Nick Grantham

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Nick has become recognised as a specialist in athletic preparation and has helped athletes at all levels achieve their personal goals and ambitions. Nick has worked in high performance sport for more than 10 years and has extensive experience of long term athlete development. As lead strength and conditioning coach to National Governing Body’s and Home Institutes Nick has been responsible for the management, development and delivery of integrated physical preparation strategies for a wide range of sports.

Nick has developed and delivered physical preparation strategies, incorporating other disciplines such as sport science, physiotherapy, nutrition, performance analysis and biomechanics. He has also worked closely with medical teams assisting in the management, monitoring and implementation of injury management programmes.

Nick continues to develop his knowledge of advanced training concepts and evidence based training principles, and has observed best practice at leading training establishments around the world including; the Australian Institute of Sport, International Rugby Academy New Zealand, US Olympic Training Centre, Cirque du Soleil and Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Nick has a proven record of coach and athlete education, having developed resources, practices and applied research that has enhanced the delivery of both sport specific and strength and conditioning support.

A sought after ‘expert’ Nick has presented seminars and practical demonstrations on strength and conditioning for the Football Association, the National Sports Medicine Institute, the British Olympic Association and the UK Strength and Conditioning Association. Nick has articles published in leading sports publications such as Triathlete’s World, Men’s Health and Men’s Fitness including monthly columns in Sports Injury Bulletin and Maxim magazine.

"I was fortunate to work with Nick Grantham, then Lead Strength and Conditioning Coach for the English Institute of Sport in the West Midlands when I became personal coach to a young talented rower Zac Purchase (Olympic Gold Medallist), who joined us from the GB Junior programme. The real effectiveness in Nick’s approach was the individualisation of the programme and his ability to teach the skills. Along with this was introduced a constant degree of challenge with the technique and the weight lifted. Nick can take a good deal of credit for the rapid development of Zac Purchase through 2005 to the present to be Great Britain’s top lightweight international and with his two seasons in the single and recent qualification for Beijing one of the top lightweight rowers in the world.’"

Darren Whiter (Great Britain Rowing Team)