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Brandon Marcello, Ph.D. and Debbie Lipski
- Guest Co-Host: Kelly Kennedy
- Brandon talks about nutrition for college athletes
- Debbie gives us her Top 10 reasons to get a massage
- Abbie’s Wish List: Where is all the real candy?
Brandon Marcello, Ph.D. is the Director of Sports Performance at Stanford University, where he oversees all aspects of athletic performance enhancement for the 35 intercollegiate sports. His previous accomplishments include serving as the Director of Human Performance for USA Softball for the 2006 Gold Medal World Championship team, 2007 Gold Medal Pan American team and the 2008 Silver Medal US Olympic Softball team. In 1999 Brandon helped create Athletes’ Performance (AP) in Tempe, AZ, a world class training facility for professional and elite athletes where his clientele included Nomar Garciaparra, Mia Hamm, Phil Mickelson, Mike Weir, Maria Sharapova and Marc Bulger to name a few. A recognized author, Brandon’s work appears regularly in various journals, text books and periodicals. He has served as a consultant to many top Division-I teams, International Sports Federations and well as adidas International and Nike. Brandon holds a Ph.D. in Sports Nutrition from Baylor University. During this time as a research associate within the Exercise and Sport Nutrition Laboratory, Brandon completed extensive research in sports supplementation and its application to athletic performance enhancement.
Debbie Lipski, LMT, NCMT is a Licensed and Nationally Certified Massage Therapist. She received her B.A. in Psychology in 1999 from Indiana University where she competed in Platform and Springboard Diving. In 2001, she graduated from the Boulder College of Massage Therapy where she has done extensive studies in Sports and Orthopedic Massage. Debbie has worked directly with numerous professional athletes including the Colorado Rapids Pro Soccer Team, Monica Seles, and several nationally ranked, Olympic and World Champion cyclists. Currently, Debbie has her own Massage Therapy practice in Columbia, SC specializing in Deep Tissue Massage, Sports Massage and Injury Rehabilitation. Debbie is an NPC National Level Figure Competitor, Fitness Model as well as a part-time Soigneur for various professional road cycling teams.
Stephen Adele, at only 33 years old, has been helping individuals from all walks of life create measurable results in their physiques and performance over the last 15 years and has rapidly become a respected authority. Stephen has published numerous articles for magazines around the world, been quoted in several trade publications, appeared on radio shows, conducted seminars around the globe, and is the CEO of the prestigious supplement manufacturer, 
Robin Green, CSCS, LMT, CPTS has been in the health and fitness field for almost 15 years as a massage therapist and strength and conditioning coach. Although she focuses on working with endurance athletes, her clients include men and women of all ages and athletic goals. Robin attended SUNY at Albany and after graduating with a degree in finance worked in the family retail business until moving to Florida. In 1992, she decided to change her career and become a licensed massage therapist. Robin began cycling and competing in local triathlons in 1997 and her clientele soon included many of the athletes that she was training with and racing against. Prescribing exercise and stretch routines to rehab the injuries she was treating was steadily becoming a bigger part of each massage appointment. Training for triathlons and other distance events offered her a unique understanding of the overuse injuries commonly seen among many endurance athletes. Robin decided to go back to school for exercise physiology and is now a certified strength and conditioning coach with the National Strength and Conditioning Association as well as a Health Fitness Instructor with the American College of Sports Medicine.