Enjoyment is the crux of youth strength & conditioning and long-term athletic development. Give them a positive experience and you’ve set them up for life.

Exercise caution when applying general rules to specific situations. Context matters.

Sometimes you just have to fling yourself forward.

Science is not a subject, but rather, a thought process.

Coaching is an ongoing guessing game. You’re just trying to make better guesses over time through information.

I consider running to be one of the fundamental movement skills alongside squatting, hinging, lunging etc. Humans were born to run, after all.

Only novices give 100% at everything.

“I’m going to stop working with my nutritionist” “Why?” “She wants me to try a lot of different things and it’s too overwhelming. I realised after 4 weeks that I’ve not even opened the nutrition plan.” Less is more. A simple plan > A sophisticated one.

Time spent revisiting the basics is never time wasted.

What does a successful training session look like to me? √ Athlete check in √ Program priorities √ Education √ Timing

It would be tough to find a bigger proponent of HRV tracking than me. Here’s my response to “Why does someone need to track their HRV?”.

I first met Josie back in 2018 at a UK Sports Institute profiling event. An approachable, self-driven, and inspiring individual, to say the least, impressions I'm sure she's also left on those whom she's crossed paths with. Highly recommended.