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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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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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