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by Ryan Gibney Are you really Speed Training? Or are you actually doing Conditioning? With lots of people taking advantage of the good weather (well, what was good weather!) and using the outdoors to get some daily exercise in, we are seeing more and more athletes...

Updated 14 May 20 The AF team bring you a selection of recipes, nutrition hints and tips to assist with being as healthy as possible during lockdown. Phil's Recipe Packs and Information Phil Greening has prepared some recipe packs and information in pdf form. Download...

Updated 14 May AF coach Matt Bevan of MB Performance brings you his balanced expertise in fitness as well as nutrition.   We've been having some minor technical issues sharing Matt's updates on here! Please see his Facebook Page MB Performance for the most up to date...

Ryan Gibney is Head of Strength and Conditioning here at AF. He has given us a few varied extras to support all the home workouts that are going on.

Updated 14 May AF coach Ash Murphy brings to your home his collection of daily workouts and challenges. How do you get on with these?! Home Workouts Glute and Core Workouts Daily Challenges

Updated 14 May During this time of closure and staying home we are all feeling the need to keep active. Especially those of us used to attending a gym or fitness activity regularly.  This page links to the daily workouts I'm doing at home to keep my fitness and health...

By Phil Greening My passion for youth sport impacts everything I engage with. As a part of my role consulting with the Olympic Committee I have in the past prepared USA teams to go to the Youth Olympic Games. Part of the preparation was delivering education regarding...

By Phil Greening As we speed towards the 2020 Olympics I become reminded of a time a couple of years back when we began planning the training for the USA7s team and set training/ gym programmes in place. You might think that the importance of setting programmes for an...

by Phil Greening With travelling between countries as a performance coach for USA7s team, I can never seem to get used to jet lag and lack of sleep. Sleep is one thing I have a fleeting relationship with when at training camps because my day can often start at 4 a.m....

The summer seems so far away and as we start to realise it is on the horizon we all begin thinking about that holiday and the beach body! What is crucial to getting that 'beach body' is understanding the pitfalls to weight loss. Often we jump on the latest diet trend...