MSC Performance Podcast

In this episode of the MSC Performance Podcast, we were joined by BCU lecturer and head of Nutrition for Coventry Ladies FC, Joe Matthews!

Luke interviews Joe and covers a vast array of topics including:

- Pre and post training nutrition

- Nutritional considerations if you are cutting/gaining weight

- Sex differences in nutrition

- Changes you should make if you follow a vegan/vegetarian diet

- How/If you should adjust your diet during the menstrual cycle

- Joes big nutritional rocks

We hope you enjoy this episode and finish it with some good applicable takeaways!

New podcast episode with coaches Luke and Sona! Answering and discussing questions from our Instagram Q & A:

1. What is the best meal to have pre workout?

2. What supplements do we take and recommend?

3. What is the most rewarding experience we've had with training/coaching?

4. Is it ok to train cardio and strength training in one day?

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0:00 - 16:55 Pre-workout meals

16:55 - 27:55 Supplements

27:55 - 35:00 Our most rewarding experience with coaching

35:00 - 42:55 Conditioning and strength on the same day

We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed recording it!

Coaches Mark and Max sit down to talk all things recovery. Starting off around rest periods between sets and zooming out to look at recovery in the grand scheme of programme design, structuring a training week, and using the right type of training session to get the desired outcome whilst minimising fatigue.

At the start of the new year whilst everyone is looking for a way to get more done and get better habits formed around training, this one is full of knowledge bombs too help keep you on track well into 2022 without the wheels falling off!

In episode 2 our coaches Mark and Luke discuss the latest research on minimising phone use during/before training + how it can help you maximise your time efficiency + training performance.

In the second half Mark and Luke outline how to better train the often neglected hamstrings and adductors to maximise your performance and reduce your injury risk!

We hope you enjoy this episode!

First week back and we are coming with a very first episode of Season 4! In this episode Mark and Max talk about goal setting, how to establish good habits straight from the beginning and how to get your New Year into a flying start!

They also discuss MSC plans for big 2022!

The last episode of 2021 with all three MSC coaches, Mark, Luke and Sona.

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0:00 - 3:00 Luke's quick recap on his experience in Sweden coaching junior powerlifting team!

3:00 - 5:00 MSC Xmas deadlift and a reveal of dark horses :D

5:00 - 12:00 Sometimes maybe good sometimes maybe s*** - bombed competitions, and when the peak doesn't arrive

12:00 - 15:00 Mark's post arm surgery progression

15:00 - 22:40 Returning to sports and lifting, similarities and differences and how to build the way back

22:40 - 25:00 Sona's training intentions for 2022

25:00 - 28:30 The importance of enjoying your training

28:30 - 34:30 Psychological side to training performance

34:40 - 36:45 Tactical preparation for the Saturday Xmas deadlift - tips and tricks :D

36:50 - Thank you

Coaches Luke and Sona review 2021, from the perspective of MSC, powerlifting and Weightlifting. They then follow the year review by talking about the trends of 2021, before guessing what the upcoming trends in the strength and conditioning, powerlifting and weightlifting worlds will be in 2022!

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0:00 - 17:00 review of 20221 and all things MSC

17:00 - upcoming trends in 2022: harder training, comeback of use of resistance machines, Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and more!

Hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did recording it!

Sona and Luke talk about the importance of tracking training data and how to use the data to progress. They also discuss the importance of training feedback to coach and outline the big rocks of training management. If you have a question for us to discuss or would like us to talk about a specific topic, drop a comment below, DM on instagram or email.

In this episode Mark, Luke and Sona talk about the following:

• all things MSC Performance, what's coming up

• how to distinguish between long-term and short-term training progression and how to approach the preparation

• percentage and RPE scale as a measure of the intensity and how we use them in training

New MSC Podcast episode where coaches Luke and Sona discuss 4 topics:

• Use of straps for lifting

• Knee sleeves and training

• Safety squat bar (SSB) and its place in a weight room

• Low load, high velocity training: med ball throws

We hope you enjoy this episode just as much we enjoyed recording it!