One to One personal fitness coaching
Weight management and nutritional consultancy
Sports injury and
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Meet the People
David Heard Profile
David Heard, chief executive of The Fitness Consultancy and Team Fitness, has a rare combination of skills.
A long involvement with sport, which started with selection as a schoolboy international cross-country runner and continues to this day through extreme skiing, has kept him aware of the needs and drives of elite athletes.
His almost obsessive interest in all aspects of fitness training, physical and mental development embraces qualifications in coaching (skiing and weight-training), specialist soft tissue work - Bowen Therapy (Australia and Europe) - sport and remedial massage, exercise therapy and sports rehabilitation, psychometrics and nutritional consultancy.
Add an experience of the ancient disciplines of yoga and ayurvedic medicine with an easy familiarity with the modern technology of high performance training and the result is a very experienced and innovative exercise physiologist.
He is one of only a handful of British people to work in the world-famous rehabilitation clinic, the Dikoul Institute in Moscow. This pioneering work lead David to open the National Rehabilitation Centre for the Paralysed in Gloucestershire. There he was chief executive for nine years working with a team of ten specialist therapists (mostly from a sports science background) and using sports training in the rehabilitation of people with chronic paralysis. It was this innovative work that provided the research material that earned David his Masters' degree (with distinction) in Exercise Therapy.
He is currently working on the development of new exercise protocols, extreme skiing, and a recent cycle ride of 1000kms in Vietnam, has kept him aware of the needs and drives of elite athletes. Conditions there reached 90 degrees and 90 percent humidity.
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