In this blog article I am going to talk about some of my reflections since returning from my week in Portugal, where I was attending the ‘‘International Meeting for High Performance in Training” October 15th-20th. This was a conference unlike no other I have been to. I wanted to go for several reasons. […]
For the last two weeks I have been testing Felix Mischker of Tennisbrothers social media fame as part of our new collaboration to get him in peak physical condition and share his fitness journey with our communities. Check out our first two videos below Video 1 Video 2 Where I am next presenting? […]
This blog is the final instalment in my three part series. In Part 1 we reviewed the principles of Motor Learning and the concepts of Variation as a form of Overload. We also looked at the concept of Isometric muscle actions forming the basis of strength training for skill transfer of complex movements that take […]
Part 2- The Bondarchuk principles of Periodisation Does Periodisation even work? It’s a surprisingly valid question to ask. As we saw in the last blog Frans Bosch challenges a coaches’ tendency to view adaptations in a predictable linear fashion. The body’s response to training is unpredictable. All we have established so far is that […]
On the 16th and 17th July I went down to Wellington School, Wellington, Somerset to attend the first two days of Steffan Jone’s Pacelab training camp for a group of fast bowlers. For those of you who haven’t been following my tweets and posts on social media I have been taking the time recently to […]
This year Athletic Performance Academy (APA) have exciting partnerships with a number of fantastic organisations. We are looking for inspirational, honest, professional and courageous strength & conditioning coaches to join our team. Part-time Paid roles: We are recruiting part-time strength & conditioning coaches at the following venues. Gosling Tennis Academy Details: Welwyn Garden […]
Last weekend I attended my first LTA National Coaches conference. I have been working in Tennis since 2003 but have never been before. The conference is for tennis coaches and since I’m not a licensed Tennis coach I don’t get invited. This year I was asked if APA wanted to have a stand at the […]
This week’s Blog is a guest blog from Johnny Parkes, Manager of Player ID and Development I met Johnny while he was studying a Masters degree in the UK in 2012 and was coaching out of Gosling Tennis Academy as a consultant tennis coach. We stayed in touch after he went to the states in 2015 […]
Hey Everyone A couple of weeks ago I presented at the APA Speed, Agility & Quickness Training for Sports Workshop. If you have ever been to one you know it’s normally a four hour format and we cover the four types of speed that I refer to at APA: First step speed Straight […]
Hey Everyone, I had a fun day presenting at the APA Speed, Agility & Quickness Training for Sports Workshop. If you have ever been to one you know it’s normally a four hour format and we cover the four types of speed that I refer to at APA: First step speed Straight ahead speed Multi-directional […]
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