My Journey
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 forward-thinking clinicians and coaches over the years.
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 conditioning.
A professional level U18s working on the overall football fitness performance of the teams as well as individual player. I also spend my time travelling around Europe presenting, consulting, teaching and learning from the best.
I worked coaching Barnet fc U16-19's college programme since 2019 - 2024 as well as a L2 fitness tutor at Canons high school and in total working almost 10 years in sports academies/football college programmes.
I have now worked in the football, golf, fitness, rehab and teaching industry in some capacity over the last 28 years as a coach, trainer, therapist, presenter, mentor and tutor.
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 I playing padel tennis, mountain biking, snow and split boarding of 20+ years.
You can see from below I still believe in always bettering myself through continuing personal and professional development in all areas since 1996
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Memberships, Qualifications & CPD
Member of:
Professional Footballers Association (PFA)
Football Medicine & Performance Association (FMPA)
League Coaches Association (LCA)
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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
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Active IQ
Award in Education and Training L3 - 2014
Diploma in Sports Massage & Soft Tissue Therapy L4 - 2015
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Certificate in Education and Training L4 (submitted) - 2022
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DNAFit
Sports Genetics - 2015
Nutrigenetics - 2015
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Chek, Golf Biomechanic Intensive - 2006
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UKSCA - 2006
Functional Movement Screen (FMS) - 2006
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Powerplate
Basic & Advanced - 2007
Certified Power Plate Trainer (CPPT) Fundamentals - 2014
Co-writer of Golf performance education - 2014
Certified Master Trainer (CMT) - 2014
Co-writer of Football performance education - 2015
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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
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GAIN, Apprentorship in Athletic Performance, USA - 2012
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World Football Academy - Football Coach Evolution
Football Periodisation Mentorship - Holland - 2014
Cardiff - 2019
Football Expert Meeting - Barcelona - 2015
Feyenoord academy - 2016
Club Brugge Fc academy - 2018
SC Braga academy - 2024
FCE 5 day Expert Online - 2021
Online mentorship L1 - 2020-21
Online Expert L2 - 2020-21
Online Pro L3 - 2021-22
Football fitness periodisation online course - 2021
Principles of football braining - 2015
Basic football periodisation - 2016
3 day Football Rehab & Strength, Bolton UK - 2019
1 day football braining - 2019
1 day football tactics - 2019
Online Coaching the women’s game – 2024
Online Analysing games & designing training sessions – 2025
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FA
Certificate in Coaching Football L2 - 2014
UEFA B Licence - 2015
UEFA A Licence - 2020
Youth Award Modules 1 & 2 - 2015
Module 3 - 2016
FA Youth Award - 2023
Futsal L1 - 2016
Coaching disabled footballers - 2017
Psychology Award L1 - 2016
Talent Identification: an introduction to scouting L1 - 2016
Mentoring Adults - 2018
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FIFA, Diploma in Football Medicine - 2017
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The Video Analyst.com
Video Analysis for beginners - 2014
Excel for analysts - 2017
Dartfish - 2017
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STATSBOMB
Introduction to football analytics - 2021
Modern Scouting and data driven recruitment - 2022
Analysing Football using video - 2023
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Langton football services, How to scout the opposition - 2016 & 2017
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PFSA
Intro in to football scouting L1 - 2016
Talent identification in football L1 - 2023
Technical scouting in football L1 - 2023
Data analysis in football L1 - 2023
Performance analysis in football L1 - 2023
Opposition analysis in football L1 - 2023
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Gray Institute
NIKE Golf Performance Specialist (NG360) - 2012
Certificate in Applied Functional Science (CAFS) - 2013
Certificate in Movement Analysis & Performance system (3DMAPS) - 2015
Active Aging specialisation (AAS) - 2023
Functional Soft Tissue Transformation (FSTT) - 2023
Functional Techniques (FT) – 2023
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Kinesio Taping UK
Fundamentals KT1 - 2013
Advanced KT2 - 2013
Sports KT3 - 2014
Certified Kinesio Taping Practitioner - 2014
Lymphoedema KT3 - 2015
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Dr Mike Kane, Orthotic Reaction - 2011
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Dr Nicholas Studholme
Functional Nutrition - 2011
Functional Fascial Techniques - 2011
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IAM Tools, Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization - 2013
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Pain Science
KnowPain, Mike Stewart - 2016
Reconciling Biomechanics with Pain Science, Greg Lehman - 2016
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Dr Mark Hines Phd
Injury Treatment & prevention - 2013
Muscle Physiology & Injuries - 2014
Sports Injuries Seminar - 2015
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LCFC, Performance & Injuries Conference - 2014
Science+Football Conference - 2014
South Yorkshire Performance Seminar - 2015
Mental health awareness for sport and physical activity workshop - 2017
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Precision Golf, PGA certified intelligent golf performance seminar - 2016
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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
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The Sport in Mind
Coach Development Workshop - 2014
Dan Abrahams - Football Psychology Workshop - 2014
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