The Racquet Athlete Podcast

🔥 As CEO he has managed teams of over 300 members and have led post merger integrations, transformations and turn arounds.

🔥 He has over 35 years of martial arts training & coaching with professional athletes in sports such as tennis, track & field, motor racing, soccer, & football.

🔥 He has spent decades as a senior mentor & consultant to the C-Suite of large multinational corporations.

We chat about the following in the podcast:

Adolfo's Social link:

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Coach Bronson didn't start his fitness journey until his late 30's, being 70 pounds overweight and having urgent bowel and health issues.

Now at the age of 51 he transformed his life through fitness and proper nutrition.

Bronson has spent over a decade coaching and helping people.

His mission is to help others achieve personal independence.

We chat about the following:

What is confidence

Confidence with trust

Basic Confidence

Exercise with confidence

Daily Activities

Metabolic Function

Your Sports Training

Your Athletic Ability

Build confidence through your challenges

Sustainability

Individuality in training

Links below for following Coach Bronson:

Michele Riechman is an online personal trainer and health coach, who coaches women. She has her website and resources find the link at the bottom of this page.

We chat about the following:

Strength training

Differences in strength training

Yoga

Personal training app

Health Coaching

Core Training

Hip Training

Listening to your body

Take the next step

Free workout challenges & healthy eating resources for busy Moms (micheleriechman.com)

Douglas Wood is a Masters Athlete in triathlons but we spoke about how developing mental strength in your sport is important for anyone competing. Douglas has worked with a mental strength coach for 10+ years.

Douglas is in his 70s and competes for Team GB in his age group.

He's also written an inspiring book called The Renaissance Triathlete where Alistair Brownlee a household name wrote the foreword for the book.

We chat about the following:

Doug's Background

Masters Athletes

Young Athletes

Growth Mindset

Altering your vocabulary (Positive)

Being in the moment

Different attributes for sport

Doing your best which is possible (Context)

Mapping out your season

Lifting your horizon

Writing down your successes from each event

Writing down things to improve

Having a mental strength coach for 10+ years

The Visualisation Process

We chat about:

Specific lifestyle habits

Stress

Anxiety

Eating disorders

High-performance sport

Athletes mindset

Human connection

DR Monika Gostic is a PhD Researcher, Gut health and nutrition specialist, Scottish Powerlifter, and most importantly a mother.

DR Monika Gostic has built a nutrition strategy called breaking BAD which means Balanced, Authentic, and Deserving. She is having good results with clients and she has built this from scratch.

She has also specialized in the gut health research and microbiome.

If you are interested in connecting with DR Monika Gostic please check the links below:

Rob created Athletic Evolution to provide best practices in the athletic development and coaching of young athletes. He is dedicated to improving the quality of athletic development training delivered to young athletes. Rob previously led the Youth Athletic Development for the Scottish Rugby Academy in both the Caledonia and the Borders & East Lothian Regions, as well as the U16, U17, and U18 National Squads.

He has previously worked for numerous organizations including NYFA Sweden, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Team Palmer-Grimson Beach Volleyball, London Thunder Basketball, British Gymnastics, and Leaf Studio School.

He holds numerous qualifications, including:

Anglea works with women to alleviate symptoms of menopause and help them deal with changes in the body and mind. Angela has been doing this since 2016. She has worked with many individuals in this position of life.

Questions we chat about on the podcast...........

What is menopause?

Symptoms of menopause?

How does it affect women's health?

Sleep hygiene/ phases during menopause?

The mindset in menopause?

Injuries and menopause?

How can it affect training in female athletes?

How can it be managed?

Where can people find Angela?

Campbell is a former PSA tour player of 15 years. He started as a junior and worked his way onto the pro tour. In this podcast, we chat about his junior years in squash, how it developed, and the sports science side of his junior years.

Later on in the episode, we get into the pro-tour side of squash. This is where we chat about his journey to number 24 in the world. Campbell explains how the transition from junior to professional is very different.

Further on Campbell explains and gives a few tips about getting into the pro tour and how to navigate your mindset for the tour.

Campbell also talks about his best times on the tour and where he can be found if people want to reach out to him.

Dr Carl Bescoby is a psychologist who is helping athletes through the rehab stages of sports injuries. He deals with clients who face many pressures in rehab and psychological barriers to successful completion of rehab and even getting back to professional sports.

Dr Carl Bescoby will be coming back on the podcast to delve deep into one specific subject in injury psychology in the future.

This podcast is a rundown of the basics of what injury psychology looks like for the psychologist and athletes.

Things we chat about........

Who is Carl Bescoby?

What is injury psychology?

How this can help athletes?

Basics of injury psychology?

Success examples with athletes?

Where can people find Dr Carl Bescoby and more information?