The Physical Performance Show

Joseph Coyne is an exercise physiologist, sports scientist and performance coach.  Joseph has been the Physical Preparation Coach for the Chinese Athletics Association, Jump and Sprint Athletes. He then went on to be the Performance Manager for the Chinese Olympic Committees National Sports Training Centre in the lead up to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Joseph is currently completing a PhD at the UF...

Jules McConnel is a champion sky diver and has amassed an incredible 10,500 jumps in her career. Through her key professional years jumping up to 900 times per year. In 2012 Jules joined up with her jumping partner Michael Vaughan to set an Australasian record of 300 jumps in a day. Jules specialises in canopy formation jumping and has been many times over the Australian representative of the worl...

Hayden Wilde is a New Zealand Professional Triathlete chasing selection for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Hayden is a much loved figure throughout the Super League Triathlon series where I met him personally.  Recently in the World Triathlon series he has really stood out particularly with the season opener for the 2019 season in Abu Dhabi where Hayden led a great charge to lead the race 3 quarter...

Dr. Peter Malliaras is an Associate Professor at Monash University where Peter leads various research Tendinopathy projects and supervises PHD students. Peter is also a practicing clinician at Complete Sports Care in Hawthorne, Melbourne where he consults with patients who have had enduring persistent tendinopathy injuries along with elite athletes. Globally, Peter is respected as a leading Tendin...

Ryan Hall is a Dual US Marathon Olympian who has competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games finishing in 10th place and also in the 2012 London Games where Ryan was forced to retire early from the race for the first time in his career at approx. 10 miles. Ryan's best accolades are the outstanding US record he holds for the Half Marathon with a 59:43 in 2007 for the Houston Half Marathon, a record...

Katie's triathlon career has been on a winning streak recently. Katie was crowned the 2018-2019 Super League Triathlon Inaugural Champion where Katie dominated the competition across the multi-round racing. Katie started 2019 very strongly with a win in Abu Dhabi first round of the World Triathlon Series. In the 2018 World Triathlon Championship Series Katie finished a very close second to Vicki H...

Meagen Nay is an Australian Dual Olympic Swimming Team Member and also a Dual Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist. In 2010 Meagen picked up the 200m backstroke title as well as the 4x 200m Free Style Gold Medal at the Delhi Commonwealth Games. Meagen's story to swimming stardom is really unlike many others. During this episode Meagen will share around the very highs of her career, the very lows of h...

James (Bobby) Tuttle first debuted for the St George Queensland Reds in a Super Rugby Australian League in 2016. Prior to that in 2015 Bobby had shown enormous promise by captaining Australia in the under 20's to the World Rugby Championships held in Italy. During this episode Bobby shares the highs, the lows and the learnings about his career to date. Bobby is in a very unique situation to share...

Dr Christian Moro is the Assistant Professor of Bio Medical Sciences at Bond University on the Gold Coast. Dr Moro's teaching pedigree and his enthusiasm for his subjects are second to none. In fact, Christian was recently awarded the Australian Award for Teaching excellence amongst all of his University Australia peers. Dr Moro is super passionate about his topics and during this episode we explo...

Andrew Hall is the Sports Dietitian for the Brisbane Broncos Rugby League Club and the Brisbane Bullets Basketball Team. Andrew consults in a clinic based in Brisbane, he does work with Corporate Work Place Health and is also the Queensland Coordinator for Sports Dietetics Australia. During the conversation we cover performance nutrition concepts around endurance sports.  Andrew touches on key con...

  Taylor McKeown is an Olympic, World and Commonwealth Games Medallist who lays claim to be Australia's premiere female breaststroker. Having medalled in the 200m breaststroke at the Australian open champions consecutively since 2011. Taylor is also highly competitive in the 100m breaststroke and 200m individual medley. Taylor picked up a silver medal in 2016 Rio Olympic Games in the 4x100m Medley...

These guests could not be better profiled to share around this all important topic. Dr Paul Griffin - Sports Podiatrist, has a Sports Podiatry career spanning 20 years. Paul has provided services to the Perth Glory Football Club and the Western Australian Branch of the Australasian Podiatry Council. Paul's, Bartold clinical colleague Simon Bartold likewise has a very impressive career. Across Simo...

Stewart McSweyn is an athlete on the rise, he is a Melbourne Track Club Athlete under the tutelage of Nic Bideau. Stewart is a dual Australian 10,000m Track Champion having won back to back Zatopek classics. He recently became the second fastest Australian ever across the 5000m distance clocking a remarkable 13:05:23 in a race which actually saw the four fastest 5000m runa in history. Just prior t...

Dr Tim Gabbett has over 20 years experience working as an Applied Sports Scientist with athletes and coaches from a wide range of sports. He holds a PhD in Human Physiology and has completed a second PhD in Applied Science of professional football. Tim has worked with elite international athletes over the Commonwealth Games in 2002 and 2006 and Olympic Games in 2000, 2004 and 2008. Tim continues t...

In episode 150 of The Physical Performance Show Brad Beer shares a conversation with Commando Steve. Commando Steve Willis is well known for his career on The Biggest Loser.  Steve started his career serving in the military over a 10 year career culminating and completing work in the Second Commando regimen before exiting the military.  Then with his personal training qualification quickly becomin...

Mick Hughes is a Physiotherapist and Exercise Physiologist consulting at the Melbourne Sports Medicine Centre. Mick has an expertise in all things relating to ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) injury. Mick's consulted with various elite sporting teams across his career and is also the co-Author of the Melbourne ACL Rehabilitation Guide 2.0 . The guide is extensively used by clinicians worldwide and...

Richard is a Post Graduate Researcher, the Course Leader for Sport and Exercise Science at Birmingham City University, he has been a strength and conditioning Coach to multiple Olympic Athletes, has overseen strength and conditioning formally at The Royal Ballet Company in London and has previously been the Director of the UK Strength and Conditioning Association. In addition Richard is a well loa...

Jono Hall is a renowned Coach in the world of Triathlon however Jono was also a top level athlete winning the 1997 Australian Road Cycling Championships.  Jono went on to ride professionally being trained at the Australian Institute of Sport for many years and also later with the Festina Professional Road Cycling Team. Jono went on to finish 8th in the World Cycling Championships and also gained s...

In episode 146 of The Physical Performance Show Brad Beer shares a conversation with Dr Dan Pronk - Ex Army Special Forces Doctor (Interest Edition) Dr Dan Pronk was a former doctor within the Australian Special Operations Command. Dr Pronk was deployed on operations on 5 occasions with the Army including one time to Timor and 4 times to Afghanistan. In serving as a Medical Doctor for the Australi...

Listen in to episode 145 of The Physical Performance Show as we recap the year that was 2018! In this episode you will enjoy some of the highlights from the 52 guests that were featured across the 2018 calendar year. What a year it was, 2018 saw the Physical Performance Show regularly sitting inside the iTunes Top 20 for Health and Fitness and it has passed 400,000 downloads of the show since ince...

Dr Cris is a Registered Medical Doctor, a certified Expert in Holistic Medicine BNA, Member of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine.  Dr. Cris's message is very clear, "The simpler we keep things the more likely we are to stick to the changes we make." Dr. Cris specialises not just in the prevention and treatment of the illnesses but also in attaining optimum health b...

Dr. Cunnington is a Specialist Sleep Physician who is the co-Director of Melbourne Sleep Disorders Centre. It is a Multi-Disciplinary Sleep Clinic for the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. Dr. Cunnington undertook his training in sleep medicine both in Australia and also at Harvard Medical School, Boston. In addition to David's training in sleep medicine he has an international qualifica...

Nick Symmonds is a remarkable athlete who has had an outstanding career. Nick's resume boasts 5 outdoor World Championships, 2 Indoor World Championships representing the US, 6x US 800M National Titles, 2x Olympic Games and 1 Silver Medal at the 2013 World Athletics Championships in the 800m. Nick is also well known for his advocacy work in advocating for the rights of professional athletes and in...

Matt Fitgerald is an acclaimed endurance sports and nutrition writer. He is the Author of the Best Selling books "Racing Weight" and "How Bad Do you Want It?" Matt is a Regular Columnist for magazines such as Competitor, Bicycle and Men's Health Triathlete Men's Journal, Outside Runners World and Women's Health. Most recently Matt co-authored his latest book called "80/20 Triathlon" which is a fur...

In episode 140 of The Physical Performance Show Brad Beer shares a conversation with featured performer Sonia Sullivan - 3x World Champion (500m, Cross Country), Olympic Silver Medallist 5000m Sonia Sullivan has an impressive Bio.  Sonia won gold in the 5000m at the 1995 World Athletics Championships and the Silver Medal in the 5000m at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. In fact, Sonia's World Reco...