The Lenko Show

Send us a Text Message.Yo!Welcome to 101! This week I sit down with team mate Jack Watson and we talk about the Great Britain program, his process getting to that point and his time with the Titans winning back to back National Titles. There is loads in this episode such as his biggest mistakes as an athlete, the worst thing a coach / team mate could say to him and what his team ma

Send us a Text Message.Yo! Lovely little milestone for us to hit and with this being the 100th episode we are taking a look back at our most listened to episodes so far.Thank You for supporting us and listening to us on a regular basis, enjoy the show!Support the Show.Thanks for listeningTo get in touch you can find us on Instagram @alex_lenkowski_performance@Chris_Lenkowski_perfor

Send us a Text Message.Yo! Welcome back to the podcast, this episode surrounds the key question of how much do you really need to know about why you are doing something. It's not a simple straight forward answer, ultimately it comes down to coaching and the coach - client / athlete relationship. We do discuss the obvious situation about where explanations should be given AND the si

Send us a Text Message.Yes, the answer is yes!This episode is centered around a study by Pastor et al 2023 which is a systematic review into the influence of strength training variables on neuromuscular and morphological adaptations in children.Basically asking the question 'is it safe'? I've always been baffled by the strength world where parents will allow their kids to play high

Send us a Text Message.Yo!Hello and welcome to The Lenko Show. In this episode we are discussing how often you should be strength training... inevitably this will lead us onto answering how long is a piece of string next week and how many ways are there to skin a cat the week after.... There arfe a ton of different ways toi go about your training and there isn't necessarily 1 corre

Send us a Text Message.Yo! Hello and welcome back to the Lenko Show, this is a strong one. We've been talking a lot recently about some of the misconceptions around strength training and hoe they can put people off from doing what is best for them. We talk about the key components of strength training and how you might aim to target specific muscle groups and movement patterns with

Send us a Text Message.Yo!Welcome back to the podcast. This episode is a continuation from Ep94 and is about how to handle the fear of failure and reduce the likelihood of it taking a grip of you. In this episode I break down 10 key things you can implement to help you through along with some of my own practices and how I have personally managed to combat the fear of failure. Reali

Send us a Text Message.Yo!Hello and welcome back to the show. This episode is all about a fundamental fear we all have or will all have experienced to some degree. It doesn't matter who we are or what our background we come from if we are taking on an important / difficult task with an uncertain outcome we are all prone to that kick of fear and adrenaline which can either be incred

Send us a Text Message.Yo! Hello and welcome back to the podcast. This episode centers around an issue that we are all susceptible to as athletes and as human beings. Comparing ourselves with others!Looking around at others can be useful but it can also be incredibly detrimental so we will be looking into strategies to control that and make sure that we are taking what is useful an

Send us a Text Message.Yo! Hello and welcome back to the show. In this episode I sit down with football performance coach Ben Bacon to talk through training and preparation for football performance. Ben is an experienced coach and still manages to play alongside running his own coaching business 'Your Peak Performance'. The main topics we talk about include;- The biggest mistakes f