{"podcast":{"title":"PA CHALK UP","slug":"pa-chalk-up-6728503","podcast_index_feed_id":6728503,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/e8409bcc/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.primitiveathletix.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/38865483/38865483-1754656261691-ebc27ebe9e3b.jpg","author":"Manny Silveira","episode_count":146,"summary":"Raw, unfiltered conversations with some of the sharpest minds in strength & conditioning, sports science, and sports coaching. From elite training rooms to grassroots sport, we dive deep into the principles, stories, and methods that drive real athlete success. No fluff, no recycled soundbites — just honest discussions that bridge the gap between research and real-world coaching, giving you the tools, ideas, and hard truths to think sharper, coach better, and lead athletes to peak performance. Enquiries: mannysilveira@primitiveathletix.com Follow Us: @_coachmanny_","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T08:18:25.557764+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pa-chalk-up-6728503"},"episode":{"title":"BRITT DUCROZ - DIVING S&C COACH FOR TEAM GB & PRIVATE #132","slug":"britt-ducroz-diving-s-c-coach-for-team-gb-private-132","published_at":"2026-04-13T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pa-chalk-up-6728503/britt-ducroz-diving-s-c-coach-for-team-gb-private-132","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pa-chalk-up-6728503","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pa-chalk-up/episodes/BRITT-DUCROZ---DIVING-SC-COACH-FOR-TEAM-GB--PRIVATE-132-e3hqmli","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/e8409bcc/podcast/play/118364274/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-13%2F421947641-44100-2-8f88a53a2fd98.mp3","summary":"We sit down with Britt Ducroz—private S&C consultant, four-time Olympic cycle coach with Great Britain Diving (Rio, Tokyo, Paris, LA), and former college director—to talk about what it actually takes to make elite athletes 1% better, why the consulting side changes everything, and how to build a coaching eye that no data can replace. In this Playbook: Wringing out a dried cloth: When your athletes have been exposed to everything, percentages stop working. Britt's solution — go deeper into force production. Using VBT beyond just velocity, he tracks rate of force at 100 and 200 milliseconds to find where athletes are losing output, and builds back from there. Power production wins. Force absorption and transfer is the separator. Diving's hidden demands: Everyone talks about the jump. Britt calls it the dessert of an eight-course meal. The real work is entry: athletes are hitting the water at speed, on their hands, in an overhead position — over and over. His approach: heavy investment in shoulder stability, mid-to-lower trap, subscap, cervical-thoracic (CT) spine range, and absorb-and-transfer capacity. If the CT range drops below a certain marker, they're not going off 10 meters. Full stop. The four-year grind: An Olympic cycle isn't a season — it's a career compressed into four years, stair-stepping toward one moment. Britt breaks down the Olympic low (the dopamine crash that hits when the Games close), how he resets between cycles, and why he uses the Olympics to reframe urgency for his college athletes: you get four years. These athletes wait four for one shot. TeamBuildr ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Coaches, revolutionise your training programs with their cutting-edge platform. Create and customise workouts, track progress, communicate effortlessly, a…","meta_description":"We sit down with Britt Ducroz—private S&C consultant, four-time Olympic cycle coach with Great Britain Diving (Rio, Tokyo, Paris, LA), and former coll…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4271,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/pa-chalk-up-6728503/episodes/britt-ducroz-diving-s-c-coach-for-team-gb-private-132/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pa-chalk-up-6728503/britt-ducroz-diving-s-c-coach-for-team-gb-private-132.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}