This blog is one I am really excited to write. I have been really enjoying mentoring some of my assistant coaches recently. Like all things in life there are challenges to every business. I recruit a lot of part-time S&C coaches, who at some point will often move on to a full-time job unless I […]
Dear coaches, APA are recruiting for a part-time strength & conditioning coach at Gosling Tennis Academy. The role at Gosling starts immediately and would ideally suit someone who is looking to gain valuable experience in a high performance environment. We welcome applications from all candidates. It is not essential that you are available to […]
Hey everyone. I’ve been doing a bit of self-directed Continued Professional Development (CPD) over the last few days. I decided to purchase the ”Multi Skillz” online video library, produced by Coach2Competence. It cost £266 or 299 Euros for the first year subscription and £35 per year thereafter. Background on the company: Kenneth Bastiaens is currently […]
This year I have been fortunate to have a number of coaches assisting in various roles within APA. One coach in particular Shay Khan, had a fantastic opportunity to go to Kuwait for two months, which came having just completed one month working at Gosling Tennis Academy with the junior academy squads. I wanted to […]
This weekend just passed I had the great pleasure to induct another six candidates through the first part of the 1st4sport Level 2 certificate in Strength & Conditioning. For those of you who haven’t come across it the basic progression looks something like this: Level 1 => Design a weekly schedule based around foundation strength […]
Hi everyone, firstly a belated Happy New Year. I resisted the temptation to do a ‘Best of 2017’ Blog post this year and I have previously written about all the Pro team pre-season schedule I have been using over the last few years. You can read more about it here and here. But needless to […]
Best time to focus on Single leg training When’s the best time to focus on single leg training? If you had asked me this question 10 years ago I might have given you a different answer. Early in my career I was influenced by the NASM Personal Training certification and their method. [Full disclosure: I […]
Racketedge Conference 2017 Last weekend I had the privilege to be invited to speak at the inaugural Racketedge conference. I was really excited as I have been a professional colleague of Howard Green for several years and I was delighted that he has set up a company ‘Racketedge’ partnering with Jonny Fraser- and then setting […]
Last Thursday I had the privilege of presenting to a group of Master Performance Coach (MPC) candidates at the Lawn Tennis Association National Tennis Centre. This is a Level 5 Tennis coach qualification and represents the highest level you can get in Tennis coaching. I’ve previously wrote about Heart rate Monitoring which you can read […]
In this week’s blog post I want to discuss a topic which has come up again recently, and it’s a topic that will not go away. It concerns resistance training and youths. Pictures of Cruz Beckham on Instagram lifting heavy weights prompted the question — how young is too young to be performing bench presses? […]
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