Podcast Off The Track

In today's episode, we sat with Jack Edwards and talked about his athlete career, how is it going the transition to coach and how is it going so far on this season for him and his athletes.

We had a special international guest today, Karolina Pahlitzsch a German 400m and 400m hurdles athlete. She competed in the mixed 4×400m relay at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha and she won the bronze medal in the team event at the 2019 European Games.

Our guest today is Anas Abu-Ganaba, 100m, and 200m sprinter competing now for Campbelltown Athletics Club. We talked about his early life in sports, how his season is going so far, and his experience training with Greg Smith (SpeedCity Training).

Today we sit down with Jordan Sarmento, Australian 400m sprinter. We talked about when he started running, how he came through in the track and field, his best performances throughout the last years, and what he expects for the next few years and the Olympic Games.

In this episode, we are joined by Ben Towers, he is a coach from Campbelltown Collegians Athletics Club, training athletes from Little Athletics to Para Athletes. He told us about his history at the club and how he started his career as a coach, his experiences training Para Athletes, and his life off the track working in a Hospital during this pandemic time in 2020.

Today we're joined by Sean Wroe, an Olympian 400m sprinter! He competed at 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and in 3 Athletics World Championships! Sean was also part of the team that won the 4 × 400 m relay at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. He anchored the team as they successfully defended their title at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. We talked about all of his life experiences and how he is doing now as a retired athlete.

In today's episode, we are joining with Steve Solomon! He is a 400m Olympic Finalist in London 2012 at age of 19, the first Australian man in his 24 years to reach the 400m Olympic final! We had an amazing conversation about his experience at the Olympics, World Championships, his graduation at Stanford and Duke, and how he managed to train, study and work at the same time while keeping a high-level performance.

Today we had a special guest, Jordan McKenna! He is the host of Vision Podcast, another podcast talking about Track & Field and bringing some track athletes to share their own stories.

Our guest today is Rohan Robinson, a former 400m hurdler and the actual Oceanian / Australian National Record holder for the event, with an incredible 48.28s, achieved in the 2nd semi-final at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

Peter Tsikas joined us again for this episode, he is an S&C/Performance Coach and we talked about injury prevention, strength conditioning, how important is the offseason training, and having a long-term training plan for building a high-performance athlete.

In today's episode, we sit down with the chairman of Athletics NSW Matt Whitbread and a previous guest and NSW athletics board member James Kermond alongside photographer and 1500m athlete Izzy Thornton-Bott.

In today's episode we talked to Jack Hake, 6th fastest man of all time Australia with 10.12s on the 100m. He run us through on the beginning of his career and his best moments so far, talked about the qualification for the Olympics and the experience of running at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

On this episode we sit down with James Kermond, Australian 400m-200m sprinter, he shared his stories about when he start running, how he came through in the sport, his experience training in Jamaica with Yohan Blake, Usain Bolt and etc... and las but not least his best performances so far.

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Today's episode we talked to Eric Sigaki, one of the top 10 sprinters in Brazil. He runs us through on his 20 years of track experience, and talk about the differences between training in Brazil and in America where he spend 4 years at San Diego - CA.

Today we caught up with Hayley Butler, she is our most decorated athlete so far and her story is truly an inspiration.

On this episode we catch up with Zac Zaineddine and Dominic Darko, both athletes are 100m sprinters in the 10 seconds club from Westfields Sports and training with the Project Elite track squad.

On today's episode we talk to James Pilkington from Proactive Spine & Sports Medicine who specialises in chiropractic and will be diving a bit deeper into what the body needs and how it moves in sprinting mechanics.

On today's episode we talk to Louise Cranston an Australian Heptathlete that went to USA to peruse her dreams, as she runs through those experiences we also chat with Lauren Beydoun, she is a new member into the Track & Field world and we discuss what she thinks of it.

On this episode we catch up with a couple more athletes from the project elite track squad. It's a bit of a sport cross over with Connor Johnson as a tennis player and Brooke Walker as a rugby league player.

On this episode we sit down and get to know our hosts Jack and Josh a little better. Sharing stories about growing up running, how they came through in the sport and what they have planned for the future.