The Physical Performance Show

Listen in to episode #89 of The Physical Performance Show as Brad Beer sits down with Brendan Davies - current Australian Male Ultra Runner of the Year. Brendan shares around his unique genesis story in running, starting in little athletics before giving it up to start team sports and pursue his career as a teacher. We hear about Brendan's transformation once he started running and his first ultra running experience which led him to finding his passion and becoming a successful ultra runner for Australia. Brendan also unpacks his coaching philosophies and his goals with his coaching group UP Coaching.

Listen in as we delve into the following:

• Philosophies around own performance

• How to run fast and long
• Coaching philosophies and joys from coaching
• World Trail Run Series
• Origins of Brendan's running career
• Performance Round
• Best Advice

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Listen in to episode #88 of The Physical Performance Show where Brad Beer sits down with Lucy Bartholomew in a fun and refreshing episode of The Physical Performance Show. At 21 years old Lucy's accomplishments in trail running are inspiring including her recent wins in the Ultra Trail Australia Championships (100km) race and Ultra Trail Cape Town in South Africa. Lucy shares around how she started trail running with her dad, her first trail run and the backlash she received for competing in a 100km race at the tender age of 16, how running became more important then school, her breakthrough race, funny training moments, her worst injuries and what she has learnt from the spot. Lucy has an infectious passion for trail running which you can hear throughout the interview that will make you want to explore the trail running world.

Listen in as we delve into the following:

• Origins in the sport
• Lucy's inspiration to start trail running
• Lucy's unique training philosophy
• Funny training stories with Kilian Jornet
• Lucy's best advice
• Lucy's mantra
• Performance Round

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Listen in as Brad sits down with Emma Pallant - Pro Triathlete and 2X World Duathlon Champion. In this episode Emma steps Brad through her journey to her international Ironman 70.3 success including her recent 2nd place at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship after only one and a half years racing the distance. Emma shares around her promising athletics career in middle distance running before undergoing a knee surgery that saw her starting biking and swimming as cross training. We hear Emma's mantra, best advice and funny training stories as well as what drives her to be at her physical best.

Listen in as we delve into the following:

• Emma's success in track running
• Emma's knee surgery
• How Emma found triathlon
• Emma's first triathlon
• Why Emma decided to start the 70.3 distance
• Performance Round
• Emma's best recovery tips
• Emma's mantra

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Listen in as Brad Beer sits down with Dr Christopher Vertullo for an expert edition of The Physical Performance Show. Dr Vertullo has been a specialist orthopaedic surgeon for 16 years. Every year he performs over a thousand knee procedures and is involved in treating elite athletes and professional sports teams. Dr Vertullo specialises in complex ACL & PCL reconstructions, computer navigated total and revision surgery, minimal incision rapid recovery total & partial knee replacement, meniscal repair & preserving arthroscopy, advanced arthroscopic joint resurfacing/ cartilage restoration.

Dr Vertullo shares insightful information around knee health, osetoarthritis, ACL injuries and the 3 stages of Bone Marrow Oedema. Dr Vertullo also shares his top tips for preventing and dealing with knee pain.

Listen in as we delve into the following:

• Knee Health
• Sports injuries
• Age and knee injuries
• Future trends in knee health
• Surgical trends in knee health
• PRP injections
• 3D imaging technology
• Optimal weight to avoid knee pain
• Joint replacement advancements
• Advancements in rehabilitation
• Dr Vertullo's 3 tips to avoid knee pain

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Listen in as Brad Beer sits down with Peter 'Spida' Everitt. Spida is an icon of AFL Football who played 291 games for the St Kilda Saints, Hawthorn Hawks and Sydney Swans across 16 years. Spida shares around the highs, lows and learnings from his career as well as his training ethic and his life outside of football including his debut Gold Coast Airport Marathon, his job as a radio presenter on 92.5 Gold FM breakfast show and his television show "The Great Australian Doorstep".

Listen in as we delve into the following:

• Highs, Lows and learnings throughout his career
• Dealing with the disappointment of never winning a premiership
• Spida's life growing up
• Spida's injuries
• Spida's top tip
• Spida's Performance Round
• Spida's Physical Challenge
• Spida's life after AFL Football

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Listen in as Brad Beer sits down with Phil Liggett (MBE) - The Voice of Cycling. Phil shares around all thing cycling, the Tour de France, his most memorable moments as a commentator, his decision to give up his professional cycling career and his love for South Africa.

Listen in as we delve into the following:

• Phil's time in cycling as a professional athlete
• Phil's decision to focus on his media career
• The highs and lows of the Tour de France
• Lance Armstrong's fall from grace
• Phil's most memorable moments in cycling
• Phil's love for South Africa
• How Phil met his wife
• Phil's best advice

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Listen in as Brad Beer sits down with Ben Moreau - British Marathon Runner. Ben shares around the highs and lows and his learnings throughout his running career. How he got into the sport, his struggles of juggling running with a full time job as well as his disappointment in not qualifying for the Olympic Games in 2016.

Listen in as we delve into the following:

• Juggling a fulltime job with training for marathons
• Ben's work and travel
• 2016 training and trials for Olympics
• Qualifying time
• Training session in Kenya
• What is Ben's favourite performance
• How Ben got started in the sport
• Performance Round
• Who Ben most admires
• Ben's best advice

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In this episode of The Physical Performance Show Brad Beer sits down with Prof. Belinda Beck - Bone Health Expert. During the episode Professor Beck unpacks the world of bones and the significance of bone health. The role of exercise in bone health, food and medications and how they affect our bones. How athletes deal with Stress Injuries, Osteoporosis and Osteopenia along with running and the affects of running on Bone Health.

Listen in as we delve into the following:

• Where did your interest in bone health start?
• Researching bone health
• Peak Bone Mass
• Case Study of athletes
• Origin of a Stress Injury
• Insufficiency Fracture
• Why do stress fractures sometimes not heal?
• Osteopenia and Osteoporosis definitions
• What are some of the reasons for Osteoporosis
• Effects of hormones on bone health
• Insight into good foods to optimise bone health
• The role of medications in bone health
• Find out more about Bone Health
• Best advice to optimise bone health

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Listen in as Brad Beer sits down with Liam Adams - Australian Marathoner and Olympian. Liam shares around his background in sport growing up and the point where he decided to focus solely on his running. Liam shares around his long journey to running his Olympic qualifying time for the Rio Olympics in 2016 and also how he nearly accidentally qualified for London 2012 in the 10,000m event. Liam gives us an insight to what it really takes to be a professional athlete while working 40 hours a week. He shares around how he fits in his training and his most important recovery tip to ensure he remains at his physical best. This is one not to be missed - it will make you rethink 'busy' and motivate you to get out and get active!

Listen in as we delve into the following:

• • His background in sport
  • Juggling the work/like/sport balance
  • His first Olympic campaign
  • The journey to running the Olympic qualifying time
  • Liams best advice for any marathoner
  • Liam's Physical Challenge

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Listen in as we sit down with Luke Mathews Australian Olympian and Track and Field representative in the 800m and 1500m. Luke reflects on his stellar 2015 campaign and the disappointment he felt after the Rio Olympics in 2016. Luke shares about the Nitro Athletics experience and racing Usain Bolt and his excitement heading into the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Listen in as we delve into the following:

• • Highs and Lows of his athletics career
  • Learnings in his athletics career
  • Racing Usain Bolt at Nitro Athletics
  • Luke's recovery tips
  • Funny running stories
  • Having his mum as a coach
  • His focus for the future

Timeline

0:00 Start

1:05 Introduction

1:20 Hawaii Ironman World Championship Triathlon wrap up

3:32 Introduction to Luke Matthews

4:35 Start of interview

6:55 Luke's start in Track & Field

8:10 Luke's 'retirement' from Track & Field for AFL

8:40 Deciding to go back to running and his success

9:25 Falling out of love with AFL

11:00 Heading off to Rio - making the Olympics

11:55 Under performing at the Olympics - the heartbreak

12:35 Pulling apart and reflecting on his Rio Olympic campaign

17:25 Making the Australian team

19:14 The lead up to Rio: The Melbourne Track Classic

21:25 Nitro Athletics and Usain Bolt

25:05 The IAAF World Athletics Championships 2017

28:25 Breaking the 4-minute mile

30:29 Meeting Sebastian Coe

31:50 Performance Round

47:38 Listener questions

49:45 Focus for the 2018 Commonwealth Games

53:51 Tranining advice

56:25 Working on his technique

57:26 Luke's goal over the next 6 months

58:25 Luke's dinner table

01:00 Luke's thank you to his supporters

01:40 Luke's Physical Challenge

1:03:40 Looking forward to the future of athletics in Australia

1:04:48 Close

1:06:43 Show End

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