This is the first new blog post I will endeavor to post (as regularly as I can) but promise to keep it brie I have a propensity to waffle! Why Blog, someone I follow wrote recently that if you aren’t creating, you’re consuming and therefore becoming passive in this world. So here it is, part of the website, social posts, youtube videos (incoming Summer 2023) is to engage with people who often get lost within the big shouty world of S&C, Rehab-Physio, Crossfit, HIIT, Hyrox and so forth.
To Be the Change, for myself (selfish!), for you and for society.
I will be writing about key topics of interest around training, running, conditioning but also about key interests of my work whether that be research I am doing, attending some National or International competition with an athlete or use it as a public journal to muse over personal or global challenges I or we all may face.
Ideally I am looking to connect with athletes, teams, military operatives and the wider populous as many of the challenges seen in my field also transgress across into other areas of business, education, public health and in a not so humble way – sponsors, collaborators and idea generators.
This will act as a self reflective tool but also a sounding board for ideas (I’m dyslexic and I think on the spectrum so have many many – imagine Ryan Reynolds having a conversation with Deadpool and you get the idea!)
So where am I at right now? #notbragginghonest
So this week has been hectic, published my new website which was pretty cool, it had been something I had meant to do last summer, yet after losing my Dad to Cancer I focused on family, taking my wife and little girl on a camping tour of the South Coast, through Dorset, seeing Man of War Beach, Durdle Door and all the way down to Lands End and through Cornwall.
During this time I took on the role of program lead for the Sport Rehabilitation degree I studied at the University of Salford back in 2003. Fast forwards 20 years and I’m now the teaching team leader, looking to develop a PhD theme around athlete testing and working part time-full time as a Performance Coach…..oh and being a doting Dad to my baby girl!
This week we did our first time trial with two of my sprinters, Jack and Andy. It brought some interesting results out for the 100m. Jack had been rested as he was due to compete in Loughborough but due to traffic issues couldn’t make it. He sensationally broke his PB/PR in training!!….Great right, thing is Jack is at the start of his career so some of this improvement will be down to youth adaptation to my training and the fact he had a taper week.
Andy on the other hand was coming off a hard block of training post Indoor Championships, the more experienced athlete, but the speed wasn’t there as of yet.
Both outcomes were great as they highlighted we needed to evolve their training
I then completed a new training program based around potentiation for a professional MMA fighter, who was struggling with dialing in training stimuli during non fight camp blocks. Time will tell how this goes.
Yesterday saw me visit Trafford Harriers and meet Tom Cullen and his team at Bee Better, they have 9 National age group champions across jumps and sprints, some of them were injured so we had some positive discussions around injury rehabilitation, prevention and training.
Today saw me meeting with Professor Paul Comfort, helping plan for future research followed by dissertation marking, staff planning and new program writing.
Where am I going with this?
All I can say about this is watch this space.
Built for Speed 