The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences

Applied Physiological Support to the High Performance Athlete: perspectives from athletics, cycling, canoeing and rowing

Date:

Saturday 20 November

Time:

9.30am - 4.00pm

Location:

EIS Performance Centre, Loughborough University

Target Audience:

Intermediate

Who Should Attend?

Practitioners, physiologists, researchers, lecturers, conditioning coaches, those wishing to develop knowledge of how to work with sports

Other Comments:

Workshop now full - Bookings now closed

Cost:

£100 (or £75 for BASES, ACPSM, BASEM & BPS members)

Overview:

Physiological support has evolved from applied research and testing service, to a focused performance enhancing service. From both linear and non-linear sports this workshop will draw upon extensive and contemporary experience of those charged with providing physiological support to Olympic athletes.

The workshop acknowledges the need for practitioners to develop a sense of perspective of their work, whilst understanding pertinent and detailed demands of the sport. Engaging with,  and integrating into, the coaches' and athletes' lives is explored and presenters will be asked to look forward to how the boundaries of physiological support can be moved forward in the coming years.

Learning Outcomes of the Workshop:

This workshop aims to assist the delegate to;

  • Be able to develop a philosophy of support pertinent to the sporting environment
  • Be able to critically evaluate the needs of a sport
  • Be able to describe the methods employed to quantify physiological attributes and factors
  • Be able to identify the skills and strategies required to engage with coach and athlete
  • Be able to contextualize support in developing future performance enhancement

Presenter(s):

Dr Steve Ingham is a BASES Accredited High Performance Sport and Exercise Physiologist. He has worked full-time as an applied sports physiologist since 1996. Steve has worked for the English Sports Council Sports Performance Centre from 1998 as Senior Sports Physiologist and latterly Sports Science Manager at the Olympic Medical Institute and now as Head of Physiology for the English Institute of Sport based at Loughborough University. Through 5 Olympic cycles Steve has experience of working with Olympic Track and Field Athletics, Rowing and Bobsleigh.

Dr Scott Gardner has spent the last 10 years delivering performance focused physiological support to elite coaches and athletes in Australia and Great Britain.  He completed a PhD in 2005 working with the Australian Cycling Team at the Australian Institute of Sport. He has been lucky enough to be a member of the highly successful Australian and Great Britain National Cycling teams for the Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, respectively.  Since Beijing he has worked for British Swimming as a Performance Scientist and more recently moved into a role as the EIS Northern Region Lead for Physiology. He has been invited to speak in symposia at major sport science conferences including the ACSM annual meeting and has over a dozen peer review publications.

Sarah Hardman is Southern Lead Physiologist at the English Institute of Sport (EIS).
After qualifying with her MSc in Exercise Physiology, Sarah worked for seven years at the Welsh Institute of Sport working with Olympic and Paralympic Sports. She provided physiological support at the Commonwealth Games 2002, 2006 and to GB Badminton for Athens 2004.  After a stint working with athletics, she moved to work with British Rowing at the EIS in January 2007 and is now the EIS Physiology Southern Lead.  As well as service delivery, Sarah manages the staff and resources in physiology facility at Bisham Abbey, including the environmental chamber. Her other responsibilities include the management and coordination of the EIS lung function testing service and the Physiology Special Interest Group on Altitude Training and Oxygen Manipulation.

Dr Jamie Pringle completed his undergraduate degree in Sports Science and his PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University. He previously held the position of Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton where he consulted extensively with endurance athletes. He now works for the English Institute of Sport, based at Loughborough University, working with National teams across a variety of sports. A BASES Accredited physiologist, Jamie has presented his work to audiences across the world and his specialist interests and research publications stem from the areas of cardio-respiratory physiology, the modelling of human performance, and the interaction of muscle metabolism and muscle mechanics.

Dr Barry Fudge completed his undergraduate degree and his PhD in Physiology from the University of Glasgow. His PhD focussed on the environmental factors leading to the success of elite east African runners. During that time he worked with a number of runners in Kenya and Ethiopia, a number of who are World record holders and/or World and Olympic medallists. He has previously held positions at the English Institute of Sport and the Scottish Institute of Sport. Barry currently works as a Senior Physiologist for the second time at the English Institute of Sport providing support to UK Athletics.

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Upcoming Dates for this event

  • 20/11/2010
  • Sat 06 Nov 2010