Tom Company

Strength and Conditioning Coach for Portsmouth Northsea Swimming Club 🏋🏼‍♂️🏊🏼‍♂️ Views are my own

[Tom Company @CoachTCPerform1]

Bad athletes: take nothing seriously

Average athletes: take competition seriously

Good athletes: take competition and training seriously

Great athletes: take competition, training, weights, film study, recovery, nutrition, sleep, habits, injury prevention, etc seriously

[Tom Company @CoachTCPerform1]

Ffs of course me using superglue was not going to go well...

[Call me Keir @RUGBY_STR_COACH]

"Siri, what feels progressive but actually harms women's participation in sport?"

[Michael Boyle @mboyle1959]

Think I need to show this to my boys group ….

[Coach Hines 🇺🇸 @CoachKurtHines]

I wanna coach guys who:

• Return their shopping 🛒’s

• Hold 🚪’s open for others

• Say please and thank you

• Smile at strangers

• Pick up other people’s 🗑

• AND would run over their own mother (if she were wearing a different color jersey)!

[Vernon Griffith, CSCS*D @VernonGriffith4]

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change” - Charles Darwin

[Squat University @SquatUniversity]

Barbell training is for everyone!

[Portsmouth Northsea SC @PortsNorthseaSC]

Well done to Amelia and Evie finishing 5th & 6th in the 17 years 400m freestyle this am 👏🏼 @FNSCNews @PortsNorthseaSC

[Vernon Griffith, CSCS*D @VernonGriffith4]

Life isn’t fair, no one remembers second place and the good guys don’t always win.

You get what you earn, not what you deserve.

[Allistair McCaw @AllistairMcCaw]

5 Masterclass Leadership Lessons from @GarethSouthgate 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
1. Clarity matters
2. Team before self
3. Be empathetic
4. Stay accountable
5. Everyone gets treated the same

[Squat University @SquatUniversity]

Athletes spend a crazy amount of time worrying about what pre-workout to take, whether they’re using the most innovative training program/exercise variations, when many would benefit more simply by focusing on improving their technique to most effectively stimulate progress.

[Tom Company @CoachTCPerform1]

good
@SaranBrews @performbetteruk @JJNiblock @PortsNorthseaSC @BrennClinton @katy_sexton @JournalsLtd @CITracey86 @collett99838013 @hadiyh

[Squat University @SquatUniversity]

Progress is never linear. We all have good days and bad. Stay patient.

[Squat University @SquatUniversity]

You wouldn’t build a big house in the middle of a beach, so you better work on creating a better “foundation” of technique before adding more weight on the bar.

[Tom Company @CoachTCPerform1]

Big facts

[Tony Gentilcore @tonygentilcore1]

Client: "But it's hard."

Me: "Lifting weights isn't supposed to tickle."

[Squat University @SquatUniversity]

Technique > Weight

[Squat University @SquatUniversity]

It’s not sexy to say, “The way to build real strength is to lift 3-5 times a week for 10+ years...” but it’s the truth.

[Repton S&C @ReptonStrength]

It’s important to provide some guidance and education on a range of areas when working with athletes. Taking the time to watch training helps highlight basic issues that can impact performance. Poor hydration for many of our swimmers was one of them! 💧 @ReptonSport @ReptonSwim

[Bill Hartman @BillHartmanpt]

Why do you expect it to be easy?
Learning anything new should be difficult.

You should feel inept and confused.
Feelings of inadequacy, incompetence, and frustration are key elements of learning.

It means you care. It means you’re doing the work.
Embrace the struggle.
#SIG

[Bill Hartman @BillHartmanpt]

Sometimes the really hard work and the most productive activity is staring off into space and thinking about what is truly valuable and how you may be able to get there.

#SIG

[Munya Chawawa @munyachawawa]

Lockdown 2? We all knew it was gonna happen, and This is How We Knew It 🤦🏽‍♂️😂