The Track and Field Performance Podcast

Colm Bourke

English Education Health & Fitness Running Self-Improvement Sports

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Episodes 66

Avg. Duration 1h 13m

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Apple Rating ★ 4.7 (30)

Since Dec 2020

Latest Episode Jun 2026

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About This Podcast

Dedicated to giving coaches, athletes, and fans of Track and Field expert knowledge and insights from practitioners across the various event disciplines and domains of human performance.

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Recent Episodes

Jack Green: The Human Side of Athletic Performance and Coaching

Jun 07, 2026 1h 19m

Jack Green is a two-time Olympian, World and European relay medalist, European U-23 champion in the 400m hurdles, and now the lead coach for Saudi Arabia's long hurdles and sprint relay…

David Kerin: Fixing the Right Problem

May 15, 2026 1h 8m

David Kerin is a former collegiate coach, USA Track and Field national team administrator, and performance consultant. David brings a refreshingly unconventional lens to some of the sport's most…

Angus Ross: Enhancing Strengths & Weaknesses; Eccentric Training for Speed and Power

Mar 07, 2026 1h 12m

Angus Ross is the Strength and Conditioning and Power Physiology Lead with High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ), working with elite track & field athletes and multiple Olympic sports across…

Dr. Christopher Stanley: Mental Skills for Managing High Pressure Moments

Feb 07, 2026 1h 6m

Dr. Christopher Stanley (CMPC) is a sport and performance psychology professor at the University of Western States, former Lead Sport Psychologist for USA Track & Field across the Tokyo–Paris…

Ernie Clark, Bob Thurnhoffer, and Jason Wakenight: Training for the 400 meters

Jan 08, 2026 2h 22m

This episode brings together three coaches with documented success coaching the 400 meters and 4×400 m relay within the NCAA system.Ernie Clark, the Head Coach for sprints, hurdles, and jumps at…

Craig Pickering: Developing Elite Sprint Relay Teams and High Performance Systems

Dec 06, 2025 56m

Craig Pickering – former Olympic sprinter, Winter Olympian in bobsleigh, sport scientist, and now Director of Performance Sustainability at Athletics Australia – joins the show to unpack what it…

Marco Airale: Sprint Mechanics, Intensive Tempo Training, and Warm Ups

Aug 06, 2025 1h 12m

Marco Airale has been one of the fastest-rising elite sprint coaches of the past five years — and one of the youngest — guiding athletes like Reece Prescod, Andre De Grasse, Daryll Neita, Amy Hunt…

Paul Burgess: Vaulting from Elite Athlete to World-Class Coach

Jul 07, 2025 1h 29m

From being a 6 meter pole vaulter back in 2005 to coaching the 2024 Olympic gold medallist Nina Kennedy and 2023 World Championships bronze medallist Kurtis Marschall, Paul Burgess has transitioned…

Eamonn Flanagan: Key Principles Behind Effective Plyometric and Jump Training

May 19, 2025 56m

Eamonn Flanagan is the Head of S&C at the Sport Ireland Institute. In this episode, Eamonn shares deep insights from a career that spans elite Olympic (including track & field), Paralympic,…

Joseph Coyne: Giving the Athlete What They Need When They Need It

Mar 22, 2025 1h 13m

Joseph Coyne, PhD is the Director of High Performance & Sports Development, Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar and Strength & Conditioning Coach, Elite Sport Program & Swimming, Bond…

Chris Shambrook: How Psychological Preparation Fuels Performance, Confidence, and Resilience

Mar 01, 2025 1h 14m

Dr. Chris Shambrook, is a renowned expert in performance psychology with over five Olympic cycles of experience. In this episode, Chris shares his journey from earning a PhD in sports psychology to…

James Sandilands: The Art and Science of High Jumping

Feb 03, 2025 1h 23m

Athletics New Zealand track and field coach, James Sandilands is mainly known as the coach to the current World Indoor and Olympic champion in the jump, Hamish Kerr, but James's current crop of high…

Werner Prinsloo: Akani Simbine's Journey to 9.82 and 4th Place at the Paris Olympics

Jan 04, 2025 1h 18m

In this episode, I chatted with Werner Prinsloo, the coach behind South African sprinting sensation Akani Simbine who in his third consecutive Olympic 100m final, at the age of 30, ran a national…

Josef Karas: Nailing General Prep, Coaching Workhorses, and Battling Physiology

Dec 09, 2024 1h 16m

Josef Karas is a former Czech International Decathlete and a graduate of Kansas State where he worked under legendary coach Cliff Rovelto. Since transitioning into coaching, Josef has coached long…

Glenn Smith: Breakthrough Performances, Technical Qualities, and Coaching Philosophy

Nov 27, 2024 1h 25m

Glenn Smith is a former Canadian national champion and world championship semi-finalist in the 200m sprint. He holds a Master’s Degree in Exercise Science from the University of Texas at Austin and…

Gordon Bosworth: Wisdom from 40 years of Physiotherapy with Elite Athletes

Oct 13, 2024 1h 38m

Being the Chief Physiotherapist to UK Athletics/British Athletics at the London Olympic Games (2012) is just one of many major roles that Gordon Bosworth has undertook during his professional career.…

Dan Pfaff: Horizontal Jumps, Performance Testing, and Debriefing

Aug 01, 2024 1h 15m

Dan Pfaff is widely regarded as one of the most influential track and field coaches of all-time with over 50 years of experience. His thought provoking insights on sports performance concepts always…

Dublin Sprint: A Breeding Ground for Irish Olympic-Level Sprinters

Jun 27, 2024 1h 12m

Coaches Jeremy Lyons, Gerard O'Donnell, and Aideen Synott have created a high performing environment for sprinters in Ireland to thrive both collegiately and post-collegiately. Through years of hard…

Stuart McMillan: Influencing Sprint Performance

May 24, 2024 1h 52m

CEO of Altis and world class sprints coach Stu McMillan came back on the podcast to talk about the importance of pursuing what is interesting to you as an individual, the core features of high level…

Rolf Ohman: Elasticity, Transfer of Training, and Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD)

Apr 09, 2024 2h 23m

Rolf Ohman is a coach and innovator with over 35 years of experience in global sports such as Track and Field; he was a high level decathlete before beginning his coaching career. Between 2016 and…

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