This week Mike and Brooker are joined by Anthony Piroli – the Head Strength & Conditioning coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL Organisation. Anthony previously led S&C at Mississippi State and spent three seasons working as assistant to Buddy Morris at the Arizona Cardinals.

• Intro – 0:00:18
• Nootropics with Joe Rogan – 0:02:32
• Sauna / Training – 0:05:22
• Anthony Piroli – Guest speaker joins – 0:10:55
• Work background – 0:11:02
• Development as a strength coach – 0:14:19
• Job with Mississippi State – 0:16:23
• Personal relationship/support – 0:16:43
• Owning a facility – 0:18:20
• Leaving ownership of facility – 0:20:13
• Money in training teams – 0:23:04
• Meeting Buddy and James – 0:24:43
• STATIC from Mic 0:28:49
• STATIC Gone 0:32:01
• Difference between Buddy and James – 0:32:48
• Coming to NY – 0:33:50
• Go to’s – 0:35:51
• Knowing the game – 0:39:12
• Watching the game/players – 0:43:56
• Context is everything – 0:44:48
• Barbell tracking – 0:48:14
• Communicating with private sector – 0:50:59
• Tracking – 0:53:48
• Programme Management – 1:03:12
• Wearing a lot of hats – 1:11:04
• End of guest speaker – 1:13:12
• Who is Buddy Morris? – 1:17:12

Show Notes & Time Stamps:

Mike and Brooker go back and forth discussing all things health and performance. This conversation goes over some nutrition, training and current events. No formal structure, just a conversation between good friends, we hope you enjoy.

• Supplements
  • Brooker Supplements  0:00:16 –
  • Mike Supplements 0:02:00
    
• Eating
  • Brooker 0:10:18 –
  • Mike 0:10:55
• Current events gym/no gym: 0:20:46
• Social Media: 0:21:50
• Client 0:28:18
• Mike’s training 0:48:34
• Cardio 0:56:04
• Sauna/cold bath 0:58:25
• Story from Brooker (closing) 1:19:21

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Show Notes & Timestamps:

• 00:00 How to talk to certain personalities and be an effective communicator
• 7:00 How perception plays into interpretation
• 9:23 We are not all logical
• 12:41 Negotiations
• 16:00 Empathy vs compassion
• 22:00 Be tough to the cause be kind to the people
• 29:25 How to convince someone to change their mind
• 38:48 How do you influence someone’s behaivior
• 39:28 How ya Doin
• 49:45 We’re in constant search of the next buzz
• 57:25 Mindfulness
• 1:04:54 Remedy vs inoculation
• 1:16:05 Perception of superbowl
• 1:24:25 Chop wood carry water
• 1:25:55 Nature Benefits

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Show Notes & Timestamps:

What’s the name of your podcast 00:00:06
Introduction to who you guys are – Mike:  0:1:35
Online classes                               0:3:38
Introduction to who you are – Alex: 0:6:23
Timeline of Alex :                           0:10:38
Mike choice of TCM:                     0:35:09
Mike time line:                               0:39:58
What will you use going forward      0:48:56
Physical performance/holistic performance  0:55:20
Preparing guys for practice             1:04:55
Not Married to one thought being open  1:15:00
Looking at the long term                        1:17:14
Impact of compounding                         1:23:12

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Show Notes & Timestamps:

00:00 Brooker on hypnosis 

02:30 pre workout routines 

07:30 breathing details 

09:00 more about breathing

11:30 even more about breathing

12:45 parasympathetic / sympathetic nervous system

15:00 practical autonomic nervous system details

16:00 human, chimp and computer part of the brain

18:00 back to breathing and thermoregulation

19:00 autonomic nervous system and breathing

21:00 differences between human and animals

23:00 warming up before nba/nfl, cameo by Freya

26:00 first disclaimer

29:00 post workout ideas

35:00 facial unwinding

37:00 memory

42:30 Mike on acupuncture

48:00 Pain and acupuncture

51:45 pain, fascia and acupuncture

58:00 bodyscan and acupuncture

65:00 terminology

67:00 many roads lead to Rome 

70:00 mdma and ptsd

73:00 incorporating acupuncture into Mike’s system

83:00 Freya dog or rat?! 

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