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Coach Your Brains Out

CYBO and Gold Medal Squared

Sports

Education

Frequency: 1 episode/9d. Total Eps: 435

Coach Your Brains Out is founded by professional beach volleyball players and college coaches John Mayer and Billy Allen. The primary goal is practical, useful education that will help you become a better coach. Our podcasts are released every Thursday, so set your notifications accordingly!

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🇨🇦 Canada - volleyball
25/08/2026
#5
🇬🇧 Great Britain - volleyball
25/08/2026
#9
🇩🇪 Germany - volleyball
25/08/2026
#24
🇺🇸 USA - volleyball
25/08/2026
#2
🇫🇷 France - volleyball
25/08/2026
#8
🇨🇦 Canada - volleyball
24/08/2026
#6
🇬🇧 Great Britain - volleyball
24/08/2026
#9
🇩🇪 Germany - volleyball
24/08/2026
#21
🇺🇸 USA - volleyball
24/08/2026
#2
🇫🇷 France - volleyball
24/08/2026
#8

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MATCH PREPARATION with Martin Plessl (1 of 2)

Season 5 · Episode 295

Thursday, August 29, 2024 • Duration 38:01

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SHOULDER SCIENCE with Wieger Heijenk (2 of 2)

Season 5 · Episode 294

Thursday, August 22, 2024 • Duration 30:24

Shoulder Science Videos

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INTENTIONALITY OF TRAINING with JJ Van Niel - (1 of 2)

Season 5 · Episode 290

Thursday, June 20, 2024 • Duration 32:29

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COACH DEVELOPMENT with Jamie Taylor

Season 5 · Episode 217

Thursday, October 6, 2022 • Duration 50:29

1:19 - Moving into the topic of Coach Development, what are values that Jamie emphasizes when developing coaches?
2:47 - Are there common traits that coaches have, or does Jamie treat each coach on a case by case basis?
5:07 - When Jamie observes coaches develop, what are some of the most common mishaps or mistakes that occur?
10:46 - Should coaches who are interested in improving their coaching read strictly research based books?
12:01 - What are the main skills or values coaches should focus on improving to become more effective?
14:13 - When trying to implement reflection into a coaching routine, what is the most effective schedule to make the most out of the exercises?
15:29 - Some of the questions that Jamie has found to be the most effective to reflect on.
17:50 - How would Jamie structure reflection exercises?
19:40 - What are some common themes that occur during reflection?
21:15 - What are qualities that separate good coaches from the elite coaches?
22:36 - Explaining the term “pracademic”.
23:50 - Should coaches also have an academic background in their field?
26:59 - Exploring the informational processing aspect of motor learning.
37:33 - Introducing shared mentor models.
43:08 - Are there specific scenarios when developing a player that Jamie would focus on an ecological dynamic or constraints led approach vs. an informational processing approach?
45:01 - Explaining the effects of differential learning.
47:15 - Why Jamie is not entirely sold on prescriptive coaching methods.

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PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY with Jamie Taylor

Season 5 · Episode 216

Thursday, September 29, 2022 • Duration 34:09

1:24: How Jamie ended up working with coaches through his journey as a health and human performance professor.
2:17 - Given that Jamie is currently balancing teaching and “coaching” coaches, would he like to eventually transition into a role where he would just focus on working with coaches?
3:20 - High-performance sports has a history of applying ideas like growth mindset and grit (that are used in the context of another field of study like education). Why does Jamie think this is problematic?
- You can read this article online here: https://www.readcube.com/articles/10.3389/fspor.2022.823488
8:19 - Have Jamie found an effective way to apply growth mindset concepts (like the implicit theory) to sports?
10:09 - What are common ways that Jamie has observed coaches apply growth mindset concepts to their coaching?
11:54 - How does Jamie define the concept of psychological safety?
13:47 - Where has most of the research regarding psychological safety been done?
14:11 - Jamie’s thoughts on common ways that psychological safety has been applied in the sports world.
22:10 - How does the concept of “safetyism” differ from psychological safety?
23:18 - Has Jamie observed coaches mistakenly apply safetyism when attempting to implement psychological safety?
25:06 - Could the implementation of psychological safety make a difference in the worldwide struggle with mental health in athletes?
26:45 - Can high levels of psychological safety negatively impact motivation and effort levels?
28:11 - Explaining the concept of “driven benevolence”.
29:02 - What are the most worthwhile components of psychological safety to apply to high performance athletics?

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CHALLENGE POINT - Motor Learning for Coaches

Season 5 · Episode 215

Thursday, September 22, 2022 • Duration 37:07

1:37 - How have Andy and the Pirates held up so far, especially through the hottest part of the summer.
3:12 - After accepting and validating the struggles that athletes and coaches voice during the toughest parts of the season, what are the next steps?
4:20 - Checking in with Kasey - how has the beginning of the season gone for him so far?
5:55 - Traditionally the beginning of the volleyball season consists of “double days”, but what does Kasey do instead?
9:24 - Introducing the topic of this episode: “challenge point”
13:09 - Is there an appropriate level of the ability to complete certain skills at which athletes can be considered successful ?
16:15 - How can emotional responses be used to gauge the challenge point?
17:56 - When addressing teams based sports, should coaches consider the entire team’s challenge point focus, or each individual’s?
20:41 - Comparatively, how is the previous idea applied in baseball?
21:37 - Should coaches be pushing athletes slightly out of their comfort zone and at the edge of their challenge point?
22:46 - At what times should coaches push athletes to the edge of their challenge point vs. below it, and why?
25:49 - What are the downsides of constantly pushing players to the edge of their challenge point?
28:05 - Using a volleyball example, with limited resources and the challenge point constraint, how can coaches make their players reach the highest level of play at the sweet spot of their zone?
33:23 - In a similar, but baseball oriented scenario, how can coaches achieve that same effect as described in the previous example?

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YOUTH COACHING with John Kessel - Part 2

Season 5 · Episode 213

Thursday, September 15, 2022 • Duration 45:27

Topics:

Teaching rotations

Coaching mixed skill levels

Balance winning and development

Teaching technique

Handling "unmotivated" players

Punishments and consequences

Playing time

Parent Issues

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YOUTH COACHING with John Kessel - Part 1

Season 5 · Episode 213

Thursday, September 8, 2022 • Duration 42:19

Topics:

What are kids looking for in sports?

Teach the most fun skill first

Scaling the game for kids

Foundational skills

Planning practice

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MINDFULNESS with Tom Black and Shane Day

Season 5 · Episode 214

Thursday, September 1, 2022 • Duration 26:17

1:26 - How can coaches use mindfulness to alleviate the pressure and stress that athletes struggle with?
2:43 - Circumstantial effects of mindfulness exercises (different feedback/reception).
3:45 - Describing mindfulness practices that Shane has found to be helpful and effective.
4:58 - Why is it so important to acknowledge mindfulness and how we respond to certain emotions, especially those that are caused by failure.
7:25 - When Billy is writing, is he aware of his thoughts when he wants to write what he wants vs. his thoughts when he is being conscious about what readers might think.
8:20 - Billy’s thoughts and feelings when he fully focuses on writing.
8:59 - Can Billy feel a physiological difference between the two states, or when he changes between them?
10:45 - Similarly to writing, how does Billy manage those two states when he is playing?
- Being conscious of the crowd vs. returning to just his play.
13:50 - Was Tom’s approach of learning about the already existing team culture rather than changing it effective in the long term?
15:08 - How has Covid changed the way that Shane trains athletes and approaches team culture?
- 16:41 - Tom’s thoughts on the same idea.
17:32 - Why Shane thought it was worth investing into working on mindfulness.
21:40 - Describing the retreats Shane takes athletes on.
22:11 - Since the last interview, how has Tom worked on addressing vulnerability as a coach.
23:00 - What the actual essence of mindfulness is.

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WHAT’S CHANGED? with Tom Black and Shane Day - Part 2

Season 5 · Episode 212

Thursday, August 25, 2022 • Duration 32:40

1:44 - How would the key ideas of coaching fit in with a constraints led/ecological approach?
3:31 - Explaining Frans Bosch’s idea of “attractors” in as a guide for achieving specific skills in athletes.
7:11 - If athletes are too knowledgeable of the checkpoints involved towards a key, does that take away from the variability that allows for greater stabilization?
10:37 - Why does Shane allow his players to fail?
13:39 - What qualities does Tom dislike in athletes, and does failure fit into that?
15:46 - How does Tom approach scenarios where his players are engaged, but aren’t successful in creating momentum in game?
17:34 - Do weak performances in practice correlate lead to successful competition in real games?
- Failures in practice as a sign of learning
24:05 - Over the last couple years, have Tom and Shane started to implement differential learning in their coaching models?
29:05 - Explaining deliberate practice vs. changing the focus of practices.

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