Coach Sammy @CoachEveryPlayer

Personal football trainer, coach educator, and community builder - helping communities, coaches and players get the human side of training right.

I'm a former professional footballer, now a personal trainer and coach educator - training communities and players from age five to professional level, working with coaches at every level from grassroots to academy, and running an urban outdoor training community in London. My work centres on what the coaching manuals rarely cover: mixed-ability squads, neurodiversity, cultural diversity, mixed-age training, and the human skills that make a real difference to real players. Welcome to my space.

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My office is outdoors.

My office is outdoors. It has been for years. Not because I couldn't find a gym. The gym has four walls. The outdoors has none. There is something that happens when you train outside that no indoor facility can replicate. The open space, the fresh air, the unpredictability of the environment - your brain responds to all of it. Not as a distraction. As a stimulus. Research consistently shows that outdoor physical activity reduces cortisol - the primary stress hormone - more significantly than...

7 days ago • 1 min read

Nobody runs alone well.

Seven in the morning. February. London. The kind of dark that makes you question every decision that led to this moment. You show up anyway. Not because of discipline. Not because of some motivational quote you read at midnight. Because someone else is already there, waiting, breath visible in the cold air. That changes everything. The person next to you is half your training. There is solid research behind this, but you already know it. You have felt it. When someone else is pushing, you...

16 days ago • 1 min read