Everyone can benefit from S&C!

The obvious connection comes from looking at sports and athletes or physically demanding performances (performing artists, officials, and tactical and occupational performers) and the value of improving the anatomy and physiology to meet the demands is clear.

For performers who might not see a direct connection to benefiting from S&C, studies have shown that increased physical fitness allows for improved management of stress, increased focus, and more productivity.

It has also been shown that improving your S&C has an effect on all cause mortality, meaning those who strength train and improve their aerobic capacity have increased life expectancy.

As a former physical and health education teacher with a Masters of Education in Coaching Studies, I have taught and coached a variety of sports and have an expertise in how different training modalities create physiological changes to your body.

I also have completed numerous courses through the Coaching Association of Canada across multiple sports, providing a wide base of knowledge and abilities to pull insights and examples from a variety of sports to best support you.

Finally, as an athlete I have played a number of different sports, focusing more on endurance sport as an adult, and have continued to study and stay up to date on the trends and research that is coming out about best practices to develop the various systems in the body to help achieve a variety of desired outcomes.

With endurance coaching and S&C, I find the Training Peaks platform is an effective source for you to track your progress and for us to build and review your training plan.

I believe that in order for you to make a sustainable change in your technical abilities, it all comes down to you being able to feel the difference when we make changes, so that you are able to be aware of when you are falling into old habits vs the new techniques. For this, often the best technology is asking questions and making adjustments, and drawing awareness to specific areas of your body during movements so that you can feel yourself doing the correct movement and developing that neural pathway so that it comes with less thought and cognitive demand.