Helping High Achieving Individuals Reach Their Endurance Goals

I help individuals to achieve their greatest physical goals and feats of endurance, whilst maintaining optimal health and longevity.

Through my coaching, education and leadership roles over the past 20 years I have developed a unique depth of understanding, personal experience and professional growth, and has crafted the comprehensive approach I take with every individual I work with.

I have spent years working with highly driven individuals who want to keep pushing in all facets of their life. Our work together gives them the physical and mental tools that are required to achieve true success.

The Comprehensive Coaching Approach

Marathon Des Sables, UTMB, Montane Spine Challenger, Pennine Way, Lands End to John O’Groats, NorthFace 100, London Marathon….

Whatever your next race, trying to fit a high volume training plan on top of an already busy lifestyle is a huge challenge, so much so that training is almost the easy bit.

Managing your overall training load, building adequate strength and conditioning to cope with the increasing durations and distances, ensuring you’re fuelling enough, factoring in enough recovery to allow for growth, monitoring your blood and hormone markers….

…all considerations, that if overlooked could lead to overtraining, injury and long term health consequences.

“I started training with Kriss after experiencing several years of interrupted running due to overuse injuries.

The individual strength training programme Kriss gave me was easy to follow and I felt well supported if I had any questions. I noticed improvements in my strength very quickly and this kept me motivated with every session.

However, Kriss offers much more than just S&C coaching. His holistic approach and educational open office sessions contributed as much to me getting back running as lifting weights did. I am now much stronger and strength training is a permanent fixture in my training.

I also identified other factors important for my recovery and performance, specifically sleep and stress management.

I am now back running regularly and finished my first ever Lake District high fell race, which I loved! What I have learnt working with Kriss will help me stay running long into the future and better managing any setbacks that come up along the way.”

-Catherine

 “Kriss has an analytical approach and deep sports science knowledge. He customised my strength program around my weaknesses, running program, and personal life - a particularly critical time as my daughter was about to be born.

I thought being a father and keeping my training schedule would be impossible. Still, Kriss helped me reorganize and adapt the training frequency and intensity accordingly, which is a blessing!

I’ve never felt stronger in my runs, my results are improving, and knowing I’m following the best advice for injury prevention created an extra confidence layer I use in each training.”

- Felipe

Elite Standard Of Service

Being at the head of a multi-disciplinary team on a day to day basis, we are proud to provide an elite service that supports and educate everyone who works with us.

We look into the data, the metrics, but also the physical health, experience and capacity for work that each individual has.

I have spent years leading and facilitating teams of professionals, from coaches to health professionals, and seen the unmatched benefits that this approach has with a wide range of clients.

Achieving success in endurance sport, requires an elite level of thinking that should be accessible to all.

“I came to Kriss after my physio told me the only way to avoid a relapse of chronic achilles tendinopathy and to compete again at a high level was to get super strong in the gym.

At the beginning of the initial programme, I was struggling to back squat or deadlift without lower back pain.

Now 3 months later I am squatting and deadlifting more than my own bodyweight, the lower back pain is gone and my body feels better than ever.

Most importantly, I feel confident again building up my running volume and intensity.

Thank you Kriss!”

-Miles

Growth Through Personal Experience

I often say that our greatest development and growth comes from the experiences that we’ve overcome. As a high performing athlete in my younger years I learnt so much from my mentors, I experienced hard work, dedication and success. But I also endured two significant injuries, that taught me resilience, empathy and a great deal of respect for human physiology.

My experience as a husband to an elite endurance athlete for many years, gave me first hand experience into the true demands of endurance sport and a deep level of understanding into the mental demands of pursuing such feats of endurance.

Through our own personal hardship of overtraining, burnout and struggles to have children, we experienced first hand the risks of pushing your body to such levels if you aren’t considering your health and wellness along the way.

Overcoming this chapter in our lives further fuelled my desire to educate and support others in avoiding or overcoming it.

 “I've been working with Kriss for the past 18 months and what I've learnt in that time is phenomenal.

I came with the aim of strengthening my body so I could get the most out of training and competing in triathlons. What I've come out with is so much more than that!

I've built the strength and resilience in my body so that I have complete confidence it can cope with the demands of triathlon, or any other endurance challenges I want to try.

But I've also been educated on all the other aspects that are required to be an endurance athlete from nutrition, managing stress, better sleep, to how to periodise training and recovery techniques. These are skills that I will always have and use for endurance training in the future.”

-Lisa