Building Better Return-to-Play Processes | Peter Wright (Petey Performance)

That's very good because I think like all our previous experiences are really important in shaping where we are now and what we do now.

And it sets up a few bits around your system and your approach to partly coaching, but utilising coaching to return players to play and stuff.

A few bits I just want to jump into, like kind of smaller parts there.

You came largely from, like rugby was your sport growing up as you played.

Yeah, yeah.

You were more interested in starting off.

But then you started getting more and more GA players contacting you.

Is that because, you know, in your own opinion, there just are more GA players or there are potentially more injuries in GA or a bit of both?

I definitely don't think there's more injuries, to be honest.

I think it's probably a case that At the time, which was probably about 2020-2021, rugby was a good bit ahead of where Gaelic games were in terms of its approach to S&C.

And that's not talking at the elite, elite level of the inter-county, but in the club game.

So like most AIL clubs would have had an S&C coach on pitch or... taking their players through S&C throughout the year however in Gaelic Games it was still kind of the approach of right we'll get an S&C coach in for the pre-season for six to eight weeks and then we'll just allow the lads and ladies to do whatever they want for the rest of the season because now they're fit they can withstand whatever it is that we're throwing at them basically which we both know wasn't the case I think once I started speaking a language, because like all I've tried to do on social media is just share what I'm doing and share what I'm interested in and share what I'm learning and what I'm figuring out.

And when my language shifted from just solely focusing on rugby, because that was the main lens through which I saw things.

I started attracting more Gaelic footballers and hurlers and camogues because they were seeing that, oh, well, this is something different to what we have done previously.

And also like I was taking principles from all the experiences I had with not just in rugby, but with athletics and other sports as well, and just throwing them into Gaelic games set up and seeing what happened.

And some of that sounded mad to them.

Like, I remember the first time that I said to the lads that we were going to do our gym sessions and our pitch sessions on the same day.

And they were like, sure, there's no chance we'd be able to do that.

Sure, that's ridiculous.

Like, we need to do it now.

gym session on a Monday pitch on Tuesday gym session Wednesday pitch on Thursday off Friday match Saturday and I was like well no wonder you're battered if you're doing that and you're doing compound lifts across the week and now it's kind of common practice that people do it on the same day But like back then, that was kind of new-ish for them.

So they were receptive to...

There'll always be people that are kind of early responders and are going to be receptive to new things.

As well as that, like setting up the training, timing the training sessions, timing the times on drills, timing the times on rest periods, doing some speed microdosing and change of direction microdosing.

And previously, all the kind of speed work or the change of direction work that they'd done was maybe on...