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We have a hard-hitting podcast today with Dr. Peter Tyranny.

Peter is from Ireland and coached rugby as a strength and conditioning performance specialist in the pro leagues of Irish rugby,

but also worked down in London and in the UK with soccer.

And in a sense, moved on to a more conventional role with a sportswear apparel company where he's a director of performance.

But interesting podcast, I'm really fascinated by how we developed rugby athletes and more importantly the demands. As an American football player here in America, we tend to be very siloed in what we do. But I've always been a fan of rugby as a sport that I never was exposed to until, obviously, I went to college and it was too late. But one I always wished I'd played. My brother got a chance to play, and I know he loved it. So

understanding the demands of training those pro athletes, what it takes to develop them,

and then also moving into soccer, which is a very different version. You know, obviously

both played with the ball, but the demands are very different. The athletes are very different.

The skill sets are very different. And then obviously moving into his new role as a director of sports science. So great conversation and a cool one. And so buckle up for this hard-hitting

podcast with Dr. Peter Tierney. What's your you know, I saw the doctor attached to it and health

and performance coach, sports scientists and researcher. Did all that really steep within rugby

and soccer and then you've since branched out and now doing other things? Yeah. So the PhD

was in like sports science and rugby union predominantly. So I started the PhD, did all of my data

collection in the rugby team that I was working in and then finished it whilst I was working in soccer.

So it was on, I guess, like a novel insights into like maximising performance in rugby.

And so there were elements of, I guess, like different training modalities or like interpreting some data as well.

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