Sport Teams Performance Coaching

Team Performance
Sports Coach Education

Team Performance

Team Performance

SDM performance offers conditioning sessions to teams who want to improve their training methods and conditioning level. The experience gained from working across top organisations and elite players ensures your team will get the right stimulus. The session content will dependent on what areas are needed to improve. The requirements of each team vary so there is no perfect formula. The sessions can include:

Movement training (mechanics of efficient movement patterns)
Speed and Agility Training
Power development
Conditioning (Aerobic Capacity, Anaerobic Power etc)

Each session will last 90 minutes and involve a de-brief with the coaches and players. The sessions will educate, challenge and improve players.

Sports Coach Education

Sports Coach Education

Every coach wants to improve. To get the best service to your players involves understanding and integrating physical conditioning within practices and sessions. Best practice isn’t working in silo’s. It is about creating an environment where the four corners of performance are challenged and improved. SDM performance delivers presentations and workshops illustrating how to integrate physical principles in your sessions. The experience gained from observing and working with top coaches across several elite clubs in the English Premier League allows this service to help coaches progress in their field.

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I have worked with Shayne at Youth Development level and at u23s at Manchester City. First thing to say is Shayne is extremely professional and dependable. Two important things a manager needs. He works well with all other members of staff. I liked how his conditioning was integrated within training and not standard running – it had a tactical component (close work with analysis and myself), technical elements (interaction with the assistant coach) and physical load (involvement of physio and his own requirements). This approach achieved two things: Complete buy-in from players and players were conditioning for the context of the game. He is a diligent and throughout sport scientist but completely understands how it works together.

Simon Davis

Head Coach, Anderlecht FC 1st Team

I’ve worked with Shayne for about 7 years, both in a coaching capacity and also now as my role as Academy Director. He is an extremely polite, conscientious, trustworthy and hard-working member of staff and has an ability to work across all the age groups which is rare in elite sport. I would certainly recommend Shayne as a coach. He has high emotional intelligence and is able to connect with people. He understands he is on a journey of continuous learning, but he embraces this and accepts constructive criticism well. He always has the players best intentions at heart when deciding a strategic approach and places himself second.

Jason Wilcox

Academy Director, Manchester City Academy

I have worked with Shayne at Manchester City for 7 years, previously with the boys academy and then with the Women’s first team. Shayne has a huge drive and hunger to improve people on and off the pitch. He’s is not only hugely dedicated to his profession, but consistently dedicated to improving his own knowledge and experience of how to improve each individual he works with. He has a well-defined philosophy and a methodology that is proven to condition players to play at the highest level. When working with Manchester City’s Women’s first team, Shayne gave us a strategic and planned method to conditioning players to play the way we wanted to play, producing players that could perform at the level we needed to bring us success at the highest level of the women’s game

Nick Cushing

Assistant Coach at New York City FC

I have known Shayne since his appointment at Manchester City Academy over 7 years ago. As a practitioner Shayne has had the opportunity to work at all levels at the club gaining experience with the First Team, EDS, Academy & Women’s team. He is highly respected & trusted by all staff and players. His “values & behaviours” fit with everything we strive for within the City Football Group and he is always the first to endorse these traits with everyone he comes into contact with. As a senior manager within the business its important to create the right environment & culture and while you can lead that process you need people like Shayne to embrace those values and carry them out in a meaningful and passionate way. I would have no hesitation in recommending Shayne for all the reasons I have outlined above.

Brian Marwood

Managing Director, Global Football City Football Services

I worked with Shayne for 3 seasons with the reserves at Blackburn Rovers. We had very successful seasons with players breaking through into the first like Grant Hanley, Phil Jones, Jason Lowe, Darragh Linehan but also we were successful as a ground winning the Reserves Premier League. Shayne had a big role to play in the success of our team. He demanded a lot of the players and got the best out some difficult characters. I enjoy his way of working and it complimented what I wanted to achieve on the pitch. Shayne understands the game and the coaching concepts but more importantly he understands people. I highly recommend him to any club or organisation as I know he will be an asset.

Gary Bowyer

Manager, Salford FC Former Bradford City FC, Blackburn Rovers and Blackpool Manager

I have worked with Shayne for the past 12 months at Manchester City with the U23 squad. Shayne has been a fantastic member of our staff, looking to work well as part of our multi-disciplinary team. Shayne worked extremely well from the sport science perspective, integrating the physical needs of the players into the technical and tactical elements of the programme, utilising contemporary training methods both on and off the grass. I would recommend Shayne to any organisation looking for these qualities within their coaching programme, he will work very hard as part of the team and is a very likeable and approachable person as well.

Paul Harsley

Development Coach, Manchester City FC 1st Team

I worked with Shayne Murphy for over 8 years. Shayne worked for Manchester City in the Sport Science Department, responsible for the collective and individual fitness programmes for our elite young players. During this time, he oversaw the physical development of players including Phil Foden and Jadon Sancho, both current household names. Shayne’s diligent approach and attention to detail was second to none and what impressed me most was his ability to communicate at all levels irrespective of player and social background. His knowledge of his subject matter was exceptional, and he was not only a valued member of the team but moreover extremely popular. I would have no hesitation in recommending Shayne in whatever position as his flexibility , resilience , willingness and all round ability is very difficult to secure and find .Shayne was an absolute pleasure to work with and I feel privileged to have had him as part of my team

Mark Allen

Academy Director, Swansea FC

I have worked with Shayne for 6.5 years in total. 2-3 years working together in the Youth Development Phase. Shayne is an extremely hard-working coach who values the team but also gives great individual content to athletes. His delivery is first class and he uses his intuition well in a number of situations. It’s as a person where I feel Shayne really excels. He is trustworthy and reliable whilst always putting others before himself. He would certainly always be the type of personality that I would be looking to employ in any successful team. As well as being a really good friend in the time we have known each other, he has assisted me in many ways during this period. This has included support and expertise that I require in certain projects or something that requires clear and concise feedback which is something that I have always used and valued from Shayne. Shayne would bring huge value to any organisation.

Gareth Taylor

Manager, Manchester City Women's Team

I have worked with Shayne for 4years at MCFC working closely with him with the u23’s. He is a very conscientious, hard-working, knowledgeable coach who manages to strike the right balance of making sessions hard, relevant but also fun. We worked very closely, developing sessions which were very position specific and individual based but worked within a team structure. I learnt a lot about movements within sports and how to develop players to maximise their physical potential. I would highly recommend working with Shayne as he has really developed into a excellent and knowledgeable sports science coach. He has a great personality and he manages to get the best out of players.

Gareth Whalley

Head Coach, Loans Team, Manchester City FC

Sport Teams Performance Coaching