About this episode
James Tatham discusses his role in strength and conditioning for elite athletes at the Australian Institute of Sport.
James Tatham is a senior strength & conditioning coach at the Australian Institute of Sport, where he helps prepare Australia’s very best, young basketball prospects with Basketball Australia’s Centre of Excellence and Gymnastics Australia’s Male Artistic Gymnastics National Training Centre (MAG NTC) athletes. James has also worked for Tennis Australia, Volleyball Australia, NSW Warratahs and Canberra Institute of Technology. James has completed a Bachelors Degree with Honours in Exercise Science and is an accredited Elite Level 3 Strength and Conditioning Coach. QUOTES "The narrative I push is that the weight room is for supplementary training to help unlock new higher difficulty scores to make gymnastics feel easy and to lengthen the career window" "I think as coaches we're nurturing an environment to unfold a challenging future that's very uncertain" "Training happens around high days being high, low days being low all based on gymnastics apparatus bias" "A lot of incline press that correlates really well to a lot of what gymnasts do on the parallel bars and the pommel" "I think there's some other things we can learn from gymnastics as well, the way they have difficulty scores…
People in this episode
Host: Joseph Coyne
Guest: James Tatham
Topics covered
- strength and conditioning
- elite gymnastics
- athlete development
- basketball training
- performance enhancement
Keywords
- strength training
- gymnastics
- basketball
- athlete performance
- exercise science
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Australian Institute of Sport, Basketball Australia, Gymnastics Australia, Tennis Australia, Volleyball Australia, NSW Warratahs, Canberra Institute of Technology
Places: NSW
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