Webinar: Finding the Right Movement for You

Online
Thursday, 12 May 2022
10:00 am – 11:00 am (UK time)
    • Nick Thomas and Ollie Martin, Nick Thomas Associates

This session covers:

  • Important skills for your personalised movement programme
  • Individual physiological load – what it is and implications for your movement
    plan
  • The importance of evolutionary heritage - what your body is designed to do
    and to put it in a modern context
  • The ‘pain teacher’ and the benefit of injury
  • Establish a plan of your current weekly movement
  • Create an ideal plan for your optimal weekly movement

Speaker Biographies

Speaker

Nick Thomas, Nick Thomas & Associates

Nick offers a unique combination of skills in the UK insurance training sector – an industry sales specialist and a professional coach and trainer. Nick is an Economics graduate with over 25 years corporate insurance broking experience

He was a highly successful sales producer in the UK broking market before progressing into regional and then national sales leadership roles. As National Development Director at HSBC, Nick was one of only 40 people from a global workforce of 265,000 selected as part of the STARS programme to recognise exceptional performance. He is a highly trained consultative sales specialist, and his experience includes a secondment with a major management consultant to design a best practice sales process.

In the mid-2000s, Nick developed a chronic health condition; his journey to recovery fostered a new range of interests, and a passion for health, and performance. He studied widely, qualifying as a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), obtaining a Diploma in Life Coaching, before going on to study Corporate/Business Coaching with The Coaching Academy. Nick is also a qualified Holistic Lifestyle Coach and Advanced Exercise Coach.

Ollie Martin – health coach and performance consultant

Ollie is an acclaimed Health Coach and Author, who has spent over twenty years helping transform the health and performance of thousands of clients ranging from businesses to professional athletes, couch-potatoes, and retirees. Ollie has a background in high level sport and sports science. He has trained and studied with a range of institutions across multiple fields to include the CHEK Institute, the American College of Sports Medicine, and in Biogeometry and Tai Chi. Through this and his wider research and experience, Ollie has developed his own unique and integrated approach to health and performance encapsulated in his new book ‘Un-common Sense’ [available on Amazon]

Nick has known Ollie for many years, and Ollie’s expertise was pivotal in helping Nick to recover from his experience of chronic illness and to inform his own research and study in performance and health.

‘Ollie Martin has done the world a great favour by distilling health and wellness down into those key topics and bits of information that should be common sense, but sadly are not today’. Paul Chek, Founder of the CHEK Institute, and a world-renowned expert in the fields of corrective and high-performance exercise kinesiology, stress management and holistic wellness

Venue
  • Online

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