Tim Mosey holds a Master of Exercise Science (Strength and Conditioning) from Edith Cowan University and a Bachelor of Applied Science (Human Movement Studies) from QUT. He is an ASCA Level 3 Master S&C Coach with over sixteen years of experience across Olympic, professional, and youth development sport. Tim is currently the Senior Strength & Conditioning Coach at the NSW Waratahs, where he leads strength, power, and speed development, as well as rehabilitation programming for the Super Rugby squad. He has previously served in high-performance roles at the Queensland Academy of Sport, the Tasmanian Institute of Sport, as Head of Athletic Performance - Academy for the Waratahs, and as Director of Athletic Development at Brisbane Boys’ College. He has supported athletes to Olympic and international success in diving, rowing, archery, water polo, and skeleton, including preparing athletes for the 2010 Whistler and 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games. Tim’s areas of expertise include strength, power and speed development, return-to-play programming, and long-term athlete development. He has contributed to the field through published peer-reviewed research, mentoring emerging coaches, and presenting at national conferences.
QUOTES
“I'm a reluctant rehabber. I find it the most challenging and frustrating part of strength and conditioning. It doesn't excite me. It challenges me. I find it difficult I guess and that's weirdly why I wanted to dive into it”
“If we're thinking about aerobic type work, you can break it down into whether you want to do extensive or intensive type work. So maybe extensive work where the length of your effort is a longer, straighter effort versus an intensive type effort where you might have more shuttle-based work.”
“I've always lived off this quote from an old colleague, Nick Lumley and his comment was when the bombs are going off, you don't want blokes who've just been running straight line MAS, you want guys who've been getting off the deck and shuttling. So I guess I'm biased towards a little bit more shuttle-based conditioning work than straight line work”.
“The challenge of rehabbing someone in season is the coach wants him back and there's the old adage of are we returning to play or returning to perform? I don't think that really applies in a lot of instances when we're getting guys back out on the paddock, particularly in-season. I would argue that we return blokes that aren't ready to perform a lot of the time but they're ready to go back and play”
“I would start generally in the backend of a reconditioning block with more aerobic based extensive work and that might involve longer straighter efforts with maybe one turn. I might progress that down to more intensive based conditioning work with more turns, same sort of work to rest ratios, but more change of direction and off deck work, increasing to intensive anaerobic type work as they get towards the backend of the last third and fourth weeks.”
SHOWNOTES
1) Tim’s time in strength and conditioning, from Tasmanian Institute of Sport to Brisbane Boys College and QAS to the NSW Waratahs
2) The basics of reconditioning and using an energy system adaptation led strategy
3) The simplicity of four-minute conditioning blocks and the importance of shuttle-based work
4) Skill work in re-conditioning?
5) Building back into contact after injuries, especially for shoulder cases
6) The difference between returning to play versus returning to perform
7) Reconditioning periodization and the use of extensive and intensive days
8) Tim’s favourite reconditioning drills and the challenges of adapting training to different athlete types within the same squad and sport
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Peter Culhane
Paul Larsen
Martin Buchheit
Nick Lumley
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Tim Mosey holds a Master of Exercise Science (Strength and Conditioning) from Edith Cowan University and a Bachelor of Applied Science (Human Movement Studies) from QUT. He is an ASCA Level 3 Master S&C Coach with over sixteen years of experience across Olympic, professional, and youth development sport. Tim is currently the Senior Strength & Conditioning Coach at the NSW Waratahs, where he leads strength, power, and speed development, as well as rehabilitation programming for the Super Rugby squad. He has previously served in high-performance roles at the Queensland Academy of Sport, the Tasmanian Institute of Sport, as Head of Athletic Performance - Academy for the Waratahs, and as Director of Athletic Development at Brisbane Boys’ College. He has supported athletes to Olympic and international success in diving, rowing, archery, water polo, and skeleton, including preparing athletes for the 2010 Whistler and 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games. Tim’s areas of expertise include strength, power and speed development, return-to-play programming, and long-term athlete development. He has contributed to the field through published peer-reviewed research, mentoring emerging coaches, and presenting at national conferences.
QUOTES
“I'm a reluctant rehabber. I find it the most challenging and frustrating part of strength and conditioning. It doesn't excite me. It challenges me. I find it difficult I guess and that's weirdly why I wanted to dive into it”
“If we're thinking about aerobic type work, you can break it down into whether you want to do extensive or intensive type work. So maybe extensive work where the length of your effort is a longer, straighter effort versus an intensive type effort where you might have more shuttle-based work.”
“I've always lived off this quote from an old colleague, Nick Lumley and his comment was when the bombs are going off, you don't want blokes who've just been running straight line MAS, you want guys who've been getting off the deck and shuttling. So I guess I'm biased towards a little bit more shuttle-based conditioning work than straight line work”.
“The challenge of rehabbing someone in season is the coach wants him back and there's the old adage of are we returning to play or returning to perform? I don't think that really applies in a lot of instances when we're getting guys back out on the paddock, particularly in-season. I would argue that we return blokes that aren't ready to perform a lot of the time but they're ready to go back and play”
“I would start generally in the backend of a reconditioning block with more aerobic based extensive work and that might involve longer straighter efforts with maybe one turn. I might progress that down to more intensive based conditioning work with more turns, same sort of work to rest ratios, but more change of direction and off deck work, increasing to intensive anaerobic type work as they get towards the backend of the last third and fourth weeks.”
SHOWNOTES
1) Tim’s time in strength and conditioning, from Tasmanian Institute of Sport to Brisbane Boys College and QAS to the NSW Waratahs
2) The basics of reconditioning and using an energy system adaptation led strategy
3) The simplicity of four-minute conditioning blocks and the importance of shuttle-based work
4) Skill work in re-conditioning?
5) Building back into contact after injuries, especially for shoulder cases
6) The difference between returning to play versus returning to perform
7) Reconditioning periodization and the use of extensive and intensive days
8) Tim’s favourite reconditioning drills and the challenges of adapting training to different athlete types within the same squad and sport
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Peter Culhane
Paul Larsen
Martin Buchheit
Nick Lumley
Antonio Squillante earned a Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. With over a decade of experience as a strength and conditioning coach at both the collegiate and professional levels, he now works as an Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. In this role, he teaches evidence-based practice in the graduate program in Strength and Conditioning. Antonio is the Head of Sport Performance and Training for the USA Cycling National Track Sprint Program and serves as a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association Board of Directors. In addition to his academic and professional roles, Dr. Squillante is also a published author and an internationally recognized speaker and lecturer.
QUOTES
“If we look at the field of research, minimum effective dose is more technically called a dose response effect, meaning how much training load is necessary to see a significant increase in strength. So if I'm training someone, what's the minimum amount of volume, and intensity that is needed to drive adaptation?”
“I just don't want the idea of the word minimum to ever trick anyone or leave anyone to believe that it's very little volume by default. Minimum just says that among all possible combinations of load and intensity and sets of reps and frequency for any individual at any point in their career, we're going with the bare minimum that works.”
“The notion of strength and conditioning can be somewhat deceiving because it makes it sound like when it comes to the neuromuscular side of things, our goal is strength. Our goal is never going to be, and it's not supposed to be strength. Our goal is speed and power. We build strength because strength supports speed and power.”
“That velocity will tell me throughout the week, from week to week, and all year round, when it's time to go up in volume, when it's time to go up in intensity, and when it's time to go up in frequency.”
"The single biggest change, biggest in the sense that added both the greatest impact on results, but also the biggest paradigm shift in the way I go about training was reevaluating the importance of aerobic conditioning in resistance training and strength and power athletes”
SHOWNOTES
1) Antonio’s back story and how his experience playing American football in Italy brought him to S&C
2) The concept of minimum effective dose and its background in dose-response models
3) The influence of volume and intensity on minimum effective dose
4) Feedback loops and monitoring dose response and fatigue with athletes
5) Using velocity based training (VBT) to prescribe and monitor training adaptation
6) How to use VBT to decide whether to add volume or intensity to an athlete
7) The positive impact of aerobic conditioning on strength and power and its relationship with athletes ability to handle greater resistance training volumes
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Dr. Brent Alvar
Carmelo Bosco
Keijo Häkkinen
Fred Hatfield
ASCA Podcast
Tim Mosey holds a Master of Exercise Science (Strength and Conditioning) from Edith Cowan University and a Bachelor of Applied Science (Human Movement Studies) from QUT. He is an ASCA Level 3 Master S&C Coach with over sixteen years of experience across Olympic, professional, and youth development sport. Tim is currently the Senior Strength & Conditioning Coach at the NSW Waratahs, where he leads strength, power, and speed development, as well as rehabilitation programming for the Super Rugby squad. He has previously served in high-performance roles at the Queensland Academy of Sport, the Tasmanian Institute of Sport, as Head of Athletic Performance - Academy for the Waratahs, and as Director of Athletic Development at Brisbane Boys’ College. He has supported athletes to Olympic and international success in diving, rowing, archery, water polo, and skeleton, including preparing athletes for the 2010 Whistler and 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games. Tim’s areas of expertise include strength, power and speed development, return-to-play programming, and long-term athlete development. He has contributed to the field through published peer-reviewed research, mentoring emerging coaches, and presenting at national conferences.
QUOTES
“I'm a reluctant rehabber. I find it the most challenging and frustrating part of strength and conditioning. It doesn't excite me. It challenges me. I find it difficult I guess and that's weirdly why I wanted to dive into it”
“If we're thinking about aerobic type work, you can break it down into whether you want to do extensive or intensive type work. So maybe extensive work where the length of your effort is a longer, straighter effort versus an intensive type effort where you might have more shuttle-based work.”
“I've always lived off this quote from an old colleague, Nick Lumley and his comment was when the bombs are going off, you don't want blokes who've just been running straight line MAS, you want guys who've been getting off the deck and shuttling. So I guess I'm biased towards a little bit more shuttle-based conditioning work than straight line work”.
“The challenge of rehabbing someone in season is the coach wants him back and there's the old adage of are we returning to play or returning to perform? I don't think that really applies in a lot of instances when we're getting guys back out on the paddock, particularly in-season. I would argue that we return blokes that aren't ready to perform a lot of the time but they're ready to go back and play”
“I would start generally in the backend of a reconditioning block with more aerobic based extensive work and that might involve longer straighter efforts with maybe one turn. I might progress that down to more intensive based conditioning work with more turns, same sort of work to rest ratios, but more change of direction and off deck work, increasing to intensive anaerobic type work as they get towards the backend of the last third and fourth weeks.”
SHOWNOTES
1) Tim’s time in strength and conditioning, from Tasmanian Institute of Sport to Brisbane Boys College and QAS to the NSW Waratahs
2) The basics of reconditioning and using an energy system adaptation led strategy
3) The simplicity of four-minute conditioning blocks and the importance of shuttle-based work
4) Skill work in re-conditioning?
5) Building back into contact after injuries, especially for shoulder cases
6) The difference between returning to play versus returning to perform
7) Reconditioning periodization and the use of extensive and intensive days
8) Tim’s favourite reconditioning drills and the challenges of adapting training to different athlete types within the same squad and sport
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Peter Culhane
Paul Larsen
Martin Buchheit
Nick Lumley
