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Focus On What Matters with Sports Physiotherapist Greg Dea


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Our guest in this Effortless Swimming podcast episode is Greg Dea. He is a Performance Consultant and Sports Physiotherapist. He is currently serving at the Northern Territory Institute of Sport as a Sports Medicine Coordinator.

Greg has over 15 years of clinical practice in various international and national sporting teams. He recently just came back from The Shanghai Sports Institute in China.

In this podcast we will talk about:

  • how flexibility impacts your swimming and your cycling but how it can sometimes negatively impact your running
  • how to get your training load up with easy sessions
  • what’s important as opposed to taking days off
  • how sleep impacts your performance and how to track it
  • 01:42 – From Veterinary Science to Human Health

    02:17 – How My Love for Sports made me a Physiotherapist
    03:34 – The Opportunities & Challenges of Working With Developing Athletes
    04:29 – The Key Rules for Social Pressure
    06:00 – Why 9 Hours of Sleep is Required
    07:36 – The Specifics of Doing The Right Thing
    08:50 – How To Keep Track of Progress
    10:10 – Play Hard. Train Hard.
    10:40 – Every training session is a preparation for the next one.
    11:59 – The Importance of Learning From Your Own Mistakes
    14:00 – Clear Signs That An Athlete Slept Poorly,Under-nutritioned or Haven’t Recovered from a Previous Session
    15:14 – How To Get Your Miles Up with Easy Sessions
    16:19 – Ways to Gain Freshness But Not Lose Fitness
    18:51 – How High Performance Swimmers Train
    19:29 – One Day To Not Train Hard
    22:10 – The Role That Drag Plays in Swimming & Cycling
    26:22 – Go for The Easy Win
    27:00 – The Real Challenge of Triathlon
    27:45 – What Bobby McGee said…
    28:47 – Individualised Approach Works Best
    29:05 – Strength Exercises To Prevent Injury Through the Shoulders
    29:41 – Reach, Roll & Lift
    30:50 – Our Flexibility Test: Combined Elevation Test
    35:00 – How Flexibility Can Decrease Your Swimming Time

    Connect with Greg on his Facebook page here www.facebook.com/greg.dea or through his website www.preparetoperform.net

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