Develop efficiency, maximise productivity and enhance performance output

With Highly experienced and qualified Elite Football Performance coach, Steve Rawes

Steve’s combined expert competencies in Elite Football Coaching; Strength & Conditioning and Human Performance outlines his unique skill set as a Performance Coach. With over 16 years coaching experience in Elite academies, as well as within the semi-professional and professional men’s and women’s game, Steve is able to tailor bespoke packages to suit your needs and expectations. Driven by innovative position specific methods, evidenced-based research and applied science, Steve ensures a personalised and progressive model for the athletes he works with.

Steve’s Background

As a full member of the Football Medicine & Performance Association, Steve drives excellent standards across Sport Science; Football Coaching; Strength & Conditioning and Academic Research. Exploit the opportunity to work with Steve and progress towards achieving and maintaining high performance.

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Elite One to One and Small Group Coaching Sessions

Whether Off-Season, Pre-Season or In-Season, Steve provides comprehensive one to one and small group coaching sessions across the North West for Elite Academy, Semi-Pro and Professional Footballers across the Men’s and Women’s game. Steve has and continues to work with some of the country’s finest talent across some of the strongest Academies and has worked with a number of English Football League and emerging Premier League players. Steve’s unique consultancy services provide players across all levels of the game the opportunity to refine skills and drive excellence in specific areas of their game. Steve focuses on establishing effective working relationships with players he works with to ensure they see rewards in line with performance measures. Steve values time with the person before the player in order to optimise training sessions and programmes accordingly.

Coaching Services

Position Specific Strength & Conditioning Performance Programmes

A large part of Steve’s work involves strategically devising, implementing and delivering personalised athletic strength and conditioning programmes to the individuals he works with. Steve continues to work with youth academy, semi-professional and professional footballers in the men’s and women’s game with a view to enhancing player output in line with the technical, tactical, physiological, metabolic and biomechanical demands of the game while looking to mitigate injury.

Comprehensive screening assessments and testing is conducted to develop a profile of the players Steve works with and appropriate communication is made with full time club multi-disciplinary teams. Consider Steve’s services to learn more how he incorporates essential principles of strength and conditioning and workload monitoring as part of his position specific programme design.

Position Specific S&C

The Necessary Science - An Individualised and Integrated Needs Analysis

With the developments in modern day football, there are increased demands placed on the individual which are determined by both tactical instruction and playing position. Within these playing positions, athletes are exposed to a variety of movement patterns, most often unpredictable that require structural competency in meeting these demands in order to mitigate the onset of injury and meet performance outcomes.

As part of working with Steve, he will provide essential time to profile your physical attributes in line with your positional requirements for the purpose of enhancing performance. Progression of a number of performance variables including Strength, Power, Speed-Strength and Endurance, will be the focus in order to maximise player potential and specifically meeting in and out of possession demands. Profiling specific areas of your game with the use of sport science testing and receiving performance data will assist Steve in the design of his sessions.

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Late Stage Rehabilitation and Return to Play

Recovering from injury? Require professional guidance including a suitable skills training program that falls in line with your playing position? Want the confidence in your ability to return with a positive mindset and physical condition? If yes, consider the services Steve provides.
Personalised and evidenced-based rehabilitation and return to play models are suited to your needs and expectations. Steve’s End-Stage Rehab sessions are focused on a holistic approach in order to develop physical robustness and athlete preparedness while reducing reoccurrence of injury. Testing will be incorporated to measure against pre-existing baseline measurements across areas of your game. Attention towards improving tolerance to specific movement patterns and applying principles of progressive overload will be also be given.

Late Stage Rehab Services

Sport Science & Workload Monitoring with STATSports
Utilising the most robust and industry leading GPS Tracker, APEX Athlete Device from STATSports, Steve captures advanced sport science feedback in order to effectively monitor performance in realtime. As part of individual returning to play following a period of rehabilitation the use of the APEX Device within Pitch-Based exercises allows Steve as a practitioner to manage workload thresholds and provide realtime data to athletes.
As part of your off-season or pre-season period and in conjunction with sleep and nutrition measurements, the use of the APEX Device enables both player and practitioner to regulate both internal and external load parameters including Intensity, Max Speed, Distance and Fatigue. This makes it ideal if you know your key areas for improvement in your game.

Sport Science Services

Consultations & Athlete Programme Design

In reality, there may be challenges that restrict you from working with Steve on a more frequent basis, therefore, take the opportunity to hold a consultation meeting with Steve with a view to devising an athletic and position specific periodised plan which you can carry out independently with frequent monitoring meetings.
Steve will conduct a thorough profile which will be based upon observation, feedback, specific training goals, while being mindful of prior injury history and football-based epidemiology. Consideration towards your current training and past training history will be made and frequent communication between Steve and yourself as well as any attached multidisciplinary team will be transparent to ensure the product is maximised for all involved.

Programme Design Services

Purpose built training programmes

If you don’t have the time to work with Steve, consider requesting a ready made purpose built training programme focusing on any of the modern day football related biomotors. Steve’s training programmes are easily downloadable to your device for easy access.

Steve’s mobility and stability training programmes work concurrently with other periodised training programmes and can be carried out either gym or pitch-based or at home. Mobility should be incorporated throughout complex movement exercise plans in order to help you strengthen throughout full range. In addition, a mobility and stability based training programme can support those returning from injury. This will prepare you for the unilateral demands of the game and provide a foundation for building on to the Strength to Power and Speed and Agility programmes. Request more information from Steve.
The importance of training strength especially in-season is critical in order to maintain performance output while minimising risk of injury. In comparison, the changes to strength and power training design and implementation throughout other periods of the season such as the off-season and pre-season should be accurately modified in order to allow for periods of rest and towards adaptation. Steve’s Strength to Power Transition programme provides the necessary stimulus based on periods of the season in terms of volume, intensity and specificity while taking into account desired goals and previous training history. Request more information from Steve.
Quite comfortably the most essential components in todays multifaceted game across all positions is Speed and Agility. The frequency of sprints, distances, transitions and changes of direction are increasing and are evolving as the tactical game evolves. Steve’s Speed and Agility programmes prepare you for position specific demands as well as the unpredictable nature of the game. Build on Foundations of Mobility and Stability with this programme. Request more information.

Steve is pleased to be able to support players across the Men’s and Women’s English Football League(s) and Premier League Academy Systems with high quality coaching, sport science and strength & conditioning services.

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Current Research and Practice in the Performance Industry

Read more around Steve’s academic responsibilities and expertise in the areas of Applied Physiology, Injury Prevention and Strength & Conditioning where he focuses on implementing research into practice. In addition, discover Steve’s current PhD study within Elite Football Performance in conjunction with Liverpool John Moores University and Blackburn Rovers FC.

Steve’s Research

Football Agency Relationships

Steve is proud to work with a number of reputable and industry leading Football Agencies in order to support professional athletes across the men’s and women’s game by providing exceptional coaching and sport science based services.

Agencies

Wider Applied Industry Practitioner Links

Given Steve’s broad range of roles within the Elite Football, Sports Science, Strength & Conditioning and Academic environments, he continues to share knowledge and consult with a wide range of industry experts in order to support connections and enhance human health and performance with the athletes he works with. Steve works alongside a number of trusted and reputable coaches, psychologists, therapists, rehabilitators, physios and nutritionists to assist and direct athletes who may require additional guidance and expert support.

Your progress is optional

Allow Steve to share his knowledge and expertise in the areas of Elite Football Coaching, Sport Science and Strength & Conditioning and discuss a bespoke, individualised model to allow you better develop and sustain high performance.