SPORTS CONDITIONING
“Perform pulls
together everything Spire has learned about sports
medicine in the past 30 years. We work with the fi nest sports and exercise
physicians in the UK” The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge offi cially opened St George’s Park
We run a strength and conditioning gym, overlooking the Wembley replica pitch, that’s dedicated to building stamina, strength, endurance and muscle tone. It’s equipped by Technogym with best-in-class equipment ranging from Excite+ cardio and Group Cycles to Kinesis Stations, Arke, dual-adjustable pulleys and Pure Strength machines. There are also ESPT Total Power racks. We also have a specialist rehab gym,
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with equipment including Technogym’s brand new Selection Med Leg Press and Kinesis One. There’s also a Batak board, aerofl ooring, functional training equipment and pilates equipment – all overlooking an indoor 3d pitch and 100m sprint lane. Vital to our work is the full sports
science assessment Human Performance Lab, which includes an altitude chamber with a Run Med Treadmill, Med Bike and Group Cycles from Technogym, alongside Wattbikes and an Alter G anti- gravity treadmill. It’s also equipped with Cosmed and Medgraphics Metabolic Cart, which fully link to the Technogym medical equipment. All three gyms are integrated
with Technogym’s Mywellness Cloud, a wireless technology software application that allows users and their trainers to view and analyse their personalised goals, training programmes and progress. The accelerometer- based Mywellness Key is also used by corporate clients, allowing us to monitor and manage employees’ daily movement/physical activity when they’re away from our facilities. Further to this, a hydrotherapy suite
offers a multi-purpose area that can be used for everything from recovery and rehabilitation, through cardiovascular
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. What kind of facilities are on offer?
workouts, to gait analysis to name but a few. The suite consists of a Variopool, contrast therapy pool and a HydroWorx underwater treadmill.
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. How do you balance the needs of elite users and Joe Public in one venue?
We offer best-in-class services and solutions that can be scaled up or down to suit different customers. By providing elite medical expertise, combined with leading technology, we analyse and track the needs and performance of each and every user, regardless of their level, with the aim of enabling each individual to perform at their very best. We cater for athletes in all sports
disciplines and at all levels, from school teams within the local community to elite athletes and, of course, England’s 24 national football teams, from junior to senior levels. We also work with corporate groups that are trying to improve the overall health and wellbeing of people within their organisations.
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. What sort of expertise do you have in-house?
All of Perform’s services are delivered by an expert team led by clinical director Dr Charlotte Cowie and Steve Kemp, our elite physiotherapist. Dr Cowie has amassed an impressive 20-year career in sports medicine, with experience not only in football medicine but also numerous other sports such as tennis, athletics, synchronised swimming, boxing and cycling. She was previously medical officer to
the English women’s football squad, and head of medical services at Tottenham Hotspur FC and Fulham FC. Most recently, during London 2012, she worked as part of Team GB at her third Olympic Games.
Read Health Club Management online at
healthclubmanagement.co.uk/digital Kemp is a member of the
Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (MACP) and a gold-accredited member of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sports Medicine (ACPSM). He has over 12 years of experience as a physiotherapist in a sports environment, with recent elite football clinical experience as head of medical services for Wolverhampton Wanderers. He has also worked as a private physiotherapist with athletes from many other sporting professions.
We recently announced an exciting partnership with Michael Johnson Performance, founded by four-time Olympic Champion and current 400m world record holder Michael Johnson. The partnership brings together two teams of world-class performance coaches and sports and exercise scientists, who work daily with elite athletes across the globe. It will be the first time young people in Europe will have the chance to perform and train using MJP coaching techniques outside of an academy environment, using the best testing and training equipment usually reserved for elite athletes. This forms part of our commitment
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not only to develop the future generation of England’s sporting stars, but also to make Perform’s services accessible to everyone. Our development is still in its early stages, but we plan to continue growing and expanding Perform and the packages we offer by building more relationships and affi liations with teams, organisations and individuals, bringing together the fi nest minds in sports, medicine and healthcare to serve people in a sustainable, fi nancially viable way. ●
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