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by Manny Silveira
Raw, unfiltered conversations with some of the sharpest minds in strength & conditioning, sports science, and sports coaching. From elite training rooms to grassroots sport, we dive deep into the principles, stories, and methods that drive real athlete success. No fluff, no recycled soundbites — just honest discussions that bridge the gap between research and real-world coaching, giving you the tools, ideas, and hard truths to think sharper, coach better, and lead athletes to peak performance. Enquiries: mannysilveira@primitiveathletix.com Follow Us: @_coachmanny_
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- 1 weeks ago1h 11m
MORGAN FLAHARTY - CHINA OLYMPIC WRESTLING S&C COACH #144
We sit down with Morgan Flaharty — S&C Coach for the Chinese Olympic Wrestling Team, former USA Wrestling national team coach, and a man who got his start being caught sneaking into the weight room as a sophomore — to talk about programming for the most physically demanding combat sport on earth, why strategy drives everything, and what it really means to coach athletes at the highest level.In this Playbook:Caught in the Weight Room: A coach handed a 15-year-old Morgan the NSCA Essentials of Strength and Conditioning after catching him training for wrestling practice. The question it planted — how do you train for strength, power, endurance, and speed all at once without blowing everything up — is still what drives him today.The Rock, Paper, Scissors of Wrestling: Technical beats tactical. Tactical beats physical. Physical beats technical. Morgan's entire programming philosophy flows from one question: what is this athlete's strategy to win? Until you answer that, you're just lifting weights.Athlete-Student vs Student-Athlete: China's state-run push-pull pipeline versus America's self-selection model. Morgan has lived inside both systems. The differences go deeper than training — they change the identity of the athlete entirely.TeamBuildr:Coaches, revolutionise your training programs with their cutting-edge platform. Create and customise workouts, track progress, communicate effortlessly, and analyse performance data — all in one place. Take advantage of our 30-day free trial and see how TeamBuildr can elevate your team's performance.Head over to www.teambuildr.com and use code "PACHALKUP" for your 30-day free trial.Exxentric:Coaches, take your training to the next level with Exxentric's flywheel technology. The kBox and kPulley deliver eccentric overload that you simply can't replicate with traditional weights — building strength, power, and resilience in athletes at every level. Trusted by elite programmes worldwide, Exxentric gives you the tools to train smarter and keep athletes on the field.Head over to www.exxentric.comMorgan' Social:Instagram - @mogotrainingManny's Social:Instagram — @_coachmanny_Enquiries: mannysilveira@primitiveathletix.com
- 2 weeks ago1h 8m
GIOELE ROSELLINI - SOLVENIA NATIONAL & VERONA VOLLEYBALL S&C COACH #143
We sit down with Gioele Rossellini — Head S&C Coach for the Slovenia Men's National Volleyball Team (currently top 10 in the world) and Rana Verona in the Italian Superliga — to talk elite volleyball preparation, why field knowledge is as critical as your programming, and what it really means to build a culture that wins.Gioele and Manny are also currently building a Leadership & Performance course together — they get into it towards the end of this episode. Stay tuned.In this Playbook:Build the Foundation Before the Flash: Gioele has a non-negotiable before any athlete touches power work — and it's not what most coaches expect. The 2-metre, 110kg player doing 60kg power cleans tells you everything you need to know about why.Volleyball Is a Roulette of Bodies: Pro athletes who can't run for 10 minutes. Liberos and middle blockers with nothing in common physically. Gioele breaks down why one-size-fits-all programming is a trap in the most heterogeneous team sport on the planet.You Need a PhD in Your Sport: The conditioning that actually matters in volleyball doesn't happen in the gym. But to deliver it on the court, Gioele says you need two things — and most coaches only have one.TeamBuildr:Coaches, revolutionise your training programs with their cutting-edge platform. Create and customise workouts, track progress, communicate effortlessly, and analyse performance data — all in one place. Take advantage of our 30-day free trial and see how TeamBuildr can elevate your team's performance.Head over to www.teambuildr.com and use code "PACHALKUP" for your 30-day free trial.Exxentric:Coaches, take your training to the next level with Exxentric's flywheel technology. The kBox and kPulley deliver eccentric overload that you simply can't replicate with traditional weights — building strength, power, and resilience in athletes at every level. Trusted by elite programmes worldwide, Exxentric gives you the tools to train smarter and keep athletes on the field.Head over to www.exxentric.comGioele' Social:Instagram - @coach__gioManny's Social:Instagram — @_coachmanny_Enquiries: mannysilveira@primitiveathletix.com
- Jun 29, 202610 min
CHRISTINA BERNAL - THE INTERN BLUEPRINT #1
For years I’ve heard the same frustration from coaches at every level.We learn the science.We read the research.We earn the qualifications.But nobody really teaches us how to coach.That’s exactly why I’ve spent the last year building something new.This episode is your first sneak peek.Christina shares advice every coach should hear, and over the coming weeks you’ll hear from some of the best practitioners in our industry before I finally reveal what I’ve been building.Want Early Bird access?Email me mannysilveira@primitiveathletix.com to be notified. I will add you to the mailing list so you get early bird access!!!!
- Jun 22, 20261h 50m
FEDERICK BROOKS - OWNER OF SOUND SPORTS PERFORMANCE #142
We sit down with Federick "Fed" Brooks — CSCS, Master's in Kinesiology, Marine Corps veteran of 10 years, and founder of Sound Sports Performance and Training in Washington State — to talk about building a coaching career from scratch, why empathy might be your most underrated credential, and what it really means to create opportunity when the traditional path isn't available to you.In this Playbook:The Long Way RoundSergeant to Coach: The Empathy GapPsychology Is the Real CredentialTeamBuildr:Coaches, revolutionise your training programs with their cutting-edge platform. Create and customise workouts, track progress, communicate effortlessly, and analyse performance data — all in one place. Take advantage of our 30-day free trial and see how TeamBuildr can elevate your team's performance.Head over to www.teambuildr.com and use code "PACHALKUP" for your 30-day free trial.Exxentric:Coaches, take your training to the next level with Exxentric's flywheel technology. The kBox and kPulley deliver eccentric overload that you simply can't replicate with traditional weights — building strength, power, and resilience in athletes at every level. Trusted by elite programmes worldwide, Exxentric gives you the tools to train smarter and keep athletes on the field.Head over to www.exxentric.comFed' Social:Instagram - @federick_brooksManny's Social:Instagram — @_coachmanny_Enquiries: mannysilveira@primitiveathletix.com
- Jun 15, 20261h 43m
TUCKER BACHAND - S&C COACH @ WESTFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY #141
We sit down with Tucker Bachand — Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at Westfield State University, the first ever to hold the role there — to talk about what it actually takes to build something from scratch, coach 18 teams with no budget and no force plates, and why Division III might be where the most honest coaching is happening.In this Playbook:Buy-In Isn't Built on a Whiteboard: Standards mean nothing if athletes don't care about you first. Tucker's approach to culture starts well before anyone touches a barbell — knowing names, showing up to games, supporting inner murals, having real conversations.Creativity Is the Real Equipment: No force plates. No 150lb dumbbells. A 2,000 square foot weight room with three double-sided racks and 18 teams rotating through. Tucker doesn't complain about it — he engineers around it. Tri-sets, quad-sets, fat grips, bands on dumbbells, jump shrugs when the clean breaks down.The Industry Talks Progressions — Nobody Talks Regressions: When do you go back down? Tucker and Manny dig into one of the most skipped conversations in S&C: knowing when an athlete isn't ready to advance and having the guts to regress them.TeamBuildr:Coaches, revolutionise your training programs with their cutting-edge platform. Create and customise workouts, track progress, communicate effortlessly, and analyse performance data — all in one place. Take advantage of our 30-day free trial and see how TeamBuildr can elevate your team's performance.Head over to www.teambuildr.com and use code "PACHALKUP" for your 30-day free trial.Exxentric:Coaches, take your training to the next level with Exxentric's flywheel technology. The kBox and kPulley deliver eccentric overload that you simply can't replicate with traditional weights — building strength, power, and resilience in athletes at every level. Trusted by elite programmes worldwide, Exxentric gives you the tools to train smarter and keep athletes on the field.Head over to www.exxentric.comTucker' SocialInstagram - @tucker.bachandManny's Social:Instagram — @_coachmanny_Enquiries: mannysilveira@primitiveathletix.com
- Jun 8, 20261h 3m
BREE VAUGHN - S&C COACH #140
We sit down with Bree Vaughn — aspiring strength and conditioning coach, University of Louisville student, former football performance intern, and mum — to talk about what it actually takes to stay the course in this industry when life doesn't follow the textbook path.In this Playbook:The Non-Linear Path Is Still a Path: Bree took time away from the field to raise her son. She came back. She's still in the game — studying for her CSCS, training youth and overseas basketball athletes, building her network one real conversation at a time. Internships Will Expose You — Let Them: Unpaid. Long hours. Early mornings and late nights. Bree is clear-eyed about what internships are for: not just building a resume, but finding out if you actually love it.Be So Good They Can't Ignore You: Bree has been told her looks are a distraction. She's had to wonder if opportunities came to her for the wrong reasons. She's been steered towards recruiting instead of the weight room.TeamBuildr:Coaches, revolutionise your training programs with their cutting-edge platform. Create and customise workouts, track progress, communicate effortlessly, and analyse performance data — all in one place. Take advantage of our 30-day free trial and see how TeamBuildr can elevate your team's performance.Head over to www.teambuildr.com and use code "PACHALKUP" for your 30-day free trial.Exxentric:Coaches, take your training to the next level with Exxentric's flywheel technology. The kBox and kPulley deliver eccentric overload that you simply can't replicate with traditional weights — building strength, power, and resilience in athletes at every level. Trusted by elite programmes worldwide, Exxentric gives you the tools to train smarter and keep athletes on the field.Head over to www.exxentric.comBree' SocialInstagram - @breevaughn__Manny's Social:Instagram — @_coachmanny_Enquiries: mannysilveira@primitiveathletix.com
- Jun 1, 20261h 10m
SILAS NEWBY - S&C COACH @ BAYLOR UNIVERSITY #139
We sit down with Silas Newby — Athletics Performance Coach at Baylor University, working with Equestrian, Track & Field, and Softball, and formerly at West Point — to talk about building athletes from the ground up, programming for sports most coaches never think about, and why the best thing you can do for your athletes is get under the bar yourself.In this Playbook:You Shouldn't Be Able to Tell What Sport They Play: Silas drops one of the best programming principles in the episode early — your S&C program shouldn't reveal the sport. Whether it's equestrian, rugby, or sprinters, the goal is general athletic resilience: load the tissues, develop movement competency, work across multiple planes.Multi-Sport = Better Mover, Full Stop: From RG3 making the 400m hurdles final as a freshman coming off a football season, to equestrian athletes who rode horses and played soccer moving better than those who only ever rode — this conversation keeps coming back to the same truth.If You Haven't Done It, Don't Program It: This one came up from multiple angles — and both Silas and Manny land hard on the same principle. If you're going to ask your athletes to run 300s, you better know what 300s feel like. If you're programming five by five at 85%, get under the bar at 85% first.If You Haven't Done It, Don't Program It: This one came up from multiple angles — and both Silas and Manny land hard on the same principle. If you're going to ask your athletes to run 300s, you better know what 300s feel like. If you're programming five by five at 85%, get under the bar at 85% first.TeamBuildr:Coaches, revolutionise your training programs with their cutting-edge platform. Create and customise workouts, track progress, communicate effortlessly, and analyse performance data — all in one place. Take advantage of our 30-day free trial and see how TeamBuildr can elevate your team's performance.Head over to www.teambuildr.com and use code "PACHALKUP" for your 30-day free trial.Exxentric:Coaches, take your training to the next level with Exxentric's flywheel technology. The kBox and kPulley deliver eccentric overload that you simply can't replicate with traditional weights — building strength, power, and resilience in athletes at every level. Trusted by elite programmes worldwide, Exxentric gives you the tools to train smarter and keep athletes on the field.Head over to www.exxentric.comSilas' SocialInstagram - @si_newbyManny's Social:Instagram — @_coachmanny_Enquiries: mannysilveira@primitiveathletix.com
- May 25, 202655 min
MESA MCNELY - PILATES & REFORM COACH #138
We sit down with Mesa McNely — former strength and conditioning coach turned studio manager at Body Rock Lexington, a hybrid reformer Pilates studio — to talk about what happens when you leave elite sport, trust your instincts, and find something even more rewarding on the other side.Note: Mesa was a returning guest — one of the earlier guests on the podcast — and this conversation picks up where the last one left off, with a whole new chapter to dig into.In this Playbook:The Pivot Nobody Plans For: Mesa walked away from S&C — including a stint with the US All Super League — after an experience that left her questioning whether the traditional path was the only one. What she found instead was a reformer Pilates studio, a community of strong women, and a version of coaching that lit her up in ways she didn't expect. Cueing for Real Humans: Forty-five minutes, sixteen people, loud music, a mic, and a machine nobody's ever seen before — that's the proving ground that levelled up Mesa's coaching. She explains how teaching true beginners forced her to strip every cue back to its essence, find metaphors that actually land, and take ownership when someone doesn't get it.Load Management Without the Spreadsheet: Sports science principles don't disappear when you leave the performance setting — they just have to be communicated differently. Mesa shares how she brings load management and nervous system education to clients who are juggling jobs, kids, relationships, and five classes a week, without a whiteboard or a data point in sight. Sometimes all it takes is one honest conversation.TeamBuildr:Coaches, revolutionise your training programs with their cutting-edge platform. Create and customise workouts, track progress, communicate effortlessly, and analyse performance data — all in one place. Take advantage of our 30-day free trial and see how TeamBuildr can elevate your team's performance.Head over to www.teambuildr.com and use code "PACHALKUP" for your 30-day free trial.Exxentric:Coaches, take your training to the next level with Exxentric's flywheel technology. The kBox and kPulley deliver eccentric overload that you simply can't replicate with traditional weights — building strength, power, and resilience in athletes at every level. Trusted by elite programmes worldwide, Exxentric gives you the tools to train smarter and keep athletes on the field.Head over to www.exxentric.comMesa' SocialInstagram - @mesamcnelyManny's Social:Instagram — @_coachmanny_Enquiries: mannysilveira@primitiveathletix.com
About PA CHALK UP
Raw, unfiltered conversations with some of the sharpest minds in strength & conditioning, sports science, and sports coaching. From elite training rooms to grassroots sport, we dive deep into the principles, stories, and methods that drive real athlete success. No fluff, no recycled soundbites — just honest discussions that bridge the gap between research and real-world coaching, giving you the tools, ideas, and hard truths to think sharper, coach better, and lead athletes to peak performance. Enquiries: mannysilveira@primitiveathletix.com Follow Us: @_coachmanny_
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