Ed Archer and I discuss the history of fitness education, the birth and landscape of S&C and a future direction for education.  ..read more

I chat with Ben Cartwright from the Football Fitness Federation about his path from S&C coach in professional football to owning multiple business and running the FFF.  ..read more

I sit and chat with Dr Chris Bishop and Mark Bennett about their perspectives on RSI and how useful it is. Does the fact that its a ratio make it much less useful for us? Are we better with different test variables and areas of focus?    ..read more

Dan Howells joins me on the podcast to talk about his passion for non-technical skills and what practitioners need to know regarless if you are starting out or running a departement ..read more

In this episode I am joined by Mike Ashford. Mike is a PhD student at Leed Beckett University investigating Decision Making in Team Sports, is a Rugby Coach for Harrowgate RFC and Leeds University. Mike talks us through some key theories in decision making and helps us simplify the varied terminoogy and differences of opinion found throughout the area. Mike applies these different theories to practice and outlines his unified conceptual framework for player decision-making in invasion team sports ..read more

In this episode I am joined by James Wild. James is the Technical Lead for Performance at Surrey Sports Park and a Teaching Fellow in Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Surry. In addition he works as a Speed and Agility Coach with Harlequins Rugby and is Head of Perforance with England Lacrosse. Throughout this episode James outlines key characteristics of initial sprint acceleration in both sprinters and team sport athletes and some of the research he has completed as part of his PhD ..read more

In this episode, Ed and I explore how principles of Neuro-Rehab can be applied to non-rehab performance settings. Ed is currently a lecturer in Strength and Conditioning at the University of Gloucestershire after having previously worked with Wheelchair Rugby for the EIS and a Neuro-Rehab clinic ..read more

In this episode Louis and I discuss his resarch around the impact of dorsiflexion range of motion and movement solutions in different tasks. We cover its importance, the screening process and intervention types. Louis is a Lecturer in Sports Therapy at Edge Hill University and is currently completing his PhD ..read more

In this episode Tom Dos'Santos and I discuss a range of change of direction concepts including the performance and injury conflict. Tom is a Technical Demonstrator at The University of Salford and has just completed his PhD titled 'Biomechanical Determinants of Performance and Injury Risk in Change of Direction'. Tom has a range of useful publications available through his Research Gate page ..read more

In this episode Harjiv Singh and I discuss the role of language in optimising the motor learning process. Harjiv is currently a PhD student at the University of Las Vegas under the supervision of Dr Gabriele Wulf and is interested in motor learning for a range of populations. He shares lots of his thoughts via twitter and on rebelmovement.org ..read more