On Thursday 8 November, Tom Archer visited Danes Hill to deliver a Strength and Conditioning Workshop for our Gifted and Talented Pupils throughout Year 6-8.
Tom has a wealth of experience across strength and conditioning, squad programmes and personal training from school level through to international athletes in a variety of sports. In addition to his role as a full-time strength and conditioning coach and personal trainer at his gym, ‘Performance Elite’. Tom works with olympic athletes in a multitude of sports;’ notably Holcombe Hockey Club Ladies; perennial Premier League Finalists and current EuroHockey Trophy reigning Champions.
The group looked at some fundamental principles of training as well as focusing on their core strength and movement techniques. All of the pupils learned valuable lessons in speed and agility through ladder work, sprint technique and agility courses.
All of the Gifted and Talented group learned a number of valuable techniques and ideas that will help them all to progress in their individual sports with the skills they learned being so transferrable.
We would like to say thank you to Tom Archer for coming in to deliver such a valuable session and we look forward to seeing the pupils put their new skills into practice!