University announces new partnership
Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University has teamed up with Perform Better, one of the UK’s leading strength and conditioning specialists.
The partnership will see the sports equipment provider provide the very best facilities for the school’s teaching, research, student athletes and consultancy work with professional clubs. And is part of a longstanding relationship between the two organisations.
It will also create unique opportunities for Master’s students to carry out research projects in collaboration with Perform Better using equipment at the Carnegie School of Sport’s new state-of-the-art strength and conditioning laboratory.
Results from the research will be used to help monitor specific performance metrics as well as further enhance and develop the firm’s product capabilities to assist performance coaches across the world in elite sport.
The new the 4,100 sq ft facility is part of the £45m Carnegie School of Sport building and includes the latest in jump, reaction and sprint analysis systems and technologies as well as a suite of other weightlifting and conditioning equipment. It will provide capacity for squads of athletes to train together, and the flexibility needed at this time for high performance training to be socially distanced.
Peter Mackreth, dean of the Carnegie School of Sport, added: “Our strength and conditioning laboratory, featuring state-of-the-art equipment provided through this partnership with Perform Better, provides an ideal environment for advanced training of students, professional sports people, research, and the development of future coaches and conditioners.
“This important partnership will enable a number of our Master’s students to undertake important research programmes in the laboratory strengthening the links between our research and industry. We are especially pleased that through the partnership, we are welcoming back to campus alumni Alastair Yule, who through his work has contributed to the strength of sport in the UK.”
Alastair Yule, director of Perform Better, said: “We are extremely proud to be entering into this partnership with Leeds Beckett University, which is renowned for being one of the leading sporting research institutions in the UK.
“As an alumni of the Carnegie School of Sport myself I am fully aware of the high regard that the university and its facilities are held in and we are excited about the opportunities this partnership will bring.”
