Lateral Think - The Melbourne Athletic Development Podcast

Jack and John discuss aspects of running performance from biomechanics to injury. The discussion touches on aspects of acceleration, maximal velocity sprinting as well as distance running. For anyone interested in running performance and injury this discussion opens up some of the key aspects that we think are important and interesting to explore. 

David McCloskey is a data consultant with a background in psychology, data management and modelling. His ability to tell stories and capture the essence of a problem has allowed him to inform and be part of a number of state and national policy development projects. In this discussion we explore the ability for health data to inform public health policy, the interaction this has with decision making, contributors to healthcare problems and the interplay with health research. 

Jack and John discuss the concepts related to periodisation. In this episode we explore the factors that influence periodisation including organisation of loading, periodisation structure and the transfer or exercises to rehabilitation or performance and how they relate to planning for rehabilitation and performance. 

Dr Andrew Dawson is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching at Victoria University. Andrew’s research informs both sport policy and professional  practice and has examined the way coaches work, develop their expertise, and influence the lives of their athletes, other coaches and their organisations. He has been fortunate enough to work with very successful coaches from elite settings such as Australian Swimming and shares his insights with us both as a researcher and a fellow coach of track and field athletes. 

Jack and John discuss the application of stress, how it affects adaptation and the application of exercise prescription.  This is an introductory dive into understanding how human systems are affected by both positive and negative stress application and how we can manipulate these stressors to our advantage for each individual. 

In this episode we speak with Dr Richard Newsham-West. Richard is an Associate Professor of Physiotherapy at LaTrobe University and a titled Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist. He brings research and clinical experience to his teaching and clinical practice having worked in elite sport and universities in both his native New Zealand and Australia. 

With his wealth of experience he shares his views on the current state of healthcare practice and research, integrating and understanding of first principles and some rich knowledge in sports injury management. 

Meagan Kiely joins Jack and John to discuss the unique perspective that she has being a physiotherapist and elite athlete as an AFLW player for the Richmond Football Club. We discuss the influence having a background knowledge has on performance and injury management and identify some of the areas for development in women's sport and injury management for females. 

In this episode, Jack and John discuss flexibility training and the effects that this has on both peripheral tissue and the central mechanisms that drive range of motion change with both short and long term application of stretching and flexibility training. This episode looks to benefit clinicians, sports performance professionals, coaches and athletes in their understanding of the training that they undertake. 

In this episode we speak to Dr Brady Green (PhD). As a sports physiotherapy clinician, researcher and sports performance practitioner, we discuss areas relating to research, injury management and optimizing injury risk in sport. With so much to discuss we have two extremely interesting episodes to explore healthcare and injury management. This is part 2.

In this episode we speak to Dr Brady Green (PhD). As a sports physiotherapy clinician, researcher and sports performance practitioner, we discuss areas relating to research, injury management and optimizing injury risk in sport. With so much to discuss we have two extremely interesting episodes to explore healthcare and injury management. This is part 1.