Andrew Lulham has been involved with elite sport for over 20 years working across multiple Olympic sports as a senior strength and conditioning coach for the Queensland Academy of Sport as well as working in professional football codes in Rugby (Wallabies and Western Force), AFL (Port Adelaide F.C.) and Rugby League (Brisbane Broncos). He is currently the Head of Athletic Performance for Ormiston College. Andrew is a Master L3 ASCA Strength and Conditioning Coach, Level 4 IAAF Level Sprints, Relays, Hurdles Coach and an IAAF Level 3 Jumps Coach and IAAF Level 3 Middle Distance Coach. During his time at the Queensland Academy of Sport, Andrew was also involved in the QAS Athletics program working as a Jumps coach from 2016-2021.

QUOTES

“What I want at training is I want them to think about what they're doing and get it precise. But then when I want them to race, when I want them to compete, I don't want them to think.”

“The eccentric strength stuff in our training for jumps or for sprinting is key. You know, like we have got to think about that we want them to produce as much as much force as they possibly can eccentrically”

“I could say they only do 90 seconds of hard work in a typical session. Like the session is actually not that hard overall, but the intensity has got to be so high when they do it and spot on and it's crazy in a sense when you're think of it like that they come do 90 seconds of work for around 90 minutes of training”

SHOWNOTES

1) Andrew’s background in strength and conditioning, transition to an athletics coach and then the high school setting

2) Identifying technical issues in athletes sprint biomechanics and developing a coaches eye

3) Frontside and backside mechanics in sprinting, watching the sole of the foot and a Trae Williams case study

4) Wickets, skipping ropes and high knee runs

5) How Andrew sets up a typical training session for his athletes

6) Eccentric single leg strength and the optimal knee angles to work at

7) What Andrew would take back to football codes from athletics and a willingness to try new things as a coach

PEOPLE MENTIONED

Ian King

Dan Baker

Kelvin Giles

Gary Bourne

Ralph Mann

Patrick Castelli

Damien Harper