When your health influences your performance
For many athletes, health is not simply about feeling well — it directly affects performance, recovery and longevity in sport.
Earlier in my career, I spent seven years travelling full-time with professional golfers, working as part of their support teams during tournaments and training periods.
In that environment, the focus was rarely on dramatic changes.
Instead, we made small, carefully timed adjustments to lifestyle, recovery, nutrition and training load.
Over time, these incremental improvements produced meaningful changes in performance.
Although I no longer travel with teams in that capacity, I still work with a small number of professional athletes who continue to consult with me remotely or during periods when they are in the UK.
For these athletes, the focus is typically on maintaining resilience, managing recovery and ensuring that health supports performance over the long term.
Athletes typically work with me through the reFocus programme.
This one-to-one format allows us to adapt the work around:
training schedules
competition periods
travel commitments
recovery cycles
The structure remains the same as for other clients — careful assessment, structured strategy and regular review — but the priorities often centre around:
recovery and resilience
energy availability
injury prevention
sustainable training load
Testing may play a role, but the emphasis remains on understanding the broader context of health and performance.
Working with elite athletes taught me that the most important improvements often come from strengthening the foundations of health.
Sleep, nutrition, recovery and stress regulation influence performance far more than most athletes initially expect.
For this reason, the same principles that support recovery from illness often also support sustained athletic performance.
For athletes, the starting point is a conversation about your sporting context, schedule, current priorities and the type of support you need. We can then decide whether the CHEQ, an initial consultation or another next step is most appropriate.
There is no need to complete the general Start Your Journey process before making contact.