Athletic Schools

Our popular series of workshops have been tailored specifically for the school environment in an age appropriate manner and are delivered by professionals that have led and coached elite staff teams. The insights shared gives aspirational students the opportunity to learn from, share and cultivate ideas with industry leading experts. These workshop style small group sessions give students the opportunity to learn about pressured environments, role play situations and start to understand how to manage these challenges. Some of the lessons learned in these workshops are particularly beneficial come exam time.

Athletic Thinking’s Next Generation initiative will help students in the here and now to lay the foundations of future success. Students will learn how to better manage their time and week plans, how to stay mentally fresh and sleep well and how to support all of this with good nutrition and physical activity.

The Readiness to Perform programme can take students to inspirational venues across industry to ignite their imagination of what might be possible.

Some of the workshops the Readiness to Perform programme can offer include:

• Benefits of a Growth Mindset Approach
• Developing Consistent Performance
• From Fear To Confidence
• Avoiding Burnout and Developing Resilience
• Workload Management and Balance
• Managing Setbacks
• The Importance of Sleep and Recovery

The Athletic Living programme, which includes our Train with Purpose package, is a holistic approach to healthy living. It incorporates mental relaxation and recovery, a healthy diet and an understanding of nutrition, how to prepare for a session and physical activity and training based on the individual’s needs, aims and goals.

Mental relaxation sessions help students prepare for lessons and give them the tools to mentally recover at the end of the day. Nutrition infographics and meal plans give direct guidance about making the right meal choices to support both healthy living and academic progress. Training session plans give the individual the tools to move well, be physically competent and to lead a healthy lifestyle. It is an all inclusive programme with all forms of physical activity promoted. Session preparation and recovery tools help students to recover from the most challenging of days. Particular focus is placed on exam preparation.

Adaptable sessions and week plans that take into account education and extra-curricular activities will help those involved in the programme manage how all of this fits into their routine.

With our Athletic Living programme, we believe purposeful training should be available to all. We will work with all involved to find the most appropriate methods to get school wide delivery so everyone can enjoy the benefits of healthy living.

Our combined experiences have shown us that without effective coaching, the developing athlete can often rush down the wrong path of short-term success, drawn to the methods you will often see at the end stages of performance. Our support programme gives adolescent athletes every chance of success along the way balancing the goal of maximising opportunities to develop and train and allowing the body the time it needs to adapt for long term success.

In practical terms, our athletic development specialists can work with your athletes on the following:

• Developing physical literacy and competency through specific exercise prescription with ability for delivery through the interactive
• Athletic Thinking app or in person
• Nutrition reviews, education and meal plans based on food first principles
• Methods of recovery and making the most of sleep
• Healthy living principles and non-training day activities for a holistic approach to development
• Training monitoring, testing and data analysis systems
• All of this planned around making the most of the education opportunities the students have
• Athlete parent workshops to provide support, answer training questions and dispel common training myths

Finally, the path to continued development is never linear. Our performance team can support the return to training and competition of a developing athlete that may have had a setback or injury.

The Performance Coaches at Athletic Thinking will work with the school to put in place short, medium and long term aims for the programme. We will then work with you throughout the year to ensure these aims are achieved.

The coaching team are now bringing the Readiness to Perform programme to support those in the school setting. With teachers and coaches often coming from all areas of the school, practical inset workshops from Athletic Thinking will give these staff members the support they need to guide the athletic development of the students internally.

With an extensive network of professional coaches, Athletic Thinking can also place or recruit staff to work within schools to make a difference every day.

Finally, we can help your staff team across the school to find new and inventive ways of working together with bespoke workshops and one to one Performance Coaching where appropriate.

Our Athletic Coaching programme gives the opportunity to empower current staff, create wellbeing champions to grow positive cultural change and develop or appoint athletic development specialists.