Nick Grantham, performance enhancement specialist and consultant, is this week’s guest. Nick and I go way back to the mid 1990s and have worked alongside each other in the sphere of sports performance. Nick has worked with a range of…
This week we are joined by Gareth Sandford, exercise physiologist at the Canadian Sports Institute. Gareth is just starting his post-doctoral studies and so in many ways you could say he is at the beginning of his career, having just wrapped…
Podcast #34 Show Notes – Performance People In this week’s episode, Steve takes the reins as he shares some perspectives about developing the next generation of performance people. Over the last few years Supporting Champions have been applying the lessons…
In Part 1 of this Podcast Special we have Head Coach of UCLA Gymnastics and orchestrator of THAT viral gymnastics’ routine by Katelyn Ohashi, Miss Val Kondos Field. Miss Val and I discussed; how she was a ballerina originally but…
Katherine is Great Britain’s most decorated female Olympic athlete. She won medals at 5 consecutive Olympic games in Sydney (2000), Athens (2004), Beijing (2008), London (2012) and Rio de Janeiro (2016), culminating in gold at our very own home games…
Steve discusses lessons from the frontline of working with elite performers with Jamie Pringle, Rosie Mayes. We discuss the essentials of that initial engagement with elite athletes, what to do and what not to do. Getting clarity around your role…
In this episode I talk to long standing colleague, coach and friend Toni Minichiello, coach to one of the World’s greatest athletes Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill. I’ve worked with Toni since 2001 and while we’ve talked about everything and anything over…
2:32 Guru or legend?! 5:42 How Vern got into sport 8:07 Role models 10:43 Be a generalist not a specialist 13:10 It’s still the human body, what are the differences and similarities between the different sports? 16:12 Maintaining an open-mindedness.…