Applied sport performance, from the treatment room out.
Pacey Performance Podcast speaks to performance, medical, and sports science practitioners working inside high performance sport. Episodes stay close to the floor: force plates, calf loading, groin pain, goalkeeper testing, recruitment, and the decisions that shape return-to-play work.
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Pacey Performance Podcast is a sports performance interview show with a strong practitioner-to-practitioner feel. It is less interested in broad inspiration than in the decisions that shape training, rehab, monitoring, and hiring inside real performance environments. Recent episodes spend serious time on goalkeepers, groin pain, calf injuries, gut health, return to play, recruitment, and college football sports science. The level of detail is high. A discussion with Yoeri Pegel moves through lateral counter-movement jumps, lateral diving, center of mass displacement, three-dimensional force plates, and the limits of skill-specific testing. A conversation with Loren Landow works through rhythm, stability, sagittal-plane progressions, objective markers, and the point at which force plate or Catapult data becomes useful again. Tyler Lesher brings gut health into the recovery conversation, framing stalled adaptation and rehabilitation as problems that may require looking beyond external modalities. Enda King’s episodes focus on athletic hip and groin pain with a clear bias toward assessment, regression, pain response, and precision in finding an athlete’s entry point. Group discussions with Enda King, Steve Short, and Ed Gannon add monitoring, risk flags, training load, benchmarks, and pre-training or pre-game decisions. Mitchell Cholewinski’s episode shows sports science as an embedded role, with the work happening beside strength staff, coaches, and a college football roster. Brady Green’s calf injury episode gives the show another example of its preferred mode: anatomy and load demands translated into a usable rehab framework. The recurring pattern is clear. Guests are not just asked what they believe. They are asked how they test it, when they trust it, where they see it fail, and how they move an athlete forward without skipping steps. The show can be technical, but it rarely feels abstract. Its best moments come when a guest names the tradeoff: ecological validity versus standardization, objective data versus subjective movement quality, or ambition versus the need to regress an exercise far enough. That makes the podcast especially useful for listeners who work with athletes rather than merely follow sport science from a distance. It suits S&C coaches, rehab professionals, physiotherapists, and sports scientists who want applied reasoning from people in the field. The production often includes sponsor reads and conference references, but the core value is the working conversation underneath. Pacey Performance Podcast is dense, practical, and steadily curious about how high-performance sport actually gets done.
Made for: For S&C coaches, rehab professionals, physiotherapists, sports scientists, and performance staff who want detailed conversations grounded in athlete preparation and return to play. It also suits listeners ready for technical discussion without much hand-holding.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its insistence on practical reasoning: testing choices, regression points, monitoring markers, and coaching decisions are treated as connected problems. It gives guests room to explain the messy middle between research language and club-floor execution.
There are lots of voices in the coaching world. Few are as trusted as the Pacey Performance Podcast. Rob Pacey and his guests share the philosophies, ideas and insights in conversations that are the signal in the noise of the sport performance space.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It makes the reasoning behind performance coaching, rehabilitation and athlete testing unusually clear without stripping away the technical detail.
Pacey Performance Podcast turns high-performance sport into a working conversation about decisions: what to measure, how to interpret it, and when the evidence changes practice. The host gives guests room to explain their reasoning, then presses on the useful distinctions.
A goalkeeper's dive becomes a force question, and you get curious about what the jump test misses.
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A grounded look at why goalkeeper testing has to balance measurable capacity with the skill of the save.
Goalkeeping asks the body to solve a different problem, and this episode makes that difference easy to grasp. Yuri Pagel, now at San Diego FC after time at Ajax, explains why lateral jump capacity matters when a keeper has to shift the body's center of mass across goal.
A practical return-to-play discussion about rhythm, stability, and objective checkpoints after injury.
The piece follows Landau as he maps return-to-play work around temporal pattern, rhythm, stability, bend, awareness, kinesthetic awareness, and proprioception after injury.
A practitioner-led case for treating gut health as part of the recovery system.
Gut health is treated as a practical performance variable, not a wellness sidebar. Tyler Lesher, UCLA's athletic trainer for men's basketball, links nutrient malabsorption, chronic stress, and athlete-specific food inflammation to familiar problems: limited growth, poor…
A practical look at groin pain that keeps diagnosis, rehab, and load in the same frame.
The episode treats athletic hip and groin pain as a problem to assemble, not guess at. It pushes back on scan-only diagnosis, on making a squeeze test the final word, and on separating pubic bone, adductor, and other clues instead of reading them together.
A grounded look at how performance and medical hiring is framed.
Dave Clancy steers the conversation toward the practical side of recruitment and executive search in performance sport, especially the gray space between a genuine outreach and a conversation that is really about a move.
A sharp, practical look at testing lateral impulse in goalkeepers and what those results can actually tell coaches.
Goalkeepers occupy a narrow but important lane in performance testing: how quickly they can shift their center of mass sideways by creating lateral impulse.
A grounded look at how GPS data can move from distance covered to a clearer picture of how people run.
GPS can tell a performance team how far an athlete has run. Jason Webber, CEO and founder of SpeedSig, is more interested in what sits inside that distance: the shape, quality, and meaning of the movement itself.
Physiology translated into training decisions.
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Rob Pacey interviews Jason Webber, CEO of SpeedSig, for the third time on the Pacey Performance Podcast.
Ben Rosenblatt and James Collins discuss the role of external coaches in supporting athletes' long-term career development, contrasting UK and US approaches.
An interview with Chelsea FC physio Fergal Kerin about hamstring and T-junction rehab for athletes.
Rob Pacey interviews Yuri Pegel, Head of Physical Development at San Diego FC, about strength training for goalkeepers.
Yuri Pagel, head of physical development at San Diego FC after five and a half years at Ajax, argues that goalkeeper testing needs more than outfield-style jump profiles.
The conversation focuses on how to bring running back after an injury.
UCLA men's basketball athletic trainer Tyler Lesher argues gut health is the single most important factor in athlete recovery, ranking it above sleep, hydration, and load management.
The guest pushes back on diagnosis by scan alone.
Dave Clancy joins the host to talk through recruitment and executive search in high performance sport.
Experts discuss managing groin injuries in athletes, including risk identification, load monitoring, and rehabilitation strategies.
A roundtable discussion with three experts on using force plates for managing fatigue, assessing neuromuscular readiness, and aiding return to play in high-performance sport.
Sports scientist Mitchell Kolwinski discusses integrating sports science with strength staff and technology at University of Nebraska football.
This episode covers calf injury prevention and rehabilitation with expert Brady Green, providing a framework for practitioners.
Rob Pacey interviews three Exos coaches about their methodology, speed training insights, and overrated/underrated aspects of speed training.
Rob Pacey interviews Ted about preparing NFL players for pre-season and in-season, covering isometrics, eccentrics, conditioning, neck strength, and concussion risk mitigation.