Working in sailing and striving to win the Americas Cup along Sir Ben Ainsley with Ben Williams (Head of Human Performance at Ineos Team UK)

Back to the traditional format for this podcast with Ben Williams. Ben is Head of Human Performance at the British Americas Cup challenging team, Ineos Team UK. Heading up that team is Sir Ben Ainsley who we speak a lot about and how he has influenced Ben's practice and mindset having worked with him for 4 years. This is one of the most interesting podcasts I have ever done and that is due to it being on the topic of sailing which I know nothing about and the Americas Cup preparations which sounds an incredible environment to be in. Enjoy!

In this episode, you will learn -

• Who is Ben Williams (background, education and current role)
• What its like to work in sailing
  • Involvement in the development of the tech
  • Americas Cup - What is it?
• Changing the goal posts every 4 years
  • Needs analysis
    • What does that look like
    • Research
    • Intrernships
  • Recruitment
    • Cultural as well as physiological and psychological considerations
• S&C
  • Training load monitoring
    • Changing on the fly
  • Commercial demands
  • Screening
• Sir Ben Ainsley

Ben can be found on Twitter @bgw82

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Enjoy

PP