Performance Talks Simon Taylor and Steve Nightingale

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. 



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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!


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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.

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Welcome to episode 11 of Performance Talks! Joining us today, all the way from Beijing, China, are Nathan Stockley and Sam Stewart. A British strength and conditioning coach and Australian physiotherapist respectively, they form part of a small interdisciplinary team working with some of the strongest men on the planet - China’s Olympic weightlifting team. In the episode, we discuss how they work together in that small team, what it’s like to work with the best athletes on the planet, how lockdown affected their plans for the Olympics, and much more. 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)

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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)


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