Ep.82 - Dave Hancock: FA, NBA, NFL, MBL sports success, injury prevention and respect for hard work

Dave Hancock is a high performance coach with an impressive track record. Through an exhaustive knowledge of the human body and movement, he's worked with some of the most successful athletes, celebrities and businesspeople, such as U2, Daniel Craig, David Beckham, Odell Beckham Jr, England national football team, the New York Knicks, Washington Nationals, Chelsea FC, and more.

This episode is a lesson in high performance living.

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Hard work has been instilled in Dave Hancock from his parents. Through paper rounds, washing cars and working behind bars, effort brought Dave respect for the money that he'd earned.

Dave has always into fitness and sport. He was injured playing rugby to a high standard. From this, he saw a physio at a club and began taking an interest in helping others.

For work experience after school, Dave attended an RAF rehabilitation centre and saw how they rehabilitated soldiers coming back from serious injuries – he was hooked. He studied hard for his qualifications, earned his stripes working in hospitals and perused a career working in sport.

After building on his skills, he went for a successful four-day interview with Wolverhampton Wanderers football / soccer club, and started his professional career. Further success followed as he ventured Leeds United, and Chelsea, where his success story really took off before he travelled to America to be the performance director for New York Knicks basketball team.

In everything he's done, the focus has been on health, fitness, nutrition, performance and development, even when designing the training facilities themselves.

As a high performance coach, Dave Hancock specialises in rehabilitation, manual therapy, sports analysis of both training sessions and matches, injury prevention and more.

Whether managing director of a physio/rehab centre chain or consultant for the top sports teams, Dave knows when to advise and when to recommend someone in another area of expertise.

Most recently, Dave has taken up the role of CEO of Apollo, a complete sports data management system that's fully adaptable by the user. Schedules, rehab, workouts, game video, drawings and more can be sent directly to athletes via an interactive platform for both Apple and Android. Apollo is changing the way that people look at data and how it can support a team's performance.

Episode highlights -

• Why you need to think laterally and learn from sources that may not be traditionally accepted in your industry or profession.
• Why you have to change the landscape of where you are to stay at the top of what you do.
• What the work ethic is like for top-level celebrities that want to stay the biggest names in their respective fields. Tips on mindset and how to overcome any challenge when it comes to your competition.
• The difference between perceptions of being gifted compared to the hard work and the foundations that people put in to being as good as they can be.
• How talent and hard work from individuals contributes towards successful and effective teamwork, and what leaders can do to bring the best out of their people.
• Why mindset is so important and influential in everything you do when it comes to interaction, respect and results.
• The psychology of sport and how the same approach can be implemented in business.
• Why love, praise and support is so important to get the best out of people, especially when they fail.
• How Lady Gaga is the perfect model for diversifying talent, using it in different ways and maintaining success.
• Why you have to keep a lighthearted approach with everything you do, especially when dealing with the dynamics of a team in business. There has to be a release valve to the pressure of a hard working environment.
• What's the difference between a survivor and an innovator in business, and which one is more valuable to long-term progress?

Join Matthew Januszek in conversation with Dave Hancock…