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Steve May 1, 2019 |
The issue of unpaid internships is a difficult and controversial subject. I have chosen to write this as an opinion piece rather than an official line and I don’t expect everyone will agree with all aspects of this blog and don’t expect you’ll get clear answers here too – (just getting my disclaimers in). However, I have sought…
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Steve April 23, 2019 |
Continuing our focus on supporting performance people of the future by offering more support for students, graduates and early career professionals – this week I’m offering up my advice as to where you might want to look and what you need to know about these job websites; First up, it’s worth recognising that not all performance based jobs…
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Steve April 17, 2019 |
“The only source of knowledge is experience” Albert Einstein Picture the scene Imagine your wedding day. It’s been building up for months; the planning, the visits, the lists. Everyone is dressed in their poshest clobber, the sun is shining and the best man has removed jokes about the mother in law from his speech. The photographer arrives and…
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Steve April 7, 2019 |
“We couldn’t think about what James couldn’t do, we had to think differently about what he could do.” Catch up on part one of this blog, outlining the size of the task ahead, until injury struck. We’d just got going with some specific interval training on the ergometer to target VO2max, using short interval/rest ratios, such as 15s…
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Steve April 6, 2019 |
“One of the most audacious and ambitious sporting goals in recent memory” Make no bones about it, James Cracknell aiming to secure a place in the Cambridge boat for the annual Oxford Vs Cambridge boat race at the age of 46 is one of the most audacious and ambitious sporting goals in recent memory. For the likes of…
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Steve March 25, 2019 |
On 19th & 20th March 2019 150 performance minded people gathered at London’s Olympic Stadium for the Supporting Champions Conference. The conference focuses on the ‘finding a better way to create high performance’. There are plenty of conferences out there at the moment, and we don’t specifically state the conference is going to be about coaching or nutrition…
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Steve March 6, 2019 |
“Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you will never be criticised.” Elbert Hubbard, in John North Willys Who’s on your list? Who’s in your inner circle of trust? Who matters when it comes to the flurry of opinions that get expressed in response to something you do? In a world that is increasingly exposed to communal…
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Steve February 17, 2019 |
Podcast special feature interviews coming up A few weeks ago, Katelyn Ohashi, broke the internet when her gymnastics floor routine went viral. The routine captured the imagination of those watching, by showing a rare combination of joy married with devastating athleticism, precision and perfection. The sport of gymnastics has been hurting in recent years, with the abhorrent sexual…
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Steve February 11, 2019 |
“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” Ronald Reagan If you find you’re butting heads with colleagues over the smallest details, maybe launching on the attack because something doesn’t agree 100% with you, or struggling to connect with a certain person – it might be time to re-evaluate your…
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Steve February 4, 2019 |
“If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.” Jim Carrey In 2004, Chris Hoy won gold in a tumultuous 1000m sprint cycle event in the Athens velodrome in a new Olympic record. Affectionately known as the ‘kilo’, the event was the blue riband of the track cycling,…
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