Highlights from the episode:
- Instagram and TikTok content strategy
- His mentors and people who influenced him
- Body Majic’s 8-week training program
- Gerard’s favorite movie or tv series
- His upcoming plan
A high-performance training program is designed to refine the skills and performance of individuals participating at a high level. The main aim is to develop and enhance the physical capability of athletes.
Episode 218 – David Joyce
Highlights from the episode:
- How cognitive tunneling helps as a coping strategy when dealing with pressure
- Performance mindset: Is it inbuilt or can be developed?
- Common challenges and solutions for athletes looking to develop their performance mindset
- Questions he asks to athletes who struggle to find their purpose
Common misconceptions with regards to a performance mindset
Episode 217 – Emily Meehan
Highlights from the episode:
- Emily’s advice to her past self when she was starting as a dietician
- Her advice to newly hired dieticians on how to educate a club or team
- Her strategies when working with elite athletes
- Emily’s approach to developing athletes who want to bulk up
- Ideal snacks for athletes who are on the go
- How she helps in improving an athlete’s nutrition
Episode 216 – Cullan Ball
Highlights from the episode:
- Influencers and mentors that shaped his philosophy
- How he came about the idea that physios can benefit by thinking more like an S&Cs
- Effective ways for physios looking to think more like an S&C
- Common misconceptions with regard to injury mitigation when developing robust athletes
- What he learned as a physio from working with different sports
Episode 215 – JB Morin
Episode 214 – Steve Saunders
Highlights from the episode:
- Common challenges for performance teams and medical staff members to collaborate effectively
- Using collaborative thinking and integration before providing advice to solve a problem
- His advice for running effective meetings for the medical and performance team
- Using the whiteboard method for collaborating and sharing ideas
- His process in planning and or giving advice when faced with a new problem he never encountered before
Episode 212 – Billy Hulin
Highlights from the episode:
- Key considerations when considering applying new research into your practice
- Research papers that are practically effective and coaches can apply
- His go to metrics in a small-sided game
- His non-negotiables to ensure optimal physical performance in AFL athletes
- The area where sport scientists can provide the biggest impact on a pro sporting club
Episode 210 – Carmen Colomer
Highlights from the episode:
- Strong mentors and influencers who shaped her philosophy today
- Effective methods for measuring training load in team-based field athletes
- Her criteria when adjusting training load for athlete recovery in preseason
- Her non-negotiables to ensure athletes maintain an elite lifestyle
- How she makes a group presentation engaging and actionable
Episode 208 – Vaughn Steward
Highlights from the episode:
- Common mistakes he notices while working with athletes and how to avoid him
- Topics he recommends and advice for coaches planning to take their masters
- Books he recommends to athletes or coaches
- Warm-up drills for athletes who don’t have access to S&C coaches in their club
- His key focus when doing a group strength session
Episode 207 – Robert Aughey
Rob is an expert in the design, monitoring, and interpretation of training and training load in athletes built over two decades as an applied sport scientist and coach.
He is currently a Sport scientist at Track and a Professor of Sport Science at Victoria University. Prior to Track he worked at Western Bulldogs for 7 years and has supervised over 15 Ph.D. students to successful completions, and has over 80 publications
Highlights from the episode:
- Influencers in his early days
- What he learned from his mentors
- The Mind project, athlete tracking system
- University partnership with football clubs
- His fave quote