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More About Nick Ward

Nick has spent more than a decade working as a strength and conditioning coach and has successfully transferred his detailed knowledge of training athletes into the public arena for rapid results. Nick began his coaching career at the Lilleshall Sports Injury and Human Performance Centre where he worked for the British Gymnastics Team. Following that Nick took the position of Strength and Conditioning Coach with the England Netball team, before moving to the English Institute of sport where he headed up the Strength and Conditioning team in the West Midlands for 4 years. Nick moved to Newcastle in 2007 to raise his young family in the North East and establish SMART FITNESS. He continues to work in high performance sport and is currently preparing the Great Britain Women’s Basketball Team for the Olympics in London 2012.

Nick is a sought after ‘expert’ and has presented seminars and practical demonstrations on strength and conditioning for the Football Association, the National Sports Medicine Institute, the British Olympic Association and the UK Strength and Conditioning Association. Nick has articles published in leading sports publications including Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Maxim, Four Four Two, Fighting Fit, Peak Performance as well as a monthly column in Sports Injury Bulletin. Nick has a great ability to make the complex, seem obvious and simple.

Brendan Chaplin
Strength and Conditioning Education