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Mick Clegg |
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(Michael Clegg Senior, otherwise known as Mick, Mike & Dad) |
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Professional Coach & Personal Trainer for 32 years. |
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Mick and Manchester United |
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Mick Clegg with Ryan Giggs, Wayne Rooney, Edwin van der Sar, pre-season training in Tokyo |
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How Mick Joined Manchester United |
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Mick was initially brought in to work at Manchester United Academy on the basis of having two sons play for their First Team and Reserves (Michael & Steven) and two other sons who were national/international weight-lifting champions (Mark & Shaun). During his first season of involvement with the Reds, an injury for Roy Keane proved to be a turning point in Mick's career. With both men keen boxers, they hit it off - so to speak - quickly, and Clegg took charge of the midfielder's weights programme during his rehabilitation. Soon, a number of players were eager to do work with him. After observing training demonstrations with key First Team players, Manchester United management requested a two hour presentation on how the whole squad’s power, speed and fitness could be improved. This initiated implementation of one of the earliest advanced strength and conditioning programs in the EPL and directly overlapped a ten year golden period in the club’s success.
The Carling Cup
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"I have had the
amazing privilege to have been the power development coach at Manchester
United Football club from 2000 to 2011. My job entailed training the first
team, reserves, youth team, and the schoolboys. My
everyday function involved working with some amazing sporting athletes.
Major stars including Roy
Keane, Jaap Stam, David Beckham, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Christiano Rinaldo,
Ryan Giggs, Wayne Rooney and Darren Fletcher have all been trained by myself
over the years." |
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His Strength and Conditioning role meant ensuring optimal physical development of every player on Uniteds books and integrating return to play recovery programs with athlete rehabilitation. Mick's central coaching responsibility over the years has been the development and rehabilitation of some of the biggest players in the world of football, past and present:- 5 years working with Cristiano Ronaldo;
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While taking a pivotal role in ensuring that the total fitness levels of all players from First Team right down to school boys,
Mick has evolved to meet the high standards demanded for top level English Premier League
clubs and players. Taking charge of total fitness and development of over 120 youth with the opportunistic aim of drastically increasing the club’s player value to player purchase ratio. |
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Mick & the Manchester United Football Players |
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Mick with Ryan Giggs |
Mick with Cristiano Ronaldo and Ji-Sung Park |
Mick with Michael Carrick |
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See more in Mick's Manchester United
Picture
>>> Gallery <<< |
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Mick In the News |
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A Cup of Tea with Mick Clegg |
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Mick Clegg's Recipe For Pain |
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Mick & Taekwondo Champion Aaron Cook |
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Aaron Cook
Taekwondo Champion 2011 Austrian Open |
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For the past few months Mick has had the unique opportunity to train another Olympic hopeful, the Taekwondo Gold medalist Aaron Cook. Aaron, already holding several gold medals, left team GBs coaching programme in June to undertake his own training regime. Aaron is a strong contender for the 2012 Olympic Games Taekwondo event and signs are looking good for another gold for the 20 year old Power Rangers fan. In October 2011 at the British International Taekwondo Championships Aaron won another gold medal beating the competition to first place. As well as using the main gym at his Olympic Sports Gym Complex Mick is also giving Aaron the full advantage of the specialist equipment in the S.P.I. laboratory. See the full interview on the OSG youtube channel >>> HERE <<< |
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AARON COOK says he's back on course for Olympic taekwondo gold — thanks to the help of Manchester United's pioneering fitness coach. Cook, 20, quit the British Taekwondo high performance squad in June after a disappointing defense of his World Championship crown in South Korea, where he crashed out in the first round. Since then he's moved back in with his parents in Dorset and has won four out of his last five competitions including the British Open two weeks ago, where he beat Craig Brown in the -80kg final. The United fan also takes weekly trips to Mick Clegg's Olympic Sports Gym in Ashton-Under-Lyne, where he trains using state-of-the-art machines designed to improve his hand-eye coordination, agility, speed and strength. Cook believes it is an approach that could give him the edge for next year's Games. He said: "Mick's got some fantastic equipment that is really helping me improve in the sport in ways I hadn't thought possible." |
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| Continue reading here >>> The Sun Online <<< | ||||
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Find out more about Mick working alongside Taekwondo Champion Aaron Cook >> HERE <<
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Mick & Warrington Wolves Rugby Tea |
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Warrington Wolves first team get a workout.
Tower Of Strength
The first team squad
were recently put through their paces at Mick's Olympic Sports Gym in Ashton
as they prepared for the Qualifying Semi-Final and aim to book their place
in this year's Grand Final at Old Trafford. The gym is renowned for
assisting a wide range of people from working with professional stars
including players from Manchester United to encouraging fitness throughout
those in the community. The players were given
use of the weights, the strong man equipment and the high tech neurotracker
machine which trains reaction time and peripheral vision. Chris Baron, Wolves' head of strength and conditioning, said: "The main reason behind the visit was to give the players the opportunity to experience something different as well as a bit of mental stimulation for them. They've been training at Padgate all year and it was good to experience a different gym as well as different training and coaching too as Mick delivered the session. We had different equipment at our disposal adding variety to the session." |
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Mick, Warrington Wolves & Roy Keane Warrington Wolves blown away by Roy Keane before they did the same to Wakefield Trinity Wildcats WARRINGTON Wolves were inspired by Manchester United and Republic of Ireland football legend Roy Keane going into their big win against Wakefield Trinity Wildcats. The 40-year-old former Sunderland and Ipswich Town boss, who won seven Premier League titles, one Champions League crown and four FA Cups in his 480 games with United between 1993 and 2005, spent time at the club last week studying the club’s training set-up and methods. Keane, who was in the North Stand for Wolves’ recent Challenge Cup quarter-final clash with Wigan Warriors, spoke to the squad about his illustrious career, including eight years as United skipper. Wolves’ head of coaching and rugby Tony Smith said the sessions came about as a result of Wolves’ developing association and friendship with United’s strength and conditioning coach, Mick Clegg. “He’s a sporting icon and we were all blown away by his honesty and the ecapades that he was willing to share with us. “It was a great insight into the man. He’s a terrific man, I’ve got a lot of time for him and it was a privilege to have someone like him come and talk to us.” Via Warrington Guardian |
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Mick & Manchester Titans American Football Team |
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"Manchester Titans are happy to announce they are beginning their off season lifting this evening in partnership with Olympic Sports Gym. Olympic have some world class coaches who are going to help develop our athletes for the 2012 season." 05/10/2011 via Facebook Mick has recently started working with the Manchester Titans, an American Football team based in Audenshaw, Manchester. Formed in 2003, the team will begin the 2012 pre season training using not only the full gym facilities at OSG but will also be utilising all the advanced sporting equipment promoted on the Sports Performance Innovation website. This team is the first to take full advantage of the S.P.I. laboratory in a controlled training environment with one of the countries top sporting coaches in strength, speed and cognition training. "The Titans would like to thanks all the coaches at Olympic Sports gym for their time and effort during the offseason. This is a short montage of some of the sessions which included:- Speed and Reaction - Olympic Weightlifting - Powerlifting - Sprinting - Bounding - Strongman" 11/04/2012
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Kickboxer Mike Eade trains with Mick Clegg |
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Mike
Eade is currently training with Mick
Clegg at the Olympic Sports Gym utilising both the standard gymnasium as
well as the specialised Sports Performance Innovation Laboratory. Mike Eade currently holds a 3rd degree black belt in Kickboxing and has
experience in Boxing, Judo and Kung Fu. Mike is also a qualified PE
teacher and teaches in a high school in Manchester. Since 2002 he has
competed in well over 50 tournaments and shows around the country and
represented England at 8 World Championships where he has won numerous
silver and bronze medals. He runs both the Stockport and Dukinfield
Chinese Kickboxing clubs.
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About Mick's Olympic Sports Gym |
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a multi-sports training center since 1983. Based in Ashton-Under-Lyne, Manchester it has become a central training establishment specializing in Strongman, Weightlifting and Speed Development. In his youth Mick originally started out in a band, playing a guitar. One day, after having some promo shots taken, Mick had a shock! "My arms were skinnier than the strings on my guitar!" Mick exclaimed. It took the shock of seeing that photo that he took the biggest turning point of his life. He went to the gym. After training for three months he had started to fill out, people were noticing the difference. The biggest impact though was he enjoyed it so much he took up a coaching post at that very gym. Weightlifting and boxing became his mainstream.
By the time he was 27, he had become a dedicated fitness fanatic and owned his own gym. "In my capacity within my own gym I have produced Olympic lifting teams from schoolboys to international level with over 30 boys starting from never having lifted a bar to top level. I ran an Olympic boxing club for 14 years, coached in schools, lectured in colleges in and around Greater Manchester. I even trained the England lacrosse team." |
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| Mick and his work with Cognitive Training & S.P.I. | ||||
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To further look into the relationship between the brain and athletics, Mick and his eldest son Michael went to America to increase their knowledge of brain use in sport, especially in the area of speed. After analysing baseball, basketball, NLF, they attended some lectures by Dr Joe Dispenza who is a brain specialist as well as having a big interest in quantum physics. It was at this point he and Michael put their minds together and focused the direction of their research as looking for the seed of speed. Once they had found the area where the seeds were planted then they embarked on a journey of stimulating the growth of the seeds to the present study entitled “how to produce a super powered brain for athletic performance”. It was through this research that Mick is also now member of the scientific advisory board for CogniSens Athletics on cognitive training technology. See Micks ideas about >> Cognition and Sport <<
Mick Clegg Says - Coretex
Pivoting on Balance Board Detection through muscular system whilst
concentration and Cognitive Conditions. (Total Immersion). |
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The Patriarch of Power
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In 2011 Muscle & Fitness magazine UK ran a series of features on the Clegg family. Mick talked about working with players like Wayne Rooney, Christiano Rinaldo, David Beckham, Ryan Giggs and Rio Ferdinand as well as Sir Alex Ferguson. He also talked about his children, his gym and his life and the future.
View Micks Muscle & Fitness Article >> HERE << |
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Mick has recently been offering work experience within his Olympic Sports Gym SPI Laboratory to university students, see what they had to say about working with him. To find out more about training opportunities with Mick check the noticeboard >> HERE << >>> Testimonials <<< |
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Mick and his work with the Youth |
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With
truly
varied coaching exposure from running a 14 year long boxing club to
coaching the England Lacrosse team, Mick has generated the capability to
understand the needs of athletes actualizing elite potential, proving
this through the achievements of his four sons.
Mick also setup ‘The Olympic Youth Association’ to generate capital and rapidly launch sports development initiatives across Manchester inner-city areas. View Micks plan for >> Strength & Power-Development << for school age children
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Mick Clegg Visits Pittsburgh 2010 |
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Pioneering co-operative roles with Manchester United specialists (such as diet, vision and psychology), provided a catalyst for working at broader interdisciplinary levels, including linking up with health industry professionals such as University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. In August 2010 Michael Clegg paid a visit to the UPMC center for Sports Medicine. He was hosted by Dr. Vonda Wright. In the last decade as Manchester United's strength and conditioning coach, Mick Clegg has used his knowledge and skill to help craft countless world-renowned soccer icons: players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Gary Neville and Wayne Rooney -- each of whom have heard their names echoed across the globe in recent years.
>> Training Expert In Pittsburgh To Learn From Experts At UPMC << >> Manchester United Strength Coach Visits Pitt << >> Training Expert In Pittsburgh To Learn From Experts At UPM << Mick toured the facility, which involved the Concussion clinic as well as the ACL evaluation and prevention functional performance training, University of Pittsburgh soccer training, sports nutrition and mental training. |
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Mick
On Other Athletes
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Daniel Stephen Caines. Last year Mick met an amazing athlete, >> Daniel Stephen Caines << See what Mick had to say about this Champion. See what made him special. |
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Mick and his family are always active in the community especially with encouragement of children into fitness. Mick himself has been central in many projects including - Sports Coaching Lecturer
(Openshaw Technical College)
Greater Manchester Sports Development
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Mick Clegg News Snippits
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04/11/2011
“Our competitive advantage lies in our ability to effectively transfer science and technology from a world-class science lab directly to professional teams,” said CogniSens Athletics CEO Jean Castonguay, sentiments echoed by Manchester United Coach Mick Clegg, who sees NeuroTracker as a great method for improving mental ability in the same way we condition skill and fitness.? Read more >>> http://www.smsviihde.net <<<
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02/11/2011
Among ‘Team Cook’ are my brother Luke, who helps with day-to-day training, Mick Clegg, my strength and conditioning coach, and my good friend and coach/trainer Steven Turner, who has returned safely from a tour of duty with the Royal Marines in Afghanistan. Read more >>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ <<<
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11/08/2011
Wolves’ head of coaching and rugby Tony Smith said the sessions came about as a result of Wolves’ developing association and friendship with United’s strength and conditioning coach, Mick Clegg. Read more >>> www.warringtonguardian.co.uk <<<
14/06/2011 Have your fitness professionals keep up with the latest thinking by taking advanced degrees in sports science and sports medicine. Fund visits of American college football programs, with their palatial weight-training complexes, for strength-training ideas, as Manchester United's strength and conditioning coach Mick Clegg did by visiting the University of Pittsburgh in 2010. Read more >>> www.livestrong.com <<< 14/06/2011 Expert Insight Professional players in training receive common-sense directives on rest and nutrition, including instructions to go to bed early at night, Manchester United fitness coach Mick Clegg notes. Juventus also provides advice to players on rest and proper nutrition, while Germany's top players, such as Jurgen Klinnsman, avoid alcohol, including beer, during training. Read more >>> www.livestrong.com <<< 04/04/2011 Behind nearly every great soccer team is a trainer designing a weight-training program to increase strength and prevent injuries. French-born Pierre Barrieu trains the U.S. men's national team, and Englishwoman Dawn Scott trains the U.S. women's team. Rui Faria handles Real Madrid, Lorenzo Buenaventura works with Barcelona and Mick Clegg makes Manchester United even stronger.Read more >>> http://www.livestrong.com/article/413675-professional-soccer-weight-training/ <<< 30/10/2010 ‘Chicharito’ has scored six goals in 11 games since his arrival from Chivas de Guadalajara and the 22 year-old will start against Tottenham at Old Trafford on Saturday night. His impact has already led to fans sporting multicoloured sombreros as a tribute. Ferguson admits that the forward, who has visibly benefited from a weights programme devised by fitness coach Mick Clegg, has already won hearts and minds within Old Trafford with his enthusiastic and professional approach. A shot across Rooney’s bows? Read more >> www.chicharito.org.uk/ << 02/02/2010 Rooney, whose physique and dietary habits caused concern at his previous club, Everton, is regarded as a ferocious trainer by United’s coaches. His work with conditioning coach Mick Clegg, who shares Rooney’s passion for boxing, has honed the player’s physique and acceleration by personalised weights sessions. Read more >>> www.telegraph.co.uk <<< 06/08/2010 In the last decade as Manchester United's strength and conditioning coach, Mick Clegg has used his knowledge and skill to help craft countless world-renowned soccer icons: players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Gary Neville and Wayne Rooney -- each of whom have heard their names echoed across the globe in recent years. Read more >> www.yardbarker.com << 02/02/2010 THIGHS OF THUNDER The power generated by Rooney's muscular thighs enabled him to run the length of the field at an average speed of 14mph to meet Nani's pass and score United's second goal during Sunday's 3-1 triumph at Arsenal. The fastest man in the world, Usain Bolt, runs 100m at an average of about 23mph. Like former team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo and current colleague Darren Fletcher, Rooney is benefiting from the gym work he puts in with United's strength and conditioning coach Mick Clegg, who devises individual weight programmes for the players. Rooney will focus on squats, lunges and power snatches with weights to improve the strength and speed in his lower body, similar to the methods used by top sprinters - such as the Jamaican world-record holder - who have disproved the notion that big muscles can slow you down. Read more >>> www.dailymail.co.uk <<<
11/11/2009 Mick Clegg [United’s strength and conditioning coach] says you’ve struck the perfect balance between football fitness and gym work. The only other person he’s seen do that is Cristiano Ronaldo. Quite a compliment... Read more >> www.unitedindonesia.org << 16/10/2009 Fletcher openly cites the influence of strength and conditioning coach Mick Clegg as a major factor behind his transformation. Gone is the wispy, willowy youngster who shirked the weights; in his place, an unerringly dedicated pro who’s mastered his body. Clegg, a vocal motivator, ushered Fletch onto the right road by showing him a flesh-and-blood blueprint for physical perfection: Cristiano Ronaldo. “I’ve worked with Darren since he was a teenager,” says Clegg. “But he wasn’t kicking on. I told him to look at Ronaldo and the way he was utterly dedicated. He came into the gym every morning and after every training session. If Darren wanted to get the best out of himself, he’d have to match that. So he started on a plan and steadily worked harder and harder, and over 18 to 20 months got it right. Read more >>> www.manutd.com <<< 01/12/2007 
Players work out in the gym with strength and conditioning coach Mick Clegg. The players arrive at around 9.30am, half an hour before training starts, but the coaching staff meet well in advance of every session to organise each day's bespoke training programme. The club's medical staff are also consulted to highlight players' knocks and injuries. Read more >>> www.guardian.co.uk <<< Lee Sidebottom spent 5 years working on the strategic development of sports projects around Manchester and founding the Olympic Youth Association. He collaborated closely with Manchester United coach Mick Clegg to conduct research on the players’ training needs, to design a pre-season training strategy for the club and to produce a power development seminar tailored for coaches and college courses. Lee also managed Manchester's Olympic Sports Gym and provided specialized coaching for sports teams. An ex-international athlete, he ran for Great Britain u20’s on the track and at cross-country. Read more >>> www.cognisens.com <<< 29/06/2006 When there was football on the telly, it was horrible to watch. I just wanted to be back playing. The fitness coach at United [Mick Clegg], who I was working with every day, was pushing me hard. He wanted to get the best out of me. I'm grateful for that. He never let me stop. Read more >> www.manchesterunited-mad.co.uk << 29/06/2006 Putting it bluntly, in the immediate aftermath of the break at Stamford Bridge, Rooney said that his mind was not on the World Cup - "we'd just lost the league that day". But in the coming weeks of rehabilitation, he credited Smith, who broke his leg and dislocated his ankle in February, and the United fitness coach Mick Clegg, for helping him to recover from his second broken metatarsal in two years. "While I was injured people might have thought I was just sitting around doing nothing, but I was training, I was doing everything I could to keep myself fit," Rooney said. "A lot of people didn't see that so they might have thought I was doing nothing. Since I came back, I've felt good. Since I've moved from Everton to Manchester United my fitness has gone a lot better, better than it was in Portugal two years ago." Read more >>www.independent.co.uk << 12/05/2005 Reserve Team Captain David Jones Read more >> www.redcafe.net << 28/04/2005 Darren Fletcher - Read more >>www.redcafe.net << 24/04/2004 Club: FITNESS - Mick Clegg is
responsible for upto 70 players, having started coaching here with the
Under-17s and Under-19s. Fitness coaching includes a range of aspects,
including aerobic and cardio-vascular work. Free weights are used as well. Read more >> www.imusa.org << |
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Mick Clegg recommends TRIXTER bike for his own personal training to integrate the mind body experience for athletic conditioning |
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Mick & Steven Clegg with members of
Warrington Wolves at the Olympic Sports Gym
Warrington Wolves have
developed a strong association and relationship with professional strength
and conditioning coach Mick Clegg.
It was working with
Cognitive ideas that formed the basis for the concept
behind the Seed of Speed training methodology to attain speed, strength,
endurance and flexibility. 
Working & Training with Mick
