The Petey Performance Podcast

This episode of the podcast is with AFLW superstar, Brisbane Lion & former Tipperary GAA dual-code athlete, Orla O'Dwyer.

Orla has just signed a new contract with the Brisbane Lions and is entering her 4th season with the club. We spoke about her training at the moment, her rehab process following shoulder surgery and how she recovers from training and games to perform at her best...

This episode is with Tyrone Senior Footballer, 2021 All-Ireland Winner and 2019 All-Star, Ronan McNamee.

We had a fantastic conversation about his own business endeavours, his current club training routine and the inter-county season.

Ronan gave many interesting insights into topics such as, the differences between club & inter-county players, the commitment it takes to play inter-county football & how the game of Gaelic football has changed over the years...

This episode of the podcast is with Gloucester Rugby winger and England international, Ollie Thorley.

With the 22/23 Premiership season kicking off in a little over a month, pre-season preparations are well underway. That was a major topic of conversation for this chat, along with how athletes should set personal goals, in order to optimise their own training in the lead up to competitive fixtures...

This episode of the podcast is with the founder & head of elite performance at Hytro, Dr. Warren Bradley. Before founding Hytro, Warren was a Performance Nutritionist in elite rugby union, league & association football, which meant we had plenty to talk about.

Hytro is the first blood flow restriction (BFR) wearable designed specifically to improve sports performance...

I am delighted to be joined by Irish 7s captain, Lucy Mulhall, on this episode of the podcast.

Lucy and the Irish team are currently preparing for the Rugby World Cup of 7s in Cape Town next month. We chatted about the team's intense preparations for the competition, as well as how important it was for them to qualify in order to put Irish women's rugby 7s on the biggest stage of all...

This episode of the podcast is with Australian S&C Coach and founder of Metric VBT, Jacob Tober.

Jacob is an expert in velocity-based training and has spent the last couple of years developing his own VBT tracking tool in the form of a smartphone application, Metric VBT.

He is constantly putting out quality insights into the benefits and utility of VBT on his Instagram and YouTube channels, which I've attached below...

This one was an incredibly tough one to record, but ultimately an important topic to talk about.

After my recent newsletter being extremely well received, I struck up the courage to talk about something that I haven't been comfortable talking about in the past.

Mental illness, stress and mental health disorders are a bit of a taboo subject in the coaching world...

This episode of the podcast is a full breakdown of how I approach in-season S&C for Gaelic Games.

I talk about how I structure the weeks & months of training, how I decide upon what will be done on each day and how I communicate that with the coaches so that they know what drills, games & exercises are appropriate for each session...

This episode of the podcast is a full breakdown of my recommendations for GAA athletes entering their off-season.

I speak about the importance of focusing on performance over outcomes during the season, before then going into detail on how long athletes should take off, when they should return to training and what they should focus on upon their return.

From gym-based training to speed & agility, skill-development to body recomposition, I cover it all here...

This episode of the podcast is with Head S&C with the Cork Senior Hurling team, Stephen Casey.

Stephen brings a wealth of knowledge to this conversation, which went in many different directions, as all good conversations do.

We spoke about some of Stephen's more unorthodox approaches to player monitoring, his abilities to converse with players on complex topics and his abilities to negotiate with management and adapt training to suit the needs of the team...