The Coaches

All V2 coaches share a desire and drive in developing oneself. We believe in learning and maintaining a high standard of delivery. We advocate that:

Scientific knowledge is useless without the skill to effectively apply it

The coaches at V2 are constantly improving their knowledge base by reading and applying methods and information from various sources. These include Strength & Conditioning journals, books and from some of the world’s best Strength Coaches and Gym’s such as Eric Cressey, Dan John, Alwyn Cosgrove, Mike Robertson and Mike Boyle.

Here are a few of the many books V2 would recommend:

  • Siff’s Supertraining
  • NSCA’s Essentials of Strength Training & Conditioning
  • Zatsiorsky’s Science and Practise of Strength Training
  • McGill’s Low Back Disorders
  • Explosive Lifting for Sports by Harvey Newton

At V2

Greg and Ian develop the fitness professional further beyond any knowledge or course they have completed. They maintain the highest standards of coaching themselves and of their coaches. They pass on to one another experience and periodically assess and evaluate each other’s delivery. Greg and Ian also believe that the coach must not only be able to understand about the science and apply it, but should also experience it themselves.

Greg Weller

Greg Weller is co-owner of V2 Strength & Conditioning. Greg has a wealth of experience in the industry in the commercial and corporate sectors as a Personal Trainer and Manager. Greg was a training and education manager in London for Europe’s largest Corporate Health & Fitness Company. He is a Strength & Conditioning Coach training athletes from any sport.

Greg believes in not only having the qualifications but states that “it is important to not only understand but also have the ability to apply scientific based knowledge”. Greg’s qualifications are gained from the most highly respected associations in the health & fitness industry such as YMCA, ACSM, NSCA, NASM, and the UKSCA.

Football is the sport Greg has played most along with rugby, athletics and squash. He has practised many martial arts including Kickboxing and is now trying to become an accomplished climber. Greg enjoys training with a wide variety of strength & conditioning techniques including Olympic Lifts, Kettlebells, Plyometrics and with his unbelievable strength to body weight ratio, Greg has done canyoning, abseiling and hanging on to the edge of cliffs with his little finger!!! He has aspiration to visit Everest base camp and would love to cycle across the states, coast to coast.

At some point Greg does envisage travelling to the US and Canada to work and learn amongst the world’s elite Strength & Conditioning Coaches such as Eric Cressey, Christian Thibaudeau, Mike Boyle, Jo DeFranco and Mike Robertson. He would also like to meet the top Russian coaches such as Verkoshansky and Bondachuck, although Greg does not speak Russian, yet.

Ian Willows

Ian Willows is co-owner of V2 Strength & Conditioning. Having had many years working as a Strength & Conditioning Coach, Ian has gained a lot of practical experience and empirical evidence. He has worked with numerous amateur/elite athletes and also with a professional football club. Over this time Ian has developed the skills necessary to apply methodologies from leading S&C coaches. Ian specialises in Strength & Conditioning for elite level athletes from all sports from football to rugby to athletics.

Ian has aspirations to do a Master’s of Research in Sport & Exercise Science at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). Ian is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. He also has attended the UKSCA Strength Conditioning Coach Workshop and is aiming to become UKSCA accredited.

Ian has played numerous sports at a variety of levels from tennis to athletics to football. He now enjoys using the multiple variations of the Olympic Lifts and Strength & Conditioning techniques, metabolic workouts and boxing.

Jess Glasow

Since 2007 Jess has been working as a Personal Trainer at a private gym. She is currently working towards gaining her Strength and Conditioning coaching level 1.

Jess has taken part in the Miss Trained Figure competitions and also in sprint triathlons.

Jess’s main competition sport is Dressage and has represented Great Britain on the winning young rider team and trained up to Grand Prix. She started training at a gym when she was 16 to become fitter for competitions. In 2005 Jess received BSc (Hons) Equine Sports Science from the University of Lincoln and her aim is to compete at the 2012 Olympics with her horse. The experience Jess has gained from training horses and people, has realised how important exercise is for health and well being but also for performance.

Joe Rogers

Joe is qualified academically in the area of Sports Science. Having completed a Bachelors Degree in Physical Education and Sport Science he decided to go on and complete a Masters of Research Degree in Sport Science at Nottingham Trent University. He has been lucky enough to gain experience with GB Canoe/Kayak, GB Table Tennis and Northampton Saints RUFC before coming to V2.

Currently, Joe is a Sports Science intern at Saracens RUFC for half the week and travels back to work at V2 for the other half of the week when available. Joe brings a massive contribution to V2. He is always trying to further his knowledge, he reads, listens and applies sound scientific principles to his developing Strength & Conditioning repertoire.

Joe is working towards becoming UKSCA accredited as soon as possible and is currently most influenced by the UKSCA/NSCA and authors such as Dr. Stuart McGill, Eric Cressey, Mike Robertson and Mike Boyle.

He has an ever growing thirst for information and loves discussing strength and conditioning topics in depth. He has drive and energy and enjoys helping V2 members to achieve their goals, along with his own. To find more information about Joe, check out his blog at: http://wp.me/12VsZ