The role of a strength and conditioning coach is often misunderstood, I thought I’d share my opinion on what it means to be an S&C coach:

‘Our job as S&C’s is to make you a better athlete. It is to increase your athleticism, make you faster, stronger and more robust’.

Ive been asked before on more than one occasion why Olympic lifting is so often prescribed within other sport specific gym programming. Just in case you are unsure, there are 2 olympic lifts, the barbell snatch and the clean and jerk. Now, there are many reasons why these 2 lifts would and should be included when programming for other sports.

So it occurred to me the other day, as new seasons are either starting or preparing to start across multiple sports around the world…what sport has the toughest off season program? Im talking about the top tiers of sports now of course, the Premier League in the UK, the NFL in America etc.