Endurance Academy

As good as it gets 👌

Julian was an absolute gentleman 🙏🐺

Show up day after day. It's not about the fancy sessions or supplements, it's about the daily hard work to get the results that have eluded you before. Thats why many people fail.

When you've got big goals in mind and a structure in place, drop some tasty tests along the way. This allows you to know where you're at and then you can fix things IF they go wrong.

BUT, if you do the above, they go wrong less then they go right. We dropped in the Pennine Journey Ultra in the plan, the Montane Lakeland 50 too, and all came out better than expected. Almost a sub 14 when we had a conservative sub 16 in mind. No need to break things early.

Bring on the GOAT Dan.....

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At the and we are fully qualified post graduate practitioners . Fully indemnified and accredited with our own specific national governing bodies to abide by strict Professional codes of conduct. You can be confident in the high standards we strive for.

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🇬🇧 💻 Online and in person coaching and nutrition programmes, consultation and testing available. DM or contact through the website for details.

🇮🇹💻 Programmi di coaching e nutrizione online e di persona, consulenze e test disponibili. Per i dettagli, contattare il DM o il sito web.

Are you looking to progress your bike riding and look to race? Then read on, we can help you.

Every coach-client relationship we have is unique. The day to day relationship is driven by the needs of you the client. All of the sessions are bespoke to you and your current needs. We do not believe in off the peg packages when working 1-1. We have decades of coaching experience in couching bike riders and runners, we can help you with all your needs...

✅ Structure - Daily sessions to work toward your goals and within your lifestyle
✅ Bespoke — Each plan is bespoke to your needs and goals
✅ Strength and Conditioning - We understand the need to be strong for your sporting performance and injury prevention
✅ Analysis and Monitoring - working with your data to ensure we keep you on track
✅ Compatible workouts - Sync to your Garmin / Wahoo / Zwift / Wattbike etc… Pain free set up to take the stress out of your sessions
✅ Online Training Accounts - Your fitness hub where you will find your workouts, your progress and your message centre
✅ Nutritional Support - We can establish your daily needs at a macro level and provide interventions for training and racing as well as daily meal plans if needed.

We very much enjoy and thrive working alongside our clients to help you achieve your goals. We ensure what we do as a collective meets your level, lifestyle and needs so the improvement will be sustained and more importantly, fun and really easy to follow every day.

Discounts and scholarships are available for Junior and U23 riders.

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At the we are fully qualified post graduate performance nutritionists, endurance coaches, physios and sports psychologists. Fully indemnified and accredited with our own specific national governing bodies to abide by strict Professional codes of conduct. You can be confident in the high standards we strive for.

Whats happening on the nutrition front....?

I thought this might be useful to share. Something that I do with every client, probabaly the first thing we do. Whether thats for a Premier league referee, endurance athlete or a weight loss client, create a model for the individual to see what their daily calorific need is. Super simple, nothing fancy but get down to the individuals basic need.

Knowing what you need to eat day to day, whether that is numbers (kcals) or on the table (example menu) can put you in contol of your journey. No guess work, no fads, plain and simple fact.

For me, without this, we're guessing. Opens your eyes, allows me to create a tangible plan for you.

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At the and we are fully qualified post graduate practitioners . Fully indemnified and accredited with our own specific national governing bodies to abide by strict Professional codes of conduct. You can be confident in the high standards we strive for.

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🇬🇧 💻 Online and in person coaching and nutrition programmes, consultation and testing available. DM or contact through the website for details.

🇮🇹💻 Programmi di coaching e nutrizione online e di persona, consulenze e test disponibili. Per i dettagli, contattare il DM o il sito web.

Sports Therapy Appointments in Jesmond.

We are booking up very quickly at the moment as Jon is covering Sophies clinic while she is on maternity leave and as such, time is limited.

We have limited appointments prior to September 19th. Then we will be taking appointments for the 6th November onward.

We have some availability on the following dates;
28/08 pm, 05/09 am, 11/9 pm, 12/9 am, 18/9 pm and 19/9 am.

Am hours are 08:00. 09:00, 10:00 and 11:00.
Pm hours are 14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00.

If you'd like to book in, we advise you do so ASAP to avoid disapointment.

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At the and we are fully qualified post graduate practitioners . Fully indemnified and accredited with our own specific national governing bodies to abide by strict Professional codes of conduct. You can be confident in the high standards we strive for.

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🇬🇧 💻 Online and in person coaching and nutrition programmes, consultation and testing available. DM or contact through the website for details.

🇮🇹💻 Programmi di coaching e nutrizione online e di persona, consulenze e test disponibili. Per i dettagli, contattare il DM o il sito web.

We're back in business...

Jon is back in clinic post paternity leave and taking on new clients once again. We've been working with our existing clients this last week or so but normal service has now resumed.

We'll be posting in the next few days regarding our latest nutrition packages and also current clinic hours for hands on treatment too.

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🇬🇧 💻 Online and in person coaching and nutrition programmes, consultation and testing available. DM or contact through the website for details.

🇮🇹💻 Programmi di coaching e nutrizione online e di persona, consulenze e test disponibili. Per i dettagli, contattare il DM o il sito web..........
At the and we are fully qualified post graduate practitioners . Fully indemnified and accredited with our own specific national governing bodies to abide by strict Professional codes of conduct. You can be confident in the high standards we strive for.

A little bit late one this one, but do have a good excuse!

I’ll be on paternity leave for the next few weeks. 🙏

The last few have been manic to get groups ready for pre-season camps, up coming races and generally keeping things spinning so there’ll be no drama while I’m off.

If you’re a new client, I’ll be replying to your emails as I have been this last few days but bookings will be made for mid next week onwards.

See you on the other side 👊🏽

Couldn't be more pleased for Suzanne.

A great result on Sunday at the Run Nation Bamburgh 10k. Second place overall and a successful visit to anti-doping control afterward. Two wins for me!

A very well deserved result.

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At the and we are fully qualified post graduate practitioners . Fully indemnified and accredited with our own specific national governing bodies to abide by strict Professional codes of conduct. You can be confident in the high standards we strive for.

This is where the plan really takes hold. Consistency and the ability to set a plan which incorporates the family as a whole. Long term planning and periodisation in your plan, especially with the upcoming Championship and Premier league season, we're almost at pre-season fixtures already!

Diet wise... Nobody wants to be the one sitting at the end of the table eating bland, boring food. It is short lived and becomes the elephant in the room. You can eat well, create an excellent base of health to preform from, WHILE enjoying what you eat, eating to your needs (which we continually set/explain/walk you through), and the family can join in, learn and enjoy it with you.

Food first, but not food only is what we practise. You'd be surprised how little 'pills and powders' you need when you have structure and thought within your meal plan. There is room for those, just when you need them though and not instead of.

Don't wander through it aimlessly, regardless of your needs. I work with weight loss, sedentary patients all the way through to athletes currently at the Euro's as we speak. We all need a healthy lifestyle, regardless of what we may think.

We can increase your sleep, improve and increase daily energy, skin and hair quality, recovery from and readiness to exercise, remove bloating and gastro issues in sport and day to day, and integrate the interventions to hit the above into your lifestyle while enjoying a fantastic meal plan week to week.

I worked with Jon on my nutrition throughout my summer racing months and he taught me skills that will last me a lifetime. I now know how to fuel myself for performance sufficiently during large training blocks and leading up to race day, something that I did struggle with in the past.

Being a researcher interested in lifestyle and nutrition, and someone that has been an athlete since I was very young, I thought that I knew how to fuel to support my training. Little did I know I was under-fuelling.

I am now able to confidently maintain high levels of intensity for longer periods of time in the knowledge that I have filled the tank. I am eternally grateful for the support Jon provides.

Thank you Jon!

TEAM EA......

Monday Motivation.

We've had a little jump in new members this last few weeks but we are ready to welcome a few more. It's been mentioned by a few people recently that they thought you had to be a client in some way, and as such joined other clubs.

Not at all and many on the club aren't clients! We're open to all but we do have a few rules and regs but thats all....

- We have no rules and regs.
- A positive vibe
- No pressure to perform or race
- No really structure - we plan via our WhatsApp group to suit.
- No 3/4 length tights.... Tommy Gun broke this rule last week, 🤷 See attached pic.

Currently, members are racing TT's (we're affiliated to the RTTC), racing on the road, gravel and off-road (Affiliated with BC) and also a few of us are racing BMCR too (40+ vets racing).

A good few of the guys don't race too and just want to be involved. There is no pressure to do so.

We've a growing group of girls too, the plan is to get a regular ride up ASAP too with a view to some racing and generally creating a good vibe on that front.

Finally, possibly THE best looking kit around too(?!) We've a kit order going in soon, so get in touch if you need kit also.....

Interested to know more? Then drop us a message.

Final day of the Tour of the Abberleys. A strong showing from Iain so far but hoping for a hard stage today to break up the group. I’m certainly confident with what we’ve done this year he can jump those last few places in the overall.

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Coming into a decent block of racing Tommy 'the gun' Fletcher is coming into form nicely. A win last time out in Carlisle, possibly again tonight and then onto the road over the next few weekends. Excited to what brings for coached rider Tom Fletcher

Crit Result: Carlisle Some Enchanted Evenings 1 -- Thomas Fletcher and Daniel Saba winners at week 1 of the Carlisle Some Enchanted Evening Crits on April 18 (Thursday)

Cat 4 & Women of any category
1. Thomas Fletcher
2. Mark Cushley
3. Stephen Boxall

2/3/4
1. Daniel Saba
2. Joseph Wright
3. Max Lutz-Atkinson
https://www.velouk.net/2024/04/23/crit-result-carlisle-some-enchanted-evenings-1/

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Great news for you guys who are on Wahoo and using our Intervals.icu platform.

The next 7 days of your Intervals.icu plan can now be automatically uploaded to Wahoo and synced to your computer! https://forum.intervals.icu/t/upload-planned-workouts-to-wahoo/65949

A lovely easy Sunday. Enjoy your weekend people.

This should last a little while longer! Pancetta and massive slabs of prosciutto 😍🐖

Ill@probably start giving it away soon 😂 .fergy is on the list for this week for sure ✔️

You really can’t beat this stuff, smells amazing and taste is off the charts.

Even better that we won it racing 😂😂

Buona Pasqua! 🐣😂

A Performance Nutrition Program - What actually is it?

We aim to educate and support athletes by empowering them to select the right foods and fluids, in the right quantity and at the right time by providing bespoke, periodised nutrition support that helps you achieve your goals. We will reduce your risk of illness, enhance recovery between training sessions and achieve optimum body health for both your health and sport; while improving your performance in your sport!

Our goals are to get you healthy in the first instance and improve your sporting performance on the back of this. We have a 'food first, but not only food approach', we look to get as much as we can out of your diet, and then ensure if you are still deficient in any area, then we will look to combat that. We need to keep you healthy and your performance will rocket on this back of this.

Sounds like something you need? Drop us a message.

We can also run group sessions and presentations for your clubs and teams too. Get in touch to see what we can do.
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Just in time for Good Friday, here is our offering. A beautiful Seabass and bean stew. Super easy to make, high in protein and throw in some warm baked bread, high in carbs too. It couldn't be better after your training and racing this weekend, whether you're racing the Good Friday Relays, the North Tyneside 10k or off around the lanes with your mates on two wheels.

To download the recipe, check our Linktree here - https://linktr.ee/theenduranceacademy.........

A follow on from our post last week. Let’s hope this helps to further your knowledge and put to bed some of the nonsense you read on socials.

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Eating is certainly not cheating….

The stem of for

Eat, eat, eat………..

Great to see John Butters repping at the Brough Law fellowship race on Sunday. Nice 5th place finish too. Always looking strong 👊🏽

It’s been a pleasure to work with Hannah over the past year. The results have been just as I’d hoped but probably surpassed what Hannah thought might have been possible. This is what Hannah had to say of the process.

‘I was first recommended to work with Jon as a nutritionist to help improve my running. After years of underfuelling, Jon’s guidance and support has greatly impacted not only my running performance but also my overall mood, day-to-day energy levels and very importantly, I was able to regain my menstrual cycle.

Jon has been amazing and very supportive throughout - I could not recommend him enough. It has been so insightful to work with Jon and I’ve learnt things about my nutrition that I will implement for the rest of my life.’ Hannah Smith, March 2024.

Performance nutrition isn’t just about results in training and racing. It’s about building a healthy relationship with food and a base of health that you can build on, as and when needed.

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Tonight’s rustle up…..

Polenta with cannellini beans, chard and seasonal vegetables. Topped with a nice lump of Grana Padana we won in a race last year (Macerata I think!) and some left over salad too.

I get really tired seeing some of the boring food posted up. To eat well doesn’t mean bland and boring.

Explore the food you enjoy and see where it takes you.

Recipe taken from .tto grazie ragazzi! 😘

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A snapshot of our latest blogpost. One of the more common case studies we see in clinic with our nutrition patients.

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At the and we are fully qualified post graduate practitioners . Fully indemnified and accredited with our own specific national governing bodies to abide by strict Professional codes of conduct. You can be confident in the high standards we strive for.

Age is no barrier……

Neil came to me a good few years ago now. He wanted to slow the decline as he aged, turning 60 was coming and he still wanted to ride and get the most out of himself into retirement.

As we went through his data over the last few years ai though we couldn’t slow the decline, I had a feeling we had more in the tank and a change in his style of training would be fruitful.

Over the last four years we’ve consistently hit power PB’s each season. Training has changed alongside this to allow for more recovery at times. Nutrition has played a part, as has the considered use of supplements at times to give us some free gains.

A few days ago he cleared up on another test climb. 2024 looks to be heading in the right direction once again.

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🇬🇧 💻 Online and in person coaching and nutrition programmes, consultation and testing available. DM or contact through the website for details.

🇮🇹💻 Programmi di coaching e nutrizione online e di persona, consulenze e test disponibili. Per i dettagli, contattare il DM o il sito web.

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At the and we are fully qualified post graduate practitioners . Fully indemnified and accredited with our own specific national governing bodies (HCPC & BDA) to abide by strict Professional codes of conduct. You can be confident in the high standards we strive for.

One of the most difficult things that athletes tell me is to ensure their nutrition is aligned to their training. Over the past 12 months we’ve successfully trialled a program which incorporates both your training and nutrition.

Completely bespoke to you, structured and laid out in an easy to understand way, every athlete has found that they have greater energy day to day, have recovered better from sessions and seen their performance improve.

This plan gives you peace of mind that your body is healthy and ready to perform, the baseline of every athlete, whatever their level and whatever their distance.

We have plans to suit all athletes and would love to help you achieve your goals this year. If this is for you, drop us a message now and we will get back to you for a chat to discuss your plans

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🇬🇧 💻 Online and in person coaching and nutrition programmes, consultation and testing available. DM or contact through the website for details.

🇮🇹💻 Programmi di coaching e nutrizione online e di persona, consulenze e test disponibili. Per i dettagli, contattare il DM o il sito web.

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At the and we are fully qualified post graduate practitioners . Fully indemnified and accredited with our own specific national governing bodies (HCPC & BDA) to abide by strict Professional codes of conduct. You can be confident in the high standards we strive for.

Auguriiii nonnooo!

An absolute banger of a and homemade for a birthday eve dinner. Photo obviously doesn’t come close, but that’s because I took it 😂

A few hours in the making and sourcing, thanks to .farm for the produce, including flour, carrots, onion, eggs, beautiful lamb mince and celery.

The smell coming from each individual ingredient was a joy, you can still source fantastic food if you know where to look.

Washed down with a deep Valpolicella, Fridays don’t come much better than this!

A shame everyone couldn’t be here from around the world but the thoughts are all there 👌👌👌

Last week of the club shop this week before it closes.

To access please follow the below three steps:

1. Head to our website: www.champsys.uk
2. Click on TEAM STORE button from the top menu
3. Enter the (case sensitive) password: EA1

If you would like any leisure, running or cycling gear, head to the above and create your order.

The shop will close in a week’s time . The order will then take 3-4 weeks to come through to us and we will get it to you from there. As we are going direct to the manufacturer, we don’t make any profit and you get it at cost price.

The reviews on the kit are how comfortable it is, how well fitting it is, and how it makes you even faster 😉 much faster! 💨🚀 We love to see you all wearing the kit, and do get asked if anyone can buy it, YES. For us, we love seeing clients past and present, friends, family, acquaintances and all athletes if we’re honest wearing our kit.

Why not get involved!..

Any questions re sizing or options just drop us a message…..