Kristian Sharples
Strength And Conditioning Coach (Senior Mens) at Yorkshire Rugby- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Acceleration and Deceleration: Biomechanics, Research & Training.
The Athlete Development ProjectSep, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
Absolute Speed
EXOSJan, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Nutrition for Health and Performance
Optimum NutritionMar, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Conditioning for Rugby through Boxing
England RugbyAug, 2012- Nov, 2024 -
Level 2 Coaching Rugby Union
England RugbyAug, 2012- Nov, 2024 -
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)
National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA)Nov, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Safeguarding
The Football AssociationFeb, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Accredited Adviser
UK Anti-DopingNov, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
Guide to Anti-Doping
The Football Association
Experience
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Yorkshire Rugby
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United Kingdom
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Spectator Sports
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1 - 100 Employee
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Strength And Conditioning Coach (Senior Mens)
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Apr 2022 - Present
Supporting the delivery of the Senior Mens County programme during the Bill Beaumont County Championship campaign. As Strength and Conditioning Coach my main duties include:- Coordination of training and match day physical preparation, including warm ups pre-match/training and during matches.- Assist technical coaches, where appropriate, during training and matches.- Organise pre and post match nutritional support to players.- Assist in post-match analysis and application to performance.
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Under 17s Backs Coach
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May 2018 - Jun 2022
Supporting the Under 17s County pathway programme. My primary role is as Backs Coach and the responsibilities include:- Planning and delivering technical and tactical coaching to selected players.- Planning, deliver and review coaching sessions, assessments and match days.- Assisting with the organisation and implementation of assessment days and selection.- Assisting lead coach and team manager with selection.- Delivering match day preparations and in-game duties (analysis, technical/tactical coaching, decision making).
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Under 18s Backs Coach
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Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Supporting the Under 18s County pathway programme. My primary role is as Backs Coach and the responsibilities include:- Planning and delivering technical and tactical coaching to selected players.- Planning, deliver and review coaching sessions, assessments and match days.- Assisting with the organisation and implementation of assessment days and selection.- Assisting lead coach and team manager with selection.- Delivering match day preparations and in-game duties (analysis, technical/tactical coaching, decision making).
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Yorkshire Rugby Academy
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United Kingdom
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Spectator Sports
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head of Athletic Development
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Jul 2021 - Present
As Head of Athletic Development at the Yorkshire Rugby Academy my aim is to develop the athletic capabilities of the youth athletes we work with to ensure they are healthy, reduce their risk of injury and improve their physical performances. My duties and responsibilities include:- In collaboration with the Rugby Programme Lead, Head Coach and Medical Staff design and implement a periodised annual framework to develop the physical performance of our Academy players. This includes planning and undertaking regular evidence-based physical testing batteries (aligned to RFU practices) for assessment, evaluation and monitoring purposes.- Work with players and staff on physical performance elements of players’ IDPs. Design and implement individualised performance focused interventions based on testing data, players self-assessments and game/positional demands. Furthermore, for EAP players, work with RFU staff to align practices and approaches in preparation for national selection. - Create and oversee an Athletic Development Curriculum for the Yorkshire Rugby Academy's DPP programme. This includes educating coaches and other stakeholders on the principles of the Curriculum and how it can be delivered within their centres. - Lead training and match-day warm-ups and activations to effectively prepare athletes to perform. Coach athletes through their gym-based sessions during YRA training sessions, including weightlifting, conditioning and recovery.- Educating players, staff and wider stakeholders on physical preparation, performance, nutrition and recovery. This includes creating a number of evidence-based resources that can be used to improve approaches towards recovery and nutrition.
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Performance Coach (Consultant)
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Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
As Physical Performance Consultant to the Yorkshire Rugby Academy my role is centered around supporting the players and coaches within the U18s squad in preparation for the U18 Premiership Rugby League fixtures. Furthermore, my wider responsibilities include:- Leading on training and matchday warm-ups and activations.- Educating players and staff on physical preparation, performance and recovery. This includes creating a number of evidence-based resources that players and staff can use to improve their approach towards recovery and nutrition. - Working with members of the wider MDT, particularly the medical team, to monitor and assess players physical states throughout the league fixtures. - Collaborate with players and staff on physical performance elements of players’ IDPs. Design and implement interventions to improve players physical performance. Furthermore, for EAP players, work with RFU staff to align practices and approaches in preparation for national selection and camps.- Plan, design and develop a physical performance curriculum for Academy players to perform over the off season as preparation for the 2021/2022 season. Also, work with the ERDPP lead on creating a physical performance curriculum for the ERDPP’s summer activity and into next season.
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Bearface Conditioning
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United Kingdom
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Health, Wellness & Fitness
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Founder
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May 2019 - Present
Bearface Conditioning is a coaching service focused on improving the health, wellbeing and/or performance of those I work with. My philosophy is to create accessible and practical solutions for a wide variety of teams, athletes and clients. These solutions include exercise and training interventions, as well as aspects of nutrition and lifestyle education. A foundation of this process is to apply an evidence based approach. Firstly, this means gaining an extensive knowledge of the specific situation, environment and experience of the team/athlete/client. Secondly, a critically evaluated understanding of current and relevant research linked to the needs of the team/individual is added. Finally, I use my own expertise and experience to create a practical solution. The whole process is very much a collaboration between the team/athlete/client and I to find the very best solution that is not only practical but successful. Up to this point I have worked with a range of athletes and clients, including a Brazilian JuJitsu Fighter, a golfer and several clients who I designed rehabilitation plans after suffering injuries. However, the majority of my experience has been working with in team sports, mainly rugby union and league, particularly with youth athletes. This service comes in a range of offers, including: - Online Coaching Support (Teams and Individuals) - Practical Workshops - Sessional Coaching - Schemes of Work (Primary and Secondary School) Alongside these coaching offers for I can provide coach and volunteer education workshops. These focus on the physical considerations for coaches applied to their specific environment. These sessions aim to provide the coaches/volunteers with some tools they can adapt and apply but it also highlights aspects of physical development and technical skills that are critical considerations.
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Leeds Beckett University
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United Kingdom
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Lecturer
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Apr 2021 - Present
Leeds Beckett University is recognised as one the UK’s top institutes for sport, performance and physical activity. The Sports Coaching course is one of the most established courses of its kind and world renowned. My role is to educate Undergraduate students on several elements of the course. My duties include: - Planning and delivering practical sessions for first- and second-year students. I am currently working across two modules, Coaching Pedagogy and Strength and Conditioning Practice. This includes modelling coaching behaviours, highlighting an evidence-based approach and coaching weightlifting techniques. - Introduce students to the skills needed for evidence-based practice and how that is applied in practical coaching contexts. Model evidence-based approach by highlighting and delivering using relevant practices and evidence. - Working with full-time members of staff, including module leaders and course leaders, to ensure consistency and quality of experience. - Support students with regular formative feedback and guidance with assessments. Additionally, support staff with the grading and marking of assessments on the modules delivered. - Participate in discussion and debates regarding how the course is currently set up and what improvements could be made for the students’ experience going forward.
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Blackburn Rovers Football Club
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United Kingdom
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Spectator Sports
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100 - 200 Employee
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RTC Performance Coach (Under 14s & Under 16s)
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Aug 2020 - Jul 2021
Blackburn Rovers Ladies RTC is one of the top in England. The RTC is not only part of the club’s performance pathway but develops players to represent England at age group levels. My duties include: - Designing and implementing macro, meso and micro cycles of a periodised annual plan. This content is based on an extensive need’s analysis including the demands of the game, data from a testing battery and competition schedule. Working closely with technical staff a fully integrated and holistic approach is taken. - Monitoring the players physical performance is a substantial part of the role. Using creative and adapt methods, we collect players’ RPE regularly at training and games. Observations and discussions with players, coaches and parents are also a source of data. This is supplemented by a physical testing battery carried out in conjunction with the FA several times a year. - Educating players, parents and coaching staff on how physical performance is in included within the wider four corners model. We look at how to develop players’ and parents’ understanding of physical preparedness, ensuring they have appropriate knowledge of aspects of nutrition and recovery in additional to physical performance. - Ensuring that at training and on matchdays players are physically prepared. This includes leading the players through a specific warm up before the game and during the game for substitutes. Monitoring hydration, intensity levels and minutes played are further responsibilities during training and matchdays. Finally, I will lead the players through an appropriate cool down after any activity to start the recovery process. - I am responsible for ensuring that I am using appropriate methods for our athletes and environment. This means I am aware of current developments and practises within Long Term Athlete Development and Women’s and Girls Football. I am encouraged to undertake personal development as I see fit to support my performance in the role.
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Strength And Conditioning Coach
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Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
As one of the top private schools in the country, Queen Ethlenburgha’s has a long and great history of high-performance sport. This role has enabled me to work with a range of athletes, across a variety of sports, including football, rugby union, netball, basketball and hockey. Working alongside technical coaches, medical staff and other members of the Strength and Conditioning department have given me a deeper understanding of how to adapt and learn from all elements of an athlete’s support network. As a Strength and Conditioning Coach my responsibilities include: - The implementation of training interventions with athletes. This includes coaching the athletes through technical aspects of resistance training activities. Providing the athletes with appropriate motivation and guidance while in the gym. - Assisting in the planning and periodisation of athletes’ training plans. This is in conjunction with the Head of Strength and Conditioning’s philosophy and with a consideration of the athletes’ stages of development, also factoring in the various competition schedules for the athletes. - Education. As Strength and Conditioning Coach, I am responsible for educating a variety of stakeholders. This mainly includes the athletes and the technical coaches about the activities we are prescribing. We operate an evidence based approached to planning and prescription. - As part of the role we are encouraged to check and challenge each other’s rationale and practice. This includes having the freedom to try different activities, coaching behaviours and practice structures, as long as they are aligned to the outcomes, coaching philosophy and ensure athlete safety.
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Yorkshire Carnegie Rugby Union Club
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United Kingdom
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Spectator Sports
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1 - 100 Employee
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Community Manager
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Jun 2018 - Jun 2020
I was appointed Community Manager (formerly Community Programmes Manager) with the primary objective of managing a team to deliver Project Rugby, a programme developed by Premiership Rugby and the RFU to increase participation in underrepresented populations. My other duties include collaborating with the Head of Community to create, design, organise and implement other club led community programmes. This involves managing staffing and assisting with budgeting of such programmes. - Since the commencement of the 2018/2019 season our Community Team have engaged with over 2300 participants and transitioned over 50 new participants into local community rugby clubs through Project Rugby.- In this role I have managed a team to deliver across 10 Community programmes, including programmes based on promoting social inclusion, mental health awareness, physical activity and positive lifestyle behaviors, as well as programmes focused on increasing participation in rugby union. - Since starting the role, I have worked with a range of stakeholders. Along with colleagues in the Community department I have worked with secondary schools’ pupils and staff, grassroots volunteers, members of Club support staff, First team and Academy players, members of the Club’s board and major sponsors. - Recently, I have been part of constructing and organising opportunities for those I manage to gain further experiences towards their continued professional development, along with opportunities with various experts to enhance my own progression.
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ERDPP Center Lead
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Aug 2015 - Aug 2019
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MOORTOWN RUFC LTD
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United Kingdom
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Retail Office Equipment
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1 - 100 Employee
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Strength And Conditioning Coach
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Jun 2019 - Apr 2020
As strength and conditioning coach my responsibilities include: - Working with technical coaches to form a periodised annual plan based on tactical needs of the teams, aligned to specific periods and fixtures within the season. - Performing needs analysis within players and coaches. - Designing and implementing a preseason plan, based on testing battery results. - Designing generic weight programmes, specific to different types of periodisation - Linear (preseason) & Undulating (in-season). - Designing individualised weight programmes based on testing battery. - Lead on pre-training and pre-match activation and warm up. - Provide coach education to junior coaches, focusing on youth physical development.
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England Rugby
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United Kingdom
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Spectator Sports
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500 - 600 Employee
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Coach Developer
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Oct 2015 - Jan 2020
Accredited to deliver Non-Award Courses developed and implemented by the RFU.
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Community Rugby Coach
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Mar 2015 - May 2018
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Yorkshire Carnegie Rugby Union Club - Junior Development Squad
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Leeds, United Kingdom
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Assistant Strength And Conditioning Coach
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Sep 2018 - May 2019
My main responsibilities in the role were to assist in delivering gym-based activities for members of the Under 15 Junior Development Squad. This included supervising and coaching both groups and individual athletes. Further to the gym-based activities, I was responsible for planning and delivering activation and warm up activities prior to field-based sessions. My main responsibilities in the role were to assist in delivering gym-based activities for members of the Under 15 Junior Development Squad. This included supervising and coaching both groups and individual athletes. Further to the gym-based activities, I was responsible for planning and delivering activation and warm up activities prior to field-based sessions.
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Huddersfield Giants Community Trust
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United Kingdom
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Lead Strength & Conditioning Coach (Womens U19s)
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Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
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Education
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Leeds Beckett University
Master of Science - MSc, Strength and Conditioning -
Leeds Beckett University
BSc Sports Coaching, Sports Science