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Now displaying: June, 2019
Jun 28, 2019

In this episode, David is joined by Dr. Alan Ruddock. 

Alan is a physiologist at Sheffield Hallam University with a wealth of experience in sport science. He has has worked with a range of individual athletes and teams, including FIFA World Cup referee Howard Webb and Commonwealth games medalists England Table Tennis. Alan has worked extensively within Boxing at the highest level, having a huge influence on Kid Galahad’s British, Commonwealth and European Title wins and most recently Kell Brook’s IBF welterweight world title victory. Alan is a BASES accredited sport & exercise scientist, doctoral researcher and one of the UK’s first chartered scientists in sport science. 

In this episode, David & Alan have an in-depth discussion around strength and conditioning for the sport of boxing.

Jun 21, 2019

In this solo episode, David answers questions submitted by listeners through social media. 

 

Jun 14, 2019

In this episode, David is joined by Dr. Dan Cleather.

Dr. Cleather is the program director of the MSc. in strength and conditioning at St. Mary's University, Twickenham. He has formal training mathematics and is an experienced S&C coach and academic.

David & Dan discuss the concepts of force & mechanics as it relates to S&C. 

Dan highlights misunderstandings of the force-vector theory and the force-velocity relationship. 

For full show notes see: www.synapseperformance.ie/episode84

 

Jun 7, 2019

In this episode, David is joined by Helen Collins of Dundee University.

Helen is an experienced strength and conditioning coach, sports scientist and lecturer. 

Helen is currently completing her PhD. at Dundee which focuses on resistance training interventions for children who are overweight or obese. 

In this episode, David and Helen discuss the role resistance training may play in tackling obesity, challenges in coaching strength training in children and what a wide-scale role out of a resistance training program would look like.

Full show-notes available at: www.synapseperformance.ie/podcasts/episode83

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