The Athletic Development Show

On today's show we are joined by a very special guest, Coach Adam Caporn.

As an athlete Adam was the first in a long line of talented Australians to play at St Mary's College of California, paving the way for players such as Patty Mills, Mathew Dellavedova and Jock Landale. These days Adam is the head coach of the Basketball Australia Centre of Excellence at the AIS and assistant coach to our national mens team the Australian Boomers. He also holds a degree in Psychology. In this show we discuss his formative years as a player, his learning's as a coach and the essential nature of coach-ability in sport, business and life. In addition, Adam dives into what makes a great strength and conditioning coach and high performance manager and much more.

Lockdown 2.0 is coming to a gradual end here in Melbourne, so it's time to grit our teeth and finish strong.

In this episode Durham and Jacob talk about mental toughness down the stretch, something we call the 4th quarter mentality.

Sports Psychologist and Author Gavin Freeman joins Durham for a conversation about the psychological effects of living in lockdown and how to thrive

Show notes and links:

Learn more about Gavin at his site: https://www.gavinfreeman.com.au/ and his book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Just-Stop-Motivating-Gavin-Freeman/dp/1742577806

The New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/sunday-review/coronavirus-socially-awkward.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email

Packing for Mars: https://www.amazon.com.au/Packing-Mars-Mary-Roach-ebook/dp/B00CBWD78C/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=packing+for+mars&qid=1599442953&s=books&sr=1-1

A great piece for more reading on SCARF: https://www.psychologytoday.com/sites/default/files/attachments/31881/managingwbraininmind.pdf

Jordy & Cody's incredible effort to raise money while they walk, run and ride the distance to visit their pop in Canberra: https://www.fundraise4stroke.org.au/fundraisers/jordynfreeman/666km-in-66-days---melbourne-to-canberra

This is a live recording from the Orphic Education Webinar Wednesday series.

A roundtable discussion with Jamie and Charlie from the Culture Durham and Jacob joined the boys for a wide ranging conversation about performance, health, YouTube experts in the comments and reading fiction before bed!

The gym is finally back open, listen in to learn about the upgrades we have made to the gym

An exploration of agility & change of direction. Our favourite testing methods, training progressions and the semantics of defining and categorising agility drills.

In this episode we dive into two episodes from the Mentorship forum, first is it better for recovery to breath with your hands on your knees or with your hands behind your head?

Then secondly we discuss the importance of eccentric training for preventing all sorts of injuries and its role in performance as well.

With lockdowns in different parts of the world slowly begin to ease, how do we most effectively return to competition?

Rounding out our episode 150 in review we look at the last quarter of our first 100 episodes.