ASCA Podcast #148 - Sam Drummond

Sam, welcome to the ACA podcast.

Thanks, Mish.

Pleasure to be here.

Excited to get into it.

Awesome.

Good to have you on, man.

What's your current role and what does it entail? Mate, I'm currently a strength and conditioning coach with Recon at the New South Wales Police Force.

So Recon is our in-house rehab and recovery program.

We have a few clinics across the state.

Each of them has a S&C coach.

We've got some physios and we've got some psychologists as well.

So Our goal is to have this one-stop shop for officers going through rehab.

We get them back to work and then support them, whether it be physical or psychological.

Beyond that, we also collaborate with other business units within the force and we provide education or training or testing, or sometimes it's just a sounding board for if they've got some ideas on how their units could improve their health and wellbeing.

And so it's got a lot of different factors, police officers.

Yeah, cool.

And what got you interested in SSE and how did you end up eventually working with tactical athletes?

Yeah, a bit of a roundabout story, but early high school, I found in the garage, a set of rusty old plates and an easy bar.

And it used to be go out the back, do some pushups, do about a million curls and then some sit-ups as well.

And that's kind of what got me into some degree of strength training.

And then as I progressed through high school, footy started getting a little bit more serious and I definitely wasn't the biggest guy at that stage.

And so looking at the players who were starting to pull ahead, they were bigger, they were faster, they were stronger and they were doing more work in the gym.

So I started to draw some of the links between that and go, okay, there's something to this about athletic performance and strength and conditioning.

And so I That was something I wanted to try and get into.

My footy career was very brief and not very exciting.