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Clinic Gym Radio: Assessments, Variations, and Motivation

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Appearance on Clinic Gym Radio

“My job is to find the trainable menu for my clients and my athletes. I try to see given their injury history, given their ability level, given their goals, let’s find their trainable menu. What can we train and how can we train? Let’s find the right dosage, and let’s attack it.” – Tony Gentilcore

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See? Sometimes I sound smart.

I really enjoyed being invited back onto Clinic Gym Radio hosted by Josh Satterlee.

Topics Covered Include

  • Why asymmetry is normal
  • The importance of an assessment, and what types of assessments Tony uses
  • Tony’s fitness background and how he trains
  • How the fitness industry has come a long way in accepting variations
  • How variations can even support a return to normal range or position
  • Why Tony believes that easy training is good training
  • What “The Complete Shoulder Hip Blueprint” is and where to find it
  • What it means to “earn” a lift
  • What’s considered the gold standard stance of deadlifting and its disadvantages
  • The stance that Tony chooses for his deadlifts and why
  • How to know when it’s the right time to regress someone
  • Watching a client realize they’re stronger than they thought they were
  • How expectations and tracking progressions work towards motivation
  • How Tony manages clients who are training after an injury
  • Variation options for clients with back injuries
  • How some trainers go about uniquely meeting a client’s goal
  • Why glute bridges are great for introducing hip exercises to beginners
  • Tony’s advice for new strength coaches who want to improve their career
  • The resources Tony recommends for new coaches

Click the link below to check it out.

Assessments, Variations, and Motivation with Tony Gentilcore

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6 Figure Strength Coach: Building a Brand Within a Brand

I wanted to share my latest podcast appearance on the 6-Figure Strength Coach Show hosted by Gavin McHale.

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Building a Brand Within a Brand

In this episode we cover a few topics:

  • How I was able to build my own brand underneath the umbrella of Cressey Sports Performance.
  • Why getting outside of your comfort zone is a good thing with regards to building alternate revenue streams.
  • The story behind why I turned down a DI baseball scholarship.
  • Ways to be successful in the fitness industry without owning a gym.
  • LOLcats1

Just two dudes talking about whatever comes up.

I think you’ll dig it.

Because, you know, I’m cool…;o)

Listen on Spotify HERE.

iTunes HERE.

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Deadlifts, Dogs and Dad Jokes

I’ve had what can only be described as a tsunami of requests to appear on various podcasts in recents weeks. I don’t mind it though:

1️⃣ It’s a welcome stroke to my ego to be in demand. KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!!!!

2️⃣ How could I possibly say no to a show titled Deadlifts, Dogs, & Dad Jokes?

…how baller of a name for a podcast is that?

The only way it would speak more toward my love language is if they replaced “dogs” with “Dagny” (my cat’s name) and also added & Gruyere Cheese at the end.2

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Deadlifts, Dogs & Dad Jokes

This was a neat experience as podcasts go because while everyone involved is a fitness professional to some capacity, we spent very little time on traditional fitness talking points

There was no talk about deadlift set-up, I think we purposely avoided the fact I have a cat (haha), and, well, you’ll have to wait till the end to hear my dad joke.

In the meantime I think you’ll enjoy the refreshing chat amongst dudes talking family, how the pandemic has affected our respective businesses, as well as an EPIC rapid fire question palooza at the end.

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Appearance on The Alexandra Show

The obvious question:

“Who the heck is Alexandra?”

A: She’s actually a long-time client of mine and one of Boston’s go to (and best) hair stylists.

The second obvious question:

A: “What the heck do a hair stylist and a strength coach chat about on a podcast?”

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Well, It’s Not Top 3 Hair Conditioners For Bald Dudes

As I noted above, Alexandra and I have been working together for 5+ years and in that time we’ve routinely touched on the topic that our respective careers have many parallels:

  • We both work in a service industry.
  • We both work with a vast array of different personalities.
  • We both run our own small business and operate and “manage” our own brands.
  • We both work with clientele interested in looking goooooooood.
  • Side Note: We’re both diesel.3

To that end, in this episode of Alexandra’s show she and I discuss my adverse reaction to being labeled a “fitness celebrity, my goal to help women find empowerment with a barbell in their hand(s), and a litany of other shenanigans.

Alexandra is the shit. I hope you check out this episode and all the others she has available as well.

Check it out HERE.

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The Art of Session Delivery

I was recently invited back onto the Lift the Bar Podcast hosted by Stuart Aitken, and I enjoyed the opportunity to catch up with him and to delve a bit deeper into how I “assess” my clients as well as how I to go about delivering a quality training session.

I also explain what I mean when I say “people need to should’ing on themselves” and why it’s important to go out of your way to “of course” your clients in order to showcase a bit more empathy.

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The Art of Session Delivery

Stuart is a class act (as is anything affiliated with the Lift the Bar brand), and he’s hands down one of the best interviewers in the business.

He’s the Oprah of our industry.

If you enjoy more of a conversational, off-the-cuff vibe when you listen to podcasts you’ll definitely enjoy this episode.

Go HERE to give it a listen (time stamps included).

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Appearance on the More Train Less Pain Podcast

I’m often asked if I’d ever think about starting my own podcast.

My answer generally ranges from “I’d rather jump into a live volcano” to “no.”

Why?

1. Time. Between a brick and mortar business, workshops, travel, writing responsibilities, and a wife & kid I’d like to hang out with on occasion I simply don’t have the time to pull it off with all the logistics involved.

2. In terms of sharing content my strengths are tapping away on my keyboard while my cat nestles next to me and being in introvert heaven. Being the host of my own podcast, while I think I “may” be good at it, just isn’t my bag.

3. Besides, I’m fortunate enough to be popular enough to be invited onto 1-2 podcasts per month anyway.  So, I kinda already do do a podcast…😂

To that end, my latest podcast appearance is one of my favorites of all-time.

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More Train Less Pain Podcast

Dr. Michelle Boland & Dr. Tim Richardt invited me onto their show recently, and what I really dug about the experience was that there as a theme rather than them asking me about my “fitness journey” or “my top 5 reasons to deadlift on a Thursday.”

In this episode we count down “The Top 3 Things We’ve Changed Our Minds About in the Past 5 Years”. 🤔

Whether you’re a fan of rehabilitation semantics, sub-maximal training, or obscure 1980s Superman movie references, this show’s got something for you.

💥BONUS CONTENT; stick around for the back half, where Michelle and I solve all personal trainer’s financial problems in 30 minutes. 💸

HERE‘s the direct link to listen on the More Train Less Pain website.

HERE‘s the link via iTunes (Episode #3)

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Appearance on the Pain Free Performance Podcast

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That Time I Attended a LIVE Fitness Workshop in 2020

Back in September my good friend David Otey was in town to teach the Pain Performance Specialist Certification (PPSC) at AMP Fitness here in the heart of Boston.

Outside of the three workshops I got to teach earlier this year in Europe before 2020 turned into a HAZMAT commercial, the PPSC was the first time I had the opportunity to sit in a (socially distanced) room with “my people” and marinate in topics such as squat assessment, scapular kinematics, and protein powder.

More importantly, it served as an opportunity to network and see friends/colleagues I hadn’t seen in a while.

During the lunch break on Day #2, David asked myself and AMP Fitness owner, Steve Bergeron, to sit down and have a chat for his soon-t0-be-released Pain-Free Performance Podcast

You know, just three dudes being bros.

Check it out on Apple/iTunes HERE.

Or on Spotify HERE.

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Appearance on The Performance Hub Podcast

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Episode 4: You’re Not Broken, Find Your Trainable Menu

I had the pleasure of being invited onto the brand spankin new Performance Hub Podcast hosted by Max Gedge and Coach Karl.

These two guys had the lovely timing of opening up a gym in Melbourne, Australia right as COVID-19 was turning all our lives into a raging dumpster fire.

But I have to say: They’ve kept a positive attitude and have done their best to turn lemons into lemonade. Case in point: They started this splendid podcast…

…and, as it happens, the release of this episode coincides with gyms opening back up in Melbourne!

In this episode we discuss a number of things. Everything from the soul-sucking sucktitude of gym ownership during COVID to the idea of the “trainable menu” to 90’s hip-hop to not my biceps.

Nope I’d never do that…;o)

You can give it a listen on iTunes HERE or on Spotify HERE.

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Appearance on the Muscles and Management Podcast

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Muscles & Management Podcast w/ Gerry DeFilippo

It’s funny: During Gerry’s introduction to this episode he mentioned how when he and I first started stalking one another connected on social media he was a little giddy that I reached out first to say how much I enjoyed his content.

It meant a lot to him as a young coach that someone with a bit more “career capital”4 in the same profession offered a few words of affirmation.

Gerry’s a talented coach and part of the “new guard” that I remember being part of back in the mid-2000’s (along with Eric Cressey, Mike Robertson, Cassandra Forsythe, and John Romaniello, to name a few). It’s pretty neat to be able to pay it forward and to observe how the industry is constantly coming full circle.

Did I just use the word “neat” in a sentence?

God, I’m getting old.

GET OFF MY LAWN.

Nevertheless, you can check out the episode on Apple Podcasts HERE.

Spotify – HERE.

Or if you need more options you can go HERE.

 

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Two More Podcast Appearances: Lift Free and Diet Hard AND Total Fitheads

Two questions I’m often asked:

1️⃣ “Tony, how is it your pecs can cut diamonds?”

ANSWER: Equal parts I picked the right parents, never missing a universal bench day (every Monday) through the 90’s, and lastly…watching and rewinding incessantly the “Arnie gets tooled up” montage from the movie Commando.

Pecs by proxy.

2️⃣ “Tony, why don’t you start your own podcast?”

ANSWER: Because I’d rather jump into a shark’s mouth.

The only way I’d fathom starting my own podcast is if I could spend half of it talking about how to make people stronger than Mack trucks and the other half discussing geeky movie shenanigans like my favorite movie tracking shots (Copacabana nightclub scene from Goodfellas or the car attack/chase scene from Children of Men), or why it is J-Lo’s derriere hasn’t been given it’s own movie trilogy.

Come on Hollywood!

The truth, however, is that I don’t feel I’d be able to drum up enough interesting content to warrant a podcast. I’m a rather dull person.

As it happens, though, I’m invited onto 1-2 podcasts per month anyway…so I kinda already do have a podcast.

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2 Most Recent Appearances

Total Fitheads Podcast

First up is the Total Fitheads Podcast hosted by Ali Spagnola and MaxNoSleeves (<– I honestly couldn’t find Max’s last name…haha).

(But, let’s be real: NoSleeves is baller and I can think of nothing cooler than putting some sort of moniker next to one’s name. Hmmm, I’m thinking TonyGiveMeAllTheCreatine might work. Yes, no, maybe so?).

Ali and Max are two meatheads who just like to invite cool & interesting people onto their show to talk shop. I had a blast recording this episode and really appreciated their spontaneity and spunk.

You can check out the audio recording HERE.

Or the video version here:

 

Lift Free & Diet Hard

Next up I was able to catch up with my friend Andrew Coates on his brand spankin new podcast. It’s so shiny and glorious and delicious (which doesn’t make any sense).

Andrew has very easy-going interview style and honestly believe he and I could have kept talking for another hour. But unless your name is Joe Rogen (or Space Ghost) no one listens to 2+ hour podcasts…;o)

You can listen in HERE.