The Robbie Bourke Podcast

Episode 252 - David Joyce - High Performance Training for Sports - Part Duex!

Dec 27, 2021

01:16:54

This episode's guest is David Joyce. David is the High Performance Leader and Strategy Specialist at Synapsing—a sports-strategy and decision-making consultancy.

For more than two decades in his career in elite performance, David has trained, rehabilitated, and maintained multiple world champions, Olympians, and more than 100 national champions. He was the Head of Athletic Performance of the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League. He is also the first athletic performance coach in history to work with team China after working with another national Olympic team.

On this episode Joycey and I discuss:

What's new with Joycey?
Why did Joycey get into consultancy work?
I ask Joycey if would ever considered returning to a full-time role with a sports organisation?
Why did he and Daniel decided to produce the 2nd edition of High Performance Training for Sports?
I ask Joycey on the structure the book, the contributors, and the topics covered within the book
I ask Joycey for his main take away's from this edition of the book
We discuss the chapter structure within the book
I ask Joycey if he and Daniel will produce a 2nd edition of Sports Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation?
We discuss the timeline involved in the process for producing the 2nd edition of HPTS
I ask Joycey if Covid was a vice or a virtue in the production of HPTS
Joycey shares what a day in his life is currently like
I ask Joycey about parenthood
I ask Joycey how he learns?
I ask Joycey for his current and top book recommendations?
I ask Joycey if he meditates?
I ask Joycey, if he could invite 5 people to dinner, dead of alive, who would he invite and why?
Joycey shares with us the current services he provides and where he can be contact.