Recovery, load monitoring and a decade working at the biggest football club in the world

"You are not trying to predict injury, you are trying to understand the athlete in front of you" Introduction In episode #334 of the Pacey Performance Podcast, Rob sits down with Robin Thorpe to unpack what high-performance sport science actually looks like in an elite environment. Drawing on a decade at Manchester United and subsequent consultancy work, Robin provides a rare, honest insight into monitoring, decision-making, and the realities of working with world-class players and coaches. This is not theory. It is applied, iterative, and built on years of questioning, testing, and refining. ...