Coach Education Series with Paul Bower

“Optimizing Player Performance & Managing Workload in the College and Youth Game”
Presented by Paul Bower, Performance Practitioner within English football

About the clinician:

Paul is the former Head of Physical Performance at Huddersfield Town AFC, a club that competed in the Premier League and the Championship throughout his 7 seasons. His previous role before being the performance lead involved leading a reconfiguration of the academy to create a competitive “B-Team”, who traveled across Europe to play games within a bespoke program. Since leaving in March, he has stepped into an interim role at Leeds United FC within their academy, working alongside their senior management, coaches, and players on all facets of periodization and performance.

Before working at HTAFC, his career began at Barnsley FC, where he worked as an academy sports scientist before heading up the department, leaving in 2016. He was fortunate to work with the English FA across men’s and women’s youth age groups for two seasons before moving to HTAFC in 2017.

Alongside Paul’s applied work, he is also studying for a Professional Doctorate in Sport at Leeds Beckett University. His research is focused on the barriers to effective planning and periodization strategies within the English game.

Course Content:

Each course will cover the following topics –

• Injury Prevention – effectively planning and delivering a safe, progressive strength program with no equipment.
  Planning – how to organize the season into specific periods to enable continuous development of athletes (based on club game models).
  • In season periodization – how to sequence training based on the competition schedule (aligned with th
  e club plan).

Cost:

This course is fully sponsored by NorCal and is FREE. However, anyone who registers and does not show up will be charged a $200 no-show fee (the course value).

Course Schedule/ Options:

All courses cover the same content, so please select the best course for your schedule and location.

Course 1  

• When: Sept 19th
• Where: COPA Center: 2640 Shadelands Dr, Walnut Creek, CA 94598 Walnut Creek
• Time: 10:00 am-2:00 pm (Lunch Provided)

Click here for Walnut Creek Course Registration 

Course 2  

• When: September 24th
• Where: Enochs High School:  3201 Sylvan Ave, Modesto, CA 95355
• Time: 6:30 pm-9:00 pm

Click here for Modesto Course Registration

Course 3

• When: September 25th
• Where: Placer United Indoor Training Center 1091 Tinker Road #300 Rocklin CA 95765
• Time: 10:00 am-2:00 pm (Lunch Provided)

Click here for Sacramento course Registration

Questions:
David Robertson drobertson@norcalpremier.com