Sport and Adventure

• Foundations of Coaching
• Developing Coaching Practice
• Analysis of Sports Performance
• Applied Coaching and Leadership

I have been working in Further and Higher Education for the last three years. During this time I have taught at all levels including adult curriculum. I will be starting a MSc in High Performance Coaching and consider myself an academic rather than a practitioner.

• Academic & Developing Skills
• Research Methods
• Research Project
• Nutrition and Exercise Physiology

Have taught HE for 11 years at various colleges partnered with different universities. I am also the BSc personal tutor and Research Project Dissertation supervisor.

Strength & Conditioning (UKSCA)

• Human Anatomy and Physiology
• Fundamentals of Exercise and Training
• Personal Training
• Fitness Testing
• Nutrition for Exercise

I lecture in both Further Education and Higher Education sectors, across a range of qualifications at South Devon College and University Centre South Devon, with particular interests in Health, Exercise and Nutrition. I manage and deliver on a number of the professional fitness qualifications here at South Devon College and still actively practice as a fitness professional in order to remain current with the fitness industry. My background and experience gained from both time spent in the Royal Marines and working for the NHS, has allowed me to develop professionally my passion for fitness and physical exercise. In which time I was lucky enough supporting new health and wellbeing incentives and research, such as the get healthy challenge and NHS smoke free. Alongside my lecturing role, I manage a group called Extreme Bootcamp, where we deliver both group and 1-1 training. This has allowed me to work with a wide range of individuals from novice to the seasoned athletes, thus supporting my role here as a lecturer in sport and fitness.

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Human Anatomy and Physiology for Exercise Level 4
Personal Training and Fitness Instructing Level 3
Instructing Outdoor Fitness (Bootcamp) Level 3
Gym Instructor Level 2
Instructing Water-Based Exercise Level 2
Instructing Circuit Training Sessions Level 2

• Theories and philosophies relating to outdoor learning and adventure education with a focus on historical development, practice, environment, place and connection to nature.
• Leadership, and in particular leadership in the outdoors and expeditions
• Environmental education, geology, habitats, conservation and sustainability
• Teaching and assessing in outdoor learning

• Sports Physiology
• Effects of exercise on performance
• Sociology of sport
• Research methods
• Coaching pedagogy

Max has been working in FE & HE for 30 years at different colleges across the country and with different HE Institutions. He has a lifelong interest in sports, particularly Triathlon and endurance sports and still participates but coaches both individuals and clubs ensuring that academic theory is embedded into practical applications.

The effects of run cadence on near infrared spectrometry.