Podcast Episode #20: Carmen Bott

StrongFirst Podcast Episode #20

Summary

Professor Carmen Bott is a strength and conditioning coach from Vancouver, British Columbia who specializes in physical preparation for combative and collision sports athletes.

Show Notes

00:56 – Coach Bott talks about her history and how she got into the sports science space.

02:41 – Coach Bott’s thesis on basketball.

05:14 – Her first experience with Pavel in 2004.

09:00 – How Coach Bott ended up marrying her trainer and mastering the kettlebell.

12:00 – How strength training can be taboo for wrestlers.

13:40 – How much conditioning for athletes during the season.

17:41 – What kind of off-season high-level athletes get.

21:33 – The difference between training athletes in different sports.

26:28 – Which muscles are most important to train for wrestling.

31:05 – How much Coach Bott uses Olympic lifting and how much she uses kettlebells.

38:35 – Why you need to understand kinematics.

40:25 – The books Coach Bott recommends.

Resources Mentioned

Wrestler’s Edge
Off-Season Training for Wrestlers
Pre-Season Training for Wrestlers
In-Season Training for Wrestlers

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Dr. Craig Marker

Craig Marker
Craig Marker, Ph.D. CSCS, StrongFirst Certified Senior Instructor Emeritus, is a fitness enthusiast who has spent his life trying to help people improve their lives. As a professor, he works with students on how best to understand research and place it into context. He has published over fifty articles, chapters, and textbooks on psychology and research methods.

As a researcher, he understands the cutting edge of strength, sports performance, body composition, and nutrition. As a psychologist, he has focused on research and treatment of anxiety disorders, which positions him to understand the motivation and the fear of making life changes.

Craig’s upcoming book, the The Antifragile Self, takes on the topic of building a stronger person in the mental and physical domains.

As a StrongFirst Certified Elite Instructor, Craig views kettlebells as one tool in the trade of forging a better person.

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