James joined The Altitude Centre for a placement year during his time studying at The University of Bath, and returned full time following the completion of his masters there in 2019.
James’ focus is on maximising performance with our runners and climbers, providing bespoke 1-2-1 coaching, strength and conditioning, and sport science support to amateur and elite level runners, 8000m climbers, and many more! He also works closely with support staff at Premier League clubs and heads up our educational courses, to help optimise the use of altitude training in top level sport.
His research has been published in leading sport science journals, and he is now embarking on a PhD investigating heat mitigation in ultra-marathon running. He sits on the steering committee of the CASES Environmental Extremes Special Interest Group, and is an associate member of the Human Environmental Resilience Research Network (HERRN).
Personally for James, he has repeatedly knocked minutes off of his PB’s with the help of altitude training, bringing his 5k to 15:42 and his half to 71:31. Recently, James has stepped up to the marathon, debuting in 2:39 at Manchester with his sights set firmly on bringing that down in the next few years.
Catch him in the chamber for all things performance related!
