Muscles and Management
Over the last near decade, Gerry DeFilippo has trained THOUSANDS of athletes from the youth to pro level across all major team-sports.
Gerry started his gym and brand, Challenger Strength, as an ambitious 22 year old still finishing his college degree.
In the time since, he has built his facility and following into a nationally recognized performance company training thousands of athletes both in-person and online.
Gerry brings guests across all areas of sports and performance training, giving the listener inside access to his rolodex of collegiate, world renowned private and professional performance and sports coaches.
If you are looking to improve your own performance OR knowledge of performance/sports training (and learn how to shape your career), Muscles and Management is for you!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 252
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Episode #52 The Evolving Landscape of Baseball, Training, Pitching and Social Media with Pitching Ninja and Dallas Braden
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In this episode Gerry welcomes on former big league pitcher Dallas Braden and pitching social media sensati…
Episode #51 The Future of Technology in Training and Tracking Metrics with Exsurgo CEO Greg Lutton
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In this episode Gerry welcomes on Exsurgo (strength training and sports performance technology company) CEO…
Episode #50 Keeping it Simple to Build Strong, Fast and Powerful Athletes with Zach Even-Esh
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In this episode Gerry welcomes on veteran strength coach Zach Even-Esh to discuss keeping it simple and sti…
Episode #49 A Practical Approach to Addressing Multiple Needs in a Training Program
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In this episode Gerry returns solo to the mic to address and important topic in strength and conditioning: …
Episode #48 Building Speed with New York Yankees Base-Running Coordinator Matt Talarico
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In this episode Gerry welcomes on New York Yankee’s Base-running Coordinator Matt Talarico!
To start, Matt a…
Episode #47 MLB Head Strength Coach Jim Malone of The Pittsburgh Pirates
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In this episode Gerry welcomes on veteran MLB Strength Coach Jim Malone (currently head strength coach for …
Episode #46 The Power of the Mind in Building the Body, Managing Training Volume, and Recruiting Motor Units to Make Explosive Athletes With Conor Harris
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In this episode Gerry welcomes on strength coach Conor Harris. Conor has a background with both elite athle…
Episode #45 Q&A/Twitter Grab Bag: Proprioception, How to Program Sprints, Proper Jump Training, Building Strength, Agility Training and More!
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In this episode Gerry welcomes back the Q&A format to answer some of the questions you have sent his way ov…
Episode #44 Achieving Desired Training Adaptations and Simple Ways to Transfer Training to Sport with Arkansas Baseball Strength Coach Blaine Kinsley
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In this episode Gerry welcomes on Arkansas Baseball Strength and Conditioning Coach Blaine Kinsley. Gerry looks through Blaine's Twitter to find…
Episode #43 Sounding off on Some of the Hottest and Most Controversial Topics in Strength and Conditioning with Joe Aratari
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In this episode Gerry welcomes on Rochester, New York based strength and conditioning coach Joe Aratari. Joe works with high school, college and…
Episode #42 Studies vs. Coaching Experience, VBT, Hypertrophy and Key Training Principles for Athletes with Alan Bishop
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In this episode Gerry welcomes on Alan Bishop, Director of Sports Performance for Houston University's Men's Basketball Team.
To begin, Alan and …
Episode #41 Creating Synergy Between Quality Movement, Strength and Speed with Zach Dechant
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In this episode Gerry welcomes on TCU Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning, Zach Dechant to talk all things movement, strength and sp…
Episode #40 Building Harmony Between Strength and Speed and Everything Strength and Conditioning with Kevin Poppe
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In this episode Gerry talks to strength coach Kevin Poppe of Dynamic Sports Training. Kevin has been in the industry since 2011 and has trained …
Episode #39 Evaluating Prospects and Growing Baseball Through Social Media with Emily Waldon of The Athletic and Baseball America
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In this episode Gerry has the chance to talk to Emily Waldon, prospect writer for The Athletic and Baseball America.
Emily and Gerry briefly disc…
Episode #38 Building Training Programs and Athletes Through a Principles Based Approach with Daniel Flahie and Cody Hughes
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In this episode Gerry welcomes on two great young strength coaches in Daniel Flahie and Cody Hughes. Daniel and Cody have experience working wit…
Episode #37 Q&A: "Balance," Training, In-Season Programming & Life After College Sports (ft. Brandon Deger)
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In this episode Gerry begins by opening the floor to questions in a Q&A style format, taking on various questions from listeners and coaches in …
Episode #36 Keys to Developing Strong & Powerful Athletes with DJ Edwards and Bill Miller
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In this episode Gerry talks to Bill Miller and DJ Edwards, two strength coaches who are at the top of the field in building stronger and more ex…
Episode #35 Applying Principles of Sport Science to Strength and Speed Training with Max Schmarzo (Strong by Science)
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In this episode Gerry has the pleasure of talking to sport scientist and coach Max Schmarzo. In addition to being a former athletic trainer and …
Episode #34 Building Rotational Power & Velocity For Pitchers and Throwers (Rob Hill & Steffan Jones)
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In this episode Gerry talks to two coaches who are experts in the field of building pitchers (Driveline Baseball Manager of Technical Developmen…
Episode #33 Foundations of Blazing Speed with Joseph Potts (Top Speed LLC.)
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In this episode Gerry welcomes Joseph Potts of Top Speed LLC. to talk all things speed, agility and building blazing fast athletes.
Right off the…