Richard Turnbull: Improving Health and Resilience

Whole Human

Richard Turnbull is an accredited exercise physiologist, sports scientist and published author with qualifications longer than a giraffe's neck. He's knowledgeable and well-respected in the areas of sports science, nutrition, diabetes and metabolic conditioning (just to name a few).

As a by-product of working as a coach with many high-performance athletes to get the best out of them, and by being the type of person who always strives to get the best out of himself, he also has a lot of knowledge about mindset. We talk about that a fair bit in our conversation today.

Richard currently lives in Orange NSW, which is my home town, but he grew up and spent most of his life in South Africa where he was the strength and conditioning coach of the South African Rugby Springboks in 1993, the Natal Sharks Rugby in 1990, 1992, and 1995 who were the Currie Cup winners during these years, and several others. In 2016 was inducted into the Athletic Coaching Hall of Fame for his work with marathon runners.

How do I know Richard? On moving to Australia in 1997 Richard continued his impressive career trajectory, too much to list here, which included coaching 1st Grade Rugby in Australia winning 8 premierships with the Emus. I was actually a member of the team back then, so I was lucky to experience Richard in action doing what he does best.

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