www.conditioningcentre.com

The Conditioning Centre provides Strength & Conditioning and Personal Training to teams and individuals who have a drive to increase their athletic performance or physique.

Sessions will be hard and will require dedication and a strong work ethic from you, but this will increase the gains you can make in any given time period.

Russell Jolley BSc (Hons). ASCC. CGFI

Russell is the owner of The Conditioning Centre and has been coaching strength and conditioning for over 4 years. In that time he has coached hundreds of athletes every week to improve their sporting performance and reach their goals. He is currently the Head Strength & Conditioning coach for sportBU at Bournemouth University where he works with all standards of athlete from entry level up to Great Britain representatives in over 20 sports. His dedication to improving his ability to develop athletes and his personal drive to get better everyday make him a coach who leads from the front and gets results.

Qualifications:

United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning Association: Full Accreditation

Titleist Performance Institute: Certified Golf Fitness Instructor Level 1

Biology Degree: 2:1 BSc Hons, Durham University

British Weightlifting Association: Leader Award

British Weightlifting: Level 1

Speed, Agility and Quickness: P-Award

UK Anti Doping: 100% me Accredited Tutor

TASS Talented Athlete Lifestyle Support Level 3 Mentor

Sports Coach UK: Safeguarding and Protecting Children

REPs: Level 2 gym instructor.

First Aid trained

Currently studying for a MSc in Strength & Conditioning at St. Mary's University College Twickenham.

Russell rowed for Durham University while reading Biology and now competes in Weightlifting and Internationally in Unequipped Powerlifting.

Current Powerlifting Personal bests: Squat 207.5kg, Bench Press 120kg and Deadlift 245kg.

Personal Best Competition total: 552.5kg: 4th place in 82.5kg Senior men at the 2010 B.D.F.P.A British Unequipped Powerlifting Championships.

Highest Level Competition: 3rd in 82.5kg Senior men at the European Unequipped Drug Free Powerlifting Championships 2010

In the summer of 2009 Russell spent a month on a S&C internship with Robert Dos Remedios (NSCA Collegiate coach of the year 2006) at the College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita.
See the article Russell wrote for the Professional Strength and Conditioning Journal here:

Continuing Professional Development in the past 3 years

• MSc Strength & Conditioning. Onsite Practical Period June 24th-July 3rd 2011.
• MSc Strength & Conditioning. September 2010-July 2013. St. Mary's University College, Twickenham.
• Fitness and Conditioning For Golfers. September 2010. EGU, TASS. Screening and programme design.
• First Aid Requalification. August 2010. St. John Ambulance.
• Talented Athlete Lifestyle Support (TALS). January-September 2010. Level 3 qualification training.
• Safeguarding and Protecting Children. July 2010. Sports Coach UK.
• Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS) Conference. June 2010. Student Athlete development.
• UKSCA Annual Conference. June 2010. S&C for combat sports, injury prevention, Olympic Weightlifting, Block periodisation, skeletal muscle hypertrophy, power training for rugby, sprint mechanics, team based speed training.
• TASS. May 2010. Application of Biomechanics in the planning, coaching and monitoring of TASS S&C programmes.
• Titleist Performance Institute: Level 1 Golf Fitness Instructor. February 2010. Identify golf specific fitness issues via screening and subsequent corrective programme design.
• TASS Conference. August 2009. Supporting the Talented Athlete in Education.
• 3D Functional Conditioning. July 2009. Circuit exercises to develop functional athletic ability.
• TASS Performance Workshop. June 2009. Programming presentation & critique. Advanced coaching techniques.
• UKSCA Annual Conference. June 2009. Youth resistance training, speed dev.t. Advanced Olympic lifting, deceleration training, injury detection & prevention, overtraining, peaking for performance.
• Cybex: Advanced resistance training. May 2009. Programme planning, anatomical considerations.
• Smart Fitness Functional Training Summit. April 2009. Performance training, programme planning, CHAOS training and core development.
• TASS Weightlifting Workshop. February 2009. Developing weightlifting skills, lead by Welsh national weightlifting Coach.
• Keiser promotion. February 2009. S&C programming for professional footballers at Everton FC.
• Movement Skills for Sports Performance. December 2008. Drills to increase movement efficiency.
• UKSCA weightlifting Workshop. February 2008. Coaching and lifting skills in Olympic weightlifting, programme design and safety.

Russell Jolley BSc (Hons) ASCC. CGFI. is the owner of The Conditioning Centre and has been coaching for over 4 years.

Conditioning categorises all types of fitness training. It encompasses strength training for sports performance, exercises to reduce injury, postural development, cardio-vascular training, speed and movement skills and anything else you can think of.

The better conditioned you are the better you will feel about yourself and the better you will perform in your chosen sport.

Whether you are a sports club looking for targeted strength and conditioning programmes or someone looking to improve their fitness the Conditioning Centre can meet your needs.