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Hosted by Javier Miller-Estrada · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 128 episodes
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The Adaptable Athlete Podcast is a podcast for coaches and practitioners who want to learn more about modern approached to sport movement and skill acquisition; and who ultimately, want to help to their athletes become more adaptable. Host, Javi Miller-Estrada engages in discussions with some of the absolute best sport coaches, trainers, and practitioners in the world. Coaches who are truly pushing the industry forward.
Javier Miller-Estrada hosts The Adaptable Athlete Podcast, a health show with 128 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail What happens when a strength coach spends nine years unlearning everything she was taught about "correct" technique? Molly Binetti is the Women's Basketball Sports Performance coach at the University of
Send us Fan Mail What does it actually mean to train a boxer to be adaptable when the most representative practice, hard sparring, also causes permanent damage? Adam Haniver is a boxing coach and England Boxing DISE prog
Send us Fan Mail Nine years in, and the "room" for SMSC keeps getting smarter every year. This one landed three genuinely different debates, a set of award winners worth knowing, and a founder's-eye view of what the conf
Send us Fan Mail You can't talk a fighter into confidence. And if you've been trying, Andy Grahn has been quietly building it the right way for 30 years. Andy Grahn is a martial arts coach at The Academy MN in Minneapoli
Send us Fan Mail The best pass rusher in NFL history didn't break the sack record because he's fast. He broke it while being double or triple-teamed on more than half his snaps. Shawn Myszka returns for the annual Mover
Send us Fan Mail NBA shooting coach Dave Love has spent over 15 years working at the highest level of basketball, with the Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers, Orlando Magic, Dallas Mavericks, and currently an Eastern Conf
Send us Fan Mail Use Code: Javi26 for 10% off of your SMSC registration 🎟️ In this "Ask Emergence" episode, Coach Jav answers three questions from coaches about skill acquisition, constraints, and practice design. The c
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Coach Jav sits down with Steve Whalen to explore his journey into coaching, his shift toward ecological dynamics, and what it means to truly design learning environments that transfer to
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Coach Jav sits down with Emergence co-founder Shawn Myszka to preview the 2026 Sport Movement Skill Conference (SMSC). They unpack this year’s theme — “Challenge Point” — and explain why
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Adaptable Athlete Podcast, Coach Jav breaks down three mistakes he made while applying ecological dynamics and the constraints-led approach in his coaching. From prioritizing drill
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, coach Jav breaks down the most common mistakes coaches make in agility training—and why many popular drills fail to transfer to sport. Inspired by a recent Six of the Best contribution w
Send us Fan Mail The Modern Coach's Planner — built for coaches who think differently — Back! Order yours today at: https://thecoachjav.com/products/modern-coach-planner In this episode, coach Jav sits down with Rob Gray
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Send us Fan Mail *Checkout the free practice guide at the end of the show notes! For decades, coaches and scientists have used the term skill acquisition — but what if that’s not what’s really happening? In this short ep
Send us Fan Mail *Checkout the free practice guide at the end of the show notes! What is skill, really? And what if it’s not something athletes acquire — but something they continuously adapt? In this episode, Duarte Ara
Send us Fan Mail *Checkout the free practice guide at the end of the show notes! Alan Dunton is a lecturer in Coaching Science and Skill Acquisition at Munster Technological University (MTU) in Cork, Ireland. A former Ta
Send us Fan Mail Adam Singer is the head coach of SBG Athens, where he and his brother Rory have been developing fighters for over 25 years. A longtime practitioner of ecological dynamics in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA,
Send us Fan Mail Shawn Myszka (the “Movement Miyagi” ) returns to the pod to discuss the theme he and his NFL athletes embraced this offseason: Wu Xin, or “no-mindedness.” It’s an idea that runs throughout skill acquisit
Send us Fan Mail Garrett Baker, Skill Acquisition Specialist and pitching coach with the New York Mets, returns to the Adaptable Athlete Podcast to dive deep into the realities of skill development in baseball. In this e
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the Adaptable Athlete Podcast! In this episode, we dive into another edition of the 6 Minutes of Skill series — where Coach Jav breaks down a key skill acquisition concept in under 6 minu
Shawn Myszka
sport movement specialist · Sportsmith
5 appearances on this show
Rob Gray
associate professor and undergraduate program chair in human systems engineering · Red Bull Advanced Technologies
1 appearance on this show
Greg Souders
BJJ Black Belt and coach · Standard Jiu-Jitsu
1 appearance on this show
Molly Binetti
University of South Carolina
1 appearance on this show
Andy Grahn
The Academy MN
1 appearance on this show
Alan Dunton
Munster Technological University
1 appearance on this show
Adam Singer
SBG Athens
1 appearance on this show
Justin Ferguson
Minnesota United FC
1 appearance on this show
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The Adaptable Athlete Podcast is hosted by Javier Miller-Estrada. The show is categorised under health (fitness) and has published 128 episodes.
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