Just Fly Performance Podcast

In this show, Kristina Centenari explores the connection between breathing, nervous-system literacy, and athletic performance.

We discuss her journey from Division I tennis to endurance sport, managing pressure and frustration, building awareness of physiological stress, and using breath training to improve composure.

Kristina also breaks down breathing “gears” for runners, the relationship between relaxation and high performance, and why learning when to release tension may be just as important as learning to produce it.

Today’s episode is brought to you by Hammer Strength

In this episode, Clifton Harski discusses athleticism through the lens of movement variety, adaptability, and lifelong physical practice.

He explores his background in jumping and multi-sport play, developing athletic kids without premature specialization, and why training should create opportunities to express athleticism.

Clifton also dives into kettlebell training for rhythm, relaxation, explosiveness, multi-directional strength and deceleration, along with programming ideas that bridge traditional strength work, movement skill, and real-world athletic performance.

Today’s episode is brought to you by Hammer Strength and the Athletic Fusion Cohort

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In this episode, Daniel Back gets into the role of variety, play, and subconscious learning in developing speed and athleticism.

He discusses resisted sprinting, why he avoids over-coaching acceleration mechanics, lessons from the dunk community, and the value of broad movement experience.

Dan also explores extensive tempo, longer sprints, training volume, and why specialization and constant measurement can sometimes limit long-term athletic development.

Today’s episode is brought to you by Hammer Strength and the Vert Trainer

In this episode, Josh Bray discusses how endurance training shaped his coaching perspective, the role of games and hidden intention in athletic development, and how roughhousing and free play build adaptable movers.

He also explores bucketing athletes as elastic, muscular, or hybrid, using force-plate data without overcomplicating the process, balancing readiness with meaningful training stress, and employing open-ended prescriptions that let athletes self-regulate volume while preserving intent, quality, and engagement.

Today’s episode is brought to you by Hammer Strength.

Joel Smith shares 20 coaching ideas that permanently reshaped how he trains athletes and himself. Drawing from influential books, mentors, training systems, personal experiments, and hard-earned mistakes, Joel explores intensity and recovery, potentiation, individualized strength, motor learning, games, rhythm, biomechanics, group dynamics, ritual, and athlete profiling. More than a list of methods, the episode traces his evolution from conventional programming toward a more adaptive, embodied, and human approach to performance.

Today’s episode is brought to you by Hammer Strength and the Just Fly Sports Online Courses

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