<![CDATA[FitWise Podcast]]>The FitWise Podcast — honest conversations with the people building performance in elite sport.

Hosted by the FitWise team, each episode is a long-form conversation with Heads of Performance, sports scientists, S&C coaches, rehab specialists, and other practitioners working at the top of the game — across European football and beyond.

We talk about the things that actually shape a department's week: keeping athletes available, understanding and reducing soft-tissue and hamstring injury risk, making sense of load and data without drowning in it, return-to-play, biomechanics, coaching, and how technology is (and isn't) changing the work on the ground.

No hype, no silver bullets — just practitioners sharing how they think, what they've learned, and where the field is heading.

🎧 New episodes every two weeks. Full interviews here; clips and written breakdowns across our channels.

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]]>https://www.thefitwise.com/Riverside.fm (https://riverside.com)Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:05:16 GMTTue, 06 Oct 2026 08:29:33 GMT60FitWise AI<p><b><strong>The FitWise Podcast</strong></b> — honest conversations with the people building performance in elite sport.</p><p>Hosted by the FitWise team, each episode is a long-form conversation with Heads of Performance, sports scientists, S&amp;C coaches, rehab specialists, and other practitioners working at the top of the game — across European football and beyond.</p><p>We talk about the things that actually shape a department's week: keeping athletes available, understanding and reducing soft-tissue and hamstring injury risk, making sense of load and data without drowning in it, return-to-play, biomechanics, coaching, and how technology is (and isn't) changing the work on the ground.</p><p>No hype, no silver bullets — just practitioners sharing how they think, what they've learned, and where the field is heading.</p><p>🎧 New episodes every two weeks. Full interviews here; clips and written breakdowns across our channels.</p><p>Learn more about <a href="https://www.thefitwise.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">FitWise</a><br />Connect with us on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/fitwise-ai/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">LinkedIn</a></p>episodicFitWise AIsubscriptions@thefitwise.comno<![CDATA[Why Fatigue Is Football’s #1 Injury Risk | Tim Harkness (ex-Chelsea) — FitWise Episode #2]]>Fatigue is the number one injury risk in football — and still one of the least understood parts of the game.

In episode 2 of The FitWise Podcast, we talk with Tim Harkness, a sports and performance psychologist who worked for years in elite football, including at Chelsea FC. We get into the different kinds of fatigue and the timescales it builds over, how many real sprints a player actually has in a match, why an opponent’s fatigue is “golden information,” how much of the injury story is really a fatigue story, and the trust it takes between a sports scientist and a head coach to act on injury risk.

A conversation for anyone working in performance, coaching, or sports science.

Find Tim on LinkedIn (Tim Harkness) and at timharkness.info.
New episodes every two weeks.

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]]>10498a7d-0211-41b0-8d4f-9d1210687226Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:45:00 GMT<p>Fatigue is the number one injury risk in football — and still one of the least understood parts of the game.</p><p>In episode 2 of The FitWise Podcast, we talk with Tim Harkness, a sports and performance psychologist who worked for years in elite football, including at Chelsea FC. We get into the different kinds of fatigue and the timescales it builds over, how many real sprints a player actually has in a match, why an opponent’s fatigue is “golden information,” how much of the injury story is really a fatigue story, and the trust it takes between a sports scientist and a head coach to act on injury risk.</p><p>A conversation for anyone working in performance, coaching, or sports science.</p><p>Find Tim on LinkedIn (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/timharknesspsychology/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Tim Harkness</a>) and at <a href="https://www.timharkness.info/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">timharkness.info</a>.<br />New episodes every two weeks.<br /><br />FitWise <a href="https://www.thefitwise.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Website</a><br />FitWise <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/fitwise-ai/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">LinkedIn</a></p>no00:31:3812Why Fatigue Is Football’s #1 Injury Risk | Tim Harkness (ex-Chelsea) — FitWise Episode #2full<![CDATA[Balancing Data and Intuition in Elite Sport | Michael Clarkson — FitWise Episode #1]]>In this episode, Michael Clarkson, Vice President at Bloom Sports, shares insights on the evolution of performance departments in football, the importance of trust and communication, and how to effectively use data alongside intuition for athlete development.

Guest Michael Clarkson
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]]>22719122-cb1c-4645-8785-7a5d96342004Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:33:37 GMT<p>In this episode, Michael Clarkson, Vice President at Bloom Sports, shares insights on the evolution of performance departments in football, the importance of trust and communication, and how to effectively use data alongside intuition for athlete development.<br /><br />Guest <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbclarkson/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Michael Clarkson</a><br />FitWise <a href="https://www.thefitwise.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Website</a><br />FitWise <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/fitwise-ai/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">LinkedIn</a></p>no00:26:0111Balancing Data and Intuition in Elite Sport | Michael Clarkson — FitWise Episode #1full