The Athletic Development Show

In this one we discuss what Durham has learnt and how he approaches the high performance for the Melbourne Ice womens ice hockey team. A unique sport, unique schedule and plenty to get right in terms of resilience training, energy systems development and overall strength and power training.

To continue on with our meet the coaches series, Josh joins Durham for a chat. In this episode they discuss Josh's favourite parts of the job, on his plant based, vegan diet and his journey to becoming a strength and conditioning coach.

Today's episode features guest S&C coach Chris Radford from the RAD centre in Ballarat. Chris and Durham discuss the growth and development of RAD, the importance of mentors and why a few cheeky bicep curls at the end of the workout never hurts... ;)

Following on from EP.137 in this episode we cover all things energy system interplay, conditioning training for track athletes and different methods for developing your energy systems for the sport or event you compete in.

The video regarding the trickle down effect we refer to can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKyFqi4m04"

Time to breakdown the 100m sprint. We train a number of athletes from sports that require sprinting and running, but the 100m sprinter is a unique athlete to work with. From neural flexibility and hamstrings, to strength development and acceleration mechanics, in this episode we breakdown the dos and don't for strength and conditioning with sprinters.

One link for this episode: check out our playlist on YouTube for all our vlogs we have put together on the topic of speed development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vldfypMgcyY&list=PLLGwYUBXVGQWj1XlIIw__u-Q-jq2m_FLj

Coach Pat Wilson joins us to talk about the art and skill of coaching, transitioning from athlete to coach and why he thinks a team of coaches would beat a team of athletes in a 4x100m relay

It breaks our hearts to see too many athletes drowning on suboptimal training plans. Too much work, too little rest, not enough variety, too much variety there are many ways to do it wrong, so in this episode we cover the essential components of all great programs. And it's not that hard to optimise your plan, a little planning at the start of the month/year goes a long way.

We cover: Sleep, rest, strength training, mental skills, visualisation and heaps more.

It goes without saying that at Core Advantage we are passionate believers in a strong core as the foundation for performance, function and durability. So in this episode we dive into all things Core, evolution, the history of core training, the discovery of new muscles (this century!) and the best and worst exercises for developing a strong mid section.

We have a few blogs and videos about all things Core Training check them out here:

https://coreadvantage.com.au/blog/2015/thecore

https://coreadvantage.com.au/blog/2017/are-sit-ups-bad

The functional 5 minute abs: https://youtu.be/x0PWAS9i2m4

In this podcast Durham chats with Tennille Hay, one of the pioneers of strength and conditioning in womens football about her career in strength and conditioning.

We cover:

Her time as the HPM ofCarlton Football club in their inaugural AFLW season

Injury prevention for the female athlete

The challenges of balancing high performance work with motherhood

Her new role at Maribrynong Sports Academy

The compounding power of doing excellent work

Career advice to young women on how to make it in football

And plenty more

After the crushing loss by the Boomers to France for the Bronze medal at last weeks World Cup, Durham and Jacob needed some therapy in the form of a podcast.

In this episode we talk about what neural fatigue is, how to best fight back against it and the benefits of foam rolling, vibration and nutrition to maximise tournament performance.

Links: Tournament article: https://coreadvantage.com.au/blog/2013/5/28/how-to-maximise-tournament-performance Review paper on foam rolling: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31256353"