The 'Cleans and Queens' Podcast Lucie Milne

Dr Sarah Hervert is a Strength and Conditioning Coach working in the private sector at her own gym Foundations Performance in Manly West, Brisbane.

Sarah grew up participating in nearly every sport imaginable. She danced and played soccer for over 16years and continued to play soccer until she was 24 when she ruptured her ACL and Meniscus. Her love of coaching grew from being surrounded by it all from a young age and from that it lead to Sarah stepping foot in the gym as a teenager and kickstarting her coaching career.

From there, Sarah progressed into completing a Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science, then PhD with a major in Strength and Conditioning. During this PhD Sarah coached a National Premier League Soccer team in Queensland, various BMX, AFL, Ballet and Athletics athletes.

Currently Sarah works with a range of individuals at the Foundations Performance gym from 5 year olds to 60 year olds from a range of backgrounds including general population, Go Karting athlete, Rugby League players, dancers, rowers, soccer players.

In this episode we discuss:

- Sarah’s background

- What happens at the Foundations Performance Gym

- Bumps in the road due to being a female S&C in a male environment

- Social media and the female S&C coach

- Advice to pass on to any aspiring female S&C coach.

Recommended resources:

- Becoming a Supple Leopard

- Women in Sport Instagram

- Follow people on social media who you feel you can learn from

- Interact with coaches online and in person

Get in Touch:

- Instagram : @phdsez , @foundationsperformance

- Twitter: @SarahHervert10

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Hayley Legg is a Strength and Conditioning Consultant and Coach, PhD Candidate, Senior Lecturer at St Mary’s University and Provincial director for the NSCA in Saskatchewan.
Hayley currently lectures on the MSc Distance Learning Course as she is now based in Canada. Prior to moving she had taught on the undergraduate S&C and Sport Science programs.
As an athlete herself, Hayley played Rugby for Richmond Women and was involved in the Scotland Women’s set up. Hayley also played 7’s and represented GB Students at the World University Games.
It was this experience in Rugby that started Hayley’s interest in Strength and Conditioning, where she started her career in the performance environment before more recently moving towards working a wider population and specifically older adults.
In this episode we discuss:
- Hayley’s sporting background and her career path
- Experience of S&C as a youth
- Positives and negatives of being a female S&C coach in a male environment
- What makes ‘best person for the job’ – the best person for the job?
- Equity and Equality differences in the hiring process
- The importance of mentorship and the different ways mentorships can present themselves
- The benefits of working with an older population
You can get in touch with Hayley on Twitter: @HSLegg
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Thanks for listening!

Debby Sargent works at the University of Gloucestershire as a Lecturer in Strength and Conditioning. Before this role Debby was the Technical Demonstrator in Strength and Conditioning at the same University and has a vast cv working at St Andrews University as the Performance Sports Manager, Scottish Institute of Sport, Scottish Rugby Union, Scottish Golf Union alongside technical coaching roles such as Trampoline and Gymnastics Coaching.

Debby is now looking at commencing her PhD looking into ‘furthering knowledge and understanding of female biology and how that impacts on training prescription and adaptation.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

- Debby’s background

- Her role at University of Gloucestershire

- Her own coaching philosophy

- How her thoughts on promoting women as S&C coaches has changed over the last 10yrs

- Women as ‘self promoters’ or not..

- How any male coach can enhance the service they are providing to their female athletes



Resources mentioned in this podcast:

Peters, S. (2013). The chimp paradox: The mind management program to help you achieve success, confidence, and happiness. TarcherPerigee.

Syed, M. (2015). Black box thinking: The surprising truth about success. Hachette UK.

Syed, M. (2019). Rebel Ideas: The power of diverse thinking. Hachette UK.

Syed, M. (2010). Bounce. Collins.

Authors to learn about the ‘what’: authors who have had a big impact on what I programme and my coaching philosophy….

·  Mike Stone

·  Sophia Nimphius

·  Pru Cormie

·  Aaron Coutts

·  Duncan French

·  Jeremy Shepherd

·  Nick Winkleman



Get In Touch:

Debby’s Email Address: dsargent@glos.ac.uk



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Helen Collins is a Sport and Exercise Scientist, currently coming towards the end of her PhD at the University of Dundee looking at strength training as a method of getting children more active.

Helen completed a Sport & Exercise Science degree at Northumbria University and then a Masters at Sheffield Hallam and was very much physiology based for years and started to develop an interest in working with athletes. On moving to Scotland Helen worked as a Sports Science Officer at Dundee Uni alongside being a Physiologist at Sportscotland.

On hearing a talk from Avery Faigenbaum about kids and the impact of strength training on health, Helen was inspired to do a PhD in strength training in kids but in a new direction of health and physical activity.

Helen’s current role is very much health/activity related now and her research is quite novel. She is looking at the impact of strength training on parameters of health (in particular weight status, confidence and movement skills) in the hope that it can help kids develop an active lifestyle.

In this episode we discuss:

- Helen’s path to her current role

- A day in the life

- Transition from Physiologist to Strength and Conditioning Coach

- Is a career in performance sport as appealing for female S&Cs with family responsibilities?

- Strength training as a method of getting children active

- Advice for female S&Cs

Resources mentioned in this episode:

- Work by Avery Faigenbaum

- UKSCA Position Statement on Youth Strength and Conditioning

- Sheffield Hallam Strength for Life

- Researchgate (for any of Helen’s work)



You can also get in contact with Helen on twitter at @helen_collins1

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Charlotte Dalton is the lead Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Scottish National Women's Cricket Team. She had previously completed a BSc in biochemistry before realising she wanted a career in sport, and then completed an MSc in Sport and Exercise Science and Medicine at the University of Glasgow. It was there that Charlotte landed her first s&c role before eventually landing positions in basketball and cricket. Charlotte has always been involved in sport and had begun coaching at the age of 14. She has since coached in summer camps, and primary school PE and involved in multi sports coaching too. This lead to Charlotte helping coach the Sussex uni cricket team which developed into club coaching, leading the women's and girls section at her current club and Scotland women's under 15 and u17 assistant coach. Charlotte had a similar path in basketball too, from assistant coach at Sussex uni women's team, assistant then Head coach of the Glasgow uni team before then becoming Scotland women's under 15 assistant coach role, Scottish student sport coach for 2 year and Scotland women's under 16s assistant coach. Charlotte completed a S&C internship with Athlete Focused for a year during her MSc working with mainly the boat club and Glasgow uni before becoming lead S&C on graduation. During this time Charlotte also worked with badminton , Athletics, and swimming and lead on the Glasgow uni men's and women's basketball teams. Charlotte applied for a regional s&c position for women's cricket but was then given the national role instead.

 In this episode we discuss: 

- Charlotte's background

 - her coaching philosophies 

- coaching the individual 

- balancing being a team mate and s&c coach

- advantages / disadvantages of being female In this industry 

- thoughts on flooding the market with female S&C coaches 

- advice for other female coaches 

Resources mentioned in this episode: 

- Pacey performance podcast 

-anything by Sophia Nimphius 

- Altis Foundation Courses 

How to get in touch with Charlotte: 

- Twitter @charlotteD05 

- Email: charlotte-dalton@hotmail.com 

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Emily Wilson currently works as Head Strength and Conditioning Coach with the Women's NRL team the South Sydney Rabbitohs.

Emily has played sport all her life including gymnastics, dancing, athletics, oztag and more recently weightlifting. Although Emily is pretty young for being in the position she is (23yrs old), she has accomplished a lot and has been involved in coaching from the age of 14. She started off as a dance teacher then moved to athletics coaching before starting an internship with South Sydney Rabbitohs in 2016 and progressed to becoming the Head of S&C in the women's programme there.

In this episode we discuss:

- Emily's background and career change

- Challenges Emily has faced due to being a young female in the industry

- Planning for the future as a female coach

- Differences in coaching male and female athletes.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

- Sports Injury Prevention and Rehab (Joyce and Lewindon)

- PlayLab Conferences

How to get in touch with Emily:

- Instagram: @em.wi1son @ejathletics

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