The Physical Performance Show 295: Expert Edition: Dr Tim Gabbett: Progressing Training Loads
Park Run Challenge
- Tim Gabbett's son challenged him to an annual park run race.
- This motivated Gabbett to improve his park run time significantly, demonstrating that improvement is possible at any age.
Combined Loading
- Local tissue loading is essential for rehab but insufficient for peak performance.
- Combining local tissue loading with sports-specific loading optimizes both injury prevention and performance.
Tissue Health
- Runners often mistakenly believe that running alone ensures tissue health.
- Focus on strengthening areas that feel like "boring" work because they are often the weak links.
Dr Tim Gabbett has over 25 years experience working as an Applied Sport Scientist with athletes and coaches from around the world. Dr Tim Gabbett's experience is multidisciplinary, but it has one central theme, and that is high performance. Tim has consulted to world leading sporting organisations and associations including the NBA, Australian Rugby League, AFL and the English Premier League. Dr Tim Gabbett holds a PhD in Human Physiology and completed a second PhD in Applied Sport Science.
Tim has published over 250 peer reviewed articles and presented over 400 national and international conferences. In a recent study of 8 million scientists published in PLOS Biology, Tim was named in the top 25 most impactful sports scientists of all time.
Dr Gabbett shares around the concepts of tissue specific loads and sports specific capacity and training, why it is that their interplay is so key for athletes looking to perform at their physical best or reduce the risk of injury. Dr Gabbett also shares around training the specialised youth athlete and considerations and a model to keep them playing. There's a growing appreciation that specialising early with adolescent athletes in sport may produce some detriments to health and performance yet, what do we do with the youth athlete who will specialise early, Dr. Tim Gabbett has the answers.
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