Balancing scientific ’best practice’ with real-world constraints in football with Scott Guyett (Head of Sports Science and Strength & Conditioning at Crystal Palace FC)

In this episode of the Pacey Performance Podcast, I am speaking to Head of Sports Science and Strength & Conditioning at Crystal Palace FC, Scott Guyett. I am absolutely delighted to get Scott on the podcast today. Scott has incredible experience as a player and a coach, and he also holds his UEFA A license making his story really interesting. I wanted to make this episode as applied as possible so after listening you have some real insight into what goes on behind the scenes at Crystal Palace and hopefully that comes across. Scott and the guys at Palace are incredibly open and it shows in this episode.

Hope you enjoy this episode with Scott Guyett.

In this episode we discussed...

• Who is Scott Guyett (background, experience and current role)
• Balancing scientific 'best practice' with real-world constraints
  • What you guys do in each area and the process to get there
    • Recovery
      • Pre season vs in-season
    • Testing (pre-season and any in-season)
    • Daily/weekly monitoring
• The player to coach transition
  • Your own retirement
  • Player buy-in?
  • Empathy
  • Communication
• Fitness coach / coach combination
  • Your philosophy
  • Philosophical differences with traditional strength coach

Sam can be found on Twitter @scottyguyett

Keep up to date with everything that is going on with the podcast by following on Twitter @strengthofsci or visiting strengthofscience.com.

Enjoy

PP