SMARTER Team Training Podcast

About SMARTER Team Training Podcast

The SMARTER Team Training Podcast is where athletes, coaches, and parents come together to learn, grow, and build a better approach to training, competition, and long-term athlete development. Hosted by Robert Taylor, Jr. (aka Coach Taylor) of SMARTER Team Training, the podcast turns real-world coaching experience, practical training strategies, and current sports science into information you can understand and immediately put into action. Great sports performance requires more than talent. It takes preparation, consistency, confidence, communication, and people working together toward a common goal. That’s why SMARTER Team Training looks beyond the scoreboard to develop the complete athlete. Episodes explore strength and conditioning, coaching, youth sports, leadership, team culture, nutrition, recovery, injury prevention, mindset, communication, athleticism, skill development, Game IQ, and the everyday habits that help athletes maximize their potential. For athletes, we’ll break down what you can control, how to take ownership of your development, how to train with purpose, and how to become the teammate and competitor others can count on. For coaches, we’ll explore better ways to teach, communicate, develop athletes, build meaningful relationships, create effective training environments, establish standards, and develop a championship-level team culture that reaches far beyond wins and losses. For parents, we’ll provide practical education to better understand training, competition, nutrition, recovery, injury prevention, expectations, communication, and the important role families play throughout the youth sports experience. We’ll also take sports-performance research out of the laboratory and bring it into the real world. Episodes will examine current findings and explain what the research may—and may not—mean for athletes, coaches, parents, and performance professionals. And because SMARTER Team Training has deep roots in a wide range of sports from lacrosse, soccer, basketball, field hockey, volleyball, football, swimming, and more, you’ll find dedicated education covering skill development, athleticism, tactical decision-making, Game IQ, leadership, communication, preparation, and what it takes to become a more complete player. Whether you’re an athlete chasing your next level, a coach committed to developing people as well as players, or a parent trying to provide better support from the sidelines, there’s a place for you here. This isn’t about finding shortcuts. It’s about asking better questions, making better decisions, creating better habits, and understanding that development is a process. Train with purpose. Compete with confidence. Lead by example. Support the team. Welcome to the SMARTER Team Training Podcast. Inspire Greatness!

Publisher

Coach Taylor | SMARTER Team Training

Category

education · sports

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Sept 2026

Latest episode

26 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

27 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Oct 2026

   Earn The Right To Lead

   Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! (https://rss.com/podcasts/smarterteamtraining/voicemail) Leadership is not a title—it is a daily choice reflected in how you prepare, communicate, respond, and serve your team. In this episode of the SMARTER Team Training Podcast, Coach Taylor breaks down what effective leadership looks like in sports and challenges common myths about who can lead. Athletes will learn how to lead by example, communicate with purpose, elevate teammates, stay solution-focused, and take ownership when mistakes happen. Coaches will discover practical ways to develop leadership throughout the roster—not only among captains or star players—while creating clear standards built on trust, respect, and accountability. Parents will learn how recognizing responsible choices, humility, and service can strengthen the leadership habits athletes carry from home to the field. Through realistic team scenarios and a simple practice checklist, listeners will gain actionable strategies for handling pressure, raising team energy, supporting teammates, and leading without needing recognition. Anyone can become a leader. Start with the small moments, serve the people around you, and become the person your team would follow anywhere. Listen, learn, and put leadership into action—because champions lead, and leaders help teams win.

2. 

   24 Oct 2026

   Elevate Everyone Around You

   Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! (https://rss.com/podcasts/smarterteamtraining/voicemail) Leadership is not a title, captain’s band, or ability to be the loudest voice. It is the consistent choice to set the standard, serve the team, and make everyone around you better. In this episode of the SMARTER Team Training Podcast, Coach Taylor breaks down seven essential leadership pillars: leading by example, communicating clearly, encouraging others, remaining accountable, competing with purpose, acting selflessly, and responding to adversity with resilience. Athletes will learn what leadership looks like before practice, during competition, after mistakes, and when the game ends. Practical examples include arriving prepared, calling out defensive adjustments, encouraging a teammate, taking extra repetitions without being asked, leading the huddle, maintaining positive energy, and putting the team before personal recognition. Coaches will discover ways to identify emerging leaders, rotate leadership opportunities, reinforce effective behaviors, and build a team of leaders rather than followers. Parents will learn how to encourage responsibility, service, communication, and resilience away from the field. Great leadership is demonstrated through action, attitude, and accountability. Lead yourself first. Elevate others. Protect the team standard—and become the leader your teammates can count on.

3. 

   22 Oct 2026

   Inspiration That Sticks

   Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! (https://rss.com/podcasts/smarterteamtraining/voicemail) How do coaches make an inspiring message useful after the huddle breaks? In this Motivation Into Action communication edition, Coach Taylor draws from Vinh Giang's public teaching on voice, pacing, pauses, body language, storytelling, rehearsal, and reading the room—then places those methods beside peer-reviewed evidence. Listeners learn a focused huddle structure, an ethical story framework, a rehearsal process for pressure moments, and practical approaches for staff meetings, player conversations, and media interviews before, at halftime, and after games. The episode rejects communication myths, distinguishes practitioner guidance from research, and emphasizes transfer: one message, one picture, one action, followed by practice and feedback. The goal is not polished performance for its own sake. It is shared understanding that helps athletes act.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

13 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

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