Introducing: Total Performance Podcast with Siobhan Milner

I am thrilled to introduce the Total Performance with Siobhan Milner podcast. This podcast is dedicated to all things athletic performance and injury prevention. I’m a strength and conditioning coach, currently working with the Dutch Olympic Team, with a background in exercise and rehabilitation science.

I’m a huge believer in the benefits of movement for everyone from all walks of life, but I particularly like to get nerdy about athletic performance and injury prevention, so that’s primarily what this podcast will be focusing on. Over the last decade or so of working with athletes and performance artists, it’s become really clear to me that performing at a high level requires so much more than great training.

How to Return to Exercise after COVID-19 Infection

If you’re not a professional athlete (and therefore don’t have access to coaching staff and a medical team to monitor your training), it can be helpful to know the current guidelines on returning to sport after COVID-19 infection. As I’m sure we’re all aware – COVID-19 (“Corona virus”) is a relatively new virus. And with emerging variants, and more of the population being vaccinated, guidelines on how to return to training have changed a lot since 2020. Older guidelines suggested a slower return to sport. But the guidelines have changed.

With both widespread availability of vaccines, and the circulation of less deadly strains of COVID-19, the approach is no longer quite as conservative.

New Paper: Intensive care unit clinicians identify many barriers to, and facilitators of, early mobilisation

I’ll be honest – it feels almost insensitive to share this new paper in light of how overwhelmed ICUs and hospitals worldwide are at present in the wake of the … Continue reading New Paper: Intensive care unit clinicians identify many barriers to, and facilitators of, early mobilisation

Listen: Free Podcast with Siobhan Camille Milner on Avoiding Injury for Dancers

As many of you know, I create strength and conditioning programs and work closely with several endurance and team sport athletes to periodise their training programs to improve their performance. … Continue reading Listen: Free Podcast with Siobhan Camille Milner on Avoiding Injury for Dancers