Daily monitoring and the industry’s cautious approach to performance enhancement with Phil Glasgow

This week’s guest on the Pacey Performance Podcast is Phil Glasgow, Head of Physio and Rehabilitation for Irish Rugby. Phil is here to talk about centralised programmes, how to build them, and what the major challenges are. He also mentions areas that are best not to be centralised, and the key lessons to take away from centralised programmes that coaches can apply themselves. Phil also discusses daily monitoring systems, including exercises and metrics to watch out for. There’s also discussion into how coaches can better understand metrics and various exercises, and how Covid has had an impact on being able to monitor athletes on a daily basis. Finally, Phil lets us know why there has been an increase in calf injuries in rugby and football, and whether coaches have become more risk averse over the past decade. In this same vein, he tells us about how he feels recovery days should work for both pro and younger athletes. For all this and much more, hit the play button now. This week’s topics: Building a centralised system from a performance perspective The biggest challenges with a centralised programme Key lessons from centralised programmes that can be applied How Covid has impacted on daily monitoring systems What daily monitoring systems look like for Phil Glasgow Exercises and metrics to watch during daily monitoring How coaches can better understand what to pay attention to Why there has been an increase in calf injuries in rugby and football Phil’s views on whether coaches are becoming more risk averse Phil’s views on recovery days for athletes