Rich Middleton has a background in professional rugby. He currently works as a Strength and Condtioning Coach with premiership rugby union side Exeter Chiefs. In his role, he works closely to develop and support players from academy to professional level. Many of the players he has supported have gained professional rugby contacts, have played for England U18 & U20, and made first team debuts for Exeter Chiefs. After completing a degree in Sports Strength & Conditioning Science, Rich worked with youth scholarship athletes, university sports teams and a wide range of 1-1 clients.
Our mission is to give people access to professional strength and conditioning support. We believe strength and conditioning is the back bone to sporting performance and the foundation of a healthy lifestyle.
Functional Fitness Performance gives you all the support and information you need direct to your phone, tablet or computer.
What is strength and conditioning?
Strength and Condition is…
- specific training programming, based on scientific findings to aid and benefit a desired goal.
- specific training that is tailored to the specific goal of a team or individual. It’s the opposite to a generic “fitness and exercise prescription”.
- a vital element of sports science.
- movement based, benefiting longevity of general wellbeing.
- overall monitoring of strength and fitness progression, as well as fatigue and wellbeing to help enhance performance outcomes.
How will it help?
Strength and conditioning can…
- increase lean mass and reduce fat.
- reduce risk of injury.
- increase general health and wellbeing.
- improve specific movements to benefit sporting performance.
- improve posture and correct muscle and movement imbalance, intern reducing pain in compensating areas of your body.
- help ‘peak’ performance at specific times of season/year to help achieve optimum performance outcome.
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