ASSOCIATE COACH - CRAIG

Everyone is different; differing abilities, priorities and needs. We work with you to develop a plan to achieve your ambitions

 Having worked as a senior manager in a FTSE100 PLC, coaching with BTF showed I’d been coaching people for years! I now work as an Associate Coach with Hard&Smart Sports Coaching, putting my experience to work for you

 I gain enormous satisfaction from working with people to develop new and existing skills, supporting them to achieve their potential through planning, hard work and practice. Every athlete can make progress, experienced or beginner 

 I know how hard it can be to train hard, manage work and competing priorities. Working together, we will develop a personalised, dynamic and adaptable training plan that’s sustainable, helping you develop consistency, the number one prerequisite for progress

 We care about you and your goals. Our aim is to support you to become more resilient, adaptable and to above all enjoy your time working with us

HEAD COACH MARK

I’m a born and bred Yorkshire athlete/coach who started out as a primary school teacher with an interest in keeping generally fit and healthy. Through the late 2000’s this developed into a keen interest in the sport of triathlon where I began to use my skills as a teacher to begin coaching. You can read a more detailed version of this story here.

Training for triathlons is a hard business. But training for triathlons whilst balancing everything life throws at you is even harder. In order for training to be effective it has to be adapted around the athlete and their often busy and unpredictable life. My coaching is centred around this method of taking into account an athlete’s wider circumstances and adapting a plan to suit them with the goal of increasing their performance.

A plan that works for one will not work for another. This is why the coach’s role is so much more than writing the plan. I pride myself on getting to know athletes personally so that we can better make training fit around their lives.

I look to find ways of allowing athlete’s to train consistently and adapt to their developing needs. All the while building resilience - triathlon is hard - to the rigours of endurance exercise whilst finding enjoyment in the process.