MSC Performance Podcast

This weeks episode is our first threesome podcast with Mark, Luke and Max! The boys discuss a variety of topics from how to sustain health over the long term, the excitement of the upcoming commonwealth games in Birmingham and which sports they are looking forward to seeing, and also a very detailed discussion over their favourite sports films! including a rather passionate pitch from Mark on why Cool Runnings is undoubtedly the number 1 sports film ever!

In our latest podcast, we welcome back special guest Joe Matthews, who is an elite level sports nutrition coach. Joe works with Rugby premiership outfit Wasps, as well as Coventry United FC, and with a whole host of individual clients including elite level MMA and Ju-Jitsu competitors, all alongside being a senior lecturer at BCU and completing his PHD.

Joe answers some Q&A's that we received during the week on our instagram post, answering questions on how to maximize performance for team sport athletes in the lead up to a game, as well as strength sports performance, general health and wellbeing, fat loss, and supplements.

We hope you enjoy the episode!

Today is a very special episode as we welcome back one of MSC's favourite son's, the superstar that is Jaswant Shergill! Jas discusses his preparation for the commonwealth games as he looks forward to competing for England, in his home town of Birmingham. We all discuss Jas's unique mental approach to training, competing, and to life in general, in a fascinating insight to the mind of an elite athlete! We hope you enjoy this one as much as we enjoyed recording it!

In this episode, Kitti and Max has a chat about the recent competition Max and other MSC members attended, how Kitti's training going, double training days, signs of overreaching in your training and how to overcome them.

Today Mark chats to one of our new coaches Kevin, who talks about his background and how he got into strength and conditioning and ended up at MSC! Also, we find out about his latest research project, and his work with British Judo!

In todays episode of the podcast, we introduce you to our new coach Max. We discuss his training, coaching and his recent travels, before answering some questions we received this week via Instagram and in person!

1) When is a good/safe age to start training in the gym?

2) How often should i change my programme/how often should I deload?

3) What do we think about the use of Olympic lifts in (team) sports?

4) Why do we give some people the safety bar squat over the back squat?

Today is a very exciting episode, as we get to know our new coach Kitti as she takes us through her background and her journey which has led her to MSC! We hope you enjoy the episode and we can't wait for Kitti to work with you guys!

The last podcast episode with coach Sona, Q&A with the captain Mark Coulson!

Timestamp:

00:00 - 06:45 All thing MSC update

06:45 - 37:20 Q&A with Sona who is leaving us :(

To the new beginnings! Thank you all for tuning with us! If there is any topic you would like us to discuss in the next episode please comment below or drop us a DM on Instagram!

In this episode Luke and Sonia discuss the interference effects of concurrent training and give some tips on how to add more activity into day to day routine.

Timestamp:

00:00 - 07:20: MSC Met-con games recap

7:20 - 32:20: Benefits of adding conditioning into training and concurrent training discussion

We hope you enjoy this episode! If there are any topic you would like us to discuss next time, drop a comment below!

In this week's episode Max and Mark discuss some of the advantages of using machines alongside free weights!