Selwyn Griffith joins Mark on today’s episode. The two discuss accelerated hamstring reconditioning in team sport athletes. Selwyn, who has been with the Brisbane Lions Football Club for 8 years, has worked in a number of roles from osteopathy in the medical team, before transitioning to the performance department to work with the strength and conditioning coaches, and then head of rehab before finally landing in his current role as Performance coach. 

Selwyn and Mark discuss a more aggressive approach to reconditioning for his athletes who compete at the highest level in the AFL. Selwyn, who believes that athletes “aren’t going to get stronger lying on a table” has endorsed the prevention process in the gym setting to build robustness.

The statistics have proved Selwyn and his team are on the right track, with far lower rates of injury and reinjury for the players at the Lions, and he is confident in the system to build trust and bring the players into the process by getting them back on the training track as early as possible.

A true leader of industry who is aiding the Brisbane Lions, but also the wider sports science community in its drive forward with scientific based strength and conditioning programs. If only every club were lucky enough to have their own Selwyn!

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