S5 Ep6 Strength, Conditioning, and The Philosophy Booth with Will Greenberg

This Teamcast episode is brought to you by Harry Moffitt, MCTI
Director for Australia and New Zealand. During the last NFL
season, Harry had the opportunity to speak with Will Greenberg,
the Buffalo Bills' Head of Performance and Strength and
Conditioning (S&C). Will is a wonderful human being and a
great friend of the MCTI community. He describes his journey
through baseball, his passion for S&C, and the positions he
held prior to the Bills, from West Point to Utah State.


Will has a human-centered approach to human performance. This
refreshing perspective is emerging across the field and counters
the approach that can overweight outcomes and treat humans as
resources to be deployed for wins, profit, and utilization.


Listen to Harry & Will discuss programming now and how it
might be decentralized, more multidisciplinary, and less wedded
to the scientists in the future. They also cover how science and
scientists, though critical to the operator, should always aid a
good program, never control it, and the importance of ‘struggle’
in the gym, and the concept of flow, although not as something we
must conjure up, but rather as something we are always in and
must fight to return to consistently.


They explore the role (and reemergence) of philosophical
conditioning in humans and its implications for performance as
Will shares a fantastic story of "The Philosophy Booth".


In a tough industry – to insiders, NFL stands for Not For Long –
Will provides a uniquely relaxed perspective, with many
implications for MCTs.