Siobhan Milner: Athletic Performance and Rehabilitation

It’s my birthday 🎈 I am always grateful for another year; it is a privilege to grow older.

Honestly I was feeling a little low, because birthdays can be tricky when the people you love are scattered across the globe. But I’m lucky that many of them are also here, and August always turns into a birthday month with all the reunions 🎂

One of my mates also reminded me just how much has happened this year. And in so many things, I’ve been surrounded by people I love. Thanks for being there, friends and whānau 💙

🇦🇺 🇳🇿 💕

Endeavouring to remember that the unknown isn’t something to fear, because I’m hurtling towards it just as it hurtles towards me (and it doesn’t know me yet either)

Why I am always talking about how many Siobhans I am lifting…

Relative strength can have a few different meanings, but in this case I am talking about strength relative to bodyweight. And you won’t just see strength normalized for bodyweight either; you’ll also see power outputs (like wattage in cycling) normalized too, which is why I usually present that data to athletes WITH their watts/kg result - that’s what I’m more interested in seeing. Because of course your FTP is gonna go up if you’ve put on mass. Has it also increased relative to that mass? That’s what we wanna know.

Also lol if you are a coach who has worked with people, take a look at what that blog post on slide 2 has said are “achievable” weights in standard gym settings. (If you’re not someone who has coached, please do not be dissuaded by these ridiculous claims in slide 2 🫶).

Not an April post, nor a May post, but a secret third thing (An “All the Lives I’ve Lived since the Elfstedentocht” post)