Coach Glass Podcast

I understand that the Corona Virus is a real threat to our communities and something that we all need to work together on to slow the effects of this pandemic. But!!!…. The hysteria around this issue that is based in rumours and misinformation is in many cases worse than the virus itself. For this reason I give you my top 10 steps to avoiding the Corona drama. Step 1: Avoid watching the news or reading the newspaper. Social media is another platform that may transmit the hysteria of Covid-19. Although you cannot contract the virus through a screen you can contract the hysteria. Step 2: Wash your hands regularly. Like you should everyday regardless of a viral outbreak. Take this opportunity to include this hygienic ritual into your life if it wasn’t introduced to you when you were 3 years old. Step 3: Avoid people wearing masks. These people are willing to pull down their bacteria magnets, just long enough to tell you why you should also wear a germ farm on your face. Masks are breading grounds for moisture ba

Middle aged athletes are the most complex clients I get the opportunity to work with. You have big goals and high expectations. The problem is, your lifestyle and responsibilities at this phase of your life, create an environment that isn’t conducive to accomplishing those goals. You are a parent, you have responsibilities at work, deadlines, early mornings, late nights, aches and pains in a body that just doesn’t recover like it use to, endless emails, needy clients and a significant other that sets expectations that you will never meet. With all this weighing on your shoulders you still find time to dream of a better body, better golf game, a desire to take care of yourself better and carve out some quality time for yourself. Nope! Cant do that! That is selfish! This weeks podcast I go DEEP into strategies to help you accomplish the life you desire and deserve. When you follow these techniques you will see the effects in all other aspects of your life.  Need guidance, inspiration and insight to get your #Dr

Do you have the cojones it takes to be an entrepreneur? Do you wake up each morning with an insatiable hunger for success? There is nothing wrong with being an employee unless you were born with an inner Entrepreneurial Warrior in your heart. In this episode I breakdown the characteristics that make a great entrepreneur and in the event you don’t possess these attributes I also share what it takes to be a successful employee. Most employees dream about starting their own business thinking that it would bring them freedom! "Being your own boss would be the best! You can do what you want when you want!” That statement couldn’t be further from the truth! Becoming an entrepreneur shackles you to your own expectations. You will become the CEO of the limited company that is you. And your new boss is a son of a bitch to work for. You cant badge in and badge out at the end of the day. The day will never end! Your business will be on your mind form the moment you wake till the moment your eyes close for the night. Eve

To be a great coach you need to become a great salesperson. The better you are at selling your message the better it will be received which makes you a better coach. Have you ever had a situation where you have a solution for your client’s problem but for some reason they just won’t buy into the new method you are recommending. By not buying in they never see the desired change? The problem wasn’t your new method. The problem was the delivery of the concept. As long as you whole heartedly believe in what you are selling, you should sell the shit out of it! Not for profit (unless that is your primary goal) but because you know it will fulfill a need for that person. Improve your message delivery and you will improve your ability to coach. This week’s episode we go DEEP into the murky waters of you you becoming a better salesperson and in doing so you become a better coach! Want to improve your athletic ability using neuromuscular training? Sign up for either my LoadXplode 16 Week or High TripleXity 8 Week Prog

Warm ups are often over looked and rarely performed properly. Professional teams and organizations bring me in to fix their antiquated warm up protocols and I am blown away by the drills and techniques being used. (And that’s at the Profesional level! Can you imagine what Ive seen in the amateur ranks?). I like to separate the workout into Dynamic Warm Up, Performance Circuit, Dynamic Cool Down. I believe the warm up should incorporate elements that you are going to be performing in your workout or live game situations. If you can slow these elements down and refine the patterns you will have a better chance of executing them at full game speed or under load.I also believe that your warm up should be an assessment and your assessment should be a warm up. You will understand once you go through my High TripleXity warm up protocols. Its a workout in itself. The idea of the dynamic warm up is to: • Increase body temperature. • Stimulate Neural/Muscular Connection. • Increase Athleticism and Coordination. • Simul

Stop focussing all your energy on the distractions around you and focus on what is right in front of your face! The external world is bombarding us with drama and distractions which keep us from moving forward in our relationships, careers and lives. Its easy to get caught up in the external world. Media tries to get you to take sides on issues that you never even knew existed. “Hell yeah I want to protect the nasal passages of the sea turtle!” Meanwhile your toddler is choking on a grape that wasn’t cut in half! Turn off your TV and pick up a book, sign off from your Instagram and Twitter for a month or a week and write a journal. You won’t miss anything. If a comet is hurling toward the earth, you will hear about it. You won’t miss anything! Ben and Jen are back together again? Who cares? Focus on your relationship with the people and things that are significant in your life! You won’t miss anything. But you will reconnect with what is really important. You will re-establish relationships with those around

Andrew Putnam is this week’s guest. If you are a fan of golf you will know that Andrew is a PGA Tour winner and #1 putter in the world. What you may not know is the person behind the stats and trophies. This episode is your opportunity to get to understand how to be successful in life through his journey. Andrew doesn’t base his success through athletic accomplishments. His success is founded in perpetual growth in all aspects of his life. Spiritual, mental, physical, emotional and relationships. I am very fortunate to have the opportunity to coach Andrew over the past 6 years but even more grateful for his friendship and the lessons he has taught me over this span. Enjoy! If you want to train using the same training techniques I use with Andrew Putnam, Adam Hadwin, Mike Weir and countless golfers worldwide on their quest for a ticket to the big show, join #LoadXplode. My #LoadXplode 16 week online follow along training program is ready to help take your game tot he next level. Simply go to http://jasonglassl

Great coaches aren’t forged from their athlete’s triumphs. Great coaches emerge from the murky muddy waters created by their athlete’s failures and setbacks. The outside world gives you accolades for the wins and the memorable performances that you were able to help cultivate. Where are they when your athlete is struggling? That is where the REAL work is being done. A great coach has to be able to dive deep into the depths of the murky waters and pull their athlete up through support, clarifying their purpose in the world and providing perspective. An athlete’s developmental journey is not a linear line. There are highs and lows along their path to greatness. Great coaches can identify and in many cases predict the dips in performance and plateaus and have the skill set to right the ship and efficiently get it back on the path. Some people think that great coaching takes technical skills, great eye for detail and a confident motivating presence. I think great coaching requires empathy, vulnerability and since

If you are an athlete, injuries are inevitable. You may feel invincible but there is an injury in the mail, it just hasn’t reached you yet! If you want to minimize the affect of your injuries you need to truly understand what your injury is, how to treat it and when to return to battle. Once you understand what the injury is, you can decide the best way to treat it. Do you need a chiropractor, physiotherapist or a bag of ice? Should you rest it or move it? Should you suck it up or wait to play another day? Rarely is the injury what sidelines an athlete, it's the mismanagement of that injury. This episode is your injury reference guide that will help you through any athletic injury and help you get back in the game faster and stronger than you were before. If you want to train using my #LoadXplode 16 week online follow along training program simply go to http://jasonglasslab.com I want to give a special thanks to all the sponsors for their continued support of the show. K-Motion @kmotion3d http://k-motion.com

Every New Year I perform an action that sets my year up for success. I erase the entire hard drive on my computer and phone. I know, I know, I know it sounds crazy! Take a breathe and release your puckered balloon knot for a minute and let me explain. What I am about to present to you isn’t just for your computer but for all aspects of your life! The computer is like the catalyst to help you defragment and rebuild your life each year. I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions. If it was that important to you, you would have done it already. But clearing last years metaphorical and physical hard drive and starting the year with a clean slate is definitely a strategy I recommend. I this week’s podcast I share my systematic approach to reseting your life and work space to optimize your productivity. If you want to train using my #LoadXplode 16 week online follow along training program simply go to http://jasonglasslab.com I want to give a special thanks to all the sponsors for their continued support of the show

I am blessed to have a mentor like Al Vermeil in my life. He constantly challenges my belief structure and tweaks things in my thought process that force me to progress and grow as a strength coach. I cherish the times I have with Al as his phone calls are always unexpected and full of gems. I was fortunate enough to record my last conversation with Al and it won’t disappoint. We go DEEP into rate of force, range of motion and how reducing one can increase the other and create amazing power gains. We talk speed, technique and long held myths about strength training. My favourite part of our conversations, always revolve around what it means to be a coach. We talk about our mentors and Al shares a story that will break your heart and inspire you to be a better coach! Cant thank Al enough for sharing his wisdom with us all. Start the #WeWantVermeil chant and lets get Al back on the @performbetter stage so more young coaches can learn the foundations of what it takes to be a world class coach! If you want to tra

To all my Glisten’s around the globe....Happy Holidays! This annual Holiday Special is my way of sharing a Christmas Cheer with all of you. Every week we get to enjoy a coffee together but during the Holiday season my good friend Santa puts a little something special in my mug! I wish you all a fantastic holiday with your friends and family. If you have neither, you can rest your head on Christmas Eve knowing that you have a family here with the #GlistenerNation. The year ahead is sure to bring new challenges and opportunities. If you have been listening to the #DreamBIG episodes you will have the tools to navigate and make 2020 your beeeeeiatch! Check out http://jasonglasslab.com/christmas for new exercise videos, fitness challenges, #DreamBIG exercise for personal growth and so much more! We also have an opportunity for you to make a difference in a youngsters life by nominating them for the Coach Glass LoadXplode Junior Membership. It is complimentary and wonderful way for you to help us give back to those

You have your sights clearly set on the year ahead and what you want to accomplish in 2020. I get it! But if you really want to make 2020 a year to remember you need to spend the next few weeks reflecting on 2019. Self reflection on your career, relationships, self care and spirituality will allow you uncover the successes and failures that made 2019 the year that WAS! I can’t emphasize enough the need for you to take ownership and responsibility for the good the bad and the ugly that occurred over the past year. You have bad relationships with friends, lovers, or family? You need to look at how you contributed to that relationship and how you can make them better. Sometimes you need to remove toxic relationships from your life and other times you need to put more energy into rectifying the underlying issues. How about your career? Did you grow this past year. Did you challenge yourself and push your abilities past your comfort zone? Stick around for the end of the podcast where I discuss how our #DreamBIG ch

Last week was all about the mind so this week I focused on the physiological response the body has when we apply tension. I offer up a simple way of understanding muscle contractions and how they apply to different training techniques and exercises. We go DEEP inside the tissues that we put inTENSION during our bouts of training. I also share the pros and cons of strength, power, eccentric, isometric and high triplexity training. Unfortunately for you… I also found some more renditions of Black Coffee by Robbie DuPree while slurping that hot black goodness in your earbuds. All this and more on this episode of the Coach Glass Podcast! I want to give a special thanks to all the sponsors for their continued support of the show. K-Motion @kmotion3d http://k-motion.com has blown the doors off the baseball world with their Baseball Certification. Perform Better @performbetter http://performbetter.com use code “GLASS19” at checkout to buy your Mace, Kettlebells and bands. MyTPI http://www.mytpi.com/certification/sem

Intention is a word people often use to get themselves off the hook for not doing what they know they know they should have done. Intention isn’t an action of the past, it's an action of the PRESENT! You need to be IN-tention which is taking actions in the now for what you want to be in the future! Who you are today is a culmination of the person you have been and your actions over the past weeks, months, years. You create an intention for what you want to be based on the actions you are now taking to accomplish it. You can’t change what you did last year, month, week or even last minute but you can change your future by applying some tension to your body mind and soul TODAY! I challenge you all this month to take some time in-front of the mirror. Introspection into the person you were this year and the person you want to be in 2020. To make change you need to add tension to the areas of your life that don’t match the person you want to be. Comfort does not create adaptation. You need to get uncomfortable! To

In this week’s best of the Coach Glass Podcast series I have another one of my mentors who deserves to be on the Mount Rushmore of Coaches alongside Dr.Voight and Liam Hennessy. I could have Al Vermeil on the podcast every week for the next 10 years and we would still never run out of things to talk about. He has been with more athletes than the Kardashians combined! I am honoured to have him as a mentor, fellow Perform Better speaker, TPI Fitness Advisory Board member and most importantly a friend. I listened to this episode again today and enjoyed it so much that I have set up another call with Al which I hope to have up on the podcast in the next month. Fingers crossed! I want to give a special thanks to all the sponsors for their continued support of the show. K-Motion @kmotion3d http://k-motion.com has blown the doors off the baseball world with their Baseball Certification. Perform Better @performbetter http://performbetter.com use code “GLASS19” at checkout to buy your Mace, Kettlebells and bands. MyTP

5, 6, 7, 8…. What ever happened to 1, 2, 3? Pushing the boundaries of progressive training has created some amazingly complex exercises and techniques. This is all fine and dandy as long as they are layered on top of a solid foundation of form, technique and fundamentals. You want to perform level 5 exercises? Master the level 1, 2, and 3 of that movement pattern. Martial arts and gymnastics training start with basic fundamental building blocks that develop into incredible physical acts that seem to defy physics. Mastery of the basic elements allow the layers of complexity to layer on top without compensation or inefficiencies. So go back to the squat, deadlift, press and pull patterns and master the fundamentals. Then you can throw your kettlebells around and add explosive rotational elements that will wow the crowd! Do this in reverse and you will end up injured or in a dreaded plateau. I want to give a special thanks to all the sponsors for their continued support of the show. K-Motion @kmotion3d http://k-

Eric Cressey is one of the most influential performance coaches in not only MLB Baseball but all of professional sports. In this epic episode we go DEEP into the murky waters of baseball’s old school vs new school conditioning debate. So if you are still weighting bats, icing after a few innings or using therabands to rehab your rotator cuff injury you are old school and need to listen to this! Eric is a fellow @PerformBetter speaker and host of his own Elite Performance Development podcast, author, entrepreneur and all around guru of everything baseball! I love talking shop with Eric as he is so generous with his time and intellectual property. I use him regularly when I hit a roadblock with one of my athletes and when he is not available I go straight to his educational platform, books, podcast and website blog posts. His Sturdy Shoulder Solutions is the most comprehensive shoulder assessment and rehab educational tool on the market today! As a Coach Glass Podcast Glistener you have a unique opportunity to

Money doesn’t buy happiness, fulfillment or joy. So why do we sacrifice the things that DO give us happiness, joy and fulfilment in the pursuit of moving the decimal places in our bank accounts? We live in a world of instant gratification at the expense of future hardship. We go in debt for things that underdeliver instead of investing in our #DreamBIG. This week’s episode I go DEEP into the murky waters and share my secrets to my successes and failures. I have had times in my life where I had nothing and times when I felt on top of the world. The difference was not money. Far from it! You need to understand money and what it can do for you to ensure you don't spend a lifetime chasing something that will be unfulfilling when you finally acquire it. This episode WILL piss you off, inspire you, make you look yourself in the mirror and come to grips with your relationship with money. Wanna see the Coach in Toronto Canada? Come out to the RCCSSC Conference Nov 9/10. Get your tickets here: http://www.rccssc.ca/ind

If you thought the Bench Press was the only exercise designed by the Devil, you are wrong! In fact Satan first came up with the back squat! True story! To hear how the back squat caused countless back injuries, wars and genocide you need to listen to this episode. Or just front squat and pretend you never saw or ever heard of a back squat. If anyone asks, just tell them you are Vegan and they will stop talking to you immediately. Why am I so passionate about this subject? Because I care about you and your athletes. And….I am educated. So chalk up your mitts, kick a pooping poodle and get ready for some squatting fun. Wanna see the Coach in Toronto Canada? Come out to the RCCSSC Conference Nov 9/10. Get your tickets here: http://www.rccssc.ca/index.php/news-events/conferences I want to give a special thanks to all the sponsors for their continued support of the show. K-Motion @kmotion3d http://k-motion.com has blown the doors off the baseball world with their Baseball Certification. Perform Better @performbett