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Wednesday Jun 20, 2018
Wednesday Jun 20, 2018
In this episode I talk to Jo Meek, aka the "Running Squirrel". Jo is one of the world's leading ultra-endurance runners. In 2013 Jo was 2nd woman across the line in the Marathon de Sables. In 2014 Jo was first in the Coastal Challenge in Costa Rica (a 225km run which she completed in 29h 17mins, 19s; 5th in Comrades marathon; 4th in the World 100km Champs. Jo has a 10km time of 34:36; a marathon time of 2:46; and a 100km time of 7hr 43mins. Jo offers a unique insight into managing training, discomfort of training and how she reframes challenge into a positive.
Show notes
The origins of the nickname "Running Squirrel"
Unconventional entrance to sport. Sport as a key to join in and be cool! Road running and now running on Dartmoor
English cross-country champion, road racing and marathon and then ultra-marathon
Mental resolve, persistence and hard work. Mental resolve is innate for Jo
Sport Science top tips
Make running your routine
The pros and cons of becoming a full-time athlete
What moderates Jo's training?
The army, frontline action in Iraq for 4-5 months
The army taught Jo the importance of looking after yourself
Endurance background to ultra and the Marathon de Sables
Highest British female finisher in the Marathon de Sables!
Variety of races, UTMB 170km around Mont Blanc, France, Switzerland & Italy
Tuning training to the event. UTMB training marathon training, long run becomes 3-4 hours and back to back long runs
Training schedule, daily routine
Managing winter training and darkness
Mental resilience, anticipation of problems to stay positive for the race planning…control the controlables
Ultra-running is easier than marathon running!
The next challenge…Western States Endurance Run?
Jo's top tips for ultra-training, consistency with training, fuelling and enjoy it!
More from Jo at; https://twitter.com/jo_meek https://jomeekblog.wordpress.com/
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Wednesday Jun 06, 2018
Wednesday Jun 06, 2018
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 the years, it was fascinating to capture his thoughts about the key area of communication, his thoughts, ideas, techniques and how they have evolved over the years;
Show notes
Communication and conveying knowledge and ideas for maximum impact
Gleaning information from the athletes of different ages/abilities/experience
Athletes critiquing themselves negatively
Toni Minichiello's coaching style
Communication assumptions!
High performers and communication
Finding a mutual vocabulary/language
Motivational styles and mindsets
Succinct information at critical points…deliver two points
Motivation, confidence…pushing the positive
The coach has to make the decision based on your knowledge and experience of the athlete…coach what you see
Working/communicating with a coach…add value!
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Monday May 21, 2018
Monday May 21, 2018
009 Yann Le Meur
This week's episode features an interview with Dr Yann Le Meur, physiologist and creator of the infographic phenomenon.
Yann Le Meur - training strategies - tennis/triathlon, improving fitness, sport science & Rodger Federer
Studying Sport Science, PE teacher, exercise physiology/
Heat altitude training, recovery nutrition provided a breadth and grounding in sport.
Synchronised swimming, modern pentathlon - working with national team and high level athletes
Act as a chameleon! Adaptation
Infographics - a way of explanation, communication and interaction
Teaching to make information - infographics
Elite sports teams in France
Consultancy and performance improvement
Applied sports career top tips, fairness, relationships & hard work
Create a network, work hard and challenge yourself create opportunities to create a good reputation
Opportunities in sport
Infographic stats: first began August 2014, 200 per year, 70,000 Twitter followers
No-one was reading my paper!! A simplification of the message = infographics was born
Infographic promotes what is new in sport science, the infographic is not enough, it is a simplification of the full paper which should be read
Different levels of evidence - infographics have limitations
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Thursday May 10, 2018
Thursday May 10, 2018
Episode 008
In this episode I am joined once again by Rosie Mayes, and Jamie Pringle to talk culture in high performance sport and in the wider world of business and education.
Show notes
Why are we talking about culture?
Could you put culture on a dashboard of metrics?
How quickly can you pick up on a culture?
Whose responsibility is culture?
Process review
Culture as a determinant of performance
Early experiences, environment culturing achievement
If culture is poor how does it manifest in people?
Getting the balance right between under or over investment in peak performance and stress
The responsibility and potential for those in charge in leadership
Rosie as a benchwarmer - but served a key role in team dynamics
Coach decisions and responses on a day to day basis that define culture
Projecting and ownership of pressures
Sensitive moments in performance, such as selection and de-selection
Can you get more and do it well?
Purpose, autonomy and mastery
High performance habits for all
How does sport influence culture and culture influence sport?
How do you tap into and lead "the way it works around here"
Key insights into optimising culture
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Monday Apr 23, 2018
Monday Apr 23, 2018
Jenny Rogers: Coaching Episode 007
Show notes
Where it all started? Jenny’s teaching career and her ‘development itch!'
Where did it all start? The BBC & finding Delia Smith!
Where did the development of others start?
Becoming commissioning editor for The Open College, Jenny’s introduction to consulting and organisational behaviour
The beginnings of one to one work and executive coaching 20:00 Becoming a coach full-time and leaving the BBC
What is the coaching that Jenny provides?
“The slippery-ness of the human approach to change’
The power of coaching - examples
Jenny’s top tips for people new to coaching
This isn’t working - working in the moment and developing a different kind of conversation
Stepping outside of the conversation, navigating the difficult childhoods. Treading dangerous waters. Super-champions, high performing executives and their emotional lies
Supporting sporting systems and what executive coaching can offer sport
Coaching sessions…holding a space, nudging, challenging and laughter
Support for coaches
Jenny’s writing compulsion
A Coaching Handbook - stay curious and stay self-aware
Top tips for writing
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Tuesday Apr 03, 2018
Tuesday Apr 03, 2018
Supporting Champions Podcast 006 David Fletcher
In this episode I talk to David Fletcher about his career as a swimmer, researcher and expert in the area of adversity.
Show notes;
Early aspirations as a swimmer, but experiencing near misses as an athlete and academically
Transfer of desire from swim background to early success in studies
Father as a science role-model, searching and sharing academic papers
Importance of internship in sporting environment
Importance of breadth of experience beyond own area of specialism
Interest in the stresses that athletes experiences
Stresses changing based on growth of high performance system
Uncovering poor organisational behaviours that adversely influenced sporting performance
Seeking legal advice due to controversial nature of athlete interviews - sticking to your guns about unearthing and communicating stresses
Identifying stresses and how some used stressful experiences as fuel for determination
Organisational stresses - leadership styles, not being listened to, overuse of pressure training and how it spilled over
How it is unethical not to prepare athletes for the pressure of top competitions
How leadership behaviours permeated down to grass-root levels
Adversity as a stimulus for growth - so it needs to be; - Relevant, e.g. penalty shoot-out - Progressively adaptable - Agreed
Appropriate and inappropriate consequences to contravening agreed behaviours
Role of early adversity as a fuel for focusing on sporting goals
Theories emerging - life adversity coinciding with sporting success, and finding sport as a sanctuary
Caveat that sport doesn't protect person from mental health response to adversarial events
How best to support when people experience adversity; 1) give them space; 2) supporting people when they are ready to disclose - provide inspirational opportunities; 3) when a vase breaks consider creating a new mosaic rather than re-building as it was
Adversity gives you honesty to review deeply
Different personality traits required to succeed in sport vs life
Re-emergence of 'issues' wen sport is not there
Are we doing enough to support coaches?
Lessons for everybody - Anything worthwhile will have its challenges - Importance of anticipating stresses and preparing for them - Importance of support network - Importance of disclosing and being open to sharing stress response
Future directions in area of adversity
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Saturday Feb 24, 2018
Saturday Feb 24, 2018
005: Emilie Thienot on mindfulness
Go out there, meet people, do something!
Overtime if I want something I don’t give up because I know it will happen. If I work hard and smartly I will see results.
Back to the UK, the UK system and the British Sailing team.
The psychology of sailing, how do you support them? Freeing the mind to make good decisions.
Unlocking potential - removing psychological barriers.
Communication as a team - who do they want to be as a team, underpinning values and translating to behaviours. Trust and honesty at the foundation.
The skill of resetting and the ability to adapt in the moment.
Mindfulness - what is it? The ability to be aware of what is going on in the moment, in a non judgemental way.
What does mindfulness do? What's the performance advantage?
Accepting of negative thoughts and being able to notice the difficult feelings coming in, taking a helicopter view, diffuse and choose something else to refocus on, rather than fighting with the negative thoughts.
Step 1, Step 2 & Step 3 of mindfulness.
Benefits and results of mindfulness application.
The neuroscience behind mindfulness.
Daily integration and an earlier adoption creates a more robust, ingrained technique. Emilie’s work, unlocking potential in sports and business. Using tools from the elite athlete world and applying to the corporate world.
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Sunday Feb 11, 2018
Sunday Feb 11, 2018
004 Vern Gambetta on a career in coaching
Guru or legend?!
How Vern got into sport
Role models
Be a generalist not a specialist
It’s still the human body, what are the differences and similarities between the different sports?
Maintaining an open-mindedness. Don’t make assumptions!
Generations of young people with negligible physical literacy
Training sessions - how do we get more out of what we do?
How do you design somebody’s journey from youth to senior athlete?
Avoiding early specialisation - the conflict between art and science
We need to educate the coaches to be better managers the resources they have.
Early specialisation and generalising - what’s required?
I am a student of history, continually asking where did this technique/coach come from? 3
Passionate about getting better at getting better
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Monday Jan 29, 2018
Monday Jan 29, 2018
Steve Ingham, Jamie Pringle, Rosie Mayes, discuss the rise of UK High Performance System that has gone from 36th on the medal table in 1996 Olympics to 2nd at the Rio Olympics in 2016, becoming a global sporting superpower. This episode discusses what are the common trends in successful high performing systems and looks forward as to how performance can be sustained.
What are the determining factors of a successful system?
What are the things from other performance environments you would find which are similar to the British system irrespective of context and culture?
Jamie plays devil’s advocate - if we had unlimited resources what would we do with that money?
Where might we want to see future investment for competitive advantage if we had unlimited resources?
If we travelled forward 100 years, what would we want to see long term residing in high performance sport system that is successful?
If we travelled back 100 years, to 1917, what would have astounded our contemporaries?
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Wednesday Jan 17, 2018
Wednesday Jan 17, 2018
Episode #2 Panel Discussion (Part 2 of 3)
Steve Ingham, Jamie Pringle, Rosie Mayes, discuss the rise of Uk High Performance System that has gone from 36th on the medal table in 1996 Olympics to 2nd at the Rio Olympics in 2016, becoming a global sporting superpower.
This episode charts the necessary focus that came with the award of the home games, what challenges it brought and how the roles change under mounting pressure and resource. Show notes 4:01 July 6th 2005 London was awarded the Olympic Games
Suddenly the bar has gone higher…we need more!
Know what your role is. The fundamental difference between sport science in the academic sense and thinking about the performer and their performance
The athletes don’t care who supplies the support, they want the support. The coach’s role is the distiller of language that the athlete can understand. 10:31 How has the education of the coaches developed and how has science been able to inform the coach?
The athlete centred, coach managed network. How do you explain what a scientist does within that role?
Coach education
One practitioner can become the filter through which the coach and the athlete can connect
For a coach the leadership challenge has changed
The leadership challenge for the coach is team management, clarity, cutting through the noise applying priority
Switching from a scientist role to coaching Kelly Sotherton - I need to cut down the noise, I’m a noise generator!
The dynamics of the team, relationships in the success of performers - creating champions 16:51 It’s a filtering process, I don’t want more I want less! No-one would ever teach me that story
It requires a whole host of different intelligences, intra-personal skills, inter-personal skills in order for your ideas to land
Ego, sectors that have bright people can come with an arrogance. Personality preferences, “Oh god I’m like that am I”?! If you have a team dynamic, if you can put your ego aside and have a role to play that isn’t your best position, that’s a real challenge
Complexity of a network and the ability to establish trust
Are we all playing the same tune?
When we have a clear sense of purpose about what we are doing. The professionalisation of the system in Britain we are part of a network that brings a sense of belonging for everyone.
London 2012, everyone was focussed on the summit. We always expect a lull after a big pie but…that could have been the best day at work EVER?!
Fear, threat, resistance. What is your purpose, asking why questions. To give pride to a nation.
To achieve this goal, where would you start?
Working for somebody, and it has consequence, it gives purpose and the purpose has consequence.
Why do you do what you do? This fundamental level of deep thinking isn’t taught, isn’t facilitates and when it is you get a united sense behind a common purpose.
If we start people thinking earlier, “Why do I do what I do?”, it will enhance what they do
Plugging gaps in order to create new progress/performance is a differentiator in the GB system
Recap
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