I still think that there's so many things I don't know that that's why I I do what I do to find out more to learn so I see my job as

Being very fortunate because allows me to learn this is why I do what I do because I so I can learn something every day

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dollars off your order. Okay, this week's conversation is with Dr. Marco Cardinale and he's the head of sports physiology of a Spire Academy in Doha and that's in Qatar. And he started his career in sports science as a strength and conditioning coach and went on to lead the sports science activities for the preparation of team great Britain at the Beijing Vancouver and the London Olympic Games and he's been an advisor to loads of companies government agencies including the year

European Space Agency and professional sport organizations and national governing bodies in five countries USA Italy Spain Sweden and the UK before he started his work in Qatar and in this episode we discussed making the most of opportunities how he's done it the way he thinks about it the structure that he puts in place to capture opportunities and we also talk about the self and pasta syndrome and we also dive into his evidence based approach to coaching this conversation

is rich there's lots to learn from Marco so Marco thank you for this conversation and he's just got a unique perspective that only comes from working all over the world immersing himself in different cultures as part of the ecosystem that creates greatness and with that let's jump right into this week's conversation with Dr. Cardinale Marco it's been a while since I've spoken to you last so I can't wait to catch up on what you're up to but also before we get started

is to spend a little time maybe unpacking for folks what exercise is in sports science is and maybe you can walk us through some of the basic highlights of how you think about sport physiology and then we'll get into where you are what you're doing now

to explain to explain what sports science sports physiology is it's an interesting aspect because I kind of evolved in my career I'm now head of sports physiology but in reality I've been probably a generalist sports scientist so if we can probably define sports science is the use of a scientific approach to identify areas of improvement for athletes and coaches

ranging from how they train how they eat how they analyze their performances to equipment development what can they wear what can they use to to make them better so over the course of my career I've been exposed to a variety of allergies within sports science you know by mechanics and physiology and nutrition etc and at the moment my role here at Aspire Academy in Qatar is to look after physiology and biochemistry

what that means is that we perform a series of activities to either evaluate the athletes assess their progress in terms of how their physiological profile changes as an effect of training and growth

develop new technologies to assess athletes in training or in competition in terms of their physiological makeup or physiological responses

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