Coach Ted discusses his introduction to coaching powerlifters.
How Coach Ted Started Coaching
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How Coach Ted Started Coaching
Season 5/Episode 31
August 1, 2022
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0:01 Ted
Alright guys, here we go. So, we came off a pretty light week on the podcast we have a little break from Rudolf Steiner the big concept of training so last week we just kind of freewheel. This week I went into our recording not knowing what was in front of me so Johnny interviews me on a couple of core thoughts and concepts that he had for me and so let's see how this turns out. So, I went into this a little bit blind and we just kind of went with some some questions. I hope everyone likes another lighter week. I think this time we go into a bit of Diablo history and some philosophy and then we'll, we'll get back on track with some more structured stuff that challenges your brain a little bit of a different way in the coming weeks.
0:43 Introduction
This is the Ted O'Neill Program where we explore the science and philosophies for performance optimization, and the elevation of the human experience from the mind of Ted O'Neill with Jon Leon Guerrero.
1:05 Jon
Welcome to the TED O'Neill program. Last week, we spurred a conversation and lots of people responded to it was that we talked about your physical transformation. And a lot of people said, you know, I know very little about Coach Ted O'Neill, I know he's a coach know he's pretty good at it. But I know very little about him.
1:27 Ted
I find that shocking.
1:28 Jon
Yeah. Well, we're going to dig a little deeper. So, I'm going to start by asking you this. What made you start coaching?
1:35 Ted
Oh, geez. So, I knew we're in for a little bit of this because I understand that you've conspired with Dr. V. who also conspired with Amanda to have a different series of topics this week. Normally I come prepared with something that's arranged for the season. So here we go. So, what got me into coaching or mode made me want to coach?
1:57 Jon
Well, which came first the chicken or the egg?
2:01 Ted
I'm not sure I heard the question correctly. Geez, okay. Well, this goes back quite a way. Because I had started personal training in the early 1990s. Which the form of coaching, definitely not to the level of refinement that we have now. So that was something that you know, a couple of years into training I had an interest in.
2:30 Jon
Did you develop a personal training regimen of some sort or did you latch on to somebody else's and begin teaching it and evolve out of it or because I know you had been an enthusiast of lifting for yourself?
2:45 Ted
Yeah. So that probably within the first couple of years of beginning my own personal journey as a lifter, probably read every book on the subject that was available up until that point in time, both from in a more complex textbook style, books, books on anatomy and kinesiology, sports science and this kind of thing to whatever the books of the era were, with the authors that were promoting whatever training methods and most of that really came from a bodybuilding background. It's very different than today where we have access to much greater information. Its more performance based. So, I think that there were elements of that that made more sense to me. for average people, with I definitely saw this disconnect between what you would see in publications as to what seemed obtainable, or at least who was being promoted. So, to frame this a little bit in the early 90s. There wasn't really an internet to speak of. There wasn't social media. And you would typically receive training information via whatever the monthly magazines were. Almost all those were bodybuilding based. It was powerlifting USA, which was a magazine for power lifters but at a very small circulation compared to something like Muscle Fitness. Which literally had millions of subscribers and you can find it anywhere. So, most trading information as it pertained to anything in any of the strength sports came from some version of the various muscle magazines of the time has been required. So, Muscle Fitness and flex magazine all these different things that were the standards of the era so there wasn't great information, there wasn't access to typically great information.
4:52 Ted
So, for me, I think I pretty readily saw where the disconnect was when you're talking about average people. Then you look at muscle magazine with the Mr. Olympia contestants as a pretty radical drop off. Just in my own journey, where I was training in my mind about as hard as one could train and as seriously as one could train and seen very little in terms of progress toward that particular ideal that you would see in these magazines. It occurred to me that training was probably in fact very different for most people than it was for those who have been represented as the ideals.
Alright guys, here we go. So, we came off a pretty light week on the podcast we have a little break from Rudolf Steiner the big concept of training so last week we just kind of freewheel. This week I went into our recording not knowing what was in front of me so Johnny interviews me on a couple of core thoughts and concepts that he had for me and so let's see how this turns out. So, I went into this a little bit blind and we just kind of went with some some questions. I hope everyone likes another lighter week. I think this time we go into a bit of Diablo history and some philosophy and then we'll, we'll get back on track with some more structured stuff that challenges your brain a little bit of a different way in the coming weeks.
0:43 Introduction
This is the Ted O'Neill Program where we explore the science and philosophies for performance optimization, and the elevation of the human experience from the mind of Ted O'Neill with Jon Leon Guerrero.
1:05 Jon
Welcome to the TED O'Neill program. Last week, we spurred a conversation and lots of people responded to it was that we talked about your physical transformation. And a lot of people said, you know, I know very little about Coach Ted O'Neill, I know he's a coach know he's pretty good at it. But I know very little about him.
1:27 Ted
I find that shocking.
1:28 Jon
Yeah. Well, we're going to dig a little deeper. So, I'm going to start by asking you this. What made you start coaching?
1:35 Ted
Oh, geez. So, I knew we're in for a little bit of this because I understand that you've conspired with Dr. V. who also conspired with Amanda to have a different series of topics this week. Normally I come prepared with something that's arranged for the season. So here we go. So, what got me into coaching or mode made me want to coach?
1:57 Jon
Well, which came first the chicken or the egg?
2:01 Ted
I'm not sure I heard the question correctly. Geez, okay. Well, this goes back quite a way. Because I had started personal training in the early 1990s. Which the form of coaching, definitely not to the level of refinement that we have now. So that was something that you know, a couple of years into training I had an interest in.
2:30 Jon
Did you develop a personal training regimen of some sort or did you latch on to somebody else's and begin teaching it and evolve out of it or because I know you had been an enthusiast of lifting for yourself?
2:45 Ted
Yeah. So that probably within the first couple of years of beginning my own personal journey as a lifter, probably read every book on the subject that was available up until that point in time, both from in a more complex textbook style, books, books on anatomy and kinesiology, sports science and this kind of thing to whatever the books of the era were, with the authors that were promoting whatever training methods and most of that really came from a bodybuilding background. It's very different than today where we have access to much greater information. Its more performance based. So, I think that there were elements of that that made more sense to me. for average people, with I definitely saw this disconnect between what you would see in publications as to what seemed obtainable, or at least who was being promoted. So, to frame this a little bit in the early 90s. There wasn't really an internet to speak of. There wasn't social media. And you would typically receive training information via whatever the monthly magazines were. Almost all those were bodybuilding based. It was powerlifting USA, which was a magazine for power lifters but at a very small circulation compared to something like Muscle Fitness. Which literally had millions of subscribers and you can find it anywhere. So, most trading information as it pertained to anything in any of the strength sports came from some version of the various muscle magazines of the time has been required. So, Muscle Fitness and flex magazine all these different things that were the standards of the era so there wasn't great information, there wasn't access to typically great information.
4:52 Ted
So, for me, I think I pretty readily saw where the disconnect was when you're talking about average people. Then you look at muscle magazine with the Mr. Olympia contestants as a pretty radical drop off. Just in my own journey, where I was training in my mind about as hard as one could train and as seriously as one could train and seen very little in terms of progress toward that particular ideal that you would see in these magazines. It occurred to me that training was probably in fact very different for most people than it was for those who have been represented as the ideals.
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