{"id":2213,"date":"2019-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\/the-keiser-series-podcast-episode-1-jimmy-pritchard\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:16:48","slug":"the-keiser-series-podcast-episode-1-jimmy-pritchard","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\/the-keiser-series-podcast-episode-1-jimmy-pritchard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Keiser Series Podcast: Episode 1 &#8211; Jimmy Pritchard"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- blocks\/hero-editorial -->\n<!-- inc\/hero-editorial -->\n<div class=\"hero es-hero__editorial hero--var-1\" role=\"banner\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Insights-Jimmy-Pritchard-Podcast-Featured-Image.jpg);\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__overlay grad-overlay content-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content\">\n                    \n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <p class=\"es-label es-label--md\">\n                                Mar 27, 2019                            <\/p>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\" class=\"theme-dark hero__back-link back-link es-label es-label--sm\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon icon--md icon--arrow-left\"><\/span>Podcasts<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"hero__title\">The Keiser Series Podcast: Episode 1 &#8211; Jimmy Pritchard<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n        \n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n    <section class=\"es-section theme-light hero__sidebar-wrapper container\">\n        <div class=\"hero__sidebar\">\n                            <div class=\"category-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Category<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/human-performance\/\" rel=\"tag\">Human Performance<\/a>                <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"share-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Share<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\/the-keiser-series-podcast-episode-1-jimmy-pritchard\/\">Facebook<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\/the-keiser-series-podcast-episode-1-jimmy-pritchard\/&#038;text=The Keiser Series Podcast: Episode 1 - Jimmy Pritchard\">Twitter<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Here's a Leaders In Sport article for you &amp;body=Check out this article: The Keiser Series Podcast: Episode 1 - Jimmy Pritchard. https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\/the-keiser-series-podcast-episode-1-jimmy-pritchard\/\">Email<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"#copyLink\" id=\"copyButton\" class=\"copy-link-clipboard\">Copy Link<\/a>\n                  <div id=\"textToCopy\" class=\"font-hidden\">https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\/the-keiser-series-podcast-episode-1-jimmy-pritchard\/<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<!-- blocks\/section -->\n<section\n  class=\"es-section flexible-section  text-only theme-light\"\n    >\n                <div class=\"container\">\n                                    <div class=\"bg-striped-pattern__inner section-padding-top section-padding-bottom\">\n                <div class=\"es-section__inner col-parent col-parent--stack-sm\">\n                                            <div class=\"es-section__sidebar es-section__sidebar--sticky col col--12 \">\n                            \n                            \n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"es-section__text content-area\">\n                                    <p><h4><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21512\" src=\"\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Keiser-featured-Image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"96\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Welcome to the first in a new series of podcasts from the Leaders Performance Institute and our partners Keiser.<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<h6>By John Portch<\/h6>\n<p>Over the next few months you\u2019ll hear from human performance experts from around the world, discussing best practice, the role of technology and what the future of training and rehabilitation might look like.<\/p>\n<p>In this first episode we sat down with Jimmy Pritchard, who is\u00a0Director of Strength and Conditioning at the renowned Ski &amp; Snowboard Club Vail in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>He discusses the club&#8217;s recent affiliation with US Ski &amp; Snowboard and the variety of champion athletes it has hosted, including Lindsay Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin as well as Sidney Crosby&#8217;s Pittsburgh Penguins.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the agenda were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pritchard&#8217;s typical working week [7:50];<\/li>\n<li>The energy systems of winter sports athletes [11:10];<\/li>\n<li>The importance of understanding training age [12:22];<\/li>\n<li>The use of internal and external cueing in S&amp;C [15:40];<\/li>\n<li>Pritchard&#8217;s biggest lesson in S&amp;C [20:15].<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/id\/42838009\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"138px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>For nearly four decades, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keiseruk.com\/\">Keiser<\/a> has influenced the training of athletes, fitness enthusiasts and rehabilitation experts worldwide with better fitness products that unite both components of human performance: the force you produce, and the speed at which you produce it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>More than 80% of the top professional sports teams in the world now train on Keiser machines, including every baseball team in the major leagues, the soccer champions of nine countries, several American football champions and countless Olympians.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They\u2019re joined by everyone from NASA to Navy SEALs, medical experts and rehabilitation specialists, and major gyms like LA Fitness.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            \n                            \n                            \n                                                    <\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"col visibly-hidden col--flex-align-right\">\n                                            <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of Strength &#038; 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