We are closing recovery month & this year with a bang! This month we interviewed Dr. Izzy Smith, Simon Wegerif, Chris Schneider, Shona Halson, Christie Aschwanden, Dr. Carl Foster and Dave Proctor covering all topics on recovery. Brodie talks about what he has learnt, and his highlights throughout the entire recovery month. Congratulations on listening […]
Today we switch gears and interview the ultra athlete Dave Proctor. Dave has held the world record for the longest distance covered on a treadmill in 24 hours (257km) and held the Canadian 24hr, 48hr and 72hr record. Dave Proctor is also preparing for his second attempt to run across Canada, a total of 7,200km […]
Dr. Carl Foster is an Exercise Physiologist in the Department of Exercise & Sports Science. He has published close to 500 clinical papers on clinical physiology including ‘Prevention, Diagnosis & Treatment of Overtraining syndrome: Joint Consensus Statement’. Following a quote from Shona Halson ‘There’s a belief out there that you can’t over-train, you can only […]
Christie Aschwanden is an american journalist, science writer and author of Good to Go: How to eat, sleep & rest like a champion. Christie’s work has had a huge influence on the momentum of this recovery month theme and today, we focus on Nutrition for optimal recovery. After chatting with Christie Aschwanden about the book […]
Shona Halson is an Associate Professor in the School of Behavioural & Health Sciences at ACU. She is world renowned in the field of recovery and has worked with countless elite athletes. Today, we talk about Shona’s ‘recovery pyramid’, and highlight where you should be focusing your recovery strategy before moving onto other less effective […]
We continue our recovery month with interviewing Chris Schneider. A PhD student in Athlete monitoring & heart rate measures. Chris has contributed to several scientific papers relating to this topic including his leading author contributions in the paper ‘Heart rate monitoring in team sports – A conceptual framework for contextualizing heart rate measures for training […]
We continue our recovery month theme with interviewing Simon Wegerif. Simon is the founder of ithlete and has website myithlete.com selling heart rate variability (HRV) apps and sensors. Firstly, Simon explains the measurement of heart rate variability and how the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system are involved. He does an excellent job of explaining this concept to […]
Dr. Izzy Smith is a specialist in hormone health and today we focus on all things hormones, stress & recovery. Firstly, Izzy talks about the concept of ‘over-training vs under-recovering’ and why a recreational runner needs to be mindful of this. We then move onto the role of certain hormones that hinder and enhance our […]
Today is episode #1 of our Recovery Month theme! We kick off the month by recapping on relatable past episodes. Rather than send you back to refresh your knowledge, Brodie thought it would be a better idea to do the hard work for you. So, we summarize the key points from these episode: Episode #7: […]
Following our last interview with Jaclyn, we continue to learn from personal rehab success stories. This episode, Brodie interviews Michelle who has suffered from proximal hamstring tendinopathy for over over 12 months. An avid distance runner for the past 10 years, Michelle received a lot of physical and mental benefits from running until her marathon […]
