When extreme endurance athlete Dan Martin was sat in our reception area yesterday waiting for his session, I had a chat with him about his current training regime. He’s about to swim a North Sea crossing as a prelude to next year’s global marathon, so he’s spending a LOT of time in the water; up to 120 miles a week…
I figured you guys would find some of it pretty interesting, so I asked him to tell us a bit more. …being the seasoned professional that he is, he emailed me an entire blog entry…
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Last night, members of Comberton Tennis Club’s ladies 1st team booked a session with us in order to learn more about dynamic warm up and injury prevention for tennis…
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For this week’s staff training, we de-camped into the labs to learn more about EMG (electromyography) – a way of recording and displaying the electrical activity in muscles. Our guide along the journey was Dan Gordon, a Paralympic World Record holding athlete who has also been a consultant physiologist for the UK Athletics Paralympic Squad (amongst others).
[warning - photos contain a disturbing depiction of male physicality :( ]
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A dancer from the international ‘Mamma Mia!’ stageshow tour has started work with us to fix a knee injury he picked up on stage. When you see the photo of the type of work the show involves, you’ll understand why that might be possible..!
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The Irish national Rowing squad (‘Rowing Ireland’) held a training camp at the National Rowing Centre in Cork this weekend. The camp’s purpose was to see how the athletes had progressed on their weights programmes over the past few months, to observe their technique and to carry out some strength testing….
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This week, our ’staff training’ guest speaker was national “Young Coach of the Year” and regional “Coach of the Year”, Sam Buck.
Sam, a successful Diving coach and ex- international Gymnast, talked to our staff about a variety of technical aspects of the sport of Diving and the conditioning approaches adopted by coaches to train athletes for these requirements….
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Exciting news everyone – we’ve gone all “dot com web one point oh” and have set up a newsletter full of useful stuff that you can subscribe to!
We’ll be using this list to send out lots of free and useful articles, coaching resources, discount vouchers, job opportunities, class timetables and more.
– For example, we may send out a voucher for discounted physiotherapy, or ask who would be interested in joining in with a “Squat masterclass”, an “introduction to free weights for runners” group or a “core stability for sport” class.
You can subscribe by entering your email address on this page.
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A few weeks ago I was contacted by a member of Cambridge Triathlon Club to see whether we could do some triathlon-specific strength & conditioning with a group of their athletes.
Given that the answer was obviously “Yes!” – this week they started a training with us…
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The young lady you see in these pictures is an U17 athlete who competes regularly at national level in a whole host of athletics events. She’s started work with us to help prepare for the English Schools AA Track & Field Finals in July.
Amongst other acheivements, Stephanie… (deep breath)
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We’d like to take this opportunity to say a massive ‘congratulations!’ to the winners of the 2010 Xchanging Oxford vs Cambridge Boat Race – Cambridge!
(If you’re – quite rightly! – wondering what took us so long to post this, the 2009-10 “wash up” meeting was held today, which is the first time that everyone’s back in the same place after the race, and the first opportunity for us to grab photos! =)
We’ve been involved in the Strength & Conditioning for Cambridge University Boat Club for three seasons now, but this last year was the first time we have had the opportunity to design and implement a complete year-round programme…
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