interned under Drew Hanlen for 7 weeks which helped really skyrocket his business and confidence as a trainer. He and I talk about training, being a trainer while also being a college athlete, how juggling the two has helped him tremendously. Being the only senior and a captain of his team this year has helped him improve and understand what exactly being a leader is for him. Make sure to go check him out and follow everything he's got going on: https://www.instagram.com/dcoopbball/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2aMAHL9kgoxMrNkW8oQQ8w