The London Marathon is an iconic race. It has a reputation for being quite a fast, flat and fun course. However, get your race prep or your race strategy wrong and, like any other race, it will be a struggle. This webinar is there to give you final, critical advice, often over-looked in training plans. What is the start like, where should you conserve energy and where should you push. What are the nutrition stations like and where is the course at its toughest? We look at the course in detail and discuss the finer details so that you are fully prepared. Newbies will get the most out of this webinar but there are useful hints for all.

Sign up to get the link to the webinar when it goes live.

Fostering the power of the mind is necessary to optimise performance. Recent research has shown that wasted mental processes, especially negative emotions use up the same energy substrates needed for energy metabolism. Therefore, it is all the more important to manage anxieties, maintain motivation, set the right goals and keep on an even emotional keel. Otherwise performance suffers. This seminar helps you understand how important it is to evolve mental fortitude, often key in unlocking a new level of performance and gives some important guidance on how to achieve this, in a sport specific context.

Refreshments will be available. Numbers strictly limited.

We want to encourage our members to get together socially. Our free, member only, running club will be a tad serious but also social. Well-designed sessions for all abilities will stretch attendees but in a way designed to open their eyes to new styles or types of training session.

At the same time we will ensure that the sessions retain a fun and light-heartedly competitive element. As they run during the competitive season for most sports the sessions will all focus on enhancing performance rather than building foundations.

As well as the standard discount for members applied on all our Performance Evolution services and Group Evolution retreats, our products are offered to members from our partners at further discounted rates.

Personalised coaching from degree qualified sports professionals and elite level coaches dedicated to improving your performance. Detailed analysis of technique, physical capacity and diet is supplemented by group activities in the beautiful Pays de la Loire. Post training, relax with like-minded individuals at our stunning 19th Century Chateau.

Our members get the opportunity to train at our facility on top-class equipment. Practice swimming in our fastlane, rehab on our underwater treadmill, book our cycling studio with fellow members, use our top notch running studio or specialist gym studio. You will beat the crowds and immerse yourself in a boutique gym environment, away from home. Rates can be per session or for blocks of sessions and cover basic (gym, treadmill or cycling ergometer use) or advanced (cycling studio, swim studio, rehab treadmill) equipment.

There are limitations on the amount of sessions that can be booked by members to ensure that we can accommodate our Performance Evolution clientele and this is reflected in a heavily discounted price.

Our Diet Evolution on-line resource is a comprehensive guide to healthy eating. Launching in mid-2018, it provides an extensive bank of nutritious recipes that are also practical and cost effective.

Critical advice is provided in the form of easy to follow guides to food sourcing, preparation and cooking methods. And Rebecca’s food blog provides regular practical advice on healthy eating with a purpose. We provide special offers and promotional discounts on particular food, drink and supplementation; alongside specialised cooking equipment.

The resource also offers guidance on sports nutrition and supplementation, regularly reviewing the latest research, critically appraising the latest fads and critiquing some of the latest sports nutrition products.

Reduce the need for expensive recovery shakes and make your own. This hands-on cooking demonstration will show how to prepare your own post recovery shakes, smoothies, snacks and meals ready to be taken with you to training or eaten on your return from exercise. This will save you money, is healthier, tastier and more adjustable to your dislikes and likes.

The nutritional benefits will be explained as you go, as will sourcing guidance and the costs. You will also get to try the results!

Great for those on a budget or bored of grainy recovery drinks.

Our social events allow our members to meet like-minded individuals in a relaxing environment.

All profits from the socials go to the chosen charity for the year, which in 2018 is St Raphael’s Hospice. Since April 1987, St Raphael's has offered Hospice care to people with life-limiting illness living in the boroughs of Merton and Sutton (predominantly Wimbledon, Merton, Sutton and Cheam). The service is completely free of charge, and provides high quality medical and nursing interventions, as well as support to family and friends. The Hospice fully recognises and respects cultural, ethnic and religious differences and patients of all faiths or none, are welcome at St Raphael’s.