We approach our teaching and coaching based on two very important things – what we will and what we won’t do.
These have come from our experience as active athletes and as coaches and teachers. We hope that these mean you will receive a quality service delivered from a place of honesty and integrity.
We Will
- Focus on you, your teaching or coaching needs and your individual goals
- Encourage you to be the best version of yourself, and discourage you from comparison with other athletes (competition yes, comparison no)
- Work with you in a way that is balanced and in context with your life, your family and other things you have going on
- Find out what existing networks you are already part of (e.g. a running club) and link coaching in with these activities. This makes any plan more achievable
- Give advice about a balanced and healthy lifestyle
- If we aren’t best suited to your coaching or teaching needs, we will be honest about this and signpost you to other professionals we may know of and rate highly
- Signpost regarding where you might buy kit you need or onto other professionals e.g. physio
- Work within the guidelines of our governing professional bodies
We Won't
- Provide you with a service we are not qualified or insured to do, for example we would not advise you on a particular diet
- Encourage you to keep accessing our services when you no longer need us
- Try and sell you kit to make us money
- Provide “off the peg”, or copy and paste coaching plans
- Work with people who are not best suited to our skills and ways of working
- Offer coaching plans which will conflict with the other demands on your life outside of sport
- Waste valuable time criticising other coaches or teachers