US Open It’s the Tennis US Open, if you’re an aspiring tennis player or just looking to improve your overall performance, then DS Performance has the perfect training strategy for you. DS Performance aims to develop and educate athletes to the peak of their competitive performance by embedding eli

Le Tour It’s the 3rd day of the Tour De France...is it time to get back in the saddle? DS Performance training programmes increases your performance and will enable you to get a new PB, win a race, beat your friend and achieve all your goals making you better than you were yesterday. Are you ready

YOU DON’T FIND WILLPOWER YOU CREATE IT! Our series of performance programmes have been designed to take you from the beginning of a new training cycle, all the way through to competition, whilst preparing you for optimal performance. We recommend that you follow the training programmes in the ord

KEEP YOUR SQUATS LOW AND YOUR STANDARDS HIGH! By following a structured elite programme designed for your chosen sport you can go from a general conditioning program, through to being competition ready? DS Performance can take you all the way with elite level training for all performance levels.

Common Problems I’ve Come Across as A Performance Coach Medial Knee Pain Overview I’ve treated many endurance runners, team sport participants, and other sports performers, who all suffer from pain in the medial aspect of their knees. Commonly this is a repetitive, overuse injury that mainly occur

African Cup Of nations Who are you supporting during the African Cup of Nations? Our Football specific training programmes can help you strike it like Mo Salah! There are some positions in the game which are dependent on strength and power, others that are dependent on speed. This is why we have de

Why Choose DS Performance? DS Performance will help you train like an elite athlete by using the same training methods as elite athletes do. Your training will be structured in the same way as an elite athlete helping you to improve your performance around the most important physical attributes of

London Marathon There are many types of runners that compete over a wide range of distances and events. All of them have similar elements to train to increase performance, so they all need to have a good weight to strength/power ratio to carry their own body mass. Alongside this they need to be te

DS Performance can take you all the way with elite level training for all performance levels. Dave Smith of DS Performance has created easy to follow structured programmes designed for your chosen sport so you can go from a general conditioning programme, to being competition ready in a matter of w

There are many types of performance pyramids, some specific to sports, others specific to an aspect of performance and others are designed specifically for one of the scientist support disciplines. Below is an example of a standard performance pyramid. This type of pyramid has been used repea

The ABC’s are the origins for the components of movement, you will find much of the literature around them focusing in on baby/child movement development, through to full adolescent growth. Agility – the ability to move quickly and easily. Balance – an even distribution of weight enabling someone o

As a strength & conditioning coach, multi-skills coaching is something you have to learn very quickly because you work with so many different sports. For this reason I think new coaches should go on a multi-skills coaching course, to give them the tools to apply their knowledge to different sports a

Athlete responsibility is where you the athlete take responsibility for who you are, what you do and what you put into yourself. Of course, young athletes have parents/guardians and coaches who can dictate and influence these aspects of their life, but good practices can still be taught and adhered

Gaming chairs have come under vast amounts of scrutiny since the explosion of the gaming industry. The original chairs have been held responsible for many physical problems amongst children and adolescents. The chairs recently have seen a dramatic change in design and manufacturers are now making t

Text neck is one of the latest modern day injuries that we are susceptible to through lifestyle choices and the way we use and abuse modern technology. Due to the increased amounts of time we spend on our phones, because of their capacities to make our lives easier (supposedly) and also their addic

ON GOOD DAYS, WORK OUT. ON BAD DAYS, WORK OUT HARDER! DS Performance training programmes increase your performance and will enable you to get a new PB, win a race, beat your friend, and achieve all your goals making you better than you were yesterday. Are you ready to follow a structured elite pro

Jubilee Bank Holiday Weekend It's the start of the Jubilee bank holiday, celebrate the Queen's 70 years on the throne by getting some extra workouts in. Sport Specific Performance Strategies DS Performance provides you with elite structured programming system, that takes you from a g

EVERY DAY IS ANOTHER CHANCE TO GET STRONGER, EAT BETTER AND LIVE HEALTHIER!! DS Performance training programmes increase your performance and will enable you to get a new PB, win a race, beat your friend and achieve all your goals making you better than you were yesterday. Are you ready to follow

Common Issues I’ve Come Across as A Performance Coach Overview: I’ve trained many golfers of all ages and abilities over the years, as well as being a keen golfer myself. The most common complaint I hear from golfers is always about how their swing isn’t what they want it to be, because they can’t

Winter Olympics Opening It's the opening day of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, what sports are you following? Don't forget to cheer on Team GB and the Jamaican Bobsleigh Team (Sanka how's your Egg man?) Sport Specific Programmes DS Performance Sport specific strength & conditioning trai

Who David Smith is: Not only does Dave have 24 years as a skills based coach behind him he also has the academic credibility to back up his experience. Dave has a BSc and MSc in Sport & Exercise Science – Strength & Conditioning. Dave has taught strength & conditioning and mentored interns of spor

Dave Smith runs DS Performance, this is his story. Before Bobsleigh Dave competed at athletics, specifically in the horizontal jumps, so Triple Jump and Long Jump. Dave competed for my club in the British leagues (BAL) and for my 2 Universities in the British University Championships. Dave also d

Be savage not average! DS Performance provides you with elite structured programming system, that takes you from a general conditioning phase through to a full competition phase of training. Our structured system will eradicate any bad training habits, reduce the risk of injury and continue to p

Life for a brakeman is very different when the competitive season comes around as you're up mountains for 5 months a year, only having Christmas as a break. On season all training revolves around being on ice, whether this is pre-season/training weeks, or actual competition weeks, where sliding is t

All types of coaches, whether they are skill base or physical base will be using some kind of performance analysis to map their athlete’s progression. These tools used by coaches to monitor stages of progression can be targeted to measure an athletes skill and physical development, their tactically

There are coaching types and there are coaching styles, they are two different concepts of coaching which can get confused as the same thing. We will take a look at coaching styles in more depth to help understand what different styles there are and what they mean. Coaching types represent what kin

This topic can span a wide range of subjects, for example: sporting cultures, eating disorders, sport specific nutrition, child/adolescent growth and development, financial limitation, environmental factors and understanding/knowledge of nutrition, to name a few. Many of the more popular sports in

Over the last decade there has been a massive boom in strength & conditioning in the UK. More and more people have become strength & conditioning coaches, some through academic roots, others through personal training and completing a bridging course. Strength & Conditioning Coaching has quickly bec

As many of us are working from home during lockdown we have had to create a new working environment which includes our laptop and its setup. Back pain caused by excessive use of our laptops is nothing new and it has been around since computers became so predominant in every office across the world.

Whilst most of us are still unable to get back to our previous fitness routine it is more important than ever we all remain active and healthy right now. The following advice has been put together by Sports England which I wanted to share with you all; 1. MOVE MORE However you choose to move,