Sports around the world have been thrown into disarray due to the pandemic. The chaos brought some teams together and tore others apart. The Melbourne Storm seemed to get stronger as the year went on and just ended their 2020 campaign last month as National Rugby League champions. Performance director Lachlan Penfold and strength coach Dan di Pasqua join us on this week's episode to look back at the difference makers for the team this year, as well as the evolving role of strength and sports science in the high performance model.

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• Penfold was a guest on Episode 62 where he discussed his experiences working with the Golden State Warriors. He went in more detail on training team sports on GAINcast 184 earlier this year and GAINcast 131.
• Before his success with the Melbourne Storm, Penfold also helped the Sydney Roosters to championships. He broke down his approach with Sydney in GAIN Video 4: Lessons from the Sydney Roosters available for HMMR Plus members to stream.
• You can find both Penfold and di Pasqua on Twitter (@lachlanpenfold and @dan_dipasqua).