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STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING FOR ATHLETES

maximise your physical preparation to excel in your sport

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build your physical resilience to prevent injury

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work with an experienced coach: 20+ years, 4x Olympic Games

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COMPLETE CUTTING EDGE DIAGNOSTIC PHYSICAL ASSESSMENTS TO DETERMINE THE DIRECTION OF YOUR TRAINING

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Principles of Training in Physical Preparation

Your training needs to be based around you as an individual. What you specifically need to do to improve performance and prevent injury in your sport. 

 

Start by asking yourself what key physical qualities would significantly improve your personal performance? Furthermore what body segments represent the greatest injury risk for you? From here we can start building out a highly targeted and individualised training plan.

 

You may already have a strong intuition or understanding about what you need across different training areas however we have a proven framework of determining your training direction that includes diagnostic assessments which can  add a significant layer of insight to the process.

 

We can help you immediately with this using technology not accessible in your standard gym. Furthermore from working in 20+ Olympic and professional sports we have a clear idea of standards and normative data from elite and amateur athletes from around the world.

Strength and conditioning coach Daniel Lavipour coaching in Hackney East London
Daniel Lavipour and Brent Newdick at the Moscow world athletics championships after Brent had competed in the decathlon. Daniel Lavipour coached Brent over a period of 4 years as both his srtength and conditoning coach and lead coach. Including at the London 2012 Olympics where Brent placed 12th.

Strength and Power Development for Sports Performance and Injury Prevention

Since every action in any sport involves either the production or absorption of force, improving your ability to be strong and powerful can have significant benefits on performance and injury reduction.

 

A failure to be sufficiently strong or powerful  for your sport will limit your ability to produce the forces required for your level of competition and ultimately prevent you from fulfilling your potential. This is true for both speed, endurance, team and individual sports.

 

Strength also has a protective effect that allows both higher volumes and intensities of training as well as prevents against injury. This is because a stronger body is more capable of dealing with high forces.

 

Being stronger literally enables you to train / compete harder, more often and for longer.

Technical Mastery and Sports Performance

Strength and power underpin technique since as described above every action involves in the production or absorption of force.

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For example if you are not strong enough to handle the large forces that happen when performing a certain skill you will be forced into a suboptimal movement strategy or be forced to perform the skill at a slower speed.

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An example of this could be that an athlete with a weak foot and ankle complex will not be able to strike the floor with the same force through the front of the foot when sprinting. They will either be forced into producing a lower level of force that they can handle (ie run slower) or to adapt their movement strategy to a less efficient pattern such as striking the floor with a more rear foot ground contact strategy.

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Improving the technical mastery of your strength training exercises will also enable you to further enhance your technical ability in your sport. For example by improving how your use a particular body-segment  in some key exercises  will help you use those same body-segments more efficiently in your sport.

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A common failure of poor strength and conditioning is to focus on physical outputs alone with a disregard for the technical model of the sport and what the technical objectives of the individual athlete are.

Daniel Lavipour competing in the New Zealand National Championships 400m final.
England netball captain Ama Agbeze training with strength and conitioning coach Daniel Lavipour in the Olympic park, East London.

Injury Rehabilitation / Prehabilitation

Injury is part of sport, training and life. It is never something you want to happen but comes with being human, pushing the limits, unfortunate accidents, our genetics but most importantly a failure to be prepared for the physical demands of sport, exercise or daily life.

 

When you are injured it can be a very difficult time with effects both mental and physical that can impinge on what we want from life.

 

Injury however is an opportunity to build back stronger. It is also an opportunity to train some of the other components of fitness that get neglected in the good times. For example, for a runner with a lower limb injury, it can be used as a time to train the upper body as well as a chance to fix the underlying problems that cause the injury in the first place.

 

For many, injury brings the opportunity to explore strength training for the first time as you realise your body was not able to handle the large forces that make up sport, exercise and daily life.

Science, Art, and Experience

Right now there is more information on training out there than ever before. However through all the noise it can extremely confusing to know what really works. Furthermore exercises that look good on social media may not be the ones that will make the difference in your personal performance. Sometimes even in elite sport there can be a disconnect between the 'science' and what really works.

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So what does really work!!??

 

Ultimately anyones ideas on training need to have been tested in the field of play and new ideas need a solid rational based on science, experience and process based reasoning. It is the combination of these factors that are the key differentiator. On top of that it comes down to do the art of training.

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Training for any sport is tough. Physically and mentally. The sacrifices are huge. The highs are high and lows are low. You want to give yourself the best chance of success and success starts with world class physical preparation.

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If you would like to set up a conversation to discuss how we can support you and your training please dont hesitate to get in contact by filling in the form below.

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Decathlete Brent Newdick throwing the javelin at trainign while training with coach Daniel Lavipour in Cardiff in the lead up to the London 2012 Olympics where Brent placed 12th in the decathlon.

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Some of The Athletes, Sports and Teams we Have Worked With...

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Team GB / British Olympic Association / English Institute of Sport

National lead rehabilitation strength and conditioning coach for Team GB.

 

Sports supported: Track and field, hockey, rowing, swimming, diving, gymnastics, winter sports, rugby, football, para-sports, triathlon, boxing and more...

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New Zealand Olympic Team / High Performance Sport New Zealand

National lead strength and conditioning coach for Kayak.

 

Regional lead strength and conditioning coach for Athletics, Triathlon, Rowing, Sailing, Windsurfing, Netball

 

Strength and conditioning coach Swimming, BMX, Hockey, Taekwondo, Rugby 7s

Decathlete Brent Newdick warming up for the 100m at the Moscow 2013 world championships alongside coach Daniel Lavipour.

Athletics

Brent Newdick: Decathlon, 12th London Olympic Games 2012, Commonwealth Games medalist 2010, PB 8113

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Dominic Ogbechie: High jump, 18x British National Champion, World U15 record holder, PB 2.22; 7.66

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Nicki Hamblin: Olympian, Commonwealth Games Medalist 2010, PB 1:59:66; 4:04:82; 15:18:02

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Sophia Parvizi Wayne: 5km, English Schools Champion,  PB: 16:37

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And many more olympic, commonwealth and amateur athletes across all disciplines.

Sprint kayaker and Olympian Jess Walker training with strength and conditioning coach Daniel Lavipour in the gym in West London.

Kayak

Lisa Carrington: Olympic Champion 2012, 2016, 2020

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Teneale Hatton: Olympian, World Champion

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Ben Fouhy: Olympic Medalist

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Jess Walker: Olympian

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Molly Warburton: National Champion

England nebtallers Kira Rothwell, Jasmin Odeogberin, and Olivia Tchine with strength and conditioning coach Daniel Lavipour

Netball

New Zealand Silver Ferns National Team

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New Zealand Silver Ferns U21 Team

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London Pulse Super League Team

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Northern Mystics ANZ League Team.

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Dozens of Prem, Regional, Club and youth teams.

MMA fighter Felix Kilnkhammer at the weigh in. Strength and conditioning coach Daniel Lavipour led Felix's physical preparation for this bout which Felix won by submission in the first round.

MMA

Felix Kilnkhammer: Profesional Record 9-0

Strength and conditionig coach Daniel Lavipour warming up the England Men's U18 football team in preparation for a match against Brazil.

Football

England Women's U15

 

England Women's U16

 

England Women's U19

 

England Women's U23

 

England Men's U18

Sailing

Mari Erdi: Olympian Tokyo 2020, Hungarian Olympic Team.

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Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie: Olympic Gold Medalists

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Kate Ellingham: Windsurfing

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