Performance Roundtable Podcast

Today on the performance round table we are speaking to lee waters. Lee has been lecturing for the past 10 year and of which he has been working predominately within sports psychology. On this episode we discuss lee’s research on the benefits of eye training and the impact this has on decision making.

Episode 8 of the performance roundtable podcast – Today we have a snippet from our high-performance research group. On this episode we review Effects of Different Inter-Set Rest Intervals during the Nordic Hamstring Exercise in Young Male Athletes while also taking a deeper look into the Nordics as a whole. I would  Just like to thank Rob, Scott, and Ryan for coming on for this monthly review

Episode 7 of the performance roundtable – today we speak to Michelle Zanini about his current research on strength training for endurance runners.  Michelle highlighted that top level runners may not have had exposure to weight training and how this may be a missed opportunity for not only injury prevention but improving running performance.   If you’re currently working with long distance athletes or a long distance athlete your self give this a listen as you may be holding yourself or your athlete back from reaching their potential.

Episode 6 of the performance Roundtable podcast –   On today’s episode  we have Nathan Griffth , Nathan is currently doing his prof doc at the university of Birmingham, where he is looking to create a model for deceleration within team sports as currently this is overlooked in the research. In an industry where opportunities are limited, we discussed how Nathan worked his way into his current role as head of academy at oxford united. And ways that coaches can impact their own professional development.

Episode 5 of the performance roundtable podcast, today we have John Hale who is a sports engineer currently doing a Phd Focusing footwear tennis.  The ask a researcher series objective is to provoke the minds both coaches and researchers to critic their own practice.  Although the focus of Johns work was on the effect footwear has on the athlete’s ability to slide and how different court surfaces effect this, the principles can apply to numerous areas.  such how do we choose foot wear during training based surfaces were using, the session outcomes and the athletes currently movement capabilities.   It always a pleasure to speak to former team mates, so on that lets get to the podcast.