The Racquet Athlete Podcast

Dr Gary Mendoza talks all things nutrition and blends it with specifics for racquet athletes.

Mindfulness and yoga teaching with sport psychology thrown in to the mix.

The all round effect:Squash and tennisStrength potentialCapacity and game movementsLearning process of Strength and Conditioning for the racquet athleteTravelling as an athlete Racquet sports common injuriesACL injury model Buy in from athletesCluster sets on squats and how it can be used Athletes experience with coaches choices

Being in the present moment for sport and life.

Mike has worked with athletes in just about every sport imaginable from the Olympic /Professional Ranks thru Youth levels of sports. Mike has taught at four Universities and completed research at the United States Olympic Training Centre. He speaks about Mental Toughness Training, Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness, and the use of Imagery during training. He teaches you why you need to train mentally to be successful in life, not just in sports.

David Charlton helps ambitious athletes achieve their goals faster by improving their levels of Mental Toughness.  He also supports coaches, parents, teams, clubs and organisations, from grassroots to Elite Professional Level to achieve their aims.

Nick talked about his principles with athletes, we also discussed which racquet sports he found challenging to coach. Also what areas racquet sports athletes can improve on in physical aspects and how travelling can effect performance. Finally we spoke about common injuries in athletes.

This episode has us chatting back and forth. We were chatting specific strength and conditioning aspects, research in racquet sports and how the f1 cars data is key to success which correlates to finding racquet sports data.

This episode is all things sports nutrition. Jeff has experience with tennis and triathlon athletes. He is also conducting interesting research with his PHD.