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:: What is Performance Lifestyle ?

A Performance Lifestyle is for people who:
  • Want to produce their best in everything they do.
  • are aware that different aspects of their life impact on each other.
  • recognise that each aspect needs to be planned and managed in order to achieve all their goals

:: Help to achieve a Performance Lifestyle

The Performance Lifestyle support service is a personalised service, specifically designed to help each athlete create the environment necessary for his or her success. For an athlete this means fitting many aspects of their life around their intensive training programme. The service recognises that sport is the main focus for competing athletes and provides guidance on how to maximise that focus while still fulfilling other important commitments such as employment, family, social or financial.

The approach is to work closely with Performance Managers, coaches and support specialists as part of an integrated team around the athlete. The aim is to minimise potential concerns, conflicts and distractions, all of which can be detrimental to performance, and at worst, may end a sporting career prematurely. Athletes can arrange confidential individual sessions with the Performance Lifestyle Coordinator, who will also work with sport specific staff to deliver lifestyle management activities around an annual programme or training camps

 
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