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Preparing Athletes for Pressure and Adversity
Episode 341
Can athletes learn to grow from pressure, rather than simply recover from it?
This week, Richard Graves welcomes Dr Nick Holton to the Science for Sp…
7 hours ago
What Saliva Testing Can Tell Us About Athletes
Episode 340
What can a saliva sample tell a performance team that a blood test taken a few times a season might miss?
This week, Richard Graves is joined by Marl…
1 week ago
Can a Playing Surface Change How an Athlete Moves?
Episode 339
How much does the surface beneath an athlete’s feet really affect performance and injury risk?
This week, Richard Graves is joined by Professor John …
2 weeks ago
How Sports Science Has Changed Coaching with Simon Grayson
Episode 338
Few people are better placed to chart the evolution of sports science in professional football than Simon Grayson.
Across a career spanning five deca…
3 weeks ago
Structure, Pacing and Recovery in Fight Preparation
Episode 337
Are elite athletes training harder than the demands of their sport require?
This week, Richard Graves is joined by performance coach Colin Byrne, who…
4 weeks ago
How the NFL’s Best Practitioners Use Performance Data
Episode 336
Elite teams have access to more performance data than ever. The real competitive advantage, however, comes from knowing which questions to ask, how t…
1 month ago
The Three Outcomes That Define High Performance
Episode 335
What does it take to build a genuinely integrated high-performance programme?
This week, Richard Graves is joined by Dr Trevor Short, Senior Associat…
1 month, 1 week ago
How Elite Athletes Respond Under Pressure
Episode 334
This week, Richard Graves is joined by Dr Alicia Naser, behavioural scientist and founder of The Naser Institute for Behavioral Sports Psychology.
Dr…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Why Athletes Keep Breaking Down
Episode 333
This week, Richard Graves is joined by Dave Emsley, physiotherapist and movement specialist at The Body Mechanics, for a practical conversation on wh…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Growth, Maturation and Athletic Development in Tennis
Episode 332
Tennis players need far more than clean technique and a strong forehand. They need to be fast, powerful, durable and able to recover well enough to p…
2 months ago