"I’d love to know why you keep winning. If I can work that out, I’ll share it with you."
Jessica Ennis-Hill
What does it take to be an Olympic champion?
Performance Scientist Dr Steve Ingham knows: he’s supported over 1000 athletes, including Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent and Jessica Ennis-Hill.
Steve Ingham and Olly Mann at the Cheltenham Science Festival, 2018
In this insightful interview with Olly, he reveals how the tiniest details of an athlete’s training programme, the words and music used to motivate them, and even the occasional exposure to injury and failure can combine to create a world-class performance.
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Steve also hosts a podcast, Supporting Champions, which you can download here.
Meanwhile, in The Zeitgeist, Ollie Peart considers the phenomenal growth of ‘robocalls’ in the USA - and wonders whether this trend will soon infiltrate the UK too.
In this week’s Foxhole, Alix Fox advises a listener who wants to bring sensory deprivation into the bedroom. How should one go about introducing cuffs, blindfolds, and pinwheels to a less enthusiastic partner?
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Elsewhere, for this week’s Lifehack, Amanda Keetley from LessPlastic.co.uk offers up her Top 3 tips on how to eliminate single-use plastic from your life.
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Finally, our record of the week is ‘Wrestling’ by Self Esteem, available to stream now:
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