Stuart Pickering

Having worked in elite sport for 15 years Stuart was a Strength and Conditioning Coach in Premiership Rugby Union for over a decade, before helping England Women’s Rugby win the Rugby World Cup in 2014. More recently Stuart supported Team GB in Brazil as Performance Scientist.

His current role with the English Institute of Sport supports and develops elite Strength and Conditioning Coaches, and Sports Science and Medicine teams working with a range of Olympic sports including British Swimming, Skeleton, Sailing, and Pentathlon. He has also acted a performance consultant to the British Military, and to a range of private sector companies.

He has a passion for helping people reach their potential both individually, and in teams, and is currently completing a body of research that is exploring how domain experts learn and develop in the world of elite sport.

Work

• Strength and Conditioning Technical Lead @ English Institute of Sport
• Head of Strength & Conditioning @ Worcester RFC
• Senior Strength and Conditioning Coach @ Worcester RFC
• Academy Strength and Conditioning Coach @ Worcester RFC

Education

• Master of Science (MSc), Sports Coaching @ Cardiff Metropolitan University
• Bsc (hons), Sports Conditioning and Coaching @ University of the West of England