SPP Episode #3 with Nick Winkelman

Nick Winkelman is the Head of Athletic Performance & Science at
the Irish Rugby Football Union. He has earned a PhD from Rocky
Mountain University with an emphasis in motor learning and
sprinting. Nick is formerly the Director of Education and
Performance at EXOS where he headed the NFL Combine Prep and worked
with athletes from the MLB, NBA, NHL. We'll cover aspects of the
demands of rugby and how to meet these demands through speed
training, the weightroom, and conditioning, weekly setups for the
off-season and the in-season and the types of monitoring tools the
rugby teams are using and how they are implementing and making
changes in training based on those tools.