The Track and Field Performance Podcast
Episodes
Angus Ross, PhD: Enhancing Strengths & Weaknesses + Eccentric Training for Speed and Power
07 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Angus Ross is the Strength and Conditioning and Power Physiology Lead with High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ), working with elite track & ...
Dr. Christopher Stanley: Mental Skills for Managing High Pressure Moments
07 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Christopher Stanley (CMPC) is a sport and performance psychology professor at the University of Western States, former Lead Sport Psychologist for...
Ernie Clark, Bob Thurnhoffer, and Jason Wakeknight: Training for the 400 meters
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode brings together three coaches with documented success coaching the 400 meters and 4×400 m relay within the NCAA system.Ernie Clark, the ...
Craig Pickering: Developing Elite Sprint Relay Teams and High Performance Systems
06 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Craig Pickering – former Olympic sprinter, Winter Olympian in bobsleigh, sport scientist, and now Director of Performance Sustainability at Athletic...
Marco Airale | Sprint Mechanics, Intensive Tempo Training, and Warm Ups
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marco Airale has been one of the fastest-rising elite sprint coaches of the past five years — and one of the youngest — guiding athletes like Reec...
Paul Burgess: Vaulting from Elite Athlete to World-Class Coach
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From being a 6 meter pole vaulter back in 2005 to coaching the 2024 Olympic gold medallist Nina Kennedy and 2023 World Championships bronze medallist ...
Eamonn Flanagan: Key Principles Behind Effective Plyometric and Jump Training
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eamonn Flanagan is the Head of S&C at the Sport Ireland Institute. In this episode, Eamonn shares deep insights from a career that spans elite Oly...
Joseph Coyne: Giving the Athlete What They Need When They Need It
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Coyne, PhD is the Director of High Performance & Sports Development, Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar and Strength & Conditioning Coach, El...
Chris Shambrook: How Psychological Preparation Fuels Performance, Confidence, and Resilience
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Chris Shambrook, is a renowned expert in performance psychology with over five Olympic cycles of experience. In this episode, Chris shares his jou...
James Sandilands: The Art and Science of High Jumping
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Athletics New Zealand track and field coach, James Sandilands is mainly known as the coach to the current World Indoor and Olympic champion in the jum...
Werner Prinsloo: Akani Simbine's Journey to 9.82 and 4th Place at the Paris Olympics
04 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chatted with Werner Prinsloo, the coach behind South African sprinting sensation Akani Simbine who in his third consecutive Olympic...
Josef Karas: Nailing General Prep, Coaching Workhorses, and Battling Physiology (Part 1)
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Josef Karas is a former Czech International Decathlete and a graduate of Kansas State where he worked under legendary coach Cliff Rovelto. Since trans...
Glenn Smith: Breakthrough Performances, Technical Qualities, and Coaching Philosophy
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
 Glenn Smith is a former Canadian national champion and world championship semi-finalist in the 200m sprint. He holds a Master’s Degree in Exercise...
Gordon Bosworth: Wisdom from 40 years of Physiotherapy with Elite Athletes
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Being the Chief Physiotherapist to UK Athletics/British Athletics at the London Olympic Games (2012) is just one of many major roles that Gordon Boswo...
Dan Pfaff: Horizontal Jumps, Performance Testing, and Debriefing
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Pfaff is widely regarded as one of the most influential track and field coaches of all-time with over 50 years of experience. His thought provoki...
Dublin Sprint: A Breeding Ground for Irish Olympic-Level Sprinters
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Coaches Jeremy Lyons, Gerard O'Donnell, and Aideen Synott have created a high performing environment for sprinters in Ireland to thrive both coll...
Stuart McMillan: Influencing Sprint Performance
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CEO of Altis and world class sprints coach Stu McMillan came back on the podcast to talk about the importance of pursuing what is interesting to you a...
Rolf Ohman: Elasticity, Transfer of Training, and Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD)
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rolf Ohman is a coach and innovator with over 35 years of experience in global sports such as Track and Field; he was a high level decathlete before b...
Jim VanHootegem: Complimentary Training, Stabilising Technique, and Dynamic Coaching
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jim VanHootegem has over 20+ years of experience as a collegiate coach working at schools like Texas A&M, The University of Oklahoma, and Arkansas...
Justin Rinaldi: How to Run a Fast 800m
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Very few coaches can say they've had five athletes run 1.44 or faster in the 800m. Joseph Deng and Peter Bol (among several others) have risen to...
Sam Leslie: Physiotherapy for Rehabilitation, Health, and Performance
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sports and Exercise physiotherapist, to many of Australia's top track and field athletes, Sam Leslie, discusses his multi-layered approach to reh...
Daniel Davey: The Ingredients of a High-Performance Lifestyle
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Davey is the Founder of DaveyNutrition and has over 15 years experience as a Performance Nutritionist, 9 of which were spent in elite sport env...
Steve Fudge: Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Coach to Olympic, Paralympic, World, European and Commonwealth Medalists, Steve Fudge has not just harnessed the talent of elite level prospects, but ...
John Shepherd: Examining the Winter Training Plan
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John is a well-known coach, content creator, and writer on all things athletics, but perhaps most pertinently, he has a massive aptitude for horizonta...
Boo Schexnayder: Accessing Elasticity
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Boo is one of the worlds leading track and field coaches, educators, and rehab consultants. He's coached world champions, he's delivered coa...
Keith Herston: Individualizing Training for Horizontal Jumpers
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Texas Techs Jumps and Multi's Coach, Keith Herston, is quickly becoming one of the worlds top jumps coaches having had success with various natio...
Ryan Banta: The Application of Sprint Training and Positive Psychology in the High School Setting
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Head Coach, History Teacher, and Author of the Sprinters Compendium (among many other things), Coach Ryan Banta has been at Parkway High School for 20...
Carrie Lane: Integrating Speed and Strength Training with Endurance Athletes
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Coach Carrie Lane works with Under Armours Elite group of distance runners based in Baltimore Maryland. Prior to that, she spent several years as the ...
Aaron Gadson: Balancing Trade-Offs in the Triple Jump
20 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From former collegiate triple jumper at Cornell University turned Olympic-level coach; Aaron Gadson shows his passion and knowledge for the event acro...
Mike Barber: The Coaching Process Behind 2x World Champion Kelsey-Lee Barber
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Coach of 2x World Champion Kelsey-Lee Barber, Mike Barber (her husband), has a diverse coaching and sports performance background. Before becoming a J...
PJ Vazel: Navigating Failure and Unpredictability
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sprints and Throws Coach, Statistician, Researcher, and so much more; PJ Vazel has made some major contributions to the sport of Track and Field and i...
Andreas Behm: The Training and Development of Elite Sprint Hurdlers
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sprint Hurdles coach at Altis, Andreas Behm provides an overview of the physical and technical characteristics he looks for in elite ...
Laurent Meuwly: Contextualized Strategies for Developing World-Class Athletes
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Whilst severing as the National Coach of the Dutch Federation, Laurent Meuwly has taken several sprint athletes and relay teams to international stard...
Kris Mack: Customizing Training for Multi-Eventers
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Centre is home to some of the best athletes in the world. Coach Kris Mack leads a group of world-class multi-e...
LuÃs Mesquita: The Art of Specificity
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Luis is the owner of 'The Peak' a sports performance facility in Porto, Portugal where mainly works as a Strength & Conditioning coach a...
Harvey Maguire: Performance Therapy - A Perspective Shift
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Harvey Maguire is a Performance Physiotherapist who operates out of the UK's leading university for Track & Field in Loughborough. He works ...
Karl Goodman: Guiding a New Era of Sprinting Talent
23 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since joining Coastal Carolina in 2019, coach Karl Goodman has accumulated 12 All-American honors -- 11 of which were this season -- leading him to be...
Mat Clark 'Track Strength': The Purpose and Application of Strength and Conditioning
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Strength and Conditioning is a popular topic of discussion across all event disciplines within Track and Field. Decathlete and Strength coach for the ...
Danny Mackey: Taming the Beast(s)
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Head Coach of Brooks Beasts Track Club, Danny Mackey has over 10 years of experience coach elite level athletes ranging from the 800m to 10k. Coach M...
Nic Petersen: Building a Horizontal Jumps System
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For the past 10 years, Coach Nic Petersen has led the University of Florida jumps program to so much success that it is widely regarded as 'Jumps...
Dr. Brian Zuleger: Mental Performance Training for Track and Field Athletes
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sport is chaotic. During an athletic career, athletes are tasked with making a lot of decisions that compound over time and will dictate their traject...
Stuart McMillan: Efficiency > Effectiveness
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As expected, Stuart McMillan provided a deep-dive like others can only dream of. His contribution towards the lives of athlete and coaches across the ...
Jason Wakenight: Fluid Training Methods for Long Sprinters
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
University of Iowa's coach, Jason Wakenight has guided an impressive number of All American in the Long Sprint events. Before we got on air, he ...
Renaud Longuèvre: Teaching the Long Jump Technical Model & Maximizing Speed Through Takeoff
02 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, High Performance Director of Israeli Athletics, Renaud Longuèvre provides a detailed overview of his coaching philosophy for the hor...
Keinan Briggs: The Life Span of a High School Triple Jumper
20 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lead coach of Leap Squad Track Club, Keinan Briggs speaks about his holistic approach to developing high school jumpers.Coach Briggs discusses how he ...
Cliff Rovelto: 'Three C's of Combined Event Training'
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In just under two hours, Coach Cliff Rovelto provided a masterclass overview of the combined events. We spoke about the physical, mental, technical, a...
Lennie Waite: Crafting an Authentic Athlete
19 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Personality traits, attitudes, habits, skills - this one had it all. Dr. Lennie Waite spoke to me about her beliefs and strategies that she uses withi...
Alex Stewart: Relative Pathways to Success
05 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Australia's lead High Jump coach Alex Stewart has many impressive accolades on his resume, he was the 2018 National Coach of the Year after guidi...
Scott Simpson: Physical, Technical and Mental Preparation for Elite Pole Vaulting
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
British Athletics Pole Vault coach "Scott Simpson" speaks about the factors he considers when outlining his training throughout the year. Sc...
Shane McCormack: Creating a Performance Ecosystem
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Coach of Irelands fastest female, Phil Healy, and 2019 All-Ireland Hurling Champions, Tipperary; Shane McCormack has 20 years of coaching experience a...
Amin Nikfar: Stepping Outside of the Shot Put Circle
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Track and Field coach and 2x Olympic Shot Putter Amin Nikfar is the current Throws coach at UNC-Chapel Hill. The reason I say "Track and Field co...
Glenn Smith: Biomechanics of Efficient Sprinting
08 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Canada's own Glenn Smith sat down with me to explain pelvic and t-spine movement as it relates to efficient upright sprint mechanics. Coach Smit...
Derek Evely: Hammering the First Principles
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 12 was with throws, youth development, and coach education expert Derek Evely. Derek boasts (although you won't hear it from him) an impr...
Todd Lane: High Expectations
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
LSU Jumps Coach and USTFCCCA course instructor Todd Lane came on the podcast and dove deep into his prerequisites for elite high jumping: Approach, Ta...
Benke Blomkvist: Harnessing the Hurdles
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With over 30 years of coaching experience, Benke Blomkvist has facilitated the success of household names such as Susanna Kallur and Andrew Pozzi. In ...
Jeremy Fischer: A Decade with the Worlds Best
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Olympic Training Center at Chula Vista, California has been home to the best field event athletes in the US for over a decade. The host of medals ...
Chris Neal: Developing for the Long-Run
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Furman College is widely known as one of the NCAA's dynasties for distance running. There is little wonder why that is when you have coaches as k...
David Tobin: Sports Nutrition | A Sustainable Approach
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sport Ireland Institute's David Tobin conveys his approach to improving athlete's nutrition - for the benefit of their performance. There i...
Jonathan Ilori: Transitioning to the NCAA
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I was able to sit down with one of Britain's top triple jumpers and Managing Director of RightTracks Sports Jonathan Ilori.The former Mizzou Grad...
Cliff Mallett: The Process of Self-Regulation
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Experienced Sports Psychologist, Professor, and Athletics coach Dr. Cliff Mallett provides a wealth of knowledge and experience regarding athletes men...
David Maris: Programming Considerations for Sprinters
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sprint training and coaching enthusiast David Maris leverages his unique set of experiences both as an athlete, coach, and life-long learner to explor...
Nick Newman: Optimizing Strength Training for Jumpers
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jumps specialist Nick Newman: jumps and multi's coach at USC provides his philosophy and considerations for the prescription of strength training...
John Ellis: Building Buy-In and Cultivating the Group Dynamic
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Arizona State's Jumps and Multi's coach John Ellis describes how he interacts and builds relationships to get the best out of his athletes. ...
Bob Thurnhoffer: The Role of Resisted Sprints Training in Acceleration Development
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bob outlines how he implements resisted sprints training for sprinters and jumpers at Loyola University Chicago. He describes the philosophies he has ...