Howdy! Welcome back to another episode of We Do the Heavy Lifting, this week’s guest is Dr. Mike Thornton! Dr. Thornton is the director of the Thornton-McFerrin Coaching Academy at Texas A&M University. The coaching academy focuses on a few aspects of coaching: the students and veterans wanting to get involved in coaching and administrators that help support coaches. Coaches can hold many roles in a young child’s life as they guide them through the challenges of being a young athlete. Listen t...

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Be sure to check out future weekly Huffines Institute Human Performance Minute broadcasts at TexAgs SportsRadio (The Zone 1150 AM) every Wednesday morning at 10:45 am. If you missed it you can listen to it here!

Be sure to check out future weekly Huffines Institute Human Performance Minute broadcasts at TexAgs SportsRadio (The Zone 1150 AM) every Wednesday morning at 10:45 am. If you missed it you can listen to it here!

Be sure to check out future weekly Huffines Institute Human Performance Minute broadcasts at TexAgs SportsRadio (The Zone 1150 AM) every Wednesday morning at 10:45 am. If you missed it you can listen to it here!

Be sure to check out future weekly Huffines Institute Human Performance Minute broadcasts at TexAgs SportsRadio (The Zone 1150 AM) every Wednesday morning at 10:45 am. If you missed it you can listen to it here!

Today is the eighth video and audio-only rebroadcast from the 2016 Huffines Discussion.   Up today in our series is Dr. Russell Pate from the University of South Carolina.  Dr. Pate's talk is called "Physical Activity - The Red-Headed Step Child of Public Health" and looks at national efforts to increase physical activity by making it part of public health.

Today is the fourth video and audio-only rebroadcast from the 2016 Huffines Discussion.   Up today in our series is Dr. William Dexter from the University of Southern Maine and Tufts University.  Dr. Dexter's talk is called "PEDs: Not Just a Problem in Elite Athletes" and talks about how the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs is becoming a problem at all levels of sport and some suggestions for how to combat this rising pandemic.

Today is the second video and audio-only rebroadcast from the 2016 Huffines Discussion.   Up today in our series is Dr. John Jakicic from the University of Pittsburgh.  Dr. Jakicic's talk is called "Making the 'Move' to Health and Well-Being" and discusses how we can become healthier using simple techniques and approaches.