In this 1 of 2 episodes we chat with Dr Sacha Fulton PhD – an ESSA accredited sports scientist who works with elite athletes from Perth. Sacha talks about her experience working with Paralympic and Olympic athletes, multidisciplinary teamwork in elite sports, acute to chronic workload ratios, fatigue risk management, overtraining, heart rate variability and blood flow restriction training.

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Time Stamps;

0;00 - 1;15 Introduction

1;15 - 3;30 Training pathways as a sports scientist

3;30 - 6;30 Multidisciplinary teamwork in elite sport and squad numbers travelling to the olympic games

6;30 - 7;30 Olympic and professional sporting pathways

7;30 - 9;30 The Mathew Pavlich Phenomenon and accumulated travel fatigue in West Australian Athletes

9;30 - 13;00 Travel and sleep and fatigue risk management pre, during and post flight strategies

13;00 - 15;00 Warning signs for non-functional over-reaching or over training and daily monitoring regimes

15;00 - 17;00 The role of cross training to help recover an overtrained athlete

17;30 - 19;30 The difference in acute / chronic workload monitoring in different sports

19;30 - 22;45 Market vs custom wearable performance tracking devices and the simplest way to quantify training load

22;45 - 24;00 Discussion around heart rate variability as a method to measure fatigue and the accuracy of current wearables in athletes

24:00 - 25;15 Discussion of some specific wearables

25;15 - 26;30 Blood flow restriction

26;30 - 27;30 Why Usain Bolt was the fastest man alive and also rubbish at football

27;30 Preview for part 2

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talking innovation and elite sport with Dr Sacha Fulton PhD (ESSA accredited sports scientist)