Performance Talks

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 learned and transferred, and even how he got respect by showing off his own shooting skills. We also talk about his pathway into his current role from being a law enforcement officer and a little about tactical conditioning, and finish up with his current role at Newberry, managing multiple teams and up to 700 athletes.

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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 talk about how Josie has experienced being a female in the male dominated industry of strength and conditioning, and we hear a little about her newly started PhD project, investigating the effect of the menstrual cycle and associated injury risk. 

As always, if you like what you hear, please like, rate, comment and subscribe to keep up to date with our round table chats with practitioners around the world, with new episodes out every other Thursday. Get in on the social media action too - we’re on Instagram (@performancetalks) and Twitter (@performtalks).

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 Seahawks. He also gives so many great bits of strategic advice for implementing simple but effective nutrition habits, you really need to have a notepad to hand!

As always, if you like what you hear, please like, rate, comment and subscribe to keep up to date with our round table chats with practitioners around the world, with new episodes out every other Thursday. Get in on the social media action too - we’re on Instagram (@performancetalks) and Twitter (@performtalks).

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 through multiple internships, and what a territory manager actually does.

As always, if you like what you hear, please like, rate, comment and subscribe to keep up to date with our round table chats with practitioners around the world, with new episodes out every other Thursday. Get in on the social media action too - we’re on Instagram (@performancetalks) and Twitter (@performtalks).

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 physiotherapist. Fran is truly a world class practitioner, and in this episode, we dive into how he thinks when it comes to planning rehab, and how his experiences in multiple sports constantly inform his current practice. As always, if you like what you hear, please like, rate, comment and subscribe to keep up to date with our round table chats with practitioners around the world, with new episodes out every other Thursday. Get in on the social media action too - we’re on Instagram (@performancetalks) and Twitter (@performtalks)

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 performance analysis. We hope you enjoy the show and as always, please like, rate and subscribe to keep up to date with performance talks from elite coaches around the world!

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 finish up by talking about some of the perks of working around the world. We hope you enjoy the show and as always, please like, rate and subscribe to keep up to date with performance talks from elite coaches around the world!

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 sport. We finish up talking about the impacts of the COVID pandemic and how that forced him into changing his programming and coaching. We hope you enjoy the show and as always, please like, rate and subscribe to keep up to date with performance talks from elite coaches around the world!

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 keep up to date with performance talks from elite coaches around the world!