Building a Global High Performance Career with Jon Bartlett and Dr Martin Buchheit

About this episode

The episode explores the journey of Jon Bartlett in building a high performance career across various sports.

What does it take to build a career across the highest levels of sport and keep evolving along the way? Jon Bartlett has worked across football AFL the NBA and Olympic cycling building a career shaped by curiosity adaptability and a constant drive to learn. Rather than staying in one system Jon chose to explore different sports and environments to understand how high performance actually works in practice From hands on roles with athletes to leading global development systems and now working ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Paul Laursen, Martin Buchheit

Guests: Jon Bartlett, Dr Martin Buchheit

Topics covered

• high performance
• sports career
• adaptability
• learning
• athlete development

Keywords

• high performance
• sports
• career development
• AFL
• NBA
• Olympic cycling
• adaptability
• learning

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AFL, NBA, Olympic cycling

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