Trinity Performance make Sport Science Accessible
Published on: 19th August 2011
Lecturing staff in the Department of Sport, Health and Nutrition at Leeds Trinity University College have launched a new service for all those interested in enhancing sport and exercise performance. Trinity Performance offers coach education, performance consultancy and fitness assessments to all levels of coaches and performers.
The service is led by British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences accredited Sport and Exercise Scientist and sport psychology lecturer, John Perry, who explained the rationale behind Trinity Performance. “Sport science is a great way to improve performance but it doesn’t just need to be for the elite. Everyone who plays sport wants to be better at it; we are trying to make that support more accessible.”
Trinity Performance use a wealth of staff knowledge to provide expert assessment and advice in training methods, psychology, weight management, sports nutrition and performance analysis. This takes place either in a dedicated laboratory at Leeds Trinity University College or at your own sports club.
In association with West Yorkshire Sport, Trinity Performance are running a host of coach education programmes over the next year that incorporate up to date theory and research but presented in a practical way to help coaches professional development. John Perry explained “As a coach, it’s easy to find yourself only taking courses that satisfy a legal requirement or meet a minimum standard. What we do is try to go beyond that and provide strategies to help coaches genuinely improve their own performance, and in turn, the performance of their performers.”
Upcoming coach education courses include ‘Motivating Teams’, ‘Nutrition for Sports Performance’, ‘Coping with Anxiety’ and ‘Fitness Assessments for Team Sports or Field Situations’. If you are interested in any of these courses or in seeing how Trinity Performance can support your needs, please visit http://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/departments/shln/performance/Pages/default.aspx, email mailto:trinityperformance@leedstrinity.ac.uk or follow @TrinPerformance on Twitter.
