59 Dr. Steve Ingham - How to Support a Champion
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This week, Matt has an in-depth Coaches discussion with Dr. Steve Ingham, author of the best selling ‘How to Support a Champion: The art of applying science to the elite athlete’, discussing and inspiring the importance of learning and adapting to reach our maximum potential.
Dr Steve Ingham is considered 'performance royalty,' as one of the UK’s leading figures in sport and one of the world’s leading performance scientists. He is steeped in high performance and has been integral to the development of Britain into an Olympic superpower.
Steve has gained high-performance insight working at the British Olympic Association from 1998 to 2004, where he was Senior Sports Physiologist and Sports Science Manager; and at the English Institute of Sport, from 2004 to 2016, where he was Head of Physiology and latterly the Director of Science and Technical Development, leading a team of 200 scientists in support of Team GB and Paralympics GB. Ingham holds a BSc, PhD and is a Fellow of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences.
Today, Dr. Ingham and his team lead Supporting Champions, a company working in high-performance sports and businesses to support and champion you, your teams and systems.
To learn more about Dr. Ingham and Supporting Champions:
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life. And greetings once again. |
| 0:21.6 | This is the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | And as ever, your host, Matt Dixon. |
| 0:26.1 | And today, well, we've got a special guest. |
| 0:28.5 | We've got a titan of British sports performance. |
| 0:32.5 | It is Steve Inham. |
| 0:33.8 | And Steve was the science director of the English Institute of Sport. |
| 0:40.3 | He was the science manager of the British Olympic Association. So what does that mean? |
| 0:41.3 | Well, Steve basically oversaw the progression of British athletics, British cycling, |
| 0:47.3 | and many other British sports in their Olympic success over the last years. |
| 0:52.3 | Under Steve, we have 200 athletes that have achieved world |
| 0:56.2 | or Olympic medal success. We have the best British medal hall ever in a single Olympics and the only |
| 1:02.3 | country to ever go from hosting the games and improving on their medal count in the subsequent |
| 1:08.2 | games in Rio in 2016. Some of the athletes he's worked with, |
| 1:12.1 | Jessica Ennis Hills, Sir Steve Redgraves, Sir Matthew Pinson, and many, many more. As you'll find |
| 1:18.2 | out, Steve is an incredibly interesting guy. It's not just about sports performance. It's about life, |
| 1:24.4 | work and sports performance at the very highest level. |
| 1:28.1 | We have a wonderful conversation and in fact we go on for quite a long time. |
| 1:32.8 | And so today we're not going to do the jingle. |
| 1:35.4 | We're not going to do Word of the Week. |
| 1:37.0 | We're going to dive right into the meat and potatoes with my conversation with Steve. |
| 1:41.2 | We'll come back to Word of the Week next week. |
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