The Track and Field Performance Podcast
Dedicated to giving coaches, athletes, and fans of Track and Field expert knowledge and insights from practitioners across the various event disciplines and domains of human performance.
Episodes
51 episodes
Gordon Bosworth: Wisdom from 40 years of Physiotherapy with Elite Athletes
Being the Chief Physiotherapist to UK Athletics/British Athletics at the London Olympic Games (2012) is just one of many major roles that Gordon Bosworth has undertook during his professional career. He has played a key role in several national...
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1:38:37
Dan Pfaff: The Holistic Performance Puzzle
Dan Pfaff is widely regarded as one of the most influential track and field coaches of all-time with over 50 years of experience. His thought provoking insights on sports performance concepts always come with a lot of dept and in t...
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1:15:07
Dublin Sprint: A Breeding Ground for Irish Olympic-Level Sprinters
Coaches Jeremy Lyons, Gerard O'Donnell, and Aideen Synott have created a high performing environment for sprinters in Ireland to thrive both collegiately and post-collegiately. Through years of hard work and collaboration, they've enabled the l...
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1:12:49
Stuart McMillan | Influencing Sprint Performance
CEO of Altis and world class sprints coach Stu McMillan came back on the podcast to talk about the importance of pursuing what is interesting to you as an individual, the core features of high level sprinting, trialing new methods with your ath...
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1:52:33
Rolf Ohman: Elasticity, Transfer of Training, and Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD)
Rolf Ohman is a coach and innovator with over 35 years of experience in global sports such as Track and Field; he was a high level decathlete before beginning his coaching career. Between 2016 and 2017, he served as Head Coach for ...
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2:23:33
Jim VanHootegem: Complimentary Training, Stabilising Technique, and Dynamic Coaching
Jim VanHootegem has over 20+ years of experience as a collegiate coach working at schools like Texas A&M, The University of Oklahoma, and Arkansas. He has achieved great success with athletes like Fabrice Lapierre and Julian Reid -- both wh...
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1:47:14
Justin Rinaldi: How to Run a Fast 800m
Very few coaches can say they've had five athletes run 1.44 or faster in the 800m. Joseph Deng and Peter Bol (among several others) have risen to the top of the event -- thanks to the guidance of Justin Rinaldi.His group named 'Fast8Tra...
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Sam Leslie: Physiotherapy for Rehabilitation, Health, and Performance
Sports and Exercise physiotherapist, to many of Australia's top track and field athletes, Sam Leslie, discusses his multi-layered approach to rehabilitating and reducing injuries as well as improving event specific performance. Sam, who...
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1:16:40
Daniel Davey: The Ingredients of a High-Performance Lifestyle
Daniel Davey is the Founder of DaveyNutrition and has over 15 years experience as a Performance Nutritionist, 9 of which were spent in elite sport environments with Dublin GAA and Leinster Rugby. We sat down to discuss topics like ...
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1:08:24
Steve Fudge: Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast
Coach to Olympic, Paralympic, World, European and Commonwealth Medalists, Steve Fudge has not just harnessed the talent of elite level prospects, but over the years he has developed a system that is building world class sprinters from a v...
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1:09:32
John Shepherd: Examining the Winter Training Plan
John is a well-known coach, content creator, and writer on all things athletics, but perhaps most pertinently, he has a massive aptitude for horizontal jumps training. In his first few years of coaching he guided two men under the age 2...
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1:28:22
Boo Schexnayder: Accessing Elasticity for Improved Performance
Boo is one of the worlds leading track and field coaches, educators, and rehab consultants. He's coached world champions, he's delivered coaching education workshops around the world, and now he primarily helps world class athletes return...
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1:19:22
Keith Herston: Individualizing Training for Horizontal Jumpers
Texas Techs Jumps and Multi's Coach, Keith Herston, is quickly becoming one of the worlds top jumps coaches having had success with various national and international athletes across different event disciplines. Keith has coached ,...
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1:39:21
Ryan Banta: The Application of Sprint Training and Positive Psychology in the High School Setting
Head Coach, History Teacher, and Author of the Sprinters Compendium (among many other things), Coach Ryan Banta has been at Parkway High School for 20 years. During that time, he has successfully coached everything from cross country to the sho...
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1:34:28
Carrie Lane: Integrating Speed and Strength Training with Endurance Athletes
Coach Carrie Lane works with Under Armours Elite group of distance runners based in Baltimore Maryland. Prior to that, she spent several years as the Throws coach at the University of Wyoming and regularly lectures at the USTFCCCA coaches conve...
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1:07:37
Aaron Gadson: Balancing Trade-Offs in the Triple Jump
From former collegiate triple jumper at Cornell University turned Olympic-level coach; Aaron Gadson shows his passion and knowledge for the event across a multitude of subjects. His breakdowns of training and coaching are detailed and thoughtfu...
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1:26:40
Mike Barber: Synthesizing Performance Through Exploration and Reiteration
Coach of 2x World Champion Kelsey-Lee Barber, Mike Barber (her husband), has a diverse coaching and sports performance background. Before becoming a Javelin coach he was a Decathlete turned Biomechanist working for the Australian Institute of S...
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1:11:44
PJ Vazel: Navigating Failure and Unpredictability
Sprints and Throws Coach, Statistician, Researcher, and so much more; PJ Vazel has made some major contributions to the sport of Track and Field and in this episode, PJ provided a little glimpse into the internal workings of his great mind.&nbs...
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1:31:43
Andreas Behm: The Training and Development of Elite Sprint Hurdlers
In this episode, Sprint Hurdles coach at Altis, Andreas Behm provides an overview of the physical and technical characteristics he looks for in elite sprint hurdling. Andreas talks about the nuances of in-practice coaching; cueing,...
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1:13:00
Laurent Meuwly: Contextualized Strategies for Developing World-Class Athletes
Whilst severing as the National Coach of the Dutch Federation, Laurent Meuwly has taken several sprint athletes and relay teams to international stardom. Prior to arriving at Papendal, Coach Meuwly worked with the Swiss Athletics federation, th...
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1:07:38
Kris Mack: Customizing Training for Multi-Eventers
The Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Centre is home to some of the best athletes in the world. Coach Kris Mack leads a group of world-class multi-event athletes at the center as well as several Paralympians. In this ...
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1:16:01
Luís Mesquita: The Art of Specificity
Luis is the owner of 'The Peak' a sports performance facility in Porto, Portugal where mainly works as a Strength & Conditioning coach and Physiotherapist. He boasts an extremely well-rounded resume working with elite jumpers and throwers i...
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1:28:44
Harvey Maguire: Performance Therapy | A Perspective Shift
Harvey Maguire is a Performance Physiotherapist who operates out of the UK's leading university for Track & Field in Loughborough. He works with the track and field team to provide comprehensive treatment and rehabilitation str...
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1:05:13
Karl Goodman: Guiding a New Era of Sprinting Talent
Since joining Coastal Carolina in 2019, coach Karl Goodman has accumulated 12 All-American honors -- 11 of which were this season -- leading him to being promoted to Associate Head Coach this summer. That's not all, Melissa Jefferson, (one of t...
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1:13:21
Mat Clark: 'Track Strength' | The Purpose and Application of Strength and Conditioning
Strength and Conditioning is a popular topic of discussion across all event disciplines within Track and Field. Decathlete and Strength coach for the University of Arkansas, Mat Clark shows his versatility by outlining the benefits of strength ...
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