David Joyce is one of the leading voices and practitioners in high performance sport. He has an extensive career in professional sport having worked in professional football with Blackburn Rovers FC & Galatasaray, in professional Rugby with Saracens and the Western Force, with both British and Chinese Olympic athletes with their respective institutes of sport as well as worked as Head of Athletic Performance for the Greater Western Sydney (GWS) Giants in the AFL. If that wasn’t enough, he has also co-authored two of the most well used books in the industry and now applies what he’s learnt from years working in professional sport across the globe by providing external consultancy services in both the sport and corporate sector. This is a deep conversation where we dive into his diverse career, the positive and negative impacts of being involved in sport and what he has learnt along the way that he now shares with some of his consultancy clients including the AIS, Victoria University and the City Football group.


Highlights from the episode…

• David shares how he ran every single day for a year, running a distance each day corresponding to the month of the year and why it was important for him to do that.
• After finishing his degree, he moved to the UK where he initially thought he’d be there 18 months which then led to a 10-year career in the UK working in various sports.
• The genesis of why he went onto study a masters and S & C and how bridging the gap between S & C and medical has been one of his assets.
• David is deep into the art of “bread making” and it provides an insight into how David thinks and fuels his curiosity.
• David is a veracious reader, we discuss reading and how it can have a positive affect on your own craft in sports.
• After a period with Blackburn Rovers, David took an opportunity to work with one of Australia’s most recognised footballers in one of Europe’s biggest clubs, Galatasaray.
• David share his personal philosophy to injury management and performance enhancement.
• What David learnt while working with Chinese Olympic athletes that has influenced his approach to maximising athletic characteristics.
• With David being exposed to the latest technology in both sport and cooperate, David shares where he’s sees AI being used and provides insights in the jobs that may be at risk with the growth of AI.
• David and I discuss the challenges of working in sport and he shares a personal challenge he faced when taking an enormous opportunity in China and the impact it had on his life outside of his career.
• What are you solving for in the long term?
• What excites David about the next 5 years in the industry.

David Joyce contact details:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-joyce01/
• One Track Mind Podcast: https://trackvu.com/podcast

People mentioned:

• Kay Robinson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kay-robinson1/
• Professor Sam Robertson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertsonsj/?originalSubdomain=au
• Rob Naish: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robnaishphysio/?originalSubdomain=au

Host: Luis Resa

Contact me on:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-resa-a975196b/
• Email: luis.resa@outlook.com

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