About Me
My passion for sports was founded in football from a very young age. By 13, I was playing for West Ham United FC, training with their Academy of Football. It nurtured my discipline and love of the game. By 17 I was playing professional football with Brentford FC. I suffered a knee injury at 18 which impacted on my career in football, but never took away my enthusiasm for the game and the wider area of sports and fitness.
No one really knew how to deal with my injury in those early days, which made me curious and doubtful of the classic school of thought around sports conditioning. Running cross country, training in the gym and kicking a ball didn’t seem a scientific enough or personalised enough approach to strengthen our bodies and fine tune our raw talent. Injuries like mine were rife and the approach seemed flawed to me from the start!
When I decided to pursue a career in sports conditioning and personal training, I wanted to learn as much as possible about the human body and about different and new training approaches. This thirst for knowledge and commitment to my belief has led me to some innovative and exciting training experiences and courses over the years. I have an extensive set of credentials that genuinely help me do my job better and now I have finally started to take my football coaching licences after years of coaching teams at amateur level which will only help with my conditioning for football.
I have been privileged to work with some great clients since 1996, from individuals through to club teams. I have worked alongside and been inspired by some wonderful forward-thinking clinicians over the years. And in recent times I have taught education courses for ‘Faster Global’ and ‘Faster Golf Results’ to trainers, coaches, S&C, PGA pro's, therapists and clinicians. Articles published in Ultra fit and national club golfer magazines for golf condtioning. I am curently coaching at U12's, a football academy U16-19's and a professional level U18s working on the overall football performance of the teams as well as the individuals. I also spend my time travelling around europe presenting, consulting, teaching and learning from the best.
I am as passionate about sports and fitness as I was as a 13 year old rookie. The difference is now I have wisdom and experience on my side and the skills needed to help other people achieve their goals.
My real love away from Football and golf is mountain biking and snowboarder of 15 years.
Now working on golf performance at dukes meadows using the golf range, gym and powerplate and ski performance with the gym, powerplate and skiplex.
Memberships, Qualifications & CPD
Member of:
FA Licensed Coaches Club
Football Medicine & Performance Association
YMCA, Fitness Training Certificate L2 - 1996
Premier Training
Diploma in Fitness Training & Sports Massage L3 - 1998
Masters Diploma in Personal Training - 2004
Advanced Sports Therapy techniques - 1999
Advanced Personal Training - 2004
Resisted Movement Training - 2006
Movement Based Flexibility - 2007
Advanced Nutrition for Physical Performance - 2015
Advanced Nutrition for Weight Management - 2016
Active IQ
Award in Education and Training L3 - 2014
Diploma in Sports Massage & Soft Tissue Therapy L4 - 2015
Certificate in Education and Training L4 (student) - 2020-21
DNAFit
Sports Genetics - 2015
Nutrigenetics - 2015
Chek, Golf Biomechanic Intensive - 2006
UKSCA - 2006
Functional Movement Screen - 2006
Powerplate
Basic & Advanced - 2007
Certified Power Plate Trainer (CPPT) Fundamentals - 2014
Golf performance education - 2014
Certified Master Trainer (CMT) - 2014
Football performance education - 2015
FASTER Global
Advanced Functional Trainer - 2008
Diploma in Functional Performance - 2008
Diploma in Functional Therapy - 2008
Fitness Training Expert - 2012
Specialist in Football Performance - 2012
Specialist in Golf Performance - 2012
GAIN, Apprentorship in Athletic Performance, USA - 2012
World Football Academy - Football Coach Evolution
Football Periodisation Mentorship - Holland - 2014
Cardiff - 2019
Football Expert Meeting - Barcelona - 2015
Feyunoord academy - 2016
Club Brugge - 2018
FCE 5 day Expert Online - 2021
L1 Online mentorship - 2020-21
L2 Online Expert - 2020-21
L3 Online Pro - 2021-22
Football fitness periodisation online course - 2021
Principles of football braining - 2015
Basic football periodisation - 2016
Football Rehab & Strength - 2019
1 day football braining - 2019
1 day football tactics - 2019
FA
Certificate in Coaching Football L2 - 2014
UEFA B Licence - 2015
UEFA A licence - 2020
Youth Award Module 1 & 2 - 2015
Module 3 - 2016
Futsal L1 - 2016
Coaching disabled footballers - 2017
Psychology Award L1 - 2016
Talent Identification: an introduction to scouting L1 - 2016
Mentoring Adults - 2018
FIFA, Diploma in Football Medicine - 2017
The Video Analyst.com
Video Analysis for beginners - 2014
Excel for analysts - 2017
Dartfish - 2017
STATSBOMB
Introduction to football analytics - 2021
Modern Scouting and data driven recruitment - 2022
Langton football services, How to scout the opposition - 2016 & 2017
PFSA - Intro in to football scouting L1 - 2016
Gray Institute
NG360 Golf Performance Specialist - 2012
Certificate in Applied Functional Science - 2013
3D Maps - 2015
Kinesio Taping UK
Fundamentals KT1 - 2013
Advanced KT2 - 2013
Sports KT3 - 2014
Certified Kinesio Taping Practitioner - 2014
Lymphoedema KT3 - 2015
Dr Mike Kane, Orthotic Reaction - 2011
Dr Nicholas Studholme
Functional Nutrition - 2011
Functional Fascial Techniques - 2011
IAM Tools, Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization - 2013
Pain Science
KnowPain, Mike Stewart - 2016
Reconciling Biomechanics with Pain Science, Greg Lehman - 2016
Mark Hines
Injury Treatment & prevention - 2013
Muscle Physiology & Injuries - 2014
Sports Injuries Seminar - 2015
LCFC, Performance & Injuries Conference - 2014
Science+Football Conference - 2014
South Yorkshire Performance Seminar - 2015
Mental health awareness for sport and physical activity workshop - 2017
Precision Golf, PGA certified intelligent golf performance seminar - 2016
Rich Ellis PGA
Why does a golf swing look like it does? - 2017
Where does power actually come from? - 2017
The teachings of impact - 2018
The Sport in Mind
Coach Development Workshop - 2014
Dan Abrahams - Football Psychology Workshop - 2014
