Free Daily Podcast Summary
PA CHALK UP: Daily Summaries Delivered
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_
Latest Episodes
The most recent episodes — sign up to get AI-powered summaries of each one.
- 5 days ago1h 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
- 1 weeks ago55 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
- 2 weeks ago45 min
MICHELLE BOATENG - S&C COACH @ WASHINGTON COMMANDERS
We sit down with Michelle Boateng — Assistant Strength Coach at Howard University working with women's soccer, volleyball, softball, and football — to talk about reading the room before you coach it, the injury prevention mindset she carried over from her athletic training roots, and what it meant to be part of the 10th class of the NFL Women's Forum.Since this episode was recorded, Michelle has gone on to join the Washington Commanders. Huge congrats to her — this conversation gives you a great look at the coach behind that move.In this Playbook:Read the Room Before You Coach It: Michelle doesn't start her sessions behind a whiteboard — she starts in the corner, watching. Body language, pace of entry, whether athletes are talking to each other — all of it tells her what kind of coach she needs to be that day. Gamify the Intent: Intent is everything when you're chasing a training adaptation — and Michelle has found that gamification is the fastest path to it. Cat-and-mouse change-of-direction drills for volleyball, in-weight-room competition for soccer, leaning into softball's natural grit to create self-competition.Women Belong in the Room: As part of the 10th class of the NFL Women's Forum — joining coaches, executives, and Roger Goodell at the combine — Michelle came away with a simple but powerful conviction: if you've done the work and you know your stuff, you 100% deserve to be in that 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.comMichelle' SocialInstagram - @michellejoellManny's Social:Instagram — @_coachmanny_Enquiries: mannysilveira@primitiveathletix.com
- 3 weeks ago56 min
LONNIE MADDOX - ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF FOOTBALL @ USC #156
We sit down with Coach Maddox — Associate Director of Football Sports Performance at USC, former head strength coach at Alcorn State, and director at Valdosta State — to talk about building culture before chasing strategy, programming with and without resources, and why recovery deserves the same aggression as the weight room.In this Playbook:Standard Over Feelings: At USC, the standard is non-negotiable — and it's written on the shirt Coach Maddox wears every day. When athletes walk out of that locker room, the feelings stay behind. Ingenuity is a Muscle: Coach Maddox spent years at the D2 level doing more with less — bands looped over racks instead of Vertimax machines, creative workarounds instead of premium equipment.Graduating Out of the Protocol: Coach Maddox's hamstring asymmetry protocol isn't set-and-forget — it's a weekly testing system with a clear exit threshold. Isometrics first, then eccentrics, then concentric loading, then oscillatory work. Athletes test every week and when the asymmetry drops to under 10%, they graduate.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.comMaddox' SocialInstagram - @freeweightceqManny's Social:Instagram — @_coachmanny_Enquiries: mannysilveira@primitiveathletix.com
- May 4, 20261h 30m
JOHN PATRICK - DIRECTOR OF PERFORMANCE @ SECKINGER HIGH SCHOOL #135
We sit down with John Patrick — Director of Strength and Performance at Seckinger High School (Gwinnett County, Georgia), former collegiate director across 20+ years to talk about building programs from scratch, earning the barbell, and why no free lunch is more than just a saying.In this Playbook:No free lunch: Nothing gets handed out. Not in the weight room, not in the profession. You earn the barbell before you load it, you earn the coaching position before you expect respect, and you earn the results before you expect them.AI is the new "get into computers": Thirty years ago the advice was get into computers. Now it's get into AI. John's already using it to analyse programs and get feedback.Listen to the intern: Early in his career, interns cleaned racks. Now he pulls them into program design meetings, lets them run sessions, and asks them what went well and what didn't.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.comJohn' SocialInstagram - @coachjgpatrickManny's Social:Instagram — @_coachmanny_Enquiries: mannysilveira@primitiveathletix.com
- Apr 27, 202656 min
MARQUES WHITE - ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF FOOTBALL PERFORMANCE @ BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY #134
We sit down with Marques White — Associate Director of Football Performance at Boise State University — to talk about what it really means to be built different: showing up with love, manufacturing adversity, and executing the basics at an elite level every single day.In this Playbook:It's not what you do, it's how you do it: Marques isn't chasing the flashy stuff. Push, pull, squat, hinge, single leg — executed with intent, every rep. Build a body that can take a hit: Football isn't a contact sport — it's a collision sport. Two people running full speed at each other as hard as humanly possible. 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.comMarques's Social:Instagram - @coach._whiteManny's Social:Instagram — @_coachmanny_Enquiries: mannysilveira@primitiveathletix.com
- Apr 20, 20262h 16m
DR MIKE STONE & MEG STONE + ALEX BORGS - ETSU S&C #133
We sit down with three of the most influential minds in sport science — Dr. Mike Stone (ETSU, USOC, Edinburgh), Meg Stone (first female head S&C coach in the US, Scottish national coach, ETSU), and Alex Borges (ETSU PhD, football performance) — for a wide-ranging conversation on the past, present, and future of sport science, coaching education, and what it actually takes to build something that lasts.In this Playbook:Sports science ≠ a dashboard: One of the most urgent critiques in this episode — people are being hired as "directors of sports science" who collect GPS, VBT, and force plate data and build a Power BI dashboard. That is sport technology. It is not sports science. Doc has a four-hour lecture on the difference. The field won't advance until the people doing the hiring understand what they're actually hiring for.Commitment to the greater cause: Build your program around like-minded people or you don't have a program — you have a collection of individuals. Whether it's a university lab, a strength room, or a coaching staff, surrounding yourself with people aligned to the same direction is the hardest thing to do and the most important. And the measure of success isn't your publication list — it's the athletes you served and the coaches you developed.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.comManny's Social:Instagram — @_coachmanny_Enquiries: mannysilveira@primitiveathletix.com
- Apr 13, 20261h 11m
BRITT DUCROZ - DIVING S&C COACH FOR TEAM GB & PRIVATE #132
We sit down with Britt Ducroz—private S&C consultant, four-time Olympic cycle coach with Great Britain Diving (Rio, Tokyo, Paris, LA), and former college director—to talk about what it actually takes to make elite athletes 1% better, why the consulting side changes everything, and how to build a coaching eye that no data can replace.In this Playbook:Wringing out a dried cloth: When your athletes have been exposed to everything, percentages stop working. Britt's solution — go deeper into force production. Using VBT beyond just velocity, he tracks rate of force at 100 and 200 milliseconds to find where athletes are losing output, and builds back from there. Power production wins. Force absorption and transfer is the separator.Diving's hidden demands: Everyone talks about the jump. Britt calls it the dessert of an eight-course meal. The real work is entry: athletes are hitting the water at speed, on their hands, in an overhead position — over and over. His approach: heavy investment in shoulder stability, mid-to-lower trap, subscap, cervical-thoracic (CT) spine range, and absorb-and-transfer capacity. If the CT range drops below a certain marker, they're not going off 10 meters. Full stop.The four-year grind: An Olympic cycle isn't a season — it's a career compressed into four years, stair-stepping toward one moment. Britt breaks down the Olympic low (the dopamine crash that hits when the Games close), how he resets between cycles, and why he uses the Olympics to reframe urgency for his college athletes: you get four years. These athletes wait four for one shot.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.Britt's Social:Instagram — @train4success20Manny'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_
Customized Recaps
AI-powered recaps with compact key takeaways, quotes, and insights.
Straight to Your Inbox
Get key takeaways from PA CHALK UP in a 5-minute read.
Save Hours Every Week
Stay current on your favorite podcasts without falling behind.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Podzilla's PA CHALK UP daily summary?
It's a free AI-powered email that summarizes new episodes of PA CHALK UP as soon as they're published. You get the key takeaways, notable quotes, and links & mentions — all in a quick read.
How does the PA CHALK UP podcast summary work?
When a new episode drops, our AI transcribes and analyzes it, then generates a personalized summary tailored to your interests and profession. It's delivered to your inbox every morning.
Is this an official PA CHALK UP product?
No. Podzilla is an independent service that summarizes publicly available podcast content. We're not affiliated with or endorsed by Manny Silveira.
Can I get summaries of other podcasts too?
Absolutely! The free plan covers up to 3 podcasts. Upgrade to Pro for 15, or Premium for 50. Browse our full catalog at /podcasts.
How often does PA CHALK UP release new episodes?
PA CHALK UP publishes weekly. Our AI generates a summary within hours of each new episode.
What topics does PA CHALK UP cover?
PA CHALK UP covers topics including Fitness, Health & Fitness. Our AI identifies the specific themes in each episode and highlights what matters most to you.
Start getting PA CHALK UP summaries tomorrow morning.
Free forever for up to 3 podcasts. No credit card required.
Free forever for up to 3 podcasts. No credit card required.