At Give Me Strength, everyone is regarded as an elite athlete, whether they are currently involved in competitive sport or simply training to improve their general health and well-being. Each session is overseen by Alan Hughes who has worked in professional sport for the last 10 years and is an accredited United Kingdom Strength & Conditioning Association (UKSCA) coach.
UKSCA accredited Strength and conditioning training
Alan graduated with 1st class honours in Strength & Conditioning Science (BSc) from St Marys University College in Twickenham. Since graduation, he has worked with Reading FC specialising in designing and overseeing individualised training programmes with an sports injury prevention and rehabilitation bias for 1st team players. He has also worked for Bristol City FC as 1st team Strength and Conditioning Coach.
He is a certified Sports Therapist with the International Institute of Sports Therapy and a Level II practitioner and exercise coach with the CHEK Institute (USA).
A Nutritional advisor with MTEC UK, Alan held a workshop at the World Science & Soccer Conference in 2008 on designing programmes with an injury prevention bias and applying the principles to working with professional footballers.
Invited by Nike to become one of the first UK certified Nike SPARQ fitness testers, he has previously worked with individuals from a wide variety of professional sports, including GB Judo, football, rugby, golf, UK strongman, boxing, Red Bull F1 and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
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Our philosophy
We believe in developing strength, power and muscular balance using free weights and minimal amounts of equipment. As a result, you become more mechanically efficient, robust and resilient.
Facilities
We have a small private studio for personal training sessions in Surrey. We provide free weights, boxing equipment, single cable column, TRX, Jump box, Squat rack and access to local sprint track and pitches for metabolic conditioning.
Testimonials
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