Owner and Football Conditioning Coach Jamie Atkins created Peak Performance with the vision to offer his clients the opportunity to be coached, educated and mentored like an elite professional footballer.
With over 15 years experience of playing, coaching, scouting (Currently working for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club) and mentoring within the football industry, Jamie uses his expertise and knowledge of football to help his clients accomplish personal goals and make them even better footballers.
Jamie’s training style and methods originate from countries such as Spain, Portugal and South America. With their style of training heavily based around flexibility, mobility, rhythm and fluid movement. The drills/sessions that Jamie delivers to his clients all have an instant transfer to football, and the reoccurring game related movements that happen.
Jamie’s role as a physical and technical conditioning coach is to educate/mentor his clients along side the delivery of the sessions. “By educating each client I work with around this unique style of training, they can see first hand how beneficial it will be to them as a footballer and how it can take their game to another level”.
“This style of training is very different to how English clubs/players train. In England we train to be strong and physical (increase muscle mass) however; with this our movements become stiff/ridged and we create imbalances in our muscles which can lead to injury and/or weakness in certain muscle groups.
“Football is a random and reactive sport, whereby you work at both high and low intensities; therefore it is imperative that we train that way. Movement, rhythm and fluidity are all key to success in football. What I have learnt from studying the Spanish, Portuguese and South American style of training is that a player (from a young age and throughout his/her footballing career) will continually work on mastering the “basic” techniques/drills. Once the player has become competent and consistent in these drills, working for longer durations and at higher intensities can be incorporated alongside the adaptation of stimuli (i.e resistance band, a ball, an opponent etc) to further challenge the footballer”.
If this style of training is good enough for Messi, Neymar, David Silva, Joao Felix, Sergio Aguero then it is 100% good enough for you.
Photography courtesy of Deano Moore
