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Discover high performance with the world’s best. Home of the Pacey Performance Podcast.

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I am definitely not one for the humble brag but... 🎉 5 million downloads🎉 I am so pleased I made the decision not to get to episode #100 and stop! Like an Oscars speech, thank you to all the guests, sponsors and those who have listened over the last ~7 years 🙏
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🎙️ New Podcast Summary 🎙️ Using sprinting during the warm-up as a movement screen with international rugby players with @jermainePT “You want to have a seat at the table where you can converse with everyone” Read 📰 sportsmith.co/articles/the-h… Listen 🎧 sportsmith.co/listen/the-hyb…
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"These qualities may not directly improve visible performance outputs such as sprint speed or jump height. However, they can reduce the likelihood of breakdown when athletes encounter forces associated with landing, cutting, and stopping."
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"This is no more apparent than in youth sport. During adolescence, unused neural pathways involved in motor control may be removed through synaptic pruning. Time away can significantly reduce an aspiring athlete’s future potential."
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"By focusing on high-intensity stimuli delivered through low-complexity modalities, we were able to positively influence structural adaptation whilst concurrently developing fundamental movement patterns."
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"An athlete may jump higher or sprint faster while still being unable to execute skills more effectively or remain healthy enough to train consistently."
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"Anti-performance characteristics are physical qualities that enable athletes to tolerate, control, absorb, and dissipate the forces encountered during sport."
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"Consequently, availability is a performance enabler as much as it is a medical metric. An athlete who can consistently tolerate training loads accumulates more meaningful practice, develops skills faster."
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"Strength, power, and speed are important qualities, but they are not the ultimate goals. They only matter if they help an athlete perform better within their sport."
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Availability is one of the greatest assets an athlete can posses From @BenYoungASCC Read the full article here ➡️ sportsmith.co/articles/why-i…
Is availability the most underrated performance metric in sport? - Sportsmith

Is availability the most underrated performance metric in sport? - Sportsmith

Why should ‘keeping athletes on the training floor’ be treated as a performance metric in its own right? Athletes improve primarily through exposure to their sport. Technical skills, decision making,...

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"Athletes improve primarily through exposure to their sport. Technical skills, decision making, tactical understanding, and competitive behaviours are refined through repeated practice within the performance environment."
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🎙️ New Podcast Summary 🎙️ Integrating deceleration training and testing into a high performance programme with Damian Harper, Mark Jamison and Ted Rath. “The goal of deceleration is to get you into position so that you can re-accelerate” Read 📰 sportsmith.co/articles/integ… Listen 🎧 sportsmith.co/listen/integra…
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🎙️ New Podcast Summary 🎙️ The EXOS way to develop fast athletes with Brent Callaway, Anthony Hobgood and Nic Hill. “You cannot improve speed without actually running at max effort” Read 📰 sportsmith.co/articles/the-e… Listen 🎧 sportsmith.co/listen/the-exo…
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Coaching the false step to address the risk of Achilles tendon ruptures From Robert Olivar Read the full article here ➡️ sportsmith.co/articles/coach…
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"Give the athletes a target at the desired step-back distance to step or land on. Use surfaces for the “landing zone” with a given material property, such as turf, a foam pad, a balance mat, or a strip of rubber flooring."
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"The end point is the classic injury-frame posture: trunk flexed, hip extended, knee extended or in early flexion, and the ankle in deep dorsiflexion. If an athlete’s step-backs drift toward that posture, that is the signal to look closer."
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