AFL Performance Tips for Strength & Conditioning Coaches & Footballers
Aug 2, 2026 · 23 min · 9 segments
Highlights from the episode: - The difference between linear periodisation and everything else - Why undulating periodisation bookends a training week - The periodisation model that rarely fits…
Jack McLeanHost
Then you've got the funnel periodization, which was made known to me from Andrew Russell.
And that's just a simple visual of at the start of a pre-season, we're at the top of the funnel and we're working on all the qualities, all the foundations.
So aerobic capacity, strength work, hypertrophy, power, and of course, all your technical, tactical work.
And then as we're getting closer and closer to February in the games, we're starting to get a bit more position specific.
Through Jack's program, the goal was to prepare for the combine.
And we did that by setting goals on what times I wanted to achieve for the 2K and stuff like that, all the other tests.
And yeah, so we had frequent Zoom meetings throughout to check on my progress.
Through Team Builder, he set a strength and conditioning program and ended up knocking off 40 seconds off my 2K, which was the goal.
And yeah, that was great.
It was a great experience and yeah, do recommend.
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Then you've got the funnel periodization, which was made known to me from Andrew Russell.
And that's just a simple visual of at the start of a pre-season, we're at the top of the funnel and we're working on all the qualities, all the foundations.
So aerobic capacity, strength work, hypertrophy, power, and of course, all your technical, tactical work.
And then as we're getting closer and closer to February in the games, we're starting to get a bit more position specific.
Through Jack's program, the goal was to prepare for the combine.
And we did that by setting goals on what times I wanted to achieve for the 2K and stuff like that, all the other tests.
And yeah, so we had frequent Zoom meetings throughout to check on my progress.
Through Team Builder, he set a strength and conditioning program and ended up knocking off 40 seconds off my 2K, which was the goal.
And yeah, that was great.
It was a great experience and yeah, do recommend.