supplement safety

What can strength coaches learn from working alongside some of the most respected names in the profession? In this episode of the Samson Strength Coach Collective, Washington State University's Associate Director of Football Performance, Kainon Clark, shares his journey through multiple programs, discusses the value of adaptability, and explains how learning from legendary coaches helped shape his approach to athlete development and football performance.

Most coaches teach toughness. Few stop to define it. Andy Holmes, Business Development Manager for the Americas at Informed Sport and Informed Choice and Strength Chaplain at Ottawa University, makes the case that the easy way out is fighting and drinking. Doing the hard thing is what being tough actually looks like. In this episode he brings that framework into a weight room of 150 to 200 football players, covers the real risk of untested supplements and NIL deals, and shares what it means to coach athletes beyond the game they play.