The Physical Performance Show exists to inspire people to achieve their physical best performance through candid interviews with the world’s best and most inspiring physical performers. The show's host Physiotherapist, Best selling Author, and accomplished athlete Brad Beer delves into how top physical performers achieve success and the highs and lows of the journey in getting there.
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In this episode, Olympic triathlete Hayden Wilde shares a powerful 2025 update. Just days after running a blistering 27:38 10K in Tokyo — one of the fastest ever by a triathlete — Hayden was involved in a high-speed cycling crash that left him with a fractured scapula, five broken ribs, and a punctured lung. Hayden shares the emotional and physical…
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Ep 365: Professor Peter Malliaras ‘Tendinopathy Rehabilitation’
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51:27In this episode we welcome back renowned tendinopathy expert, Professor Peter Malliaras, for a 2025 Tendinopathy Rehabilitation Update. As a leading physiotherapist, researcher, and director at Monash University’s Musculoskeletal Research Unit, Peter shares the latest advancements in managing and rehabilitating tendon injuries. Peter continues to p…
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Ep 364: Dr Rich Will & Brad Beer: Mastering Running Injuries
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55:05In this episode we’re syndicating a conversation originally recorded for the Physio Network podcast with Dr Rich Willy and host Sarah Yule. We delve into the art and science of injury prevention and recovery for runners. With a focus on mastering running injuries, this conversation is packed with actionable insights tailored for endurance athletes.…
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Alec Mackenzie is a PhD scholar with Griffith University, the Queensland Academy of Sport, and Swimming Australia. Alec dives into the prevention of shoulder injuries in swimmers, sharing insights from his ground-breaking research. His recent systematic review, "Identifying Evidence-Practice Gaps for Shoulder Injury Risk Factors in Competitive Swim…
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362: Dr Kieran Richardson (FACP) ‘Conservative ACL Injury Management’
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53:36Dr Kieran Richardson is a specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist who advocates for physiotherapy rehabilitation to address ACL injuries. He completed the rigorous two-year specialist training program conferred by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2016. With a research-based, individualised approach, Kieran aims to achieve significan…
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361: Expert Edition: Associate Professor David Butler ‘Explaining Pain’
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1:05:20David Butler has been a pivotal Physiotherapist figure in the field of pain management since the mid-1980s, with a career spanning clinical practice, research, and education. As the director of the Neuro Orthopedic Institute (NOI), David leads numerous biopsychosocially-based seminars worldwide, educating both practitioners and patients about pain.…
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360. Expert Edition: Alison Grimaldi - Gluteal Tendinopathy Rehabilitation
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1:08:59Dr Alison Grimaldi, Principal Physiotherapist at PhysioTec in Brisbane, Australia, adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland with over 30 years of professional clinical experience joins us to explore diagnosis assessment and management of the tricky musculoskeletal condition that can affect many endurance athletes, gluteal tend…
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359: Expert Edition: Dane Baker: Tackling Low Energy Availability
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56:27Dane Baker works with elite athletes and active people helping to resolve low energy availability and Red-S or relative energy deficiency in sport. He studied Nutrition at the University of Otago graduating in 2003 and now works at the University as a Professional Fellow and Lecturer. Dane consults out of the AXIS Sports Medicine Clinic and when he…
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“TRIGGER WARNING” This is a deep conversation - if you need mental health support please seek help Distance runner and former Featured Performer guest of The Physical Performance Show Zane Robertson has been banned from all sport for 8 years following a positive test for Erythropoietin (EPO) and providing false documentation in his defence. Zane wa…
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In early 2022 Sam finished a very credible 8th place at the Ironman World Championships held in St. George. By year's end, Sam came out and did what many thought was almost impossible, he took it to the Norwegian train of Kristian Blummenfelt current Olympic Triathlon Champion and Gustav Iden, both dominant Norwegian triathletes in the long course …
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356: Coaches Corner: Dan Lorang - Endurance Coach & Sports Scientist
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1:03:24Daniel Lorang is the Head of Performance and Head Coach at Bora–Hansgrohe, Professional Cycling Team, and Lead Endurance Coach Sports Scientist. In 2019 Dan became the first coach to have ever coached both the male and female winners, in the same year, at the Kona World Ironman Triathlon Championships with Jan Frodeno and Anne Haug respectively. Al…
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355: Featured Performer: Harry Garside - Olympic Bronze Lightweight Boxing Medallist
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We've looked straight at the data, that is, the number of downloads per episode and today we review the top 10 most downloaded episodes of 2022. It's been a big year! We've had over 1 million downloads across the 52 week cycle to take the show's overall downloads to more than 4 million. In addition, we were thrilled to pick up third place, a bronze…
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353: Expert Edition: Dr Kevin Wernli - Lower Back Pain: fear, posture, & movement
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1:14:23Kevin Wernli recently completed his PhD looking at the relationship between posture, fear, and movement when it comes to lower back pain and chances are, yourself, or someone in your close circle is either going through an episode of back pain or has recently gone through it! Kevin takes us through the concept of nonconscious non-protection, where …
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352: Expert Edition: Dr Dan Plews. Low CHO diet: Right Fuel-Right Time Approach
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1:16:26Dr Dan Plews is a World Acclaimed Scientist, Applied Exercise Physiologist and Long-Course Triathlon Coach, he recently coached the current 2022 Ironman World Champion Chelsea Sodaro to victory. Scientifically, Dr Plews has over 30 peer reviewed publications to his name and has worked with more than 25 world and Olympic title winning athletes acros…
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351: Expert Edition: Dr David Cunnington. Optimising Sleep for Health & Performance
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1:03:14In this rewired episode Dr David Cannington, Sleep Specialist, Medical Doctor and co-Director of the Melbourne Sleep Disorders Centre debunks the concept of ‘rise and grind’ and explains why replacing it with ‘sleep in and win’ is a better approach. Dr Cannington disregards the idea that there's such a thing as sleep hygiene, talks through restless…
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350: Expert Edition: Kristina Skroce & Howard Zisser (MD) ‘Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Health & Performance’
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1:08:29Back on episode 344 we featured Phil Sutherland, who shared the backstory of continuous glucose monitoring in the formation of Super Sapiens. Many of us now recognise the black disks now being worn on the back of the triceps of many of the planet's greatest endurance athletes, that is the Super Sapiens (CGM) continuous glucose monitoring device. In…
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349: Expert Edition: Assoc Prof Dr Shona Halson (REWIRED): Athletic Recovery Essentials
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1:05:55In this episode we are rewiring one of our classic Expert Editions featuring Professor Shona Halson, World Acclaimed Expert, Senior Exercise Physiologist and Researcher exploring athletic recovery for optimal performance. Shona is a Professor at the Australian Catholic University's School of Behavioural and Health Sciences on the Sunshine Coast, an…
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348: Featured Performer: Non Stanford (2013 World Triathlon Series & 2022 European Champion)
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50:57Non Stanford was the 2013 World Triathlon Series Champion and in 2022 just months before her final professional race, she became the European Triathlon Champion. Two weeks prior, Non picked up a silver medal representing Wales in the mixed team triathlon at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Across Non’s professional triathlon career she has b…
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347: Expert Edition: Dr Jessica Orchard (Sports Cardiology & Cardiac Screening Researcher, Assoc. Editor @BJSM_BMJ ): Cardiac Health for the Endurance Athlete
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49:19Dr Jessica Orchard is a Sports Cardiology and Screening Researcher, a Heart Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow and the Associate Editor of the British Journal of Sports Medicine and an adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, widely published across cardiac screening in athletes. In this episode Dr Jessica Orchard sheds light on many of th…
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346: Expert Edition: Jess Cunningham, APA Titled Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist, Author ‘POP: when sport brings us to our knees’
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55:07Jess Cunningham, Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist and Author of “POP - when sports brings us to our knees”, a book that chronicles the journeys of 13 Australian athletes who share around their ACL injury rehabilitation. It's a book that aims to raise more questions than it answers, shining a unique lens on ACL injuries and their management. POP re…
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345: Expert Edition: Assistant Prof Patrick Wilson (PhD) REWIRED, Sport Nutrition Scientist: The Athlete’s Gut
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1:15:17Patrick is the author of “The Athlete's Gut - The Inside Science of digesting nutrition and stomach distress”, a must read and resource for all practitioners, athletes and coaches working in the field of endurance sports. In this episode Patrick shares around gut anatomy and physiology, he touches on the remarkable trainability of our gut and discu…
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344: Expert Edition: Phil Southerland - CEO Supersapiens
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32:02Some of the planet's best endurance athletes are wearing the Supersapiens proprietary device, a circular sensor on the back of their tricep, the world's first continuous blood glucose monitoring system. It has been successfully integrated into the training and performance outcomes of the best endurance athletes, Eliud Kipchoge, Kristian Blummenfelt…
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343: Expert Edition: Jack March (rheumatology.physio) ‘Rheumatology in Sports’
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1:19:12Jack March is the founder of Rheumatology.Physio and the Director of the Physio Matters ecosystem. Jack graduated in 2008 from Plymouth University before settling into a specialty in Rheumatology. Jack is a teacher at heart offering full day courses on rheumatology, alongside his clinical work and his extensive work with Physio Matters podcast and …
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342: Coaches Corner: Dick Telford (AM) REWIRED - Sports Scientist, Physiologist, Distance Running Coach
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1:01:10Dick Telford was the first Sports Scientist appointed by the Australian Institute of Sport, he also worked alongside the Australian swim team and the Australian canoeing team as an Exercise Physiologist. Dick left the AIS Physiology Department to take up distance run coaching with the AIS track and field team. Dick was appointed the Australian athl…
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