The Track and Field Performance Podcast

Colm Bourke
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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.

  1. James Sandilands: The Art and Science of High Jumping

    FEB 3

    James Sandilands: The Art and Science of High Jumping

    Athletics New Zealand track and field coach, James Sandilands is mainly known as the coach to the current World Indoor and Olympic champion in the jump, Hamish Kerr, but James's current crop of high level athletes spans far and wide from multi-eventers, sprinters, and horizontal jumpers. He is a former high jumper and hurdler himself with several years of experience as both a performance technique analyst and a strength and conditioning coach for High Performance Sport New Zealand. In this ...

    1h 23m
  2. Werner Prinsloo: Akani Simbine's Journey to 9.82 and 4th Place at the Paris Olympics

    JAN 4

    Werner Prinsloo: Akani Simbine's Journey to 9.82 and 4th Place at the Paris Olympics

    In this episode, I chatted with Werner Prinsloo, the coach behind South African sprinting sensation Akani Simbine who in his third consecutive Olympic 100m final, at the age of 30, ran a national record of 9.82 seconds to finish fourth place. Werner shares his unique journey into coaching, from a corporate career to becoming a full-time coach for one of the world’s most consistent sub-10-second sprinters and his group of aspiring elite sprinters in Johannesburg. Key topics incl...

    1h 18m
  3. Josef Karas: Nailing General Prep, Coaching Workhorses, and Battling Physiology (Part 1)

    12/09/2024

    Josef Karas: Nailing General Prep, Coaching Workhorses, and Battling Physiology (Part 1)

    Josef Karas is a former Czech International Decathlete and a graduate of Kansas State where he worked under legendary coach Cliff Rovelto. Since transitioning into coaching, Josef has coached long jumper Radek Juska to 8.31m (NR), gold at the World University Games, Silver at the European Indoor championships and most recently, the Olympic final in Paris. Josef is a well known multi's coach working with 8,000+ point decathletes like Adam Helcelet and current world u-20 champion Tomas Järvin...

    1h 16m
  4. Glenn Smith: Breakthrough Performances, Technical Qualities, and Coaching Philosophy

    11/27/2024

    Glenn Smith: Breakthrough Performances, Technical Qualities, and Coaching Philosophy

    Glenn Smith is a former Canadian national champion and world championship semi-finalist in the 200m sprint. He holds a Master’s Degree in Exercise Science from the University of Texas at Austin and has nearly 20 years of coaching experience. His expertise spans developing All-American collegiate athletes and international-level competitors in the jumps, throws, multi-events, and sprints. A central theme of this episode was Glenn Smith's coaching philosophy, which emphasizes the i...

    1h 25m
  5. Gordon Bosworth: Wisdom from 40 years of Physiotherapy with Elite Athletes

    10/13/2024

    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 physiotherapy teams in winter and summer Olympic enabling Bobsledders like Kaillie Humphries to win Olympic gold. Gordon who owns his own practice 'The Bosworth Clinic' in Oxfordshire, England extrapolated many key theoretical insights, assessment tec...

    1h 39m
  6. Dan Pfaff: Horizontal Jumps, Performance Testing, and Debriefing

    08/01/2024

    Dan Pfaff: Horizontal Jumps, Performance Testing, and Debriefing

    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 this episode, He spoke about the rationale for having a holistic knowledge base and how coaches can develop that. From there, we dove into debriefing throughout the season so that coaches can make the athlete aware of the overall objectives to facilitate 'smoo...

    1h 15m
  7. Dublin Sprint: A Breeding Ground for Irish Olympic-Level Sprinters

    06/27/2024

    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 likes of Sophie Becker, Cillian Greene, and Jack Raftery to become Olympians, European medalists, and household names in Irish Athletics. In this episode, Jeremy and Gerard began by discussing how the club came to be and the characteristics they look fo...

    1h 13m
  8. Stuart McMillan: Influencing Sprint Performance

    05/24/2024

    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 athletes in an informed way, and much more. I hope you enjoy. Give Stu and Altis a follow if you haven't already. -Instagram: FingerMash and Altis -Altis Website: https://altis.world/ Support the show

    1h 53m
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