Olympic Gold Medalist Alex Hill joined the podcast to speak over his success at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and his journey into the sport of rowing. Growing up from very humble beginnings in Loxton North, Alex was your typical river kid, and always showed a strong liking to the water. However his passion for rowing was lost for a brief period during his high schooling in Adelaide. It was a piece of feedback given to him from a school rowing coach that made him double down on the sport and from there he never wavered from there. Fast forward after 11 years in the sport he now holds a solver m ..read more

Jake Giannakis - Head of Strength & Conditioning at Essendon VFL and High Performance Manager at the Academy joins the podcast to speak about his last 12-24 months in the world of high performance sport. Jake has built a wealth of knowledge in the sports science and high performance industry through his time spent with AFL teams Collingowood, North Melbourne and now Essendon. Working alongside some of some of the industries best and most respected people has allowed Jake to find his passion and desire to develop and teach the future stars of Australian Football. Jake was also one of the f ..read more

Stuart Gollan is the Lead Sports Scientist from the Adelaide United Football Club. 'Stu' as he is commonly know within the Lumin Sports team is a lover of all thins performance and formulating ways to allow the human body to perform at its peak. Stu has worked within the world game now for a number of years now, before this completing internships with the Port Adelaide Football Club, working as a post graduate scholar at the Australian Institute of Sport and tutoring up and coming undergraduates in Applied Exercise Science with the University of South Australia. As we have learnt through many ..read more

"Supporting people in their quest to flourish during and beyond their sporting careers", this is the mantra that Chris Lynch summaries his work with some of the worlds best athletes, in particular within his current role at the Australian Cycling Team. For close to 10 years Chris has been working to not only develop and support those around him, more importantly himself. His has for many years worked closely with athletes to build their mindset, resilience and professional capabilities to compete at the highest level and furthermore develop them as individuals for their careers beyond their s ..read more

Paolo Menaspà is a world renowned sports scientists that has worked within some of the best sporting organisations and alongside of some of the most successful athletes in the world. Paolo has spent a lot of his career in particular in the sport of cycling. His work centres on research and development of strategies to best support athletes in pursuit of their goals. Paolo's previous role with the Australian Cycling Team included work with national coaches and the performance support team to identify and implement performance enhancing solutions across multiple disciplines in the lead up to the ..read more

Jed Altschwager is a Para Rowing Athlete apart of the Australian Rowing Program. The South Australian lost his left leg in 2015 during a workplace accident. Jed himself describes it as 'his foot was squished and taken off' and post rehabilitation the Adelaide-local identified strongly with the sport of rowing. Jed's mindset and rehabilitation story is one to be admired, his strength through adversity and his gratitude for life is unprecedented. Jed speaks in depth about the emotions and struggles he encountered during his recovery and although he admits this was an incredibly difficult phase ..read more

The main man from Stanley Street Social joins us on the podcast to review and unpack the 2021 Tour de France. One of our most in depth episodes to date and it's fair to say that things may have gotten a little off track at times, however when we chat cycling, we go all in. In this episode Alex shares with us his thoughts and opinions on the Tour de France 2021 and explains a little more into the changes that the race has gone through over the past few years and what this means for spectators, commercial relationships along with the riders and teams. Cycling 'nuffie' or not, we all are guilty ..read more

Melody Cooper is another one of Australia's favourite "Adopted Kiwi's". Now working and living in Australia and working for the Australian Basketball Players Association as Head of Multicultural and Community, Mel now leads the programs, awareness and projects and initiatives that players are involved in outside of the game working towards changing the narrative in indigenous and multicultural education. In this episode we speak through Mel's playing days and olympic experience with Hockey New Zealand the "Black Sticks". Furthermore her time spent in business admin and leading teams. To say ..read more

Bruce Djite joins the Lumin Sports High Performance Project to chat about his career as a professional footballer, life as a youngster growing up in America and the Ivory Coast before moving to Australia. Bruce was always focused on his dream to play top tier football and his drive to experience football culture all over the world. Bruce played close to 300 games at international level including close to 30 caps for the Socceroos, before retiring where he is now the Director of Football at the Adelaide United Football Club. Bruce is a passionate South Australian and has played a pivotal part ..read more

Australian Track Cycling Sam Welsford joins the podcast to chat through his final phase of preparations for the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games. Sam is multiple time World Champion, National Champion, Olympic and Commonwealth Games medalist. His Cycling resume is very handy and Sam is still working towards some of his largest goals of winning olympic gold and scoring a professional road contract in Europe. Sam unpacks his story working through the ranks to become one of Australia's best Track Endurance Cyclists. In this episode we chat through his junior days, first olympic experience, greatest achi ..read more