Liam O'Shaughnessy’s Post

I’m happy to share that after a successful 3 month internship last year I’m back with United Rugby Championship 23/24 title winning Glasgow Warriors as a Athletic performance Intern full time for the 24/25 season! Grateful and extremely motivated for the year ahead!

Julian Liban 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

I’m delighted to have graduated in “Human Nutrition with specialisation in Sport & exercise” from the University of Glasgow. A tough but successful year with a lot of thanks to my peers, friends & family! “So there are two reasons to embrace what happens. One is that it’s happening to you. It was prescribed for you, and it pertains to you. The other reason is that what happens to an individual is a cause of well-being in what directs the world—of its well-being, its fulfillment, of its very existence, even.”

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve successfully completed my Master’s degree in Human Nutrition with sport & exercise specialisation at the University of Glasgow! 🎉📚 During this incredible and challenging journey, I had the privilege of undertaking two internships in the field of Strength and Conditioning (S&C): In August I secured an internship with semi pro Super 6 rugby team Boroughmuir Bears Bears. Travelling through to Edinburgh twice a week working with the Bears was an invaluable experience. I collaborated with their talented team, honing my skills in athlete performance optimization and injury prevention through pitch and gym based sessions. With an amazing coach in Angus Johnstone I learned a lot about the importance of subjective monitoring. In an industry dominated by GPS, VO2 Max and other testing equipment the experience with the bears allowed me to understand and appreciate the power of subjective monitoring that has lead too a successful run with the bears for Gus. A rewarding and important introduction to working within athletic perfomance and an exsprience I’ll remember long into my career. 🐻 In October reached a personal goal when I began interning with professional rugby union and URC title winning side Glasgow Warriors. At the Warriors consisting of a world class perfomance team, I was immersed within the technological side of sports science. My role saw me assisting in athletic development sessions with external workload monitoring such as on field GPS and speed gates after which I processed the information into the required format through Power Bi & excel. I also assisted in gym sessions and testing in the form of VALD force decks and velocity based measures through Gymaware. This internship was an important step which has intensified my abitition to keep pursuing this career and to be a part truly efficient multidisciplinary high performance team. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A challenging year that saw me working full time alongside university and internships but has pushed me to establish my own foundations of well-being and constantly setting goals for my own performance. The ‘Burnout’ term could easily have been thrown about but I was for sure more interested in not allowing myself to get there; setting goals and a daft amount of ‘google calendaring’ for me. While I can’t admit a healthy work life balance and a more chaotic frenzy at times, I believe I got everything out of this year I wanted from a professional and personal stand point. Big year ahead and some exciting opportunities to look forward to! #SportScience #Nutrtion #StrengthAndConditioning #MastersDegree #UniversityOfGlasgow #InternshipInSport #rugby