I talk with Garson Skelton from Harker Heights High school out in Texas. Had a chance to talk with coach over the weekend at the National high school strength coach association national conference down in Atlanta. Coach Skelton has a unique situation he is in being located right next to Fort Hood and having to deal with Military kids coming and going all the time. He needs to be ready for new athletes all the time at varying training ages. We talk about programming, motivation, being flexible, how to get the most out of your athletes and more. Very interesting stuff.

Garson Skelton is in his 3rd year at Harker Heights High School.  He
started his coaching career assisting the strength and conditioning staff
at Baylor University in 2009, primarily working with Men and Women’s
Basketball Teams. He also spent time working in the Exercise Biochemical
Nutrition Laboratory. In 2011 he spent time at the University of Houston
assisting their strength staff during the offseason for football,
volleyball, women’s basketball, and swimming.

Coach Skelton attended Baylor University where he earned a bachelor’s
degree in physical education and a master’s degree in exercise physiology.
He currently holds his CSCS with the NSCA, as well as completed the
certification requirements of the Level 1 Olympic Lifting Coach through USA
Weightlifting, and as the requirements to be a certified sports
nutritionist with the ISSN.

Contact Coach Skelton:

email: garsonskelton@gmail.com

twitter: personal: www.twitter.com/wgskelton

twitter: Knight Strength: www.twitter.com/Knight_Strength

My name is Dane Nelson. I am a former college and high school strength coach. I created this podcast for strength coaches at any level but more specifically for High School Strength Coaches. I want strength coaches to be able to connect to each other and learn more about the growing field of full time high school strength coaching.  Thanks for checking out the website.  It would be great to connect with other strength coaches and talk about what works and what doesn’t work when training high school athletes.  This is why I created this podcast. I hope  you find it useful and valuable!

 Website: www.hsstrengthcoach.com

 Contact me at hsstrengthcoach365@gmail.com

Twitter: www.twitter.com/strengthcoachHS

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I talk with Travis Lombardozzi from Brunswick high blue devils in Brunsick Ohio. Very excited to share this one with you. Coach Lombardozzi gives some great insights into his program and has some really good takeaways that you can use with your own program and athletes. Some topics we discuss are how to create your program from scratch, how to great relationships with admins, board members and other funding resources, using heart rate training tools, how to know if your programming is working and much more. Coach L also gives some great advice on how to keep the athletes motivated as well.

Travis Lombardozzi enters his fourth season as Head Coach Strength & Conditioning coach with the Blue Devils.  Travis has been a prominent figure within the Cleveland Coaching/training scene in both high school and NCAA for over 8 years. Prior to his coaching career, Travis swam at Cleveland State University for four years.

Outside of Brunswick, Travis is a CSCS certified strength and Conditioning coach with years of training experience as an intern for the Cleveland State University, The University of Notre Dame, and Nike Football Training Camps. Prior to coaching at BHS, Travis has had experience coaching on all levels including High School, College, and professionally with a stint in the Milwaukee Brewers baseball organization. 

Bachelors degree in Health & Physical education from CSU,  and a Masters in Exercise Physiology from The University of Akron. 

Contact Coach Lombardozzi

email: tlombardozzi@bcsoh.org

twitter: https://twitter.com/Travisdozzi

My name is Dane Nelson. I am a former college and high school strength coach. I created this podcast for strength coaches at any level but more specifically for High School Strength Coaches. I want strength coaches to be able to connect to each other and learn more about the growing field of full time high school strength coaching.  Thanks for checking out the website.  It would be great to connect with other strength coaches and talk about what works and what doesn’t work when training high school athletes.  This is why I created this podcast. I hope  you find it useful and valuable!

 Website: www.hsstrengthcoach.com

 Contact me at hsstrengthcoach365@gmail.com

Twitter: www.twitter.com/strengthcoachHS

Thank you so much for listening and I would appreciate it greatly if you could leave a 5 star review in iTunes and Google Play as well as this really helps boost the show rankings and spread the word about the High School Strength Coach Podcast. That way other Strength Coaches like yourself can find the show and benefit from it too.

 Thank you very much if you have already left a rating and feedback, I appreciate it greatly!

I talk with Shawn Powell from Cannon School located in Concord North Carolina. If you are from the southeast region you may know of coach Powell and his background and it is a pretty cool one that a lot high school strength coaches haven’t had the chance to experience. Coach Powell brings a lot of knowledge in coaching to the high school level, but he says he is always learning and wanting to better himself and his program everyday. There are lot of great nuggets of info in this one, so you may want to listen to this one again. 

 Shawn Powell was named as the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Cannon School in May 2014.

Coach Powell joined Cannon after spending five years as Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Penske Racing and seven years as Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach with the Carolina Panthers.

Coach Powell, a North Carolina native, holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Promotion and Kinesiology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and an Associate of Arts in Health Fitness Technology from Brevard College. He has been a speaker, a mentor and a great coaching friend to be able to connect with in this strength coaching industry.

Contact Coach Powell

email: spowell@cannonschool.org

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CannonStrength

Instagram: Cannon Strength