The Physical Performance Show

Emma Jeffcoat is an Australian Olympic Triathlete who made her debut at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games. In this episode Emma discusses the poignant issue of comments that can destroy athletes and candidly shares some of the commentary that she's received throughout her developing triathlon career and how that's affected her over the years psychologically, health wise and performance wise. What's so...

Jenny Valentish, Author and Journalist, has just released a new book "Everything Harder than Everyone Else", why some of us push our bodies to extremes. Jenny is the author of the acclaimed Woman of Substances, a regular contributor to The Sydney Morning Herald and the Saturday Paper and a former Editor of Timeout Melbourne, and Triple J's J Mag. When Jenny wrote her book about addiction, she noti...

There are only few people on the planet who understand bone better than Prof Peter Ebling. Professor Peter Ebeling, AO, is Head of the Department of Medicine in the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. He was also inaugural Director of the Australian Institute of Musculoskeletal Science  (AIMSS). Professor Ebeling has 28,000+ citations; an...

Dr Paul Griffin, Sports Podiatrist has a Sports Podiatry career spanning 25 + years. Paul has provided services to the Perth Glory Football Club and the Western Australian Branch of the Australian Podiatry Council.  Simon Bartold has also had a very impressive career. Simon has been a consultant at the Australian Institute of Sport Cricket Academy, the British Cricket Academy and the Indian Cricke...

Cam Wurf been referred to as one of the world's greatest endurance athletes. He has spent more than half of his life in elite sport across three sports - rowing, triathlon, and professional cycling. It all started for Cam with his first passion of rowing, winning the national schoolboy Sculling crown at the 2001 Australian rowing championships.  Cam from there, progressed to the junior and then th...

In episode 309 of The Physical Performance Show Brad Beer shares the final edition of the Summer Series Part 4 Navigating Common Endurance Injuries. In this episode you'll hear some of our previous guests share around the best ways to deal with and manage tendon, bone, joint, and muscle-related concerns. Ebonie Rio (PhD) Tania Pizzari (PhD) & Brady Green Professor Stuart Warden JF Esculier Show Sp...

In episode 308 of The Physical Performance Show Brad Beer which is the next edition of the Summer Series Part 3: Nutrition with Renee McGregor, featuring extracts from our recent Live stream event "Fuelling the Endurance Athlete". Renee specialises in relative energy deficiency in sport, eating disorders, the female athlete, athletic health and performance. Her clinical practice and knowledge are...

In episode 307 of The Physical Performance Show features our Summer Series Part 2: Recovery with Dr Shona Halson, which includes extracts from our September 2020 Livestream event Recovery Essentials for Optimal Performance with Australian-based Assoc Prof Shona Halson. Dr Halson delivered 4 modules during the Livestream: Fundamentals of Recovery Recovery Periodisation & Adaptation Sleep Science: O...

In this first instalment of our Summer Series Part 1; Physiology with Dr Stephen Seiler, featuring extracts from our July 2020 Live stream event Sustainable Training for Attainable Endurance Goals with the forefather of Polarised Training Dr Stephen Seiler. Dr Seiler delivers bucket loads of trainings to hundreds of people in the Endurance sports training worldwide coaches, athletes practitioners...

It is that time of year where we look back at the calendar year, and we review some of the highlights of our expert editions.  We've just looked straight at the data, that is, the number of downloads per episode and today we review the top 10 most downloaded expert editions of 2021. Show Sponsor:  POLAR Polar are a sports technology company who build world class heart rate monitors and GPS watches...

It is that time of year where we look back at the calendar year, and we review some of the highlights of our featured performers. In prior years we've labelled this episode "The Best of" where we've sourced feedback around popular episodes that really struck a chord with the learnings that were shared. However, this year, we've just looked straight at the data, that is, the number of downloads per...

In this episode we have the opportunity to review the Olympic cycle that led to Norway's success. Not only did Kristian Blummenfelt take out the Olympic Games gold medal, his fellow athletes all had solid performances making Norway the best performed team individually at the Olympic Games. Kristian Blummenfelt went on to win the overall World Triathlon Series title, to be the only athlete to do so...

Olav Aleksander Bu, has been working extremely close with Kristian Blummenfelt over the last 5 years post the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and despite his hectic schedule, made time to share the many learnings he had from his career to date around Triathlon Science. There is so much information in this episode, it's little wonder that Norway are leading the world of Triathlon across all distances from s...

Kristian is no stranger on The Physical Performance Show, appearing on Episode 117 in 2018 where he outlined his goals, his ambitions to become Olympic Word Champion, World Triathlon Series Champion and to make an impression across the Ironman distance. He re-appeared on Episode 286 following his Tokyo Olympic Games sensational victory. In this episode Kristian Blummenfelt dissects his 2021 Ironma...

Ali was our very first guest way back in April 2016, making another appearance on episode 100 co-sharing the microphone to look back at the first 100 episodes of the show.  Alastair has become a father to baby boy Danny, husband to wife Kel, picked up another Kelloggs Nutri-Grain Ironman Series title, added a 7th Coolangatta Gold victory to his resume and the 2021 Australian Surf Life Saving title...

Alice is a practising Physiotherapist with more than 10 years' experience herself, a recreationally competitive distance runner and the Founder of AB Online Pilates. Alice works closely with some of Australia's leading track and field and distance running athletes including prior featured guests of the show Dave McNeill, last week's featured performer, Brooke Stratton and recently Genevieve Gregso...

Brooke Stratton commenced her little athletics career at the age of five, winning the Under 9 Years Victorian State Title before commencing on to Junior World Championships and a successful Junior worlds career before entering the senior ranks. In Tokyo 2021, Brooke was an Olympic finalist finishing 7th place with a jump of 6.83m where Brooke later commented that she could walk away with her head...

Renee McGregor Sports Dietitian specialising in RED, eating disorders, female health and athlete health and performance and author. We recently hosted a live stream event 'Fuelling the Endurance Athlete' presented by Renee McGregor, it was a huge success and as always our live stream events, the Q&A section presents a fantastic opportunity for the exchange of information specific to people's needs...

Brad has more than 15 years' experience as a Physiotherapist working in the NHS in elite sport and the private practice setting serving in the role of Head of Research at Pure Sports Medicine, one of the UK leading sports medicine groups.  Brad completed his PhD investigating the influence of Lower Limb Biomechanics on the development persistence and management of patellofemoral pain in recreation...

Max Paquette is an accomplished Academic and Applied Scientist currently serving as an Associate Professor of the Human Performance Centre at the University of Memphis and the Director of the Musculoskeletal Analysis Laboratory. Max's primary research interests have focused on the effects of different footwear, fatigue repetition, altered techniques and training interventions for injury prevention...

Dr Tim Gabbett has over 25 years experience working as an Applied Sport Scientist with athletes and coaches from around the world. Dr Tim Gabbett's experience is multidisciplinary, but it has one central theme, and that is high performance. Tim has consulted to world leading sporting organisations and associations including the NBA, Australian Rugby League, AFL and the English Premier League. Dr T...

Professor Beck is an Exercise Physiologist, world renowned and revered Bone Researcher, Musculoskeletal Anatomist and self-confessed scientific myth-buster. Belinda is the Pioneer and Founder of both "The Bone Clinic" and the award winning "Onero Program and Exercise Program for Osteoporosis". Belinda is prolific in the scientific literature when it comes to the role of exercise and its effect on...

Alistair Brownlee is the Dual Olympic Games Champion (2012 and 2016 Olympic Games) becoming the first Triathlete in history to have defended their title.  His younger brother Jonny secured the bronze in London making history as the first brothers in Olympic history for a podium in an individual sport since 1908. Jonny's silver in 2016 made history again for the brothers becoming the first British...

Repetition is the mother of all learning, and with so many great key learnings coming through this year, I thought it's time for the 2nd instalment of our "Catchupasode's" featuring the following guests: Max Paquette -  Assoc Prof Biomechanics Human Performance Centre Uni Memphis: 'Moving Beyond Weekly Mileage' Dougal Allan -  Multisport Champion & Head Coach DA Endurance Eloise Wellings (OLY) -  ...

When it comes to hard training, long training and endurance racing events, it is critical that we have a plan for our carbohydrate fuelling, it's an area Andy Blow shares around today that causes a lot of confusion and angst amongst endurance athletes.  The aim of this episode is to accelerate some learnings around how we best know and determine our carbohydrate fuelling goals and needs. Andy Blow...