Read through the way we work below
Complete athlete information and commence!
Optimize performance and encourage longevity and enjoyment from the sport
- Irrelevant of the service we are providing a comprehensive support package informed by a team of experienced and qualified practioners and coach
- The aim is to decipher the needs for your development and tailor the programme accordingly, in a stepwise and sustainable approach for your long term development
- We endeavor to provide cohesive performance support in the most affordable way for aspiring athletes
- Have a look on the athletes page to see some of the athletes we have worked with past and present here.
Team aims
- Physio screening / MOT – Decipher the athletes biomechanics and injury status to inform strength aims and session programming
- Strength and conditioning – develop robustness, optimize biomechanics and energy output, avoid injury
- Nutrition resources – Periodic content based on the training phase and diary analysis to encourage fuelling for the work required.
- Scientific monitoring – field testing protocols and training focusses deliberated with our physiologist to optimize potential adaptations and decipher progress
- Communication between the team to discuss individual athlete strategies
If you’re a professional athlete please get in touch to discuss your needs further
Programme key points
- Plus category athletes advised dependent on injury history and overall athlete needs. This is dynamic and consequently may change periodically
- Individual coaching athletes limited to 20
- Bespoke plan athletes receive communication before the programme is set, during week 5 and when the programme finishes
How to get started
Read through the way we work below
Complete athlete information and commence!
Optimize performance and encourage longevity and enjoyment from the sport
- Irrelevant of the service we are providing a comprehensive support package informed by a team of experienced and qualified practioners and coach
- The aim is to decipher the needs for your development and tailor the programme accordingly, in a stepwise and sustainable approach for your long term development
- We endeavor to provide cohesive performance support in the most affordable way for aspiring athletes
- Have a look on the athletes page to see some of the athletes we have worked with past and present here.
Team aims
- Physio screening / MOT – Decipher the athletes biomechanics and injury status to inform strength aims and session programming
- Strength and conditioning – develop robustness, optimize biomechanics and energy output, avoid injury
- Nutrition resources – Recipe database and diary entries to enhance fueling for the work required, optimizing adaptations and body composition.
- Scientific monitoring – field testing protocols and training focusses deliberated with our physiologist to optimize potential adaptations and decipher progress
- Communication between the team to discuss individual athlete strategies
If you’re a professional athlete please get in touch to discuss your needs further
Programme key points
- Plus category athletes advised dependent on injury history and overall athlete needs. This is dynamic and consequently may change periodically
- Individual coaching athletes limited to 20
- Bespoke plan athletes receive communication before the programme is set, during week 5 and when the programme finishes
Your Team
Hayden Allen
Physiology
Hayden supports us in all aspects physiology. Whether that be deciding field testing, interpreting that information or applying it to training focusses. His passion and knowledge for endurance physiology is second to none and has proved invaluable in ensuring our testing and training methodology is informed for each supported athlete
His current position is in teaching after completing a PhD at Leeds Beckett University. We met during his Mres at Loughborough University.
Caroline Tarnowski
Nutrition
Caroline helps support us by checking our nutrition advice for training and racing is informed and up to date as well as being specific to each athletes needs.
Caroline is studying for a PhD and is the lead sport nutritionist at Univeristy of Birmingham. She’s completed placements at Gatorade sports science institute and British Triathlon during her BSc and MSc at Loughborough University where we met.
Peter Gascoigne
Strength and Conditioning
Peter supports the athletes with bespoke strength and conditioning plans, aimed towards each athletes individual training experience, performance needs and injury history.
The main goal is to support the athletes training with strength work that will allow them to train more and ultimately perform a faster swim, bike and run.
Claire Howard
Physio MSCP
Claire works with the supported athletes in the East Midlands area individually and feeds back reports to inform the training going forward.
She can also provide useful insights from a physios perspective to team discussions.
Your Team
Hayden Allen
Physiology
Hayden supports us in all aspects physiology. Whether that be deciding field testing, interpreting that information or applying it to training focusses. His passion and knowledge for endurance physiology is second to none and has proved invaluable in ensuring our testing and training methodology is informed for each supported athlete
His current position is in teaching after completing a PhD at Leeds Beckett University. We met during his Mres at Loughborough University.
Caroline Tarnowski
Nutrition
Caroline helps support us by checking our nutrition advice for training and racing is informed and up to date as well as being specific to each athletes needs.
Caroline is studying for a PhD and is the lead sport nutritionist at Univeristy of Birmingham. She’s completed placements at Gatorade sports science institute and British Triathlon during her BSc and MSc at Loughborough University where we met.
Peter Gascoigne
Strength and Conditioning
Peter supports the athletes with bespoke strength and conditioning plans, aimed towards each athletes individual training experience, performance needs and injury history.
The main goal is to support the athletes training with strength work that will allow them to train more and ultimately perform a faster swim, bike and run.
Claire Howard
Physio MSCP
Claire works with the supported athletes in the East Midlands area individually and feeds back reports to inform the training going forward.
She can also provide useful insights from a physios perspective to team discussions.
Testimonials
Chris has coached me for 3 years. Starting as a novice in Duathlon to winning 3 World Championships. Chris has been able to structure sessions based on his scientific testing and using the data to optimise my performance. Chris is both knowledgeable and experienced an coach. Someone I've fully trusted to manage my coaching programmes and I have full confidence in him to get the best out of me.
I’ve found Chris and the team so helpful this year. I wanted to find a “technical” coach because I’ve self-coached for years and wanted someone who could help me diagnose a couple of performance ‘ceilings’ and hit the next level for my races. Chris helped me make progress with a recurring stitch I’ve suffered in races and honed my running skills in particular with a focus on S&C, leading to my most successful year in racing yet, including several outright wins and podiums. Thanks team!
Chris has helped with the East Midlands Triathlon Academy (EMTA) for a number of years and has had a real impact on their learning and development as athletes. Specifically, Chris has organised technical swim days for the academy where he has delivered simple but effective swim education sessions, followed by in- 1:1 stroke analysis and in-depth feedback to all athletes. Every athlete took away key learnings from the day that they could go away and work on in the daily training environment. Several athletes have had further analysis, and all have made significant improvements on their stroke and swim times. I would highly recommend Chris as a coach and his ability to help you develop as an athlete.
Chris has been coaching my swimming for over two years and in that time I have made incredible progress. Chris achieves this through thorough analysis, crystal clear communication and constant feedback when things have gone well or need further work. There are times when I haven’t instantly understood feedback so Chris has always taken the time to explain things in a different way and to repeat this until I’ve grasped the concept and been able to regularly put it into practice. He’ll then encourage use of drills to ensure this is engrained into the full stroke. Some of the key technical points that have improved are stroke timing, rhythm of kick with the rest of the stroke, hand entry point and timing, head position and lots more. All of this has led to a 7 minute improvement in my Ironman swim split PB and 4 minute improvement on my half distance swim split PB.
One to one swim sessions have really helped progress my swim. By looking at my stroke and analysing where improvements can be made allows specific swim drills to be tailored to improve my technique. It’s especially invaluable when making sure the drills are executed correctly whilst understanding what they mean and how this translates into improved swim efficiency and swim times.
My recent 1:1 swim coaching session with Chris was excellent. He was quickly able to identify key areas of improvement and focus in my swim technique and spent a lot of time really ensuring I understood how to implement the small changes that would make the biggest difference. I now have some key areas to work on in the pool and already in the few weeks following this I am seeing a significant increase in my efficiency in the water and my times are already reducing. I would thoroughly recommend Chris and particularly the 1:1 sessions as he is patient, thorough, encouraging and extremely knowledgeable and will tailor the session for you and your needs.
I've been working with Chris for almost 3 years after spending the preceding 7 either self 'coached' or spending little time with other coaches. When I first met Chris his calm, confident, athlete-focussed approach immediately stood out. The environment Chris creates is extremely supportive and motivating yet highly focussed on outcomes. Chris does everything to help you reach your goals and more - I love that racing mentality. Results for me came quickly for me and have achieved more than I thought possible, including KQ and big PBs. Every session, every training block has a purpose and going into races I know exactly the race plan - it is massively reassuring to know I have Chris in my corner come race day.
I received a bespoke personal approach from Chris that worked both ways, Chris listened and adjusted when necessary to ensure my goals where achieved. Not only where they achieved Chris had the belief which he instilled in me to find the extra which enabled me to sup-pas my goals achieving a string of results including course records, national titles and a season of top 3 finishes. Chris was also supportive and understanding when I stepped away from competition for personal reasons. Personable, approachable, understanding and a highly skilled scientifically based approach to coaching. A great experience working with Chris, he truly cares about his athletes and wants the best for them.
I have been coached by Chris for 3 seasons now and have achieved so much from Age Group Qualification to doing my first Long Course Half Event in Mallorca last year where I took the top podium spot. Chris is a knowledgeable, patient, encouraging and professional coach and will work around real life to help you accomplish your goals.
I have been working with Chris for the past 2 years and he has totally transformed my racing from an average age grouper to first season pro. Chris goes above and beyond to ensure you are able to perform to the best of your ability come race day. If you are looking for a coach to work with, I would definitely recommend Chris
Chris is a really knowledgable guy who works with you to get the best out of you with the time available.
Chris is a fantastic coach. Progressive, informative with buckets of patience and a great supportive/challenging style. Particularly helpful skills when injury ridden!
The man is a wizard: it took him less than 2 years to turn a time-poor working mum into a Kona qualifier! All on around 7hrs of bespoke training a week carefully tailored to me, my work and travel schedules, and my niggles and freak-unlucky injuries. Magic potion ingredients seem to include - but are not limited to - patience, honesty, flexibility and assuredness.
Testimonials
Chris has coached me for 3 years. Starting as a novice in Duathlon to winning 3 World Championships. Chris has been able to structure sessions based on his scientific testing and using the data to optimise my performance. Chris is both knowledgeable and experienced an coach. Someone I've fully trusted to manage my coaching programmes and I have full confidence in him to get the best out of me.
I’ve found Chris and the team so helpful this year. I wanted to find a “technical” coach because I’ve self-coached for years and wanted someone who could help me diagnose a couple of performance ‘ceilings’ and hit the next level for my races. Chris helped me make progress with a recurring stitch I’ve suffered in races and honed my running skills in particular with a focus on S&C, leading to my most successful year in racing yet, including several outright wins and podiums. Thanks team!
Chris has helped with the East Midlands Triathlon Academy (EMTA) for a number of years and has had a real impact on their learning and development as athletes. Specifically, Chris has organised technical swim days for the academy where he has delivered simple but effective swim education sessions, followed by in- 1:1 stroke analysis and in-depth feedback to all athletes. Every athlete took away key learnings from the day that they could go away and work on in the daily training environment. Several athletes have had further analysis, and all have made significant improvements on their stroke and swim times. I would highly recommend Chris as a coach and his ability to help you develop as an athlete.
Chris has been coaching my swimming for over two years and in that time I have made incredible progress. Chris achieves this through thorough analysis, crystal clear communication and constant feedback when things have gone well or need further work. There are times when I haven’t instantly understood feedback so Chris has always taken the time to explain things in a different way and to repeat this until I’ve grasped the concept and been able to regularly put it into practice. He’ll then encourage use of drills to ensure this is engrained into the full stroke. Some of the key technical points that have improved are stroke timing, rhythm of kick with the rest of the stroke, hand entry point and timing, head position and lots more. All of this has led to a 7 minute improvement in my Ironman swim split PB and 4 minute improvement on my half distance swim split PB.
One to one swim sessions have really helped progress my swim. By looking at my stroke and analysing where improvements can be made allows specific swim drills to be tailored to improve my technique. It’s especially invaluable when making sure the drills are executed correctly whilst understanding what they mean and how this translates into improved swim efficiency and swim times.
My recent 1:1 swim coaching session with Chris was excellent. He was quickly able to identify key areas of improvement and focus in my swim technique and spent a lot of time really ensuring I understood how to implement the small changes that would make the biggest difference. I now have some key areas to work on in the pool and already in the few weeks following this I am seeing a significant increase in my efficiency in the water and my times are already reducing. I would thoroughly recommend Chris and particularly the 1:1 sessions as he is patient, thorough, encouraging and extremely knowledgeable and will tailor the session for you and your needs.
I've been working with Chris for almost 3 years after spending the preceding 7 either self 'coached' or spending little time with other coaches. When I first met Chris his calm, confident, athlete-focussed approach immediately stood out. The environment Chris creates is extremely supportive and motivating yet highly focussed on outcomes. Chris does everything to help you reach your goals and more - I love that racing mentality. Results for me came quickly for me and have achieved more than I thought possible, including KQ and big PBs. Every session, every training block has a purpose and going into races I know exactly the race plan - it is massively reassuring to know I have Chris in my corner come race day.
I received a bespoke personal approach from Chris that worked both ways, Chris listened and adjusted when necessary to ensure my goals where achieved. Not only where they achieved Chris had the belief which he instilled in me to find the extra which enabled me to sup-pas my goals achieving a string of results including course records, national titles and a season of top 3 finishes. Chris was also supportive and understanding when I stepped away from competition for personal reasons. Personable, approachable, understanding and a highly skilled scientifically based approach to coaching. A great experience working with Chris, he truly cares about his athletes and wants the best for them.
I have been coached by Chris for 3 seasons now and have achieved so much from Age Group Qualification to doing my first Long Course Half Event in Mallorca last year where I took the top podium spot. Chris is a knowledgeable, patient, encouraging and professional coach and will work around real life to help you accomplish your goals.
I have been working with Chris for the past 2 years and he has totally transformed my racing from an average age grouper to first season pro. Chris goes above and beyond to ensure you are able to perform to the best of your ability come race day. If you are looking for a coach to work with, I would definitely recommend Chris
Chris is a really knowledgable guy who works with you to get the best out of you with the time available.
Chris is a fantastic coach. Progressive, informative with buckets of patience and a great supportive/challenging style. Particularly helpful skills when injury ridden!
The man is a wizard: it took him less than 2 years to turn a time-poor working mum into a Kona qualifier! All on around 7hrs of bespoke training a week carefully tailored to me, my work and travel schedules, and my niggles and freak-unlucky injuries. Magic potion ingredients seem to include - but are not limited to - patience, honesty, flexibility and assuredness.