Inner Athlete Podcast
The Inner Athlete Podcast is were we discuss all things youth athlete development and youth mentoring for parents, coaches, and youth athletes. Each week Trent and the team present new topics. We discuss areas on how we can best support youth athletes in terms of their physical preparation for competition, developing habits to create long-term success, return to training from injury, overcoming physical, delving deeper into the preparation of some of our athletes, and much more... Be sure to subscribe to stay up to date with the release of weekly episodes.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 122
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Ep. 22 - How Undereating And Overtraining Affects Youth Athletes
Head strength coach, Trent, chats with strength coach Zoe around all things RED-S (Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport) and it’s prevalence in youth sport. They discuss how coaches, parents and athle…
Ep. 21 - How Running Technique Affects A Young Athlete's Sporting Performance
Head strength coach, Trent chats with Head of Education, Nathan about how junior athletes can become uncoordinated in their running as they go through puberty and growth spurts. They go through what …
Ep. 20 - Understanding Motivation For Your Young Athlete's Success
Head coach Trent, joined with Dave, chatted with Stephan Koutsonas, a member of Inner Athlete, who is a qualified psychotherapist who works with youth and individuals with disabilities. Stephan's und…
Ep. 19 - How to Help Young Athletes, Set, Pursue and Achieve Their Goals
Head Strength Coach Trent chats with coaches Matt and Dave about the different types of goal setting to help young athletes achieve sporting success. They discuss process and outcome based goals, wha…
Ep. 18 - *BONUS* Rugby League Player Nic Flocas' Advice For Young Athletes
In our special edition bonus episode, Greek national team representative, Nic Flocas shares his wisdom and experience for youth athletes aspiring for elite and national teams. He speaks about appreci…
Ep. 17 - How To Help Injured Athletes Back To Full Performance
Head Strength Coach Trent and Strength & Conditioning Coach Zoe discuss returning from injury and the mental, social and training considerations that should be addressed when your young athletes exp…
Ep. 16 - From Melbourne to Representing Greece in the Rugby League World Cup - A Young Athlete's Journey
Trent Pirihi, Director of Inner Athlete Performance speaks with previous member and current Greek National Team representative in the Rugby League World Cup, Nic Flocas. They discuss Nic’s journey th…
Ep. 15 - Proven Strategies To Boost Your Young Athlete's Performance
Strength Coaches Trent and Nathan discuss the often overlooked but proven strategies that work when improving youth athlete performance and sporting success. This includes the physical, tactical, te…
Ep. 14 - Finding The Right Strength & Conditioning Coach For Your Child
Head Strength Coach Trent chats with Strength Coach Dave about the three things parents and athletes should know when finding the right coach for their child to improve their sporting performance. Th…
Ep. 13 - A Review of the Victorian Junior Championships and Considerations For Coaching Swimming Youth Athletes
Head strength coach Trent chats with strength coach Matt about how their athletes performed at the recent Championships. They cover the specific programming, coaching, training and nutritional consid…
Ep. 12 - The Common Mistakes AFL Youth Athletes Make That Affect Their Sport Performance
Head Strength Coach Trent and Coach Matt discuss what exercises are useless, the mistakes athletes are making with their nutrition and how they can make their strength training more effective. If you…
Ep. 11 - Why Comparison Can Be Holding Your Young Athlete Back!
Head Strength Coach Trent and Coach Dave discuss how comparison can hide your young athlete's achievements and highlight their shortcomings, making their perception of progress and performance, a neg…
Ep. 10 - Celebrating The Little Wins
Head strength coach Trent chats with strength coach Matt about celebrating the little wins, reframing loss and how to take lessons from difficult events. This is one for all athletes and coaches to l…
Ep. 9 - Are You Missing Training Sessions? (Coach Zoe)
Head strength coach Trent chats with Zoe about the impact of missing sessions due to sickness, stress, under recovery and general happenings of life. How can youth athletes work around stressful trai…
Ep. 8 - Is Early Specialisation the Key to Successful Pro Athletes?
In this week's episode, Trent chats with Nathan about early specialisation and it's effect on producing successful pro sport athletes such as Tom Brady, Ash Barty and Scott Pendlebury who all played …
Ep. 7 - Losing Is Better and Reframing Failure
In this week's episode, Trent chats with Dave around reframing failure and why failure is the forgotten ingredient to success in early youth development. Learning to lose, processing failure and crea…
Ep. 6 - Training and Your Menstrual Cycle (Coach Zoe)
In this week's episode, Trent chats with Coach Zoe to talk all things menstrual cycle, it's effect on performance and how you can best manage your training and competition around how your cycle affec…
Ep. 5 - Debunking Supplements and Are They Worth It?
In this week's episode, Trent chats with Dave about all things supplements. We chat about the common supplements we see our youth athletes are exposed to and how it can have a negative affect on perf…
Ep. 4 - Fitness Myths for Youth Athletes Part 2
In this week's episode, Trent chats with Nathan about their experiences of the common fallacies and myths they've seen in the fitness industry surrounding youth athlete development. In this two part …
Ep. 3 - Fitness Myths for Youth Athletes Part 1
in this week's episode, Trent chats with Nathan about their experiences of the common fallacies and myths they've seen in the fitness industry surrounding youth athlete development. In this two part …