In this episode, Dan and I chat about goals, being elite, assessments, work capacity, shark habits and pirate maps. The audio quality is occasionally a bit compromised, and you can hear the birds at my campsite by the Murray River in the background when I’m talking.
In this episode, Dan and I chat about his career as an athlete and a strength coach, and what insights this gives him about coaching and training. In the next episode, we will focus specifically on goals, motivation, feedback and evaluation and performance
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4:39
Dan talks about the US college sport system
6:55 – 12:30
6:55 – 12:30 Dan talks about culture in sport
12:52
Dan talks about highland games as a form of deliberate play in how to train for his main event of discus training
16:40
Dan talks about being the first full time strength coach – to some extent in response to the overnight influence of Arnold Schwartzenegger and Jane Fonda on how exercise was perceived
19:07
Dan talks about stenosymbols and strength training
22:29 – 25:07
We chat here about Lockdown, visiting Melbourne, Percy Cerutty, the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, before getting back to Dan’s career
27:11
Dan talks about compressing work, cueing and coaching
36:26
1. Embracing the obvious
37:39
2. Taking care of asymmetrical risks
40:17
3. Respect the process
41:17
Keys to academic success: Respect the proces: show up, do your work, get things in on time, don’t flit away opportunities; or Show up, Don’t quit, Ask questions
46:53
Dan chats a little bit about how to talk with elite athletes
This is a conversation I recorded with Dr Louise Lasala and Dr Sam McKay, former PhD students in our lab. Both of them taught into my courses while they were PhD students, and have returned to give guest lectures on a few occasions. They are both now working at Orygen, as part of the team at the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne.
Dr Lisa Wise convenes an introductory unit in Sport and Exercise Psychology primarily targeted towards students of sport and exercise science rather than psychology majors. The teaching team includes Marten Deman and Earl Freeman, two PhD students in Lisa’s research lab.
In this trailer, we talk about who we are, and what credentials we have to be teaching sport and exercise psychology
Lisa, Marten and Earl at our planning meeting for the semester before our own training at the local boxing gym
