The Physical Performance Show

In this week's expert edition we feature Oli Williamson, Senior Physiotherapist for British Triathlon and the English Institute of Sport.  He shares around all things navigating triathlon and endurance sports injuries. Oli Williamson is based out of the Brownlee Triathlon Centre in Leeds University. He also consults privately from within the Manchester Institute of High Performance and Oli's work...

During this episode, Shona Halson will share around this concept of periodising your recovery, when to include recovery and when not. Shona will also explore the role that belief plays when it comes to recovery modalities and agents. And of course, this is Associate Professor Shona Halsons' return visit to The Physical Performance Show having been one of our most popular expert additions to date....

On this episode you'll hear Adharanand touch on the history of ultra trail running with historical strange pursuit of pedestrianism, issue some very practical key learnings around how to descend or run down hill on trails, the importance of hydration and nutrition and fuelling ultra running pursuits and you'll hear Adharanand reference some stories from "The Rise of the Ultra Runners" including th...

On this featured performer episode we feature 2018 Commonwealth Games race walk 20km champion Aussie, Jemima Montag who shares her highs, lows and learnings by  consolidating her experiences to date as an elite athlete into takeaway learnings for us as listeners. During this conversation, Jemima shares around the important role of an athlete's psychology in executing come race day, why keeping tra...

Louis is the head coach of the Dutch Triathlon Federation where he coaches the National Dutch team and also some of the world's best triathletes including former featured guest Richard Murray of South Africa and Rachel Klamer of the Netherlands. Louis' expertise is regularly sought out in assisting with the planet's best runners, including Kenenisa Bekele. Louis bio also includes having been the f...

Over the years, there have been many mixed messages from drinking to thirst to avoiding dehydration at all costs through to making sure we are not too over hydrated and risking the ill effects of Hyponatremia. So how do we make sense of hydration science? That is our focus for this expert edition with Andy Blow sports scientist and founder of Precision Hydration. Andy blow is the founder of Precis...

On this episode, we feature Rian Doris who is the co founder and the Chief Operating Officer at the Flow Research collective, an organisation he co founded along with New York Times bestselling author of "Stealing Fire and the Rise of Superman", Steven Kotler.   Rian holds an Honours in philosophy from the Trinity College, Dublin and is currently working through a Master's in Applied Neuroscience...

On this episode, we discuss with Dr Margo Mountjoy all about RED-S (Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports).  Now the consequences of an athlete being in this state can include not only performance detriments but also health side effects. In 2014, the International Olympic Committee led by today's featured expert Dr Margo Mountjoy, published a consensus statement entitled "Beyond the female athlete...

On this episode, Associate Professor Patrick Wilson PhD covers the often unsexy but so necessary world of how to navigate our athletes gut. Patrick recently authored a wonderful book that I feel has a place in every athlete's library, The Athletes Gut: the inside science of digestion, nutrition and stomach distress. In this expert edition, Patrick explores gut physiology, gut anatomy, the remarkab...

During this episode we feature Catriona Bisset who will share around her highs, lows and many learnings from her career to date. Catriona shares around dealing with athlete pressures, navigating this difficult time that we all find ourselves in, working through an eating disorder as an adolescent athlete, which ultimately combined with the pressures she was dealing with led to a 10 year hiatus fro...

Dr Amit Mistry is a Clinical Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Medicine, he is the Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Sport & Exercise Special Interest Group and he is a Clinical Sport and Exercise Psychiatrist from the UK. Dr Mistry is the co-author of a recently released book, "Case Studies in Sports Psychiatry", which is a must for anyone working in the field of sport and exercise.  Dr Mis...

On this bonus episode well be hearing from several of our 16 featured experts that will be presenting on the day. Topics to be explored include: Physiology of the master athlete Strength and conditioning for the master athlete Navigating menopause for the female master athlete Running through and with knee osteoarthritis for the master's athlete Mental health for the master's athlete Running injur...

JF Esculier is the Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. He is the Head of Research and Development and Speaker at the Running Clinic and in industry circles you can't go past good running injury research without JF Esculier being somewhere amongst it. JF is listed as one of the 15 World Class Experts at the upcoming The Physical Performance Show co- hosted Master's Athletes O...

This bonus episode is a Q&A which is in addition to the recent 3 hour livestream with Dr Steven Seiler. On the Livestream, Dr Seiler wasn't able to get to all the questions during the 3 hours so we thought that we would bring you this bonus Q&A session answering your many questions. You can find more about the livestream here: https://www.pogophysio.com.au/dr-seiler-livestream/ SUBSCRIBE NOW! If y...

James Fletcher has worked with some of the planet's leading athletes across a multitude of sports in helping them bring science to their breath and boost performance through respiratory or specifically in Inspiratory muscle training. James spent years working with elite circus performers in the Cirque Du Soleil, has worked with Australian 100m freestyle record holder and Olympian Cam McEvoy, other...

Arild Tveiten is the Triathlon Norway Head Coach, Sports director of the Norwegian Triathlon Federation, knows the endurance training world, along with the fundamentals that underpin endurance sporting success. In recent years as reflected by the clean sweep in 2018 by the Norwegian Triathlon men, Norway has really positioned itself as such a strong force in the world of Triathlon and endurance sp...

Chris Bramah is a UK-based Physiotherapist and Running Researcher who has worked and provided services for British Athletics and Team GB. Chris has completed his PhD investigating the biomechanics of running related injuries and biomechanical differences between elite and recreational runners. Chris has published many peer reviewed articles and in addition to his consultancy and research based wor...

Dr Ebonie Rio is a post doc researcher at La Trobe University having completed her PhD in tendon pain. Ebonie holds a Masters of Sports Physiotherapy and her clinical career has included comprehensive work at the Australian Institute of Sport, Australian Ballet Company, Australian Ballet School and currently the Victorian Institute of Sport. Ebonie's Physiotherapy experiences has included the 2006...

Abdi Abdirahman's running bio is quite remarkable. After moving to the USA at age twelve from Somalia, Abdi went on to discover his running talent after impressing a US Coach following what was Abdi's longest run in a pair of jeans. Following a Nike sponsorship Abdi's career soared. It spanned 4 Olympic Games and in February 2020 Abdi at 43 years of age, he became the US's oldest mature Olympian w...

Michael Klim, a triple Australian Olympian became a six-times Olympic medallist securing the gold medals alongside Australian swimming teammates in the 4x200m and 4x100m freestyle events at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Michael also secured  two silver medals at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, a further silver in a 4x200m freestyle relay in Athens and at the Atlanta 1996 Olympics. Michael and his teamm...

In episode 219 of The Physical Performance Show Brad Beer shares a conversation with Dr Stephen Seiler: Acclaimed Sports Scientist: COVID training & marathon considerations in this expert edition. SUBSCRIBE NOW! This episode is sponsored by POGO Physio Online Telehealth Consultations POGO Physio believe that everyone deserves access to complete and remarkable physiotherapy services.  Our goal is t...

Joe Friel is the Bestselling Author of 17, soon to be 18 books. These include; Cyclist Training Bible, Triathlon Science, The Triathletes Training Bible, Fast after 50, The Power Meter Handbook and so many more titles. During this conversation we go back to Joe discovering Triathlon in its infancy in 1983. Joe shares why he didn't think the sport of triathlon would make it. Why it seemed too good...

In this episode Part 2, with Jonny Brownlee, we explore the importance of the training and racing mindset. What Jonny has learned around the management of tendon and bone injuries. The importance of strength and conditioning. Jonny shares his Top 3 Running Tips to help you run at your best and Jonny sets about answering a bunch of questions that came from you, the supporters of the show.  Jonny th...

Jonny Brownlee is the Olympic Games Triathlon Silver Medallist and the London Olympic Games 2012 Triathlon Bronze Medallist.  Jonny was the World Triathlon Series Champion in 2012, Silver Medallist in the World Championship in 2013 and 2016, Commonwealth Games Silver Medallists in 2014, Former u23 World Triathlon Champion in 2010 and staggeringly from July 2010 to May 2014 Jonny finished on a podi...

Professor Peter Reaburn dives deep into the science and the practicalities of maximising not only the health but the performance of the Master's Athlete.  Professor Peter Reaburn is the Head of Program at Bond University's Institute of Sport and Health on the Gold Coast, Australia. Professor Peter Reaburn currently supervises five Phd projects related to both the applied sport science and health a...