Krush Performance

Jeff Krushell

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Jeff Krushell is regarded as a noted expert in the area of talent development in sport and through his work has gained unique insights into the process of improving performance… ‘It’s a human thing’.

29M AGO

Episode 25-4: The Pitch – Keeping Our Pitchers Safe

Staying injury-free might be the single most important thing baseball players can do to raise their value. Last year MLB teams paid over $1B to players who could not play. The majority of this was paid out to pitchers who could not throw due to injury. The injury rates are at historical highs at every level of the game and it is literally changing how teams recruit players and especially pitchers. Today we talk pitching, pitching performance & pitcher management with one of the games leading pitching coaches, Hector Barrios. Hector and I go WAY back but the work he is now doing and his approach to pitching has helped some of baseball’s best pitchers get better and some of the greatest young talent exceed all expectations. No matter what level of the game you are at or what position you play: This is a conversation every baseball player, family and team should pay attention to. Avoiding injury and maximise performance may seem overwhelming, but you might just be surprised at how simple it can actually be if you focus on the right things. Once thing is certain, having a plan is a critical part of Creating Coachable Players and every performance plan must start with the fundamentals of performance, in this episode we narrow this down for you and explain exactly how and why the foundation of movement might be the key to it all. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn Radio, Google Podcast, the iHeartRadio app, and now on Spotify! Don’t forget to rate and review the show! Follow Jeff Krushell on Twitter and Facebook! E-Mail Jeff with your questions and comments for the show and don’t forget to visit KrushPerformance.com for live streaming, blogs, links, and so much more.

1h 23m
MAR 5

Episode 25-3: Making It – Pathway to the Majors

What does it take to make the Big Leagues? If it were only this simple. There are countless variables, and the pathway may be different for each player but there are a couple of attributes that just might increase your odds of making it. GRIT, determination, hardiness, resilience, coachability, fate and yes, some talent. All of these play a roll in “making it” the interesting thing… you have great control over all of these. As MLB spring training gets underway and as the snow begins to melt up north baseball players everywhere are gearing up for the season. Today we kick off a series of shows looking into talent development, injury prevention and all out performance and we’ll use the game of baseball as our backdrop. There is plenty to learn from the game of baseball – even if baseball is not your sport. Professional sport teams are constantly looking to other sports to learn and expand their thinking. This is why you will see executives from NHL teams visiting MLB teams or NBA teams traveling to Europe to visit the great soccer teams there is plenty to learn when you take a good look at how teams in different sports operate. Over the next few episodes, we will be doing exactly this, looking into the game of baseball. If baseball is your sport this will be a great place to be in order to get a better understanding of the baseball performance landscape. If baseball is not your sport, you will gain insights, strategies and a glimpse into the issues facing this sport and how teams and organizations and players are working to thrive and push performance to new levels. We begin our journey by looking at the Journey of making it to the Big Leagues as we talk with one of my former players, Bob File, former Major League Pitcher with the Toronto Blue Jays. Bob was drafted by the Jays in 1998 and quickly found his way to the big leagues. We came up the ranks together – I was the Head Minor League Strength and Conditioning coach at that time and a few years later both Bob and I found our selves in the Bigs Leagues. We talk with Bob about his journey, his approach, what he learned and now in retrospect what advice does he have for up-and-coming players with the dream of playing Major League baseball. One thing that is perfectly clear, no one does it alone when it comes to Creating Coachable Players. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn Radio, Google Podcast, the iHeartRadio app, and now on Spotify! Don’t forget to rate and review the show! Follow Jeff Krushell on Twitter and Facebook! E-Mail Jeff with your questions and comments for the show and don’t forget to visit KrushPerformance.com for live streaming, blogs, links, and so much more.

1h 35m
JAN 15

Episode 25-2: The Effort of Elite Performance - Athlete Management & the NBA

In Sport, balancing training, practice and rest and recovery has quickly become one of the most powerful tools in maximizing sport performance. Day to day, week to week, month by month micro and macro programming has changed how we manage our athletes. However, at the developmental and youth levels of sport the concept of “Athlete Management’ is greatly non-existent. With Great intentions we train year-round and pack the weekly schedule with all kinds of activity – could it be holding you back or even worse setting you up for failure? This week on Krush Performance we talk with Ed Subel, Associate Head Strength and Conditioning for the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. The NBA is on the forefront of athlete and player management and the league itself has made strategic changes to the schedule to help players avoid fatigue and ultimately injury. We talk with Ed about his approach to working with the world’s best Basketball players, Effort is a big piece of the puzzle and we look at how we can apply this to players at every level of the game. Focusing on effort and collaborating with your athletes in their programming is a BIG part of the process when you are Creating Coachable Players. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn Radio, Google Podcast, the iHeartRadio app, and now on Spotify! Don’t forget to rate and review the show! Follow Jeff Krushell on Twitter and Facebook! E-Mail Jeff with your questions and comments for the show and don’t forget to visit KrushPerformance.com for live streaming, blogs, links, and so much more.

1 hr
JAN 9

Episode 19-1: Ultimate Mental Performance - 2025 Kush Kick Off

Welcome to Season 19 of Krush Performance. This week we kick off 2025 with Krush Hall of Famer: The Zone Coach, Jim Fannin as we break down the Ultimate Mental Performance System. This will be the 12th consecutive year that we launch the New Year talking with Jim and for good reason Jim has spent 50 years helping people accel in sport business and in life. When we are seeking out top performance it is all about planning, executing adjusting and persevering. And in those hard times, when things are tough or appear impossible YOU need to understand and remember: You Are Not Lost – You Just Haven’t Found Your Way Today we talk with Jim about the very fabric of elite mental performance as we discuss PERCEPTION, Decision Making and dealing with Adversity. We discuss how you MUST STAMP out Worry and shift your mindset to replace Worry with Positive thinking. And, we Teach you Jim’s science-based thought management, Jim’s transformative S.C.O.R.E. System. This system is the only proven approach to attract the mindset of the Zone. Connecting the Mind and the Body is a critical part of athlete and player development when you are Creating Coachable Players. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn Radio, Google Podcast, the iHeartRadio app, and now on Spotify! Don’t forget to rate and review the show! Follow Jeff Krushell on Twitter and Facebook! E-Mail Jeff with your questions and comments for the show and don’t forget to visit KrushPerformance.com for live streaming, blogs, links, and so much more.

1h 7m
12/19/2024

Episode 18-12: The Holy Grail(s) of Sport Performance

Success in sport starts with one thing…Planning. Athlete Development and Player Performance is exactly like planning a trip and like any trip you need to have a well though out plan. And, if you are going to create a World Class Plan you need to have World Class Information. This week on Krush Performance I share some of the World Class information you MUST be thinking about when designing your plan. Today we hear Treasured Information From Krush Hall of Fame Guests – The Best of The Best: · Dr. Joe Baker: talking Talent ID & predicting future Performance. · Lou Farah: Sport Researcher talking about the professional draft and how difficult it is to predict future talent. · is Dr Kevin Micthell from Trinity College in Dublin: The Brain an incredible learning machine · Bob Tweksbury: Performance Consultant discussing the Three areas of Performance – are you playing to your potential? · Dr. Jaques Dallaire of Performance Prime: The HOLY GRAIL of Human Performance · Jim Fannin The Coach of Champions: We are Products of our Environment & Braking Negative Cycles. · Dr. Richard Harvey from San Francisco State University: Resilience & Optimism vs Hardiness & Courage · Dr. Martin Mrazik: The Superpower of Mindfulness Remember, being Intentional, working with Purpose, Problem Solving and Decision Making are all very Trainable Superpowers when you are Creating Coachable Players. I’m Jeff Krushell We’ll be back on January 8th with a Blockbuster Kick off to the New Year. Have a great holiday season everyone– talk to you then. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn Radio, Google Podcast, the iHeartRadio app, and now on Spotify! Don’t forget to rate and review the show! Follow Jeff Krushell on Twitter and Facebook! E-Mail Jeff with your questions and comments for the show and don’t forget to visit KrushPerformance.com for live streaming, blogs, links, and so much more.

26 min
12/12/2024

Episode 18-11: Valuing Talent in Sport

Sport is a commodities market and the #1 commodity in sport is Talent! Its like the Wild West, Guns for Hire and its BIG BUSINESS. You’ve probably hears all about it: The Largest Deal In Professional Sport History. Juan Soto, $765 Million over 15 years. With signing bonus and incentives, he will earn close to $840,000,000 by the time its all done. Soto is obviously a HOT commodity but how do you value Talent? It’s a numbers game. A players performance numbers compared to all other players, it’s a market value system. Its Cut and Dry, Black and White and it is Absolutely Unforgiving. Either you have the numbers, or you do not. However, what do you do as a young player with a dream of playing in the big leagues? Or as a parent of an athlete who has that dream? Or as a coach of a driven passionate kid who loves sport. My best advice, for what its worth, is to get an understanding of the long game that is athlete development and read up on Talent. This can really help you guide your athlete through the process and at the same time give you some great knowledge that you can use to make informed decisions. That is exactly what we are going to do on this week’s episode of Krush Performance as we sum up all of our work looking into Talent and Talent ID. Soto’s contract with bonuses and clauses can add up to more than $840 million over the15 years – he’ll be 41. Its Great Work if you can get it and there is nothing like the thrill of the chase when you are creating coachable players. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn Radio, Google Podcast, the iHeartRadio app, and now on Spotify! Don’t forget to rate and review the show! Follow Jeff Krushell on Twitter and Facebook! E-Mail Jeff with your questions and comments for the show and don’t forget to visit KrushPerformance.com for live streaming, blogs, links, and so much more.

59 min
11/28/2024

Episode 18-10: Shut Down: Maximizing Your Off-Season

One of the most important questions in sport today, What to do over your off season? The off season for me is one of the most important periods in an athlete’s annual plan. This is where you train the athlete to be a more coachable player. Annual Planning, it’s a cycle of Athlete & Player management that can be broken down into 4 phases: · Off season · Pre-Season · In-Season · Post-Season Remember all programmed work MUST be built around our #1 Priority for program planning, Rest & Recovery. And when it comes to an athlete’s daily performance, Sleep Rules all!!!! When you are planning an athlete’s workload & recovery there are 4 factors you need to consider: · Volume – the how much · Intensity – the how hard · Frequency – the how often · Movement Efficiency – the how much stress/damage Bottom line, take advantage of any downtime you can get! As you head into your off-season ask yourself What is the benefit to year-round sport? It takes time to master a sport and there are no truer words than MORE IS NOT BETTER when you’re Creating Coachable Players Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn Radio, Google Podcast, the iHeartRadio app, and now on Spotify! Don’t forget to rate and review the show! Follow Jeff Krushell on Twitter and Facebook! E-Mail Jeff with your questions and comments for the show and don’t forget to visit KrushPerformance.com for live streaming, blogs, links, and so much more.

48 min
11/21/2024

Episode 18-9: Culture Trumps Strategy Every Time

Today, you can probably pick out the organizations with great cultures with great accuracy: Kansas City Chiefs – The LA Dodgers – Vegas Knights -Celtics Or Top Schools: Stanford, Penn State, University of California Storied football Franchises: Liverpool, Barcelona FC Real Madrid, Chelea They all have a Culture of Winning / Winning Cultures. Coming off of last weeks show with Kevin Tyler, President of Altis the conversation with our listeners surprised me. It was more about the environment and culture that Kevin and Altis has created and not so much the details that make up a performance program. The talk was about the big picture of when an athlete or coach step into an environment like this – only good things can happen, and I really thought this takeaway was interesting. There is no question, the idea of “culture” has been a focus in sport for a long, long time. On this week’s Episode of Krush Performance we go back into our 2022 Theme: Organizational and Team Performance with my conversation with Joan Ryan, acclaimed journalist and author of 5 books, including “Intangibles: Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry.” Get set as we work to crack the code on organizational and team performance and the elusive concept of “Team Culture” is a perfect place to start. “Culture Trumps Strategy Every Time.” Harvard Business Review The Environment and Culture you create for your players is one of the most important things you can do when you are Creating Coachable Players. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn Radio, Google Podcast, the iHeartRadio app, and now on Spotify! Don’t forget to rate and review the show! Follow Jeff Krushell on Twitter and Facebook! E-Mail Jeff with your questions and comments for the show and don’t forget to visit KrushPerformance.com for live streaming, blogs, links, and so much more.

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Jeff Krushell is a LEGEND!

Mar 5

bfile49

As a devoted listener of sports-related content and personal growth stories, I recently immersed myself in Episode 25-3 of the “Making It” podcast, hosted by Jeff Krushell, and I can confidently say it’s a five-star experience! Titled “Pathway to the Majors,” this episode takes listeners on an inspiring journey through the lives of athletes aiming to conquer the professional sports world. Krushell’s charismatic hosting and skillful interviewing elevate this episode to a must-listen, delivering a perfect blend of motivational narratives and actionable advice for aspiring athletes, coaches, and fans alike. The content shines with its depth—featuring authentic firsthand accounts and expert perspectives that outline the dedication, training regimens, and mental resilience needed to reach the majors. Jeff’s ability to connect with his guests creates a warm, engaging atmosphere, making the stories both relatable and profoundly motivating. The production quality is exceptional, with crisp audio and a seamless flow that keeps you captivated throughout. Keep up the phenomenal work, Jeff!
Energy and insight

11/11/2020

SthomasB

Jeff Krushell has a passion for life, for sports, and for helping us be the best version of ourselves. Whether you are an athlete, a parent, or even just a fan, there is a ton for you to learn from “The Krusher.”
Baseball Outside the Box Peter Caliendo

05/02/2017

Baseball Outside the Box

Best sports eductaional performance podcast around. Krush kills it, he has so many great guests, he is so knowledgeable, asks the right questions, amazing. I have listened to every show, everyone should forward all his shows to everyone they know because they should listen to it. Krush keep up the great job, you are educating the world. My # one podcast.