Course induction pack Welcome to the course! We’re super excited to begin one of the Supporting Champions Practitioner Courses and even more so to support you to develop the knowledge, skills and experience to improve your performance and help you…
Applied Performance Practitioner SKILLS Programme – COURSES ANNOUNCED I’m delighted to share with you details of the upcoming Applied Professional Practitioner Skills Programme. Bookings are open NOW and full details are here. Here I explain what the course is, who…
Chris Francis a teacher at a secondary school in my home town of Bournemouth, recently got in touch asking if I’d be up for doing a talk for his sixth form students. Chris and I grew up together, toured a…
There is an unspoken concept in sports science work for performance sport (and in the wider world of work) that it’s not what you know it’s who you know. It’s seems incredibly unfair doesn’t it, that you spend all this…
“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…
“I understand now that the vulnerability I’ve always felt is the greatest strength a person can have.” Elizabeth Shue Standard conference attendance checklist Sit in rows and cross arms Look for aspects of presentations that you disagree with and shake…
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…
Continuing our focus on supporting performance people of the future by offering more support for students, graduates and early career professionals, aiming to work in sports science in sport psychology, exercise physiology, nutrition, biomechanics, performance analysis, sports technology – this…
“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…
“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…