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Performance Talks

Simon Taylor and Steve Nightingale

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Hosted by Simon Taylor and Steve Nightingale, Performance Talks aims to bring you relaxed round-table discussions of pertinent issues in S&C with guest coaches from around the world. Simon and Steve draw on their experiences from working at the elite level of S&C coaching professional, national and Olympic athletes in winter and summer sports, whilst living in the UK, Canada, and China, and guests include current and former elite professional strength and conditioning coaches. In an industry ...
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Phones down. Kettle on. Broadcaster, writer and musician Danielle Perry sits down with people from all walks of life to share tea, biscuits, and the same eleven questions. Eleven wildly different answers are provided by the likes of Karl Pilkington, Sophie Dahl, Jeff Goldblum and Steve Coogan. Milk? Sugar?
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Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself -- at the university's 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005. #stevejobs #dontsettl…
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The key idea of the video is that Americans use euphemisms to avoid facing uncomfortable truths, and this trend is becoming more prevalent with each generation. 00:00 😡 Americans use euphemisms in their language to avoid facing the truth and it is getting worse with each generation. 00:28 😮 In the first world war, the condition of a stressed nervou…
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Red Sage features Mark Manson is an American self-help author and blogger. As of 2022 he has authored or co-authored four books, three of which, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope, and Will, were The New York Times bestsellers. More info on Red Sage: www.VictorAntonio.com…
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Alex Hormozi is a first-generation Iranian-American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. In 2013, he started his first brick & mortar business. Within three years, he successfully scaled his business to six locations. He then sold his locations to transition to the turnaround business. From there he spent two years turning 32+ brick & mortar…
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AI Curtain of Illusion with Yuval Noah Harari Key insights 🧠 "If we are not careful a curtain of Illusion could descend over the whole of humankind and we will never be able to tear that curtain away or even realize that it is there because we'll think this is reality and social media." 🤖 The use of AI tools to curate content has created a "curtain…
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Red Sage features Nicholas Carr on "Internet and Your Brain". Nicholas is a bestselling author and sought-after speaker on topics of technology, business, and culture. His books include two of my favorites, The Shallows and The Glass Cage. I can't recommend these books enough! He has written for Wired, the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the New…
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Red Sage introduces Jim Cathcart one of the best-known and most award-winning motivational speakers in the business. He has delivered more than 2,700 presentations. A business strategist, psychological researcher and philosopher at heart. Today he is listed in the Professional Speaker Hall of Fame as a recipient of the prestigious Golden Gavel Awar…
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Brent Adamson is a world-renown researcher, author, presenter, trainer, and advisor to B2B commercial executives around the world. Known as having the “biggest crystal ball in B2B sales,” Brent is the co-author of the best-selling, industry-changing The Challenger Sale and The Challenger Customer. Check out his Brent's Breakdown video series.…
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Red Sage introduces Andrew Tarvin, the globe's numero uno "Humor Engineer." Yep, that's a thing. Imagine a cross between Elon Musk and your favorite stand-up comedian. He's on a mission: make people laugh AND work efficiently. It's like multitasking, but funnier. Having sprinkled giggles in over 200 organizations, from the brainy boffins at Microso…
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“It’s the guilt. It’s the guilt” shouts Ralph Fiennes about the terrible thing he does in one of his regular dreams. Rhys Ifans laughs unsympathetically, as he reveals his darkest fear. They play enemies in their latest film, The King’s Man but talk warmly together for Elevenses, about the art that moves them most, the place Ralph is at his happies…
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“Michael? What are you doing?” shouted Michael Sheen’s parents, when he was about to embark on something sinister, or maybe just naughty, at the age of three. Michael and his co-star Nathalie Emmanuel reveal the highs and lows of years past when they stop by for Elevenses before the release of their time-travelling seasonal film, Last Train to Chri…
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“I remember thinking CP30 was a lot like my dad…uptight and fastidious, persnickety and super-gay.” Superstar DJ, Scissor Sister and Star Wars fan, Ana Matronic is kind of obsessed with sci-fi. Over Elevenses she explains how she turned her adoration of the Bionic Woman into a religion and why the Cylons from BattleStar Gallactica are an inspiratio…
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“I’m a maverick, a loner, a rebel. I really ought to ride a motorcycle.” Self-proclaimed comedy “swashbuckler” Reginald D. Hunter opens up about family relationships and what he misses about the American South. He recalls the horror of seeing his first New York comedy show and having a gun held to his head. He also explains the significance of an o…
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“Keep your feet firmly on the floor and wave your arms and your body around.” DJ Annie Nightingale gives us a ‘rave’ dance class, remembering the acid house explosion, The Happy Mondays and meeting Björk during Annie’s time as an “honorary raver” in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Reflecting on more than fifty years as a broadcaster, she reveals the …
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“I just roll with it, go with the flow…I’m just always in a transcendental meditational state” says Charlatans’ frontman, solo artist and host of #TimsTwitterListeningParty, Tim Burgess. After thirty years plus in music, surviving a few scrapes in the process, Tim explains how he came to love filmmaker David Lynch, what’s so great about Bolton and …
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“I was very nervous…and it was essentially fear of ridicule if I’m being breathtakingly honest with you” says comedian Rob Brydon about creating his show A Night of Songs and Laughter. Overcoming fear and finding inspiration in Bruce Springsteen are just some of the things the actor, writer and singer reveals over Elevenses. He also recalls his fav…
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“I do feel like I’m cheating on my husband and it’s so weird cause I wake up feeling really guilty.” Cook, writer and Bake Off Queen, Nadiya Hussain reveals her recurring dream, why she’s still scared of crows and how she deals with anxiety, when she joins Danielle to talk about memories, motherhood and her new book, Fast Flavours.…
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Welcome to episode 15 of Performance Talks! We’re joined today by Tony Bixler, director of strength, conditioning, and sports performance at Newberry College, an NCAA DII school in SC, USA. In the episode, we discuss Tony’s experience of working with the Chinese Olympic Rifle Team, including his mentor/mentee role with his assistant coach, lessons …
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Welcome to episode 14 of Performance Talks! We’re joined today by Josie Symonds, academy strength and conditioning coach at Worcester Warriors rugby club. In the episode, we hear Josie’s experiences of being an intern and how that inspired her to develop a comprehensive internship programme at Worcester, which we think sounds incredible. We also ta…
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Welcome to episode 13 of Performance Talks! We’re joined today by Carl Bombardier, a former pro hockey player from Quebec, who now operates as an elite level strength coach and dietitian. In the episode, we discuss how he travelled from Canada to the US via New Zealand, how he went from athlete to practitioner, and his upcoming role with Seattle Se…
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Welcome to episode 12 of Performance Talks! We’re joined today by Rudy Thomas, the West Coast Territory Manager for PLAE, a US company focused on innovating high performance solutions for customers all over the world. In the episode, we discuss Rudy’s experiences of working in China and how we came to work together, his journey across the US throug…
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Welcome to episode 11 of Performance Talks! Joining us today, all the way from Beijing, China, are Nathan Stockley and Sam Stewart. A British strength and conditioning coach and Australian physiotherapist respectively, they form part of a small interdisciplinary team working with some of the strongest men on the planet - China’s Olympic weightlifti…
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To celebrate our 10th episode, we’ve brought on our closest friend in the industry! Fran de Alba is a physiotherapist from Spain, currently working in professional football for Fuenlabrada Football Club. Before that, he was a huge part of the Team China project as an assistant director, and worked alongside Steve at Kunlun Red Star as the team phys…
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In this episode, we catch up with Kate and Steve McMullan. A true power couple in the world of high performance, Kate is a sports scientist with the Canadian wheelchair basketball team, and Steve is a strength and conditioning coach with the Canadian track cycling squad. Between them, they’ve got a wealth of experience from both Canada and the U.K.…
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In this episode, we catch up with Matt Jones, 2 years after working with him in China. He’s currently working in the corporate wellness sector with EXOS, and is a SE Asia veteran having worked for the Singapore FA and the Chinese Olympic sport climbing team. We discussed his initial experience of travelling and working in Singapore, how he transiti…
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In this episode, we catch up with Ben Dixon. He’s currently coaching at the English National Ballet, and previously worked in football, firstly for 7 years at Watford FC and more recently with the Taiwanese national team. He also worked as a performance coach at the Chinese Olympic Committee. We had a super interesting chat around how he approaches…
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In this episode, we catch up with Italian S&C coach Roberto Vavassori. He’s currently working with Francesca Jones, a pro tennis player with a WTA world ranking of 241, and he’s also working with the University of Granada Volleyball team. He previously worked as an S&C and rehab fitness coach at the Chinese Olympic Committe for Rowing and speed ska…
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In episode 5, we catch up with Andrew Kacsor, strength and conditioning coach for HC Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod in the KHL. We had so much fun with this episode, and we talk about his time in Russia working in professional ice hockey, the differences he’s found working in men’s and women’s hockey, his time with the national Canoe team in China, and a …
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In this episode of Performance Talks, we were honoured to be joined by Tim Rogers, an absolute legend in the S&C world. In a classic chat with Tim where we couldn't get much of a word in, we discussed the entry requirements to the industry, the role of younger coaches in driving the industry forwards, and combining strength and conditioning with pe…
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In this episode of Performance Talks, we have a great chat with Ishan Rawlley-Singh, strength and conditioning coach with the Chinese national rowing team. We talk about his practices, the benefits of internships, his work in canoe and how that has carried over to rowing. We go on to talk about creating a training environment with intent, and finis…
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In our first guest episode of Performance Talks, we welcome Stephen Breisner of the EIS and Loughborough University on to talk about the first things he does when working with a new athlete or team, his approach to conducting a needs analysis and the things he thinks about when starting to work with a team when he has no prior experience of the spo…
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Welcome to the first episode of Performance Talks, a new strength and conditioning podcast hosted by Simon Taylor and Steve Nightingale. In this episode, we lift the curtain on elite S&C and chat about what really happens, coaching in context, and the murky world of social media coaches. If you like what you hear, please like, rate and subscribe to…
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“I’m scared that when I get to the end of my life, I didn’t do anything of consequence”. Broadcaster, journalist and author, Jeremy sits down with Danielle for a very special Radio Festival edition of Elevenses. Jeremy reveals why he had to give up on his ultimate dream of being a rock star, how he swims around his kitchen in VR goggles, and why he…
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“I had to work twice as hard to get half the recognition.” Sister Bliss - founder member of Faithless, producer, DJ and all round global club icon - is Danielle's final guest. As Faithless release their first album in 10 years, Blissy talks candidly about imposter syndrome, women in music, fears for the survival of the club scene, and shares how a …
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“I am the king of procrastination.” Film composer David Arnold – creator of Bond movie scores and Bjork’s Play Dead – puts off his work a little longer… He tells Danielle about the time Tom Jones rode around St Albans in a Batmobile, his bizarre dreams involving Sir Paul McCartney, and why you should always work with nice people.…
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