ASCA Podcast #30 - Dr Chris Gaviglio

Chris Gaviglio is a senior strength and conditioning coach for the Queensland Academy of Sport. Chris has been involved with elite sport for over 15 years working across multiple Olympic sports and professional football codes in both the northern (Bath Rugby) and southern (Wallabies and Gold Coast SUNS AFL) hemisphere. He is also the Physical Performance manager for the Queensland Maroons Rugby league team. During his time in the UK (Bath Rugby), Chris was involved with UK Sport in multiple applied sports science projects. His major project involved monitoring salivary hormones (testosterone and cortisol) responses to competition and training in rugby union. This work has now been formalized into a PhD. Chris has several papers already published as a result of this work and also has a passion for blood flow restriction training. Chris brings a wealth of experience in the training of elite athletes and the application of sports science into athletic programs. QUOTES “For the first couple of years, I can remember thinking when am I going to get a break” “It’s (S&C) a people person industry and it’s a business” “When I see jump performance as a marker of readiness, I take it with a grain of salt” “For every degree change in muscle temp, there is a four degree change in muscle power” “You need to expose body to mechanical stress but when injured or you have bad joints/tendons, you can’t do that and that’s where blood flow restriction comes in” “All the work I was doing revolved around concentric contractions, but then you start to wonder about the eccentric and isometric worlds?” SHOWNOTES 1) Chris' start and first break in the industry 2) Testosterone and cortisol – behaviour, motivation and aggression 4) How you can manipulate testosterone and cortisol with a number of simple methods (e.g. affirmations from coaches) 7) Testosterones' poor correlation to jump performance 8) The essentials of warming up and passive heat maintenance 9) Blood flow restriction, calculating the best pressure to use and how to implement practically 12) The Cedric Dubler example of how effectively using different contraction types (i.e. eccentric, isometric and concentric) in programs 13) Environmental heat and improving performance 14) The perception of how you do your job PEOPLE MENTIONED Scott Murphy Christian Cook Scott Drawer Ben Rosenblatt Butch James John Connolly Cedric Dubler Ben Harradine Anatoly Bondarchuk Angus Ross Alex Natera Jared Coleman Stark Tom Walsh