Grassroots

GRFC Partners - Sprint Start

Grass Roots Football Coaching is very proud to announce we will be working in partnership with Sprint Start.

Founded in 2006 by Iwan Thomas (Professional Athlete) and Kim Chesterfield (Physiotherapist). Sprint Start is a non profit organisation created to help the children of the future lead healthy lifestyles through excercise and healthy eating. Sprint-Start are proud to be associated with many organisations if you are interested in our services and workshops please contact our team and we will be happy to help

GRFC and Sprint Start will be working hard over the coming months to introduce elements of Sprint Starts fantastic work into as many GRFC activities as possible. Allowing us to offer not only the best coaching in the area but also vital information and training in healthy eating and lifestyles, which wil benefit kids and parents for years to come.

We hope to launch our initiative, together with a combined Multi-sport course,
in May. This will be a great fun week featuring loads of activities, each sport
will be led by a top coach and kids will get the chance to try out loads of new sports and skills, including some sprint training with none other than
Iwan Thomas!

Healthy Breakfast and Lunch Club.

All participants who enrol in this part of the course will join in some healthy eating classes, these great fun events thelp to teach kids the importance of healthy eating and how to make it for themselves! Thats good news to all the hardwroking kitchen mums and dads!

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Sprint Start

Sprint-start offers a whole package for people to make positive lifestyle changes.

Sprint-Start Nutrition
The nutritional aspect of the Sprint Start workshops will have two main themes:
1) Cooking
2) Education on nutrition
These will differ slightly for the adult and children’s workshops.

Children
Cooking
• Cooking is fun!
• Very simple recipes or food preparation that they can cook/prepare and eat
• Healthy food tastes nice (and looks good, lots of brightly coloured fruits and vegetables)
• To give them a sense of achievement
• Safety in the kitchen

Nutrition
• Basic information on vitamins and minerals, using foods to explain a point. E.g. bananas for energy, spinach for strength, fruits and vegetables for immunity etc
• Explain why putting in the right fuel is important (using Iwan as an example! Good role model, what does Iwan eat and why?)
• Very basic sugars, fats, protein, fibre and water why we need them, why some foods can be detrimental for our health.
• Where food comes from, this depends on children’s knowledge, a trip to Sunnyfields
• organic farm or equivalent?
• Some sort of chart system for measuring their progress, (depending on age of children).
• Gold star for eating fruit/vegetables/school lunch/water/breakfast etc
• Our aim is to get the children eating a reasonably healthy breakfast, school lunch and healthy snacks in the day.

Services
We run a number of workshops for children and adults, in schools, workplaces or at Trojans Sports Club. All sessions are supported by information and contacts on our website introducing a range of fun exercise activities and cook & eat sessions.

Sessions can be one offs, combined with our childrens sport courses in conjunction with GRFC, be run as an 8 week programme with accompanying workbooks and ongoing support.

All members of our team can be contacted by e-mail, so any queries, problems or questions will be answered between workshops.

Regular event days
Open to all Sprint-starters such as golf days, trips to sporting events and fruit picking at local farms.

Our Workshops
We offer individual sessions up to
8 week programmes, in most cases each will include an initial workshop where the team will be introduced and we will run through both the exercise and food parts of the programme and our website.

The programme will finish with another workshop where will hold a cooking competition and award prizes and certificates.

We will de-brief all people taking part and give advice on continuing the improved way of life in the future.

After-school sessions
Which can include a range of exercise activities such as Football, Martial Arts, Gym and Squash and also the Cook & Eat food programme.

Trojans Sports Club

All of our sessions can also be booked at the sports club where we have excellent facilities.

Our website will provide resources to help with this and our team will always be available to offer advice if needed.

Adults - for more info please visit Sprint-start

About Us

Iwan Thomas MBE BSc (Hons) Director

Iwan Thomas is one of the finest 400m runners that Britain has produced and is current British Record Holder as well as being a former European and Commonwealth champion, and World Cup Winner.

Iwan is keen to utilise his success in the sport of athletics to enhance the lives of local children and help them achieve their own goals. Sprint-start is the beginning of his future as he slows down his athletics career.

He entered the international athletics scene in 1992 World Junior Championships

9 Welsh 400m records
British 400m relay team that won Gold at the European Cup in 1995.

Olympic Games in Atlanta, 5th in the individual 400m and won a Silver medal in the 4x400m relay.
Gold and Silver medals at the European Cup and World Championships respectively.
1998 Grand Prix victories
2 Gold medals at the European Championships in Budapest
World Cup Champion in South Africa
Commonwealth Champion in Kuala Lumpar.

Kim Chesterfield MCSP SRP Director

Kim has been a qualified chartered physiotherapist for 20 years and has worked closely within sport and fitness for the last 15 years. She is a keen sportsperson participating in many different types of sport and exercise and utilises this to support her everyday work.

She runs a very successful multi-disciplinary physiotherapy and fitness clinic near Southampton which has developed over the last 10 years.

Kim has attended many major sporting events including the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens as team physiotherapist to the British Sailing Team.

Kim has a great belief in exercise and healthy eating as an essential part of a balanced lifestyle and for the relief of stress and is keen to see Sprint-start bring this to philosophy to everyone.