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Reboot & Recovery: Lessons from Performance, Sports Medicine & Science for post-lockdown
How have we adapted to life during lockdown? What secrets can we learn from the world of sport as we emerge from our global time-out as we try to reboot and recover.
Speaking at a recent online event, David along with Mark Langtry, Head of Science & Sport at Explorium Ireland discussed wellbeing, adaptation and performance. With help from special guests from the world of sports, science and arts they shared insights to help us reboot and recover after lockdown and tips for emerging from a global time-out.
Keynote Summary.
Build Better Habits
Hear about the leaders of habit building and knowledge such as Angela Duckworth, Charles Duhigg, BJ Fogg and James Clear. Learn about behaviour change and how to turn outcome-based habits into identity-based habits. It’s about compound interest, getting 1% more each day, embedding routines and doing what is important for you to become the person you want to be.
Life lessons from Sport for Business
Learn about the main themes distilled from the podcast “Sleep Eat Perform Repeat” and how they can be adapted to the corporate and business world. Lessons discussed with examples include Resiliency, Peak Performance, Mindset, How to face and tackle Adversity, Perseverance, Mental toughness and so many more. Take in these rich stories of successful high performing athletes and what makes them tick.
Finding Flow for Peak Performance
Flow follows focus. Learn about what flow is, and how it leads to peak performance and increased productivity whilst also decreasing procrastination and distraction. Corporate athletes will drink this in. Triggers for flow states, individual v group flow dynamics, routine checklists and evidence are some of the topics discussed.
A Leadership Journey
This is a story about what makes a leader, why lead and how to become a leader. Learn about leading beyond authority to create societal change and impact outside your sphere of control. Build intrinsic motivation and open yourself to cognitive diversity and collaborative enquiry. Find your tribe and community to build your own select leadership group.
High Performance Culture
This is a very engaging and immersive session involving a team murmuration exercise in order to get to the core values and essence of what is important to drive high performance for the individual and team as a whole. There will be moments of reflection, quiet contemplation and thought all interspersed with dynamic communicative whiteboard sessions to distill the very heart of how to drive high performance into your culture and environment consistently.
Injury Prevention Strategies
Learn about the key elements of injury prevention be that strength and conditioning principles of muscle health along with load management guidelines. Recovery models and sleep will also be referred to for not only preventing injuries and pain, but also improving your day to day performance potentially.
Injury Management Techniques
Combining career experience and scientific research from physiotherapy and sports medicine this talk details the methods and techniques used by high performing individuals to optimally recover from injury and manage on-going injuries. Frameworks and concepts to manage acute and sub-acute injuries plus load management principles for chronic injuries will be key learning points.
Mobility For The Workplace
A vital aspect of health is our ability to utilise our bodies effectively in daily tasks and hobbies. Joint mobility, muscle flexibility and overall pliability is integral to physical wellbeing. This talk will be very practical and engaging with micro-interventions performed to help improve your physical capabilities and quality of life. Screening for mobility deficiencies, targeted postures and corrective exercises will be discussed, including evidence from the Titleist Performance Institute and “The Ready State” mobility specialisation that David has completed.
Exercise Is Medicine
The World Health Organisation declare “Exercise is Medicine”. Learn about the importance of incorporating exercise into your routine and making it a habit of your day. This talk will help you understand the many benefits of exercising both from a physical and mental perspective.
A Rehabilitation & Return to Play Pathway
This talk will centre on the key principles of rehabilitation and how to be effective during a programme focused on returning to play and competition. Each part of the rehabilitation model will be elaborated upon and built upon to culminate in benchmarks for return to play criteria specific to the sport.
“David is truly exceptional by many measures. He has a remarkable thirst for learning and inquiry. This marks him out from the get go. His professional transition(s), from outstanding physiotherapist to trusted advisor to world class & elite athletes and coaches/managers is testament to his outstanding relational skills and professionalism. Increasingly, delivering innovative and impactful wellness session in the Corporate world demonstrates his excellent ‘range’’. I would highly recommend him if you are looking for a man with an outstanding capacity to make an energetic difference to you, your team or organisation”
Presenting at the Camp Nou Stadium, Barcelona, Spain
Sports Medicine Presentations:
“Epidemiology of Basketball Injuries” – Basketball Summit, Wurzberg, Germany, Feb 2020.
“Combining hydrotherapy and gym exercises during the rehabilitation phases” – XXVII International Conference on Sports Rehabilitation and Traumatology, Camp Nou, Barcelona, June 2018.
“ACL rehabilitation strategy- elite sport” – Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health, London, Apr 2018.
“Rehabilitation criteria allowing safe return-to-play” – Fortius International Sports Injury Conference, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London, Sept 2017.
“A new direction for Neuro-Motor Exercise training” – XXVI International Conference on Sports Rehabilitation and Traumatology, Camp Nou, Barcelona, May 2017.
“Preventing shoulder injuries in the sporting population” –Royal Society of Medicine, London, Jan 2017.
“Screening for Injury Prevention- elite sport” – American School of London, Nov 2016.
“Innovative approaches to shoulder prevention and management in elite rugby” – Rugby Summit, Twickenham Stoop, London, May 2016.
“Functional training approach: progression from the beginning to RTP” – XXV International Conference on Sports Rehabilitation and Traumatology, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London, Apr 2016.
“Rehabilitation and return to play for groin injuries” – Isokinetic, London, Jan 2016.
“Rehabilitation and return to play for an adductor injury” –Royal Society of Medicine, London, Jan 2016.
“I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know David over the past six years during my tenor with the San Antonio Spurs. David assists in monitoring our international players and is always extremely thorough and professional in his interactions and communications. He is an excellent clinician and a forward thinker for our profession of physiotherapy”
“My love for public speaking starting with debating in school and winning an award for a talk about Michael Jordan when I was 16”