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What strength & conditioning goals can you help with?
We have worked with all sorts of fitness & sporting goals and are especially confident with:
- Developing specific physical attributes for sports performance (e.g. strength, speed, power, stamina, mobility)
- Preparation for a specific goal or event (e.g. marathon, climbing trip)
- Improve body confidence to pursue physical activity or sport with less concern about pain or injury
- To be stronger & fitter in general
How do we coach strength & conditioning?
We have a multi disciplinary approach:
- Understanding how you move and how your sport or activity influences this
- Strength training & conditioning to prepare for the specific demands of your goals
- Movement skill challenges and exploring themes such as momentum, power and balance
- Mobility exercises to improve range of motion
- Managing overall training load to ensure you have enough energy to do all of your training and activities
- Programme design to optimise performance for your lifestyle
We are huge proponents of the performance benefits of holistic health and will help you to explore
- Everyday movement habits
- Sleep and recovery
- Nutrition and hydration
- Mindset and support networks
- Injury & pain management
What does the coaching process look like?
The first step is consultation and assessment. This always starts with a conversation, so we can get to know you and understand what your aspirations are. We will then do the relevant assessments such as movement and strength tests, range of movement screening and lifestyle questionnaires.
From here we will develop an action plan, which usually includes exercises, movement challenges, exploring new habits and perspectives. This is the beginning of the process of us working collaboratively. Every step of the way, we discuss and decide together the what, how and why.
We provide various coaching options. Based on the assessment, we will discuss what would be a good fit for you.
How much does it cost?
The first session is £70 and will be about 60-75 min. Following on from this, we have various options to suit different people’s needs.
What makes you great at strength & conditioning?
We’ve learnt about coaching through multi channels:
Professional qualifications from world class professionals Jarred Powell, Greg Lehman, The Chek Institute, Eric Cressey, Precision Nutrition and Kelly Starett. These cover a wide range of subjects including strength training, natural movement, mobility, nutrition, corrective exercise and holistic health.
Self-study and keeping up to date with current literature across multiple disciplines.
Coaching experience Over a collective 36 years of coaching, we’ve worked with many different clients, with many different aspirations and discovered by lots of trial and error some of the best practical applications of the things we’ve learnt. We’re still coaching and learning every day!
Personal experience Each of us have been involved in various sports to various degrees pretty much all our lives, and we’re all involved in sport now! We have a huge amount of experience in managing sessions, adding in supplemental training, competing and all the various aspects that come with playing a sport.
What sports do you have experience with?
We have worked with many sports, and are especially confident with:
- Climbing
- Jiu-jitsu / MMA
- Skiing
- Running (5km to marathons)
- Golf
- Team sports
If your sport isn’t on the list please get in touch with us so we can get some more details and work out if we can help you.
What levels are the athletes you work with?
We work with people of all levels and abilities!
The best starting point is for us to get to know you a bit better and what you’re trying to achieve. Once we’ve got a bit more info we can decide together if coaching would be a good fit for you.
I want to train but I don’t know if I have enough time / the right kit to do it.
When you’re involved in a sport, finding time for everything and access to equipment can be a real pain. We completely understand and always aim to make S&C appropriate for you and your lifestyle. We’ll individualise everything to you including how long everything takes and what kit you need. You may be surprised at how little you need to do to make improvements!
I used to be very sporty and I want to get back to where I was. But first I need to exercise again and lose weight.
Absolutely we are here to support both your health & sporting goals. The first step will be to support you to re-establish an active lifestyle and feel good in your body again. From here we can build up the intensity & volume of your training, making smart choices so that it fits well into your lifestyle. Who knows, you may even surpass your younger self!
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I don’t feel I can participate in my sport to the same extent as before my injury. Can you help?
Sorry to hear that you’re struggling to get back to where you want to be. Injury rehab can be a draining process, physically, mentally and emotionally.
The first place we’d look is understanding where you currently are in terms of pain, performance and establish where you’d like to be. Then it’s a case of working out which areas we could make improvements and deciding on the best place to begin.
Through the whole process we will fully support you and do our absolute best to get you back doing what you love, and to the level you aspire to. We’re big believers in the body’s ability to bounce back. With a holistic and individualised approach there’s a good chance you’ll get there and who knows, maybe you can come back even better than before!
I feel like my sport is beating me up. I frequently have pain that limits my performance.
Feeling a bit beaten up by sport is a common and normal feeling. If we’re going to do things like climb rocks, grapple with other humans or race hard it’s likely we’ll feel a bit sore every now and then.
But when it feels like a constant battle to be pain free, that can be the sign that there’s room for improvement. An obvious place to start is to check that your body is capable of coping with the demands of your sport. In other words do you have the necessary mobility, strength, speed etc.
Another approach is to look at the bigger picture. Sleep, nutrition and hydration can have a huge influence on how our body recovers. Load management and mindset can also radically change how we approach our training and sport.
We will support you to explore your options and how to blend it together in a way that best suits you.