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Steve September 23, 2019 |
The ‘Letter to the 15000’ is now an online course (>1000 have now taken the course . Sign up now with the benefit of bundling the course with ‘Career Route Primer’ course plus enrolment into our exclusive Supporting Champions Community. Dear budding sport scientist So you have enrolled on a sports science degree eh? You start this week?…
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Steve May 28, 2019 |
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” Stephen R. Covey It is the third day of British Championships and the athlete, with a grin on her face gives me a high five. I wait as she catches her breath, and she says those magic words we’re all deeply…
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Steve May 15, 2019 |
I understand now that the vulnerability I’ve always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. Elizabeth Shue Conference attendance checklist Sit in rows and cross arms Look for aspects of presentations that you disagree with and shake head in response Ask an aggressively critical question Conference presentation checklist Avoid talking about mistakes Intimidate with jargon and…
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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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