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Dr Mark Helme

Senior Lecturer

Mark’s background is predominately in the areas of Strength and Conditioning. He has been active as an accredited practitioner, with the UKSCA, since 2007. Having worked with athletes from a range of sports and all age ranges, he has brought this experience to both his research and teaching activities.

Mark’s doctoral research was exploring the implications of strength asymmetries on the sprint performances and injury rates of Rugby League players. As part of this research activity, he has also published biomechanical analysis of single leg strength training exercises.

Mark’s current research interests are to further explore the transfer of single leg strength to sporting performance task, such as sprinting and changing direction. He will also be undertaking projects that explore how to create new pedagogical approaches to implementing resistance training in pre-adolescent children.

Current Teaching

Strength and Conditioning
Participant centred curriculum
Sports curriculum
Research and personal development

Research Interests

Mark’s research is aimed at coaches and strength and conditioning practitioners, to directly inform their professional judgements and practices.

For those working with youth sport participants, Mark will be conducting research relating to how to create engaging pedagogical approaches when implementing integrative neuromuscular training in pre-adolescent groups. The aim is to create a strategy that allows all participants the opportunity to receive the physical and mental benefits of resistance training, in an appealing fashion to foster life-long engagement in this form of exercise.

For those who are more focus on sporting performance and injury reduction, Mark will conduct research into the observation of stability/dynamic balance observed during heavy unilateral resistance training. The objectives would be to understand the interaction of dynamic balance, under-loading, and application of forces to perform tasks such as sprinting and changing direction.