Principles-first shop talk for performance coaches.
CVASPS The Podcast brings strength and conditioning practitioners into long, practical conversations about what actually transfers to athletes. Jay DeMeo steers people through training methods, coaching language, in-season constraints, mentorship, and the messy work of adjusting a plan when the room tells a different story.
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CVASPS The Podcast is a long-running strength and conditioning show centered on the real work of coaching athletes. Jay DeMeo leads interview-driven conversations with practitioners who have lived through different sports, staffs, seasons, and training problems. The tone is casual, but the subject matter is specific. Recent episodes spend time with people connected to strength and conditioning, with a strong run through basketball strength and conditioning. The show keeps coming back to a simple tension: methods can shift, but principles still have to direct the work. That idea shows up in conversations about volleyball jumping demands, basketball preparation, soccer carryover, field hockey conditioning, and in-season adjustments. It also shows up in smaller coaching moments. A coach says athletes are not tolerating heavy work, so the program changes. A sport coach says the team needs to be more fit, so the performance coach stops and asks what “fit” actually means in that room. Those are the moments CVASPS tends to value most. It is not just sets, reps, and equipment. It is communication, accountability, mentorship, terminology, and judgment under constraint. People bring up velocity-based training, residual training effect, body-weight explosive work, range of motion, postures, technology, data perspective, physical therapy, and the limits of letting tech obscure the coaching eye. The show is comfortable with coaching lore and career path stories, but it usually turns them back toward application. It can be loose and repetitive in the way working conversations often are. That looseness gives the show its texture. Ideas are tested aloud, refined through examples, and carried from one sport into another. CVASPS suits listeners who want practical thinking from inside the performance world rather than broad sports commentary from outside it.
Made for: Built for strength and conditioning coaches, sport performance staff, and serious training practitioners who already understand the vocabulary and want applied coaching conversation. It also suits sport coaches interested in how performance staff think through adaptation, communication, and team demands.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its working-coach texture: people do not just name methods, they explain when those methods bent, failed, or transferred. It treats basketball, volleyball, soccer, field hockey, and other sports as connected coaching problems instead of isolated silos.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
CVASPS The Podcast makes strength and conditioning legible through candid conversations about adaptation, communication, and sport-specific training decisions.
Jay DeMeo builds CVASPS The Podcast around candid coaching conversations that move quickly from career paths to the decisions made inside a training program.
One word, 'fit,' becomes your reminder to ask the coach what they actually mean.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A conversational coach-to-coach talk about principles that still hold as methods and settings shift.
Bree Brown and Jay DeMeo keep the conversation anchored in coaching principles, training norms, and the judgment call around when to control the how and the why, and when to step back.
Good coaching often means changing the plan before the room starts to break down.
Jeff Oliver comes off as the kind of coach whose value shows up in the small fixes. Jay DeMeo keeps the focus on adaptation, especially in the Holy Cross story, where squats and hang cleans gave way once athletes were already dealing with hip, back, and groin issues.
Paul Wellmer connects in-season training, lived mentorship, and the coaching balance between rules and relationships.
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