AFL Performance Tips for Strength & Conditioning Coaches & Footballers
Sep 6, 2026 · 49 min · 13 segments
🔑 Highlights from the episode: - Is data overload quietly overwhelming performance teams? - Why saying nothing is sometimes the smartest call - Your players are fit, just not fit yet - The big…
Chris BarnesGuest
Jack McLeanHost
more often than not we'll see that or we'll hear that when a new coach joins the club invariably they bring the new coach in because they feel they're going to bring something different And part of that difference is the way that they conduct training.
And so in relative terms, what you've got is similar external load, but the internal response is different.
These players are fit, but they're just not fit yet for the way that you want to work.
It's going to take a little while, a couple of weeks maybe, for them to acclimatise to what it is that the new head coach is looking for and for their internal responses to re-equilibrate.
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more often than not we'll see that or we'll hear that when a new coach joins the club invariably they bring the new coach in because they feel they're going to bring something different And part of that difference is the way that they conduct training.
And so in relative terms, what you've got is similar external load, but the internal response is different.
These players are fit, but they're just not fit yet for the way that you want to work.
It's going to take a little while, a couple of weeks maybe, for them to acclimatise to what it is that the new head coach is looking for and for their internal responses to re-equilibrate.